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Originally Posted by anrakushi
here is a reason why Japanese are racially different to Chinese, taken from wiki page on Japanese people:
for reference the Jōmon people are believed to have crossed into Japan 30,000 years ago and the Yayoi people 2300-2400 years ago. having this mix of indigenous blood would give them unique characteristics that developed by the population of Japan.
i'm sure you can find a lot of information to back up they are a different race.
EDIT: forgot to add, there are indigenous groups in Japan as well, Ainu, Ryukyuans etc. i can't understand why you could think Han Chinese and Japanese are the same race.
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Like I said before.. I'm NOT talking about race but nationality. Not only do I think race is irrelevant in this thread, it is also largely irrelevant in most fields of study (apart from medicine in which they really only use it for convenience. It doesn't even really exist scientifically speaking, rather it's more a social construct, The only reason I refer to it is because we are talking about physical features and in that case, reference to race on my part is simply done out of convenience.. however enough about that)
Also do you think that after all these years since the yayoi and Jomon people moved to the isles of Japan, that they are the ONLY influence into Japan. Do you think the "Japanese race" is still "pure"? Are you going to tell a "non-Japanese" looking person that they are not really Japanese? Similarly are you going to tell a blonde haired blue eyed English person that they are not really English? Or a red haired Swede that they are not really Swedish? Can you see how race is really not relevant in my assertion? On another note can you see the flaw in racial theory?
Anyway... this thread is starting to frustrate me. As you can see there are so many assumptions about the relationship between nations and nationalism and the social construct of race that I consider flawed by many of you, that my posts can be read many different ways depending on what flawed assumptions you have. Let me put it out there now. NO perceived "race" is pure. NO race percieved race is unchanged or unchanging.