That's exactly the brand of nonesense that is sold to people there as "progressive" and "anti-colonialism" while infact it's just pure nonesense.

Of course every culture/society had to have come from some previous place/culture/society that changed over time due to an incredibly long and complex set of circumstances. The story one must believe to accept your view is that at a flick of the wrist, humans turned from Cave Men to some vague list of "root societies/civilizations" people moved around. Understanding how that movement happened 15 thousands years ago won't make the jews take over Egypt I promise.

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jjtheblunt 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

i think you accidentally worded this in a way you might not have meant.

you said a culture (singular) had to have come from another culture (singular), missing the possibility of blending, as worded.

	▲	eddythompson80 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah definitely meant to it plural

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prmph 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I think you misunderstand my point. You are kind of confirming my point.

What I am saying is that for some reason, this finding somewhere else is not applied consistently. Either we should keep finding the somewhere else for all cultures for as far back as we can, or else stop with this nonsense that just because a culture has some roots from elsewhere, so therefore it cannot have made innovations by itself beyond its supposed origins.

	▲	wredcoll 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Either we should keep finding the somewhere else for all cultures for as far back as we can, I'm not a scientist, but as far as I can tell... do that? Half the interest in archeological type studies seems to be "ok, this the earliest history we know of, what came before that?" I agree that humans tend to get way too entitled about (maybe) sharing genes with someone who did something cool in past history, but learning about which populations migrated to egypt and from where and when, seems unrelated.
	▲	pastage 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Of course nationalism and rasism infects science, especially what findings are considered canon in a culture. That only means you might have such findings not that it is the only thing created.