Oddbean

@Archivist of Santa's Workshop's Worker Safety Reco... @Shadowman311 @Zealist @Sick Burn, Bro the Middle East used to be the center of civilization. Now “Babylon” is a joke and a historic site filled with brown people. Race mixing probably has something to do with it, perhaps what has a high floor has a low ceiling, who knows. Maybe cultures just get old like people do.

Good thoughts. Babylon and Persia were overrun by the Mohamedans from the Arabian deserts, which ruined them with Islam and inferior genetics. They still had respect in the world before that invasion though. Of everyone, China has survived longer as a civilization than probably anyone else, despite constant conquering and ethnic shifts. (There's no such thing as Han ethnicity. Northern and southern Chinese are totally different. But they still hang around for some reason.)

@Archivist of Santa's Workshop's Worker Safety Reco... @Shadowman311 @Zealist @Sick Burn, Bro I think Han do exist, they’re just the central ethnicity, and then there are canton in the south and Manchu in the north. Although I’ve heard there are five major Chinese ethnicities. China may very well be what Europe would look like if the Meds, Germanics, and Slavs bonded into one superstate, and stayed that way for thousands of years. Something to think about, although Europe has *way* more languages.

"Han" as one people has been pushed as propaganda of the government for centuries. In China, it's generally understood that the northern and southern Chinese are very different, both culturally and how they look. Lots of jokes revolve around how different the two groups are. youtube.com/watch?v=LbiIu_EzuWk

@Griffith @Shadowman311 @Archivist of Santa's Workshop's Worker Safety Reco... @Zealist @Sick Burn, Bro theyve racially replaced most of asia, even polynesians are part han, its just an arbitrary term theres no real difference between any of the ethnicities in the historical bondries of han and those outside it