China >world's oldest contiguous civilization >most powerful economy in the world >developed most of Asia's philosophy >invented it's own writing system >second most powerful military in the world >most of Asia's culture originated in China >republican, leader chosen meritocratically
Japan >mostly irrelevant to world history except when committing war crimes >geopolitical shitspeck with a puny economy >imported religion from China and made it worse >stole Chinese writing system, too lazy and stupid to come up with own >no military, lets Amerimutts rape Okinawa in exchange for protection >only noteworthy cultural achievement is anime >monarchist, leader chosen based on lie he's descendant from a goddess
>world's oldest contiguous civilization >China Manland China to Chinese civilization is the same as modern Egypt to pyramids.
Julian Gonzalez
Doesn't most of China's history consist of getting invaded and raped by all of their neighbors and civil wars that kill tens of millions?
James Diaz
no, actually, most of it is rather peaceful
Robert Russell
yes this
Caleb Kelly
hrm true, yet it persists. why?
Andrew Mitchell
it persists by being delusional and claiming to be pure 100% han, never conquered, never cucked
literally iran-tier
Evan Rogers
>republican, leader chosen meritocratically I see you too consider the Republic of China in exile the only legitimate Chinese government.
Lucas Torres
well, it works don't it? you'd figure americans would be more sympathetic since you guys are on the same path, amalgamating multiple ethnicities.
Eli Robinson
It also tended to assimilate its foreign rulers. The last dynasty that ruled China, the Qing, were from Manchuria (and effectively 'foreigners), with the Mongols (Ming? Yuan? Fuck if I know) before them effectively assimilating as well. Kind of with how the Ptolemids assimilated into Egyptian culture. That's why China persisted: it incorporated elements of foreign dynasties (like the queue administrators wear as a sign of subjugation, that's supposedly a Mongolian thing in origin) while remaining mostly unchanged for the rest of it.
Put yourself in the shoes of a new, foreign emperor. WHY would you want to change anything? It works, it's awesome, you're at the top. All you need to do is squeeze into the system and kick back.
Aaron Russell
the hive mind asorbs them thou most of chinese history was peaceful
Landon Hughes
yuan was the mongol dynasty both the yuan and qing governments were sinoboos the manchus were already comprised of 75% ethnic chinese who defected from the ming dynasty, so they (the original jurchens who started a war against the ming) were already minorities in their own nationality. nurhaci (the one who founded the new dynasty) even said something along the lines of "dont differentiate between chinese and manchu, but between bannerman and civilian" although manchu culture and language pretty much died off towards the end of the 19th century, the clothing (somewhat) continues to live on, although pretty much everyone (chinese and non chinese) considers it to be chinese clothing.
Cameron Fisher
Alright, thanks for clearing that up.
Elijah Nguyen
fearnote, is that you?
Hudson Evans
dont know who that is but ive seen his name mentioned multiple times
Blake Hill
he spams /his/ about jurchen/chinese stuff either from singapore or taiwan
Bentley Martinez
lol, you mean pic related? to be fair racebaiting on /his/ gets irritating after a while, i dont blame him
>autist fails the imperial exams three times in a row after his family saved up money for three generations so he could take them >finds pamphlet about Christianity >declares himself Jesus's brother >ensuing war leads to 30 million dead JUST
Kayden Brown
ya, who is he and why is he so disturbed and enraged all the time?
John Sullivan
Chinese wars have always led to incredible kill counts because A. there's a lot of people and B. the rice farming system depends on complex irrigation and cooperative management, it can't really be done by small farmers like with wheat or corn so you disrupt the agricultural system in a war and millions starve.
Kevin Cook
fearnote is from singapore. possibly travels to the UK
