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More background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_period https://en.wik
by babesh 6y ago
More background:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_period
It’s supposedly more complicated since Yamato people are partly descended from Jomon who are supposedly also one of the ancestral groups of the Ainu. Both are indigenous and have been for over 1500 years. Or perhaps more accurately, the invasion started over 2000 years ago and was complete a few hundred years ago. Seems somewhat similar to Okinawa.
It’s like a technologically more advanced people subjugating their cousins.
- contravariant 6y agoKind of seems like there were scattered tribes at first, that gradually spread and grew apart until they ended up (mostly) assimilating into one civilization. Not unsurprisingly the biggest two, the Ainu and the remaining Japanese civilization, seem to correspond to the two biggest islands.
- mc32 6y agoI thought Okinawans outnumbered Ainu people of Hokkaido?
- longtimegoogler 6y agoI don't know. The Ainu look very different, which has led to much speculation as to their origins. This suggests to me that the Ainu while maybe sharing some ancestry with the dominant Yamato people have a very different history, with the Ainu probably sharing less genetic history with modern East Asians.
- babesh 6y agoMy read of it was that there was a Jomon culture that was superseded by the Yamato culture. The Yamato culture was mostly from people coming from what is now Korea but there probably was admixture with the people already there. But this peopling was a good 2000+ years ago. So it’s a bit like saying my ancestors were here 13000 years ago and most of yours were here only 2000 years ago. Furthermore, we have no idea how many waves of people have migrated to those islands.
- Bayart 6y agoThe Ainus are left on Hokaido and the few scatered islands in the North because the Japanese pushed from the South (their ancestor originally having come from Eastern Korea). The complete colonization of Honshu itself wasn't achieved before the Early Modern period.
- odiroot 6y agoThey look surprisingly "European".
- orthoxerox 6y agoScientific racists considered them a tiny race of their own.
- ironic_ali 6y agoSource?