Are you REALLY Celtic?

[Moosedog]

Actually pronation is when your feet roll inward...when you walk on the outside of your feet it is supinating.

Hm, like many here I have wide feet with high arches, I supinate, can pick things up with my toes.

Moosedog

[BoldHighlander]

Hm, like many here I have wide feet with high arches, I supinate, can pick things up with my toes.

Moosedog

Yep, yep, & yep to all those

While my family genealogy shows mainly Ulster Scot (Scots-Irish) & Highland Scots, theres a strong dose of Irish (what my family always called "Black Irish") & Cherokee on both sides. Then English, and if we go far enough back I find wee introductions of Austrian / Swiss / German & Norse.
When folks ask my ethnic background I've always said "Heinz 57"

[The Wizard of BC]

Ummmm, nobody throw sharp or pointy things at me for this, but Celtic does not refer to an nation or group of peoples. It refers to a language family. It is like trying to say I'm Romatic because my ancestors came from Germany, or Italy, or Spain, or France. All Romance Languages, all related, but what a difference.
We today say things like "I am Celtic" like we would say "I am Welsh" or "I am Scottish". When we should be saying "My ancestors spoke one of the Celtic Languages". A small point I know, and to some they may mean the same thing. But to an Anthropologist they are worlds apart. And a Geneticist doesn't know or care what language was spoken by the donor of DNA.

Now to throw a monkey wrench into the toe thing. The trait of having a "big" or first toe shorter than the next is not being linked to anything Celtic. It is being linked to the H Haploid genetic group. These are only one group of peoples who came north from the Middle East, split into two with one going into the Balkans and one across the northern Mediterranean Sea. The Peoples who settled in the British Isles after the last Ice age arrived from the Atlantic seaboard of France. Before that they were in the Basque region of Spain. and before that N. Italy.

May I offer these small tokens from the National Gallery Washington DC.











All of these were done in Northern Italy in the early 1500's.

[andyfg]

Ummmm, nobody throw sharp or pointy things at me for this, but Celtic does not refer to an nation or group of peoples. It refers to a language family...

Steve, thanks for a very insightful post! I am always grateful for the wealth of scholarship on Xmarks.

[Bryan]

...but Celtic does not refer to an nation or group of peoples. It refers to a language family....

I was going to say the same thing. It's like classifying American Indian tribes. Cherokee Indians are Iroquoian, meaning they are related to the Iroquois, Mohawk, etc Indians of the northern US because of the language family they belong to, even though they ranged in the Carolinas-Tennessee area. Same with two well-known southwest tribes, the Navajo and the Apache. Both tribes are Athapaskans/Athabaskans which is a language family found in the North American subarctic which is where they are originally from.

As a side note, my temp also runs "lower than average."

[northernsky]

Now to throw a monkey wrench into the toe thing. The trait of having a "big" or first toe shorter than the next is not being linked to anything Celtic. It is being linked to the H Haploid genetic group. These are only one group of peoples who came north from the Middle East, split into two with one going into the Balkans and one across the northern Mediterranean Sea. The Peoples who settled in the British Isles after the last Ice age arrived from the Atlantic seaboard of France. Before that they were in the Basque region of Spain. and before that N. Italy.

Well regardless of whether it is a Greek toe or a Celtic toe or any other kind, I can speak from experience, that if you don't keep it trimmed, you'll wear out your good hose sooner than you expect....