Comments by "May L" (@MeiinUK) on "1.3 Billion: Breaking Down the Han Chinese Ethnicity" video.

Hakka is technically not a race per se. Just a term to describe the migrants of a set period of time. But.. as long as people document and trace their lineage.... Just remember who your families are and your extended families etc.
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Not everyone in China is "chinese" ! And obviously, you could see that they are of different "tribes" or "race" as we call it in cantonese even. When you use this kind of English definition, you lose... Cos many citizens within China itself, does not classify it the way you guys do !!! They see themselves as another tribe/race.
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What do you mean by that ?? Proven how ??
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Interesting, I did not know that.... Really did not know that.
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@gamevalor : When many people call themselves "Hans" or the "Yellow river people", they mean that they are the literal and actual descendent of a specific set of people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpC1P6me5Ko&t=302s Just like, in the UK, people call themselves English, or Scottish.. it is because they know EXACTLY... every single generation, if not, then they know the rough estimate.. and things like that. The only reason why so many people do not know their own heritages IS because of the past wars.. But most people DO know it, and in fact, this century, they try to reconnect back as well. Why do you think that there are so many ancestries databases, and even a lot of post war period... so many countries accept and do not accept certain people back to their own family trees? (I think you are confused about the genuine "democracies".. like in the UK, whereby.. some of the ethnic minorities that look like they are indeed ethnic minorities.. but in fact, their literal family tree can be traced back to a King or a Queen of the UK.. or Europe.... ) What science says is not the same as what a group or a country decides. That North and South Hans thing was indeed quite regular... That of course is possibly due to the way that the region was governed then. i.e. WHOSE land belongs to WHO. That is why, since all lands were designated.. why should it be ruined by random people coming and going ?? Communism ruined things... basically... If your ancestor as gifted the land and you have farmed those lands and built on it, then it is your family ancestral land. It does not change. The government is only an administrative party. It still belongs to you. So sometimes when I see people say random things. They need to trace back the history... cos it does not stand. I got it. I found out why there was a "Northern Hans" DNA and a "Southern Hans" DNA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_and_Southern_dynasties Around 400-600 AD, the entire region was split up.
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@Asianometry : Where did you get your dirty data from ? Cos this is potentially biased data anyway ?? The country has a 1.4 billion existence.... and you have not even backdated them to the actual ancestors and the Chinese mummies either. That is why it is controversial. You are using a small sample data size to generalise on the rest of the country.
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@jecoatnothbeaf1567 : Because the people that were Hans, are supposedly descendents of Qin Emperor.. They say. I don't know how that works out.. since the Northern area also had like Qing people as well...
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It is not very accurate....
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@zhangjeff238 : Why don't you read the comments created by my ID alone ? In the English, we say , "people from China is called Chinese"... but if you can read, and write in Chibesr, then you will know that there are different family trees, some people consider a family tree to be a single "clan", or "race"... in China. Disturbing and creating a new definition which forces the people to not accept themselves is like country suicide.... A membership to a country, by "nationality" definition does not mean that it is their own race. (FYI, I am also an overseas' British Chinese.... In case, you assume that I cannot read or write Chinese. )
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@cloud-w2v : "Mandarin" and "putonghua" is basically "min nam", or the earlier version of it was. It was the subsequent versions and erosion and this "new" language, created by the officials... with coercion from outsider influences, like Westerners, indirectly forced this "fake language" to be created, in order to do what... To teach foreigners a kind of standard "foreign chinese language"... And it is what it has become today. Cos in Taiwan, they do not call it "mandarin". And in those earlier days in HK, nobody calls it "mandarin". Chiu chow hua, is not classed as mandarin, and nor is min nam hua, classed as mandarin either. And even "hakka" was not an actual language per se. It was a weitou wah, or tanka people, calling others this name.. and then clever clogs' Western scholars tried to standardise and marginalise, and pitch people into groupings. So this ended up as such.... And because nobody protested and disputed in those earlier days, or stated obviously... This is whereby you let those kind of published materials to become what it is today. Some kind of weird standard.
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@TheXanian : He is referencing DNAs... when he talked about that. If you ask the people themselves, they would identify as something else... cos they have never ever checked their own DNAs... etc etc. Some do not even understand the concept.
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@CrimsonEclipse : Northern China was not part of China at all ! The "Middle Kingdom" did NOT included those protectorate states !!! And now, this man, probably American, is trying to use fake information to make it into a reality !!! Cos if you read into chinese materials and published materials, then you would find that is NOT the case !!!!! Northern Chinese is basically Russian/Siberian mixed race heritage !!! Hardly Chinese any more.
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@yingqin7256 : M175 is basically Siberian.... They may "look" chinese... but their genes has Siberian genes. Aka "Russian" genes... Check out the stories of Tocharians, or the Tarim Mummy....
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@guangyang547 : No way..... really ?? Were they all burned or just those 6 were burnt ?? Why were they burned??
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@jovimathews : I don't think she knows or gets what and why... She may be right about the books.. but.. how we can piece together, is because the "Writing on cave walls" existed. So we know. Also.. we also know that..."DNA" also do not lie. So this is how we know. Plus, the science aspect can rebuild a set of facts. Of course, this removes the emotions and the rationales to the story. Maybe this is why she doesn't seem to think that this is true. And in terms of Hans DNA... why Southern and Norther Hans DNA existed... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpC1P6me5Ko&t=302s It is because, there was a Northern and Southern division going on. And that resulted in those people's DNA being as such. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_and_Southern_dynasties Science can rebuild back the history.... but of course.. it does not give it contexts. That link, states... You are classified as a "Southern Hans".... because.. YOUR DNA.. is also linked back to Qing Emperor as well. This is a fact. And of course, he possibly gifted his "army" which are most likely to be his sons or descendents.. Kind of like.."Go away from the palace now and have your own house and land", kind of thing. To call them Army or Military leaders, is somewhat odd. But.. He was the Yellow Emperor, and that was indeed his name. I love how so many people here.. just assume this kind of decentralised titles.. lol... I don't think she understands why some scientific papers refer to "southern Hans". Well.. that link shows it exactly why. The exact percentages and then the comparisons of why. Mostly at least 70% O3. For both North and South. It is almost exactly, which is surprising.. except for the tiny yellow.. I don't know what DNA that is. It is funny how it does reflect the history as well. Most odd.. but believable.
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When some people refer themselves to be Hans.. they mean that they are the descendent of the Qin Emperor.... Not the Qing Emperor. The QIN Emperor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpC1P6me5Ko&t=302s I never knew this one before. Interesting. And at around 400-600 AD... There was a North Dynasty and a South Dynasty... this is why maybe there is a North and South Hans difference.
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@xXxSkyViperxXx : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpC1P6me5Ko&t=302s
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@Asianometry : I can tell that, you are actually not Chinese. Cos what you said in the video.. about "people cannot distinguish who is who". This is actually not true. The "Hans".. if that is the yellow river people. They literally have an actual "family surname book". And every single person's surname and generation is written into this family tree book. So that you know who is who. And you consult the book as well before you name your child. You do not have this ? Ahhh... why IS that? Eh ? Cos you did not come from the "Hans" or the Confucian ettiquettes? It figures. In my father's village.. everybody's names are written down... and it went as far back as before the creation of PRC as well... I find what you say odd. What ming dynasty and what qing dynasty did, did not applied blanket to the entire region. So this is why some people also DO dispute this today. Cos some family tree names are allowed to prosper.. or they can breed but others cannot. And at the same time, there is an element of "Hanification" going on. Like.. those from Northern China or Beijing... if they are civil servants or diplomats or CCP members whatever those organisations are, they get sent to those rural and odd places where those so called 56 ethnic groups are... and in the past, they literally bred with those people and literally OVERTAKE the land ! That is how they "conquered" and managed that region basically... This is why some of those old villages and rural that dated back at least 300 years... they now send a representative into the state council to smooth things out. And they fought off those who tried to take their village. They also had back up as well. You cannot use the current 2022's modern eyes and construct to apply to actual and traditional values... which, as far as I am concerned , still exist. Or rather should exist. Modernity is not all that.
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The worst thing that PRC did was to remove its borders.. That ruined everything thereafter. And then people intermixed... and even taken in some odd ball archiac DNAs as well... So bad. And the people in the USA side keep fanning the situation. This is not good. If you're Hans chinese, shouldn't you have like a larger DNA sample of O3 or O2??? Why is everyone's DNA or ID cards.. have Hans, if they are just purely like 20% ?
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Even "Yan can Cook", Mr Yan have one ! lol... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LD01gFR11M I really didn't know that he's from Canton too... so weird... and he still has a bad accent. lol...
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