Europeans Did Nothing Wrong: Tracking Migration Through the Ages [stream #86]

It is disingenuous to say that the migration of large groups of strangers into another’s settled society is a phenomenon of all ages. No, modern mass migration is abnormal. We have never seen this before.

People have always lived as migratory groups, as nomadic pastoralists, or as hunters following herds and seasonal fruit crops, but throughout human history and prehistory, most migrations involved small groups of relatives moving away from other families. They were not moving toward each other. ...