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Why would any one of us be surprised that our ancestors were actually
of "other ethics" we wouldn't normally assume them to be?
Many "different ethnic groups" ("different" today, that is) branching
off from one common ancestor group is the RULE in all of nature.
About 95% of East Asians --- if you go far back enough in time....
say, 10K to 30K years --- came from a very SMALL original group of
ancestors somewhere in present day Central Asia.... and most Northern
Southeast Asian groups like the Lao, Thai, Karen, Mein, Puan, Hmong,
Burmese, et al. --- particularly if they are the phenotypically paler
shaded skin folks, with straight black hair --- branched off from some
common ancestors in or around central-southern China no more than
10K-15K years ago. Perhaps less.
But if you're in Southeast Asia, particularly in the more southern
most parts of Asia, with darker complexion, with the curly hair gene
being the dominant phenotypes, then you have more influence from the
"coastal route" human migratory folks, you're more related to the
Austro-Indonesian lineage. In other words, your ANCESTORS were among
the FIRST humans to have left Africa around 70,000 years ago, people
who left remnants of themselves from the Middle East, through coastal
India, through southern Thailand and Malaysia and Indonesia.... on
their way to Australia...
Nowadays, in modern times (particularly from the 1800 til the present
time), more and more groups are intermingling, inter-marrying. So,
naturally, it is more difficult to sort out lineages... So... whoever
who keep saying they are "pure" this or "pure" that are just too
uneducated to know what they're talking about...
And 200-500 years from now, the SHADES of humans would be even more
diluted.
As the Canadian Comedian Russell Peters (from India!) said, in the
next a couple hundred years, the human race average PHENOTYPES would
be around the shades of Chinese and Indian, because the two groups are
the largest and if you're disproportionately large, your spill over to
the small groups around the world would be greatest...
"Rednecks" of all types (who think they are "pure" this or that; and
who want to be so "forever") dont' have a very bright future. There
is literally no escape.
We all came from the same set of few hundred to few thousand ancestors
some 45K to 70K years ago, and returning to them, by slowly blending
again, it's going to happen, even if it takes another 500 to 2,000
years... but it won't take the same slow pace it took us to branched
off of our ancestor groups, since the speed of travels these days in a
tiny fraction of the speed they could do thousands of years ago...