• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    15 days ago

    You are saying that modern indigenous people are not of the same people as their ancestors.

    So why should they be given ancestral land and autonomy? According to you, the modern Sioux aren’t of the same people as the ones who were there before Europeans got there, they’re just Americans.

    So why do they get special reserved land and autonomy? Why do they deserve it based on your rationale that they are not the same people?

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                15 days ago

                In what way are they not the same apart from not living at the same time period? Again, you’re making the argument that indigenous people today are no longer indigenous.

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                    15 days ago

                    Romans? And many of their descendants live in Rome and call themselves Romans. What do you think people in Rome call themselves?

                    And I already explained that the Romano-British, who are called that, did not build Hadrian’s Wall because Hadrian had legionnaires from other parts of the empire do that.

                    The only reason they’re called Romano-British is to show what time period they’re talking about. As for who built Stonehenge? Neolithic British people. Any archaeologist will tell you that.