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

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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