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ConsitutionalHistory t1_j1vi3fe wrote

Define indigenous and/or how many generations/centuries do a people have to live in an area before they themselves can be described as indigenous? As most people believe in the 'out of Africa' principle that human ancestry came from that continent...then technically, no Europeans are truly indigenous.

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JegElskerGud t1_j1wq89g wrote

And neither are Amerindians or anyone else for that matter.

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ConsitutionalHistory t1_j1zd9s0 wrote

Technically you're wrong...one could reasonably argue that a given black person in and around certain parts of Africa could claim to be the only true indigenous people on the planet.

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JegElskerGud t1_j1zy793 wrote

That would make me technically correct not technically wrong. And if mankind came from Africa then Africa belongs to people of all races as a motherland.

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AnaphoricReference t1_j20vb9x wrote

Not to mention that the current inhabitants of Africa did some large scale displacing and colonizing as well in recent history. The Bantu expansion (1000 BCE- 1 CE, iron age culture) is considered far more recent than the Indo-Europeanization of Europe (3000 BCE- 2350 BCE, late neolithic and copper age culture). If indigenousness is a race, Europe is likely to win from Africa.

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