Greeks made it perfectly clear in their literature which peoples they regarded as physically distinct. Remarkably, modern genetics points in the same direction.
The closest living populations to Bronze Age Greeks and western Anatolians are Greeks, Greek and Turkish Cypriots, southern Italians, Armenians, many Jewish populations, and many Lebanese populations.
Greeks are an eastern Mediterranean people. Our closest historical, cultural, and genetic connections have always been to the Aegean, Anatolia, Cyprus, and the Levant, not northwestern Europe.
Matt Damon does not represent us. Not even close.
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