Submitted by IslandChillin t3_zj0v3g in history
TeacherAdorable4864 t1_izu7upa wrote
Reply to comment by MeatballDom in Egypt: Portraits of Egyptian Mummies Discovered in Ancient Philadelphia by IslandChillin
It’s akin to some future civilization uncovering portraits of the US president and describing it as the “Ancient Americans” when there are earlier, truly Indigenous cultures - who are not from Europe.
Bio-Mechanic-Man t1_izv7oro wrote
How long does a group have to live somewhere to be indigenous?
Electrical_Court9004 t1_izwfeu0 wrote
Well if you think that native Americans are an indigenous culture to North America then that would be incorrect because they descended from ancient paleo Siberian’s ( in fact some DNA evidence suggests they may also have been European... https://www.science.org/content/article/scienceshot-native-americans-were-mix-asian-and-european ) so they aren’t indigenous either according to your metric. You see how silly your hypothesis is?
As someone said, your understanding of culture isn’t very well developed or cogent. Just stop with the silly indigenous stuff, cultural osmosis is a thing and there is no ‘definitive’ culture in any given area on earth. It’s all a constant adaptation to and amalgamation of various cultures intermingling over time. A future civilization discovering a US president and describing it as an ancient American would be entirely true relative to the time period from when they discover it.
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