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probably very few, if the old testament or the huge proportion of ancient skeletons that died violent deaths serve as any guide. which is why I think this story
by mjfl 8y ago
probably very few, if the old testament or the huge proportion of ancient skeletons that died violent deaths serve as any guide. which is why I think this story by Reich is very tone deaf. It's hard to see how a 90% population replacement promotes feelings of unity and hand-holding.
One imagines a superposition of a video feed of the invasion of the steppe-people on horseback, stampeding the native defenses, cutting the male children's throats and raping the women, with a video a David Reich being like "we're all a little mixed".
- duality 8y agoTone deaf indeed. It seems common for people not to ascribe a full measure of humanity to humans from the (distant enough) past. Thought exercise: are there any large-scale population replacements happening today, and how do people feel about that? Surely not a kumbaya feeling I'd bet.
- astazangasta 8y agoIt's easy to find these in the relatively recent past. See: North America.
- perilunar 8y agoIn the recent past: the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji?, etc. Current: Tibet, West Papua, Rwanda?, Northern Europe perhaps?
- deogeo 8y agoAdd Xinjiang to the list of current ones - from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/world/asia/china-muslim-detention-uighur-kazakh.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/world/asia/china-muslim-d..., flagged off the HN front page: "Decades of migration by Han, China’s dominant ethnic group, have transformed Xinjiang, fueling Uighur anxieties. Uighurs, once the majority, are 46 percent of the region’s 22 people million people, Han are 40 percent and Kazakhs 7 percent, according to government estimates."