Post #1735675
2026-04-26 23:50 UTC
Eh. The US has been around just as long as a civilization. If the Chinese get to claim credit for the radically different ancient predecessors to modern China, then the US can claim decent from both the ancient Native American civilizations as well as the ancient Middle Eastern civilizations that are ultimately the predecessors of many countries such as the US.
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@dessalines@lemmy.ml 2026-04-27 00:51
The US has been around just as long as a civilization. If the Chinese get to claim credit for the radically different ancient predecessors to modern China, then the US can claim decent from both the ancient Native American civilizations The US is a settler colonial project that carried out an extermination campaign and genocide of hundreds of native tribes. Settlers have no right to claim descent from the people (they’re still) trying to exterminate. Neither the PRC nor most ME countries are settler ones. The number of settler-colonial countries is tiny: the US, Canada, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, are the main ones.