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The Samurai And The Ainu (Read This Before Seeing The Movie "The Last Samurai")
Science Frontiers ^ | 1989 | Dr C Loring Brace

Posted on 01/17/2004 2:50:55 PM PST by blam

THE SAMURAI AND THE AINU

Findings by American anthropologist C. Loring Brace, University of Michigan, will surely be controversial in race conscious Japan. The eye of the predicted storm will be the Ainu, a "racially different" group of some 18,000 people now living on the northern island of Hokkaido. Pure-blooded Ainu are easy to spot: they have lighter skin, more body hair, and higher-bridged noses than most Japanese. Most Japanese tend to look down on the Ainu.

Brace has studied the skeletons of about 1,100 Japanese, Ainu, and other Asian ethnic groups and has concluded that the revered samurai of Japan are actually descendants of the Ainu, not of the Yayoi from whom most modern Japanese are descended. In fact, Brace threw more fuel on the fire with:

"Dr. Brace said this interpretation also explains why the facial features of the Japanese ruling class are so often unlike those of typical modern Japanese. The Ainu-related samurai achieved such power and prestige in medieval Japan that they intermarried with royality and nobility, passing on Jomon-Ainu blood in the upper classes, while other Japanese were primarily descended from the Yoyoi." The reactions of Japanese scientists have been muted so. One Japanese anthropologist did say to Brace," I hope you are wrong."

The Ainu and their origin have always been rather mysterious, with some people claiming that the Ainu are really Caucasian or proto-Caucasian - in other words, "white." At present, Brace's study denies this interpretation.


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To: blam

Thanks blam.


121 posted on 05/05/2009 7:18:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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122 posted on 05/28/2010 6:44:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: Cronos

Kingsley has a caucasian mother.


123 posted on 12/22/2010 8:54:13 PM PST by Amberdawn
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To: Amberdawn
Well, Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji )was the son of Anna Lyna Mary (née Goodman), an actress and model, and Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji, a medical doctor

His father was Indian and his mother's mother was English and mother's father was a Russian or German Jew.

Both Indians and English are Caucasians. Jews being Semites are also Caucasians

hence your statement is not quite correct -- Kingsly has a Caucasian father and mother
124 posted on 12/23/2010 1:19:29 AM PST by Cronos (One cries because one is sad. For example I cry because others are stupid and it makes me sad.)
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To: Cronos

Indians don’t look “white” as we define them in the west, though your point is well taken. In other words, Kingsley’s father has darker skin than the average englishman or “caucasian”.


125 posted on 12/23/2010 7:08:44 PM PST by Amberdawn
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To: Amberdawn
Well, actually that definition is limited to the USA. In the UK the definition differs. And while many Indians are not "white" as defined in the US, they are caucasian by race. Kingsley's father was a Gujarati -- from the Western State which is where gandhi was from -- so they're a light brown. Anyway, Merry Christmas! Wesołych Świąt!
126 posted on 12/24/2010 12:10:37 AM PST by Cronos (One cries because one is sad. For example I cry because others are stupid and it makes me sad.)
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To: Cronos

Merry Christmas to you as well!


127 posted on 12/24/2010 1:00:23 AM PST by Amberdawn
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To: blam

They also used a written language that is very similar to Nordic runes


128 posted on 11/18/2014 11:32:29 AM PST by southernmann
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To: blam

About 1300 years ago, during the demise of the Korean Three Kingdom period, the Baekje in the southern third of Korea may have migrated into the Kagoshima area. Today, the people of Kagoshima maintain that they came into Japan from Korea and may have conquered all the way up into the Kanto Plain or the mainland center of Japan.


129 posted on 11/18/2014 6:46:19 PM PST by Jumper
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To: southernmann; Jumper
The Relationship Between The Basque And Ainu
130 posted on 11/19/2014 7:36:27 AM PST by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: expat_panama

I believe that the same patterns exist in India. A young man who has done construction work for us has been doing a job for an Indian doctor who has over the weeks been very rude to him and now is trying to stiff him for $3000.00. I warned Tyler to keep good records. We’ll see.


131 posted on 04/14/2017 9:55:12 AM PDT by Mercat
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C. Loring Brace
Professor Emeritus, Anthropology; Emeritus Curator, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
https://lsa.umich.edu/anthro/people/emeritus/clbrace.html

Loring Brace retired as Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology and Curator of Biological Anthropology at the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. His research addresses issues of morphological variability between human populations. His investigations focus on circumstances and dynamics involved in the development of differences in human skeletal and dental dimensions, as well as the assessment of adaptive aspects of human variation such as nose form and skin color. He has made a point contrasting the aspects of human form that are under selective force control with those that demonstrably are not, and has shown how the latter can be used to evaluate populations relationships going back into the past where there are no direct historical data. He is currently working on two major projects: 1 - The Origins of Native Americans; 2 – The Emergence of “Modern” human morphology.

C. Loring Brace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Loring_Brace

In 1962, Brace published a paper in American Anthropologist titled “Refocusing on the Neanderthal Problem” where he argued, in opposition to French anthropologist Henri Vallois, that the archeological and fossil evidence did not necessarily support the idea that the Neanderthals were replaced by Cro-Magnon populations migrating into Europe, rather than being ancestral to early Homo sapiens.


132 posted on 04/01/2018 10:16:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: blam
The Hakka of China are an interesting group too

Very interesting read. The theory is that 5700 or so years ago, groups in Southern-Germany/Austria/Chechia learned to ride horses, and were able to quickly expand their range in all directions, including the British Isles (Celts) to the west, Scandinavia to the north, and the -stans and beyond to the east. All very politically incorrect and throwing accepted Chinese history for a loop.

133 posted on 06/27/2019 6:33:01 PM PDT by Tellurian (Demonicrats would smugly tell even God "you didn't build that".)
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To: Wilhelm Tell

Blast from the past.


134 posted on 06/27/2019 6:33:30 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: Tellurian
"The theory is that 5700 or so years ago, groups in Southern-Germany/Austria/Chechia learned to ride horses, and were able to quickly expand their range in all directions...."

Same time as the Black Sea Flood which would have sent refugees everywhere too.

In fact, I believe it was these refugees who spread farming and the Indo-European language all around.

135 posted on 06/28/2019 6:19:37 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

I don’t believe we can say people were the same 10-20,000 years ago as they are now. Most of the races outside of Africa were in the process of becoming what they are now.

At one time, Australiods, Caucasians and East Asians were the same, from the Capoid race of Africa. The group that became Australiods went South and West, nito Sundaland and Sahal. The other two went North, but whites went West and East Asians went East.

Amerindians went more North and East. Amerindians are less specialized than the East Asians, and the East Asians would continue to evolve, while the Amerindians had both Caucasian and East Asian features, some tribes more than others. One thing that led to further East Asian development was the vast amount of them, even in paleolithic times, that led to the homogeneousness of them.

I believe the Ainu and Kenniwick man shared those same non-evolved Northern traits that were part of the original stock of those people who would later become Caucasians and East Asians.

Negroids evolved from the Capoids, but remained in Africa.


136 posted on 06/28/2019 6:35:45 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Whenever I chat up Neanderthal chicks,
my Cro-Magnon gonads keep stalling.
It’s not a bad lick how her brow is too thick,
but that New Jersey accent’s appalling.


137 posted on 06/28/2019 6:52:16 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: SunkenCiv

2020 bump.


138 posted on 04/09/2020 10:26:20 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam
Thanks blam.

139 posted on 04/09/2020 11:08:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: blam

How would you have skeletal remains of people who practiced cremation of their dead.


140 posted on 06/01/2024 11:14:54 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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