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100% if you go back a little further. Large hominids aren’t native to this continent. BTW have you ever thought about what incredible bad asses people had to b
by api 8mo ago
100% if you go back a little further. Large hominids aren’t native to this continent.
BTW have you ever thought about what incredible bad asses people had to be to cross the Bering strait during the ice age with Stone Age tech? We could definitely settle space if we had the will. It’d probably be more comfortable, safer, and easier, even in the early days, than that.
- ksynwa 8mo ago[flagged]
- graemep 8mo ago100% of the population of everywhere other than parts of Africa if you go back far enough.
- rayiner 8mo agoBut Japan is clearly different from India, right? So how useful is that out-of-Africa factoid for analyzing modern societies?
- graemep 8mo agoThat is my point. The comment saying immigrants are 98% of the population of the US is not useful because they are people whose ancestors have been their for many generations. Defining anyone who has immigrant ancestry as an immigrant is pointless. Sometimes it is useful to talk about, say, second generation immigrants, but not endlessly. For one thing, after a generation or two the culture of people descended from immigrants diverges from that of their ancestors, even if their ancestry is limited to just one culture.