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05-07-2011, 05:19 AM

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Originally Posted by tangomike View Post

From what I can put together the Nihon-jin of today are neither a purely local race or a people who are purely foreign (Korean and Chinese). They are a mix of many ethnic groups that converged in Japan over the course of millennia.
There is no such thing as a "pure race" period. Even the populations from which today's Yamato are descended from were not "pure" and are defined due to their way of life, traditions and time period in which they lived.

That is true for all human populations past and present.
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