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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_jdlcn8y wrote

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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RodneyDangerfuck t1_jdm8uj4 wrote

they sound chinese enough for chinese militarists to justify troop movements. I agree English sound italian enough for italian militarists to justify troop movement.... and in the end isn't that all that matters?

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