How are the small, remote settlements of the world (i.e. upper Greenland, Nunavut, Pitcairn Island, Tristan de Cunha) able to avoid a completely incestuous population?
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This is what I heard in history lessons many a year ago, but whenever visitors came to remote villages in Greenland (about the time of the Danish colonization/occupation, it was a requirement to sleep with someone local). The classic boats were used to visit neighbouring villages during summer when such travels were possible for related (or, I suppose, specifically unrelated) reasons.
Whether this holds true or the stories were some late part of “white man’s burden”-style racism, I would not know, as I do not remember the name of the school book, and I haven’t been able to verify this description searching now.
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