>> If there were different weapons, does that mean that the same pattern of higher diversity carry over into other countries? As in, do the Ainu, Saami and the Untouchable caste in India have a greater proportionate population? <<
It would depend on which entity(s) targeted which group(s) in each area. This likely varies somewhat, but the end result is probably a very small population in each area. A lot of those populations probably do feature the underdogs more than the overlords, but not necessarily all will do that -- sometimes people just want to wipe out the folks they hate, rather than the ones who are most threatening.
>> (Of course this is complicated by the fact that race is a social construct that cannot be definitively mapped in the genome...and that racial constructs vary extremely widely across cultures.) <<
There actually are some features that map pretty closely to population groups. Thing is, they aren't the features that people typically notice, but obscure things like ear wax texture and tooth funneling. These markers can be used for things like determining whether the remains in the mass grave constitute a probable act of genocide against a given ethnic group or something else.
That said, I've spent days building the former North America setting. Let's play with that for a while to feel out the world, before setting me up to do a bunch more sociology and math somewhere else.
>> As for the math, I think the general trends posited sound reasonable, whatever the fiddly equations say. And the patterns seem to reasonably correlate. <<
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancing_serpent
Thoughts
Date: 2021-02-09 05:50 am (UTC)It would depend on which entity(s) targeted which group(s) in each area. This likely varies somewhat, but the end result is probably a very small population in each area. A lot of those populations probably do feature the underdogs more than the overlords, but not necessarily all will do that -- sometimes people just want to wipe out the folks they hate, rather than the ones who are most threatening.
>> (Of course this is complicated by the fact that race is a social construct that cannot be definitively mapped in the genome...and that racial constructs vary extremely widely across cultures.) <<
There actually are some features that map pretty closely to population groups. Thing is, they aren't the features that people typically notice, but obscure things like ear wax texture and tooth funneling. These markers can be used for things like determining whether the remains in the mass grave constitute a probable act of genocide against a given ethnic group or something else.
That said, I've spent days building the former North America setting. Let's play with that for a while to feel out the world, before setting me up to do a bunch more sociology and math somewhere else.
>> As for the math, I think the general trends posited sound reasonable, whatever the fiddly equations say. And the patterns seem to reasonably correlate. <<
Yay!