Why is the term "bloodline" often used instead of "family tree"?
Why is the term "bloodline" often used instead of "family tree"?
edit: The reason I find it an odd term is because human ancestry literally doesn't follow a line. It always branches off, even if only to just include two parents. It's a tree like structure, a line would misrepresent it
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Who is actually using this term? I’ve only heard it in like medieval period fiction.
If I heard anyone start rambling about their bloodline I would immediately start to wonder if they were a fascist.
It's like "female". Nothing wrong with it per se, especially in a biological conversation, but it's more used with animals.
I think it’s a bit different. Female at least refers to a real biological trait (or at least collection of traits). As a scientist I use the word female in my work all of the time, and frankly I’m not sure what alternatives to it even exist.
Bloodline is like… weird racist antiquated European ideas about ancestry that are more or less completely unscientific and wrong. I don’t think I’ve ever once heard it used in a scientific context.
Maybe it’s used in animal breeding but that’s because animal breeding has uncomfortable connections with outdated race “science”. It doesn’t come from the real scientific community.
I don't like making presumptions but I've heard it from all sorts of people
Maybe a cultural or regional thing? Or is it related to a hobby or something? I can’t think of a single time I’ve heard this phrase in normal conversation.
I found it on this very lemmy community a couple days back. It's why I posed this question
Possibly? Or perhaps some people learned it trough movies and just don't have a better word for it?
It's huge in wrestling at the moment because it's been a faction for like 3-4 years involving the actual bloodline descendents of chief Peter Maivia, which includes The Rock, Roman Reigns, the Wild Samoans, and pretty much any samoan in wrestling excluding Samoa Joe.