THE COMBINATION A LATE LOW BUDGET DRAMA THAT SHOULD BE MISSED.

• Why films like The Combination and The Combination Redemption won’t cure the race issue in Australia.

  June 17th, 2023

  By Lena B

  The films The Combination and The Combination Redemption offer a unique look into the perceptive of both Anglo and Lebanese Australians living in a increasingly intolerant, unhospitable, atmosphere pushing them to breaking point, demonstrating what happens with two different cultures and people attempt to co exist. Setting the scene in Western Sydney, which opens with Lebanese, Turkish, Asian and Anglo youths colliding with one another within school grounds, followed by the dodgy gangs’ the main characters affiliation to illicit criminal activity and the dangers it poses.

  For example, two of the main dominant roles of Charlie and George are focused on George released from jail, being the protective older brother type, who somewhat unsympathetically expects Charlie, his impressionable younger brother to follow suit of his revival to clean society. While Charlie, wanting to set his own image to his peers, ends up being killed for not delivering money for drugs he failed to deliver to his gang’s boss. All the while both men having to deal with the rising tension of conflict daily in the streets.

  This demonstrates a negative, uneasily stereotype to the Lebanese in Australia, in the role of a ‘typical token ethnic‘ under the guise of attempting sympathy, while showing the instability of attempting peaceful multiculturalism. It’s difficult to watch, along with the uneasily revival of a point in history that should never be repeated. It is not relevant to why the the riots started in reality and yet seemed to be the main focus of the story, rather than the story itself and how people need to come together to prevent tragedies like this happening again.

  To make matters unnecessarily worse, it’s sequel The Combination Redemption did the opposite, focusing on mainly the Anglo Australians increasing distain against various non white ethnicities; mostly Native Australians and blacks, and how ”wog bashing” was their main motivation. Further salt was rubbed into the wounds, by casting in my opinion an obvious light skinned, blue eyed Ashkenazi actor with the surname Wiese ( Wiese or Weiss ( a surname that tends to be of Ashkenazi origin https://www.avotaynu.com/books/DJSGNames.htm ) to be a Anglo Australian Nazi, which of course had a main hatred for the Lebanese. The deliberate casting of him, along with darker skinned Lebanese actors playing the role of criminals, made what happened in the Cronulla riots seem irrelevant.

  Failure to mention the riots apart from a handful of scenes in both films, along with the sloppiness not mentioning the other ethnicities who were caught up in the violence, make these films seem unsympathetic cash cows, willing to make a situation that should of been forgotten about in 2005 unnecessarily brought up. Couldn’t they at least shown the Lebanese male actors in a positive light, or perhaps mention the thousands of Anglos who didn’t take interest in racially motivated violence as well? Why was there a need for George to have a English girlfriend while her parents’ attitude towards him being the only attempt where racism trying to be cured?

  Ultimately both films only create negative drama, they certainly won’t cure peace on earth and derive from a typical Hollywoodesque look at race related issues. It won’t be the first or last film that tries to tackle this subject, but at least films like GO or American History X have decent and positive story lines as conclusions. This should be a hard miss for anyone interested in blatant, low budget catastrophises.

5 Anthropology myths that need to be busted ( including sources, spoiler alert! Duh! )

 The following anthropology myths are either regurgitation nonsense that are spread via the internet on either unprofessional  blogs, ''anthropology forums, or groups'' , or personal opinions that need to busted. 

Myth 1

'Arab' Muslims are more Arab, African and less common to their surrounding areas than the Christians. 

There could be a number of reasons for this old chestnut, whether it's by Zionists ( yes, I am aware not all Jews are Zionist) people of the West who are none the wiser or just uneducated on history. Ged Match among others ( an autosomal raw data file test company  ) is a good database ( although not the best ) shows the PCA plotting of all samples tested especially in the Near /Middle East and Europe that clearly shows that anyone who identifies as being 'Muslim' overlaps completely with anyone who identifies as being Christian. This is especially apparent among the Lebanese Muslims and Christians. According to Lebanese  biologist Dr.Pierre Zalloua looking for a ''Phoenician identity'' among modern Lebanese and their continuation to the Levant Eastern Mediterranean.  To quote Dr Pierre "Whether you take a Christian village in the north of Lebanon or a Muslim village in the south, the DNA make-up of its residents is likely to be identical," says Dr Zalloua.''

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7791389.stm

Obviously these are averages, there are many non Arab ( by identity only, you know what I mean  ) Christians and Muslims  in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine especially Turks, Armenians, Circassians and Kurds but by and large the case is Muslims and Christians from the Near East and Middle East are the same. 

This is also a great website about ancient Levantine Bronze age population genetics in modern populations. 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5544389/

Myth number 2

Cypriots are not really 'Greek' .

This rumour floats around often,  frankly God knows where it stems from. What measures genetics? Who can say there is a messure ,of genetics, like anyone else in the world are only one thing? From autosomal testing,  it's pretty clear that Greek Cypriot males descend from old Bronze Age populations, especially due added Mycenaean and Anatolian farmer EEF input that may be lacking more in Greek males from the Balkans ( they still have EEF like all Europeans, but they have more Western Hunter Gatherer than Cypriots and modern Levantines who have the same Bronze Age/Middle Neolithic  genetics as the ancient Levantines ..) 

A good website on Greek Cypriot genetics. 

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0179474

Myth number 3 

Sicilians and South Spanish are also 'Arabs.'

Ok, so let's be real if you are not a Scandinavian Hunter Gatherer you are going to find some societal issues, we get that. But whether it's from British propaganda about the 'Black Irish' or if it's from Iberians being tanned because of the Gracile period, them being olive skinned because of WHG from the Steppes, or the Moorish expansion of Sicily this seems to be a common one. However, both of these ethnicities like Sardinians  and PRE Indo Europeans have increased amounts of EEF which just makes them indigenous to their areas. In fact, Iberians are one of the oldest ethnicities ( the oldest being the ancient Greeks ) in the South Western European definition. 

A study on Sicilian/South Italian genetics.

https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-020-00778-4

Myth 4

East Europeans are 'Mongolic' or mixed with them on a significant level.

One of the main ones I have seen online and even off by ignorant people. More than anything else this may be the result of a so called 'Eurasian mixture' during the Medieval times period by Tatars, Avars and Huns. Obviusly different groups who define themselves as ''Slavic'' whether it's North, East or South do have their own mixtures, including that part, but it's safe to conclude that this happened as a migration route through the Steppes and South Siberia, rather than accounts of invasions. But anyway, Mongolic/South Siberian mixture in any Slavs including Eastern rarely exceeds more than 4 percent. Which is obviously detectable in the Y chromosones more than the female : Which seem to be more of Caucasus/Steppe orgin, meaning the ANE mixture is lacking in the female line more than the male. Usually, by that percentage, mixture is undetectable anyway. That's why 4 percent or less in autosomal testing is commonly referred to as ''noise''. 

A study on Slavic migration routes and mixtures.

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep30197

Myth 5

Ashkenazi Jews are not biologically Jewish, but are still more indigenous to Palestine and the modern Levant than modern Palestinian Arabs. Apart from Christians in the Near and Middle East being  indistinguishable from their Muslim counterparts, this is also the case for the Palestinians, including the Muslims. Ironically, Palestinian Muslims due to their heightened amount of  'Egyptian mixture' overlap with the Copts of Egypt quite well, which also makes them  unique in that sense.  In a religious way. So , in the case with Ashkenazi Jews a similar occurrence happens, whereas the part that makes them ''Jewish'' in their genetics, mainly through their Y chromosomes ( as Ashkenazi female lines are almost entirely European and Southern European, especially from Italy and Greece ) is matched with other European Jewish sects, mainly from Sephardic as they come from the same tribe . Apart from this historical fact, according to Dr. Ostrer at Albert Einstein College of Medicine : The DNA that he found also tightly linked Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews, two prominent culturally and geographically distinct groups; commenters immediately began to say this showed the groups were not separate at all. "And that wasn't what I was saying either," Ostrer says. Also, the deeply rooted Middle Eastern markers could be used to support Zionist territorial claims—except, Ostrer points out, the same markers can be found in Palestinians as well."

https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-chosen-genes/

So, basically the part of Palestinians that makes them 'Arab' like the part of European Jews that makes them 'Jewish' is the same, If that makes sense? In fact out of Sephardic Jews for Ashkenazis, Palestinian males, including the Muslims, seem to be a good genetic close match. This is pretty politically ironic, if you ask me.

So there are you have it, five commonly cycle jerked myths that have been debunked.

The origins of the European races: The origins of the European race, a brief history....

The origins of the European race: The origins of the European race, a brief history....:  The origins of the European race It's often stated that European migration into Europe started during the Neolithic  period of 10th m...

The origins of the European races: The origins of the European race, a brief history....

The origins of the European races: The origins of the European race, a brief history....:  The origins of the European race It's often stated that European migration into Europe started during the Neolithic  period of 10th m...

The origins of the European race, a brief history.

 The origins of the European race

It's often stated that European migration into Europe started during the Neolithic  period of 10th millennium BC. Unfortunately, this is only when human beings can be traced by most scientists. Indo Europeans evolved ( especially from the Eastern Mediterrenrean basin ) around 37,000 to 40,000 years ago from a number of places that can be defined and where Indo European migration was dispersed into various parts of Europe. They're known commonly as Slavs, Nords, Celts and Mediterraneans.

Indo European migration map.

 The origins of Mediterraneans

 The Mediterrenrean people were have to have started according to various definitions like the Fertile Cresent of Anatolia, Central Asia parts of the Levant and North Africa. The Mediterrenrean type of subspecies at the close of the Paleolithic spread from the basin of the Inland Sea northward by way of Spain throughout Western Europe in the Atlanto variant, including the British Isles, and, before the final expansion of the Alpines, was widely distributed up to and touching the domain of the Nordic Dolichocephalics. It did not cross the Alps from the South, but spread around the Mountains across the Rhine into Western Germany. The Alpine Mediterrenrean sub group is recognizable by their shorter to medium stature, round skulls and brown eyes and hair. 

Haplogroup H the oldest female haplogroup?

Haplogroup H is said to be one of the oldest female Indo European haplogroups to arrive in Europe from the Near East, around 40,000 years ago and is the most diverse maternal lineage in Europe, in most of the Near East and in the Caucasus region. The women who were named ''pioneers''  recolonized Europe after the end of the last Ice Age. With them they brought farming, agriculture, trading, pottery and architecture to Europe. One of the first populations of European females to carry haplogroup H were the ancient Minoans and Mycenaeans.

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A Cretan woman with a phenotype similar to the Minoans

 

The origins of Nords and Celts 

The Nordic-Celts (  Gall-Ghàidheil ) are identified with the progenitors of the Norse Gaels, they were a people who dominated the UK during the Middle Ages. Their genetic and linguistic languages changed the culture of Western Europe and brought a new type of agriculture to the British Ises. Usually the descendants of Norse Germanics and the Gauls, they were have said to have immigrated to the UK after the late Bronze Age 1200 BC. In addition, in the 19th century, the first people to adopt cultural characteristics regarded as Celtic were the people of the Iron Age Hallstatt in central Europe (c. 800–450 BC)

Wandsworth sheild, found in London.  

Reminants of the Gauls in North Africa?

The Berbers are a distinct ethnic group in North Africa and one of the oldest. The name Berber derives from the Latin name Barbarus, or ''Peoples of the Sea'' who arrived in the area around 1200 BC and fought Ramses III. The Berber language is related to ancient Germanic languages. The Vandal rule of North Africa, explains the Germanic and Celtic  substratum influence in the Berber community. This linguistic connection results from the German rule in North Africa for 400 years. The Vandal rule in North Africa explains the origin of the Indo European speakers of this "language" family. 

A North African woman with red hair and pale skin 

The original Slavs 

Slavs are Indo-European peoples who lived only in Eastern Europe before they spread to the areas which they today inhabit starting from 5th century-10century  A.D from the early medieval period . The first mention of the name Slavs dates to the 6th century, by which time the Slavic tribes inhabited a vast area of central-eastern Europe. Over the next few centuries, Slavs migrated further to the Baltic regions of South Eastern and Eastern Europe, the Alps in the South and West and the Volga to the North and West. Well over half of Europe is today inhabited by about 270 million people speaking one of the many Slav languages and dialects.  

Eastern European culture in Central Asia? 

The Indo European Culture that evolved into what was to be known as Aryan, originated in the Pontic Steppe region.

This is the native habitat of the Horse.
Indo Europeans, of various tribal names,were the first to domesticate the Horse, and have various tribal names, like Cimmerians, Sarmatians, Scythians, Parthians, Alans, Aryans, and were Equestrian Nomadic Warriors., Samaritans, Scythians, Parthians, Alans and were Equestrian Nordic warriors eventually they went on to occupy the Iranian High Plateau. Scythians penetrated from the territories north of the Black Sea across the Caucasus. The early Scythian kingdoms were dominated by inter-ethnic forms of dependency based on subjugation of agricultural populations in Eastern South Caucasia.

Pictures of Scythian and Samaritan warriors