IeyasuMcBob

IeyasuMcBob t1_jdlcn8y wrote

Reply to comment by IeyasuMcBob in Modern Tibetan people are the descendants of people who have continually lived on the Tibetan Plateau for at least 5,000 years by marketrent

And similarly, ancient maps show that Britain was part of the Roman Empire, therefore Italy has a territorial claim to modern England.

Often a good way to find if a statement is logically failed is to attempt to find other analogous situations, see if the same logic holds up, and if it doesn't work out why it doesn't.

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IeyasuMcBob t1_jdlcho0 wrote

Reply to comment by RodneyDangerfuck in Modern Tibetan people are the descendants of people who have continually lived on the Tibetan Plateau for at least 5,000 years by marketrent

That doesn't mean that Tibetans are Chinese.

You could use a similar logic with the U.K. Genetic studies indicate British people came from the East. What is to the East of Britain. Italy! Ergo British are Italians.

When you think of emigration and movements of peoples occurring in waves over centuries, you soon realise that the kind of reasoning in statements such as these are flawed.

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IeyasuMcBob t1_j72ayfh wrote

Reply to comment by indian_mofo in Why didn't Japan excise Chinese characters from the Japanese language, when Japan hated China so much? by 3cana

To try and help you understand the downvotes (actually didn't downvote your comment myself)

  1. I don't think a huge proportion of the Arab-hating USA population would be particularly fussed over the distinction between Arabic and Hindu-Arabic, though you are right that there is a difference.

  2. Roman numerals for instance.

The analogy isn't perfect, granted, but it works, let's say enough, to discuss at least.

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