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100% of the population of everywhere other than parts of Africa if you go back far enough.
by graemep 9mo ago
100% of the population of everywhere other than parts of Africa if you go back far enough.
- rayiner 9mo agoBut Japan is clearly different from India, right? So how useful is that out-of-Africa factoid for analyzing modern societies?
- graemep 9mo 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.