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**Lauramalina** · 12-07-2011, 07:23 PM

Another thing that counter your point of view is the Bottleneck effect. White north americans are LESS MIXED than white Europeans; the Bottleneck Effect, or Founder effect being "the loss of genetic variation that occurs when a new population is established by a very small number of individuals from a larger population".
The White american population comes from a very small part of the European genepool who spreaded inside north America, there is actually less genetic variation within the American population, as there is typically less genetic variation within a newly settled area.

I have read too that contrary to one could think, for a long time white americans (and black africans maybe too) were not representive to overall population of Europe or even the countries that sent most immigrants to USA like Britain or Germany. Instead they came all from some particular areas of Europe.
I would not say its true anymore in XX century, as the number of immigrants over XIX and XX century were so high, counted in dozens of millions, also 'mixing policy' changed, so modern US population I would say is mixed.

back to Europe- its similar phenomen. Most Europeans lived in their villages for centuries without seeing anyone else, many live like that even today, however in last centuries mobility and migrations increased largely so people from various areas mixed with each other, eg north and south France or Germany and France etc.

Then I would say that it goes parrarely between USA and Europe, maybe not in the same exact time, Europeans who went to USA transplanted European attitude- they often basically resettled whole villages to New World. Later with agrar or industrial and social revolutions it changed and nowadays most people do not consider marrying only among people of the same village or town (even though many still do for practical reasons)

12-07-2011, 07:23 PM	#37
Lauramalina Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 461 Senior Member	Another thing that counter your point of view is the Bottleneck effect. White north americans are LESS MIXED than white Europeans; the Bottleneck Effect, or Founder effect being "the loss of genetic variation that occurs when a new population is established by a very small number of individuals from a larger population". The White american population comes from a very small part of the European genepool who spreaded inside north America, there is actually less genetic variation within the American population, as there is typically less genetic variation within a newly settled area. I have read too that contrary to one could think, for a long time white americans (and black africans maybe too) were not representive to overall population of Europe or even the countries that sent most immigrants to USA like Britain or Germany. Instead they came all from some particular areas of Europe. I would not say its true anymore in XX century, as the number of immigrants over XIX and XX century were so high, counted in dozens of millions, also 'mixing policy' changed, so modern US population I would say is mixed. back to Europe- its similar phenomen. Most Europeans lived in their villages for centuries without seeing anyone else, many live like that even today, however in last centuries mobility and migrations increased largely so people from various areas mixed with each other, eg north and south France or Germany and France etc. Then I would say that it goes parrarely between USA and Europe, maybe not in the same exact time, Europeans who went to USA transplanted European attitude- they often basically resettled whole villages to New World. Later with agrar or industrial and social revolutions it changed and nowadays most people do not consider marrying only among people of the same village or town (even though many still do for practical reasons)
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