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Originally Posted by tangomike
As ugly as it sounds its true. The strongest peoples have their own countries, the weak do not. The defeated usually having lost its cultural connectivity probably assimilate into their conqueres gene pool.
America took its country from a myriad of Native American nations and peoples....as well as from Mexico....but then again Mexico was taken from the natives by the Spanish soooooo (Spanish ppl themselves may be gone from mexico but their influence is clearly there)
Modern Japanese people exist because their ancestors crossed the sea and conquered the native Jomon peoples that inhabited Japan before them.
Modern Germans are culturally and genetically the way they are because they were able to halt Roman armies from incorperating them into the Roman Empire....The Romans were hugely responsible for the genetic make up of Europe, North Africa , Asia minor and parts of the Middle East.
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1- Regarding Japan, there is no evidence of a major conflict between the people designated the Yayoi (the first wave of migrants from East Asia once the land bridge between the continent and the Japanese islands closed up) and the Jomon. They settled the land the Jomon didn't use actually. The Jomon were hunter gatherers settling at the base of forested mountains hills and valleys as well as near the ocean. The Yayoi were an agricultural people who settled in between. And while the yayoi influence eventually overcame the Jomon... you can't say that it was the result of a conflict between the two peoples.
2- The Germanic tribes didn't actually halt Roman armies nor do Germans differ all that much culturally and genetically from Western Europeans.
Aside from these factual innacuracies.. this darwinian worldview of International Relations is simply out of date in an increasingly globalised world.