content: This book is misleading.According to geneticist Cavalli-Sforza's research, the genetic distance between Anglo-Saxons and the Irish is less than 1. They are extremely closely related. Both northern Celtic and Germanic tribes had been closely related for a very long time. Contrast this relatedness, for example, to people who are not related. The genetic distance separating the English from the Japanese is 59. The genetic distance of the English from Sub-Saharan blacks is 109.I think you get the picture.Ignatiev is unreliable as a "scholar." This is the same author who once said: "We intend to keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females too, until the social construct known as `the white race' is destroyed,not `deconstructed' but destroyed."His hatred of European Americans (whites) belies his own research.