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https://www.newsweek.com/swedish-history-tv-series-faces-backlash-using-black-actors-1841695
Anew Swedish program on the country's history is being scrutinized due
to portrayals by actors of different ethnicities.
The History of Sweden will be broadcast this fall on Sweden's tax-funded
state TV channel Sveriges Television AB (SVT) after nearly three years
of production, described by The Nordic Times as the network's biggest
ever historical venture.
Criticism has followed the arc of the project, however, due to Black and
Middle Eastern actors front and center in previews. Some claim that
their appearance is part of revisionist history and not following proper
science or history, and some view it as a major slight towards white
Europeans of Nordic descent.
The series reportedly documents the history of Sweden dating back to the
Ice Age, all the way to the present.
"As part of the mass media and political campaign for continued mass
immigration to Sweden, it has become increasingly common in recent years
to claim that Sweden has always been multi-ethnic and that the early
Swedes did not in fact look anything like today's light-skinned
Swedes—but more like sub-Saharan Africans—an 'educational campaign'
spearheaded by SVT itself," The Nordic Times wrote in an editorial in June.
As production has continued and publicity for the program has ramped up,
more individuals have expressed antipathy toward the depictions shown in
pre-released images. One of them is Jeff Ahl, a former member of Swedish
Parliament.
"History falsification in full swing," Ahl wrote in May on X, formerly
Twitter. "The cultural Marxist poison must be purged from our
'universities,' which have turned into propaganda institutions, rather
than serious institutions of learning."
Others on X have declared it "state-sanctioned erasure of history,"
adding that it is not Sweden's past, but could be its future.
One user compared its historical accuracy to casting actor Robert Downey
Jr. to play Martin Luther King Jr., referring to it as "a joke."
/A study published in January 2018 in the PLOS scientific journal
examined early postglacial migration routes and adaptation among
Sweden's earliest known inhabitants.
It concluded that there was greater genetic diversity in Mesolithic
northern Europe compared to southern and central Europe and modern-day
patterns—and that many genetic variants common during that period have
been lost today.
/These findings reiterate the importance of human migration for
dispersal of novel technology in human prehistory," the study says./
(But what said study doesn't say is that black Saharans have any
significant DNA in the Swedish smorgasboard!)
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3150368/
We have shown that caution must be taken if Swedes from the northernmost
counties are included in a population-based genetic study, since they
differ genetically from southern Swedes and also amongst themselves.
Genetic patterns do not necessarily follow national borders and
substantial genetic differences may be detectable within a country.