Talk:Alpine race
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[edit] no longer generally accepted?
NO LONGER GENERALLY ACCEPTED? SINCE WHEN POPULARITY DECIDES WETEHR SOMETHING IS RIGHT OR NOT. Alpiens today exist such as they have for thousands of years.
- "No longer generally" accepted means just that. It's not a statement of right or wrong, but of a modern consensus. Paul B 00:55, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Encyclopedias are about facts not "concensus". --Finalaval 01:13, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
- No, what we call facts in this context is the distilation of scholarly opinion. Why would you call Coon's work "fact" but other authors not - because of your opinion. Paul B 12:49, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Facts are facts and just that,The Races of Europe is about them. Im not writing what i think of alpines, merely what Coon observed of them.--Sghn 23:23, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
- So Coon's opinions are facts because...he said so? Paul B 23:29, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
"Opinions" is not how you call undeniable observations in the morphology of peoples. A normal person might not recognize a pattern in a coded message while a matematician might, that doesnt mean the code has no pattern, it only means the person doesnt have the capabilities or training. --Sghn 23:34, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
- Our policies clearly state that Wikipedia reports things such as scholarly opinion. If you're not happy with that, you can go use a different online encyclopedia. --Fastfission 02:20, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
it's got to be considered here that a huge proportion of europeans- just like other peoples- aren't PURE anything. Gringo300 02:52, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] alpines
i'm curious about which peoples are/were considered to be alpines. i have a pretty good idea of which peoples are considered to be nordic.
of course, there will be "interbreeding" ("miscegenation"), which has always gone on all over the world, so that, of course, complicates the picture any way you look at it. Gringo300 02:49, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
