Seems an appropriate time to repeat this.

Our sub-species emerged in the Great Rift Valley around a quarter million years ago.

Unless your family has lived there for all that time, you are an immigrant or descended from immigrants, wherever you are. The rest is just arbitrary cut-off dates, none of which are scientifically meaningful.

Everyone needs to get over this shit, and the sooner the better. Immigrants are just humans like everyone else. Literally.

@wesdym I've thought this for years, and as you say, everyone needs to get over it.

Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot springs to mind.

@ianm549 Indeed. It's a profound and powerful statement that everyone should hear, ideally as it originally aired:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g

Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot

Pale Blue Dot

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