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A comment on The Ainu, Japan’s Indigenous People. Parent comment

Re:The Ainu, Japan’s Indigenous People by waffle_ss on Saturday May 23, 2020 @09:54PM (#23288424)
> The countries that don't have them either killed them all in the middle ages or assimilated them completely

It's also the case that indigenous people killed each other off. For example, the Māori genocided the pacifist Moriori and the Comanche came very close to doing so with the Apache.

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Re:The Ainu, Japan’s Indigenous People by mc32 on Saturday May 23, 2020 @10:01PM (#23288452)
What do you mean by pacifist? Did they not have a culture or preparedness for conflict or did they actually have a pacifist philosophy that would prevent them from entering conflict to defend themselves?
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Re:The Ainu, Japan’s Indigenous People by waffle_ss on Saturday May 23, 2020 @10:07PM (#23288475)
They had a philosophy against it - see "Nunuku's Law"
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Re:The Ainu, Japan’s Indigenous People by mc32 on Saturday May 23, 2020 @10:39PM (#23288641)
Interesting. Thanks for info. According to Wikipedia, the young did want to fight but the older less flexible generation overruled them and thus were overrun.
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