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I'm going by your own claim. Are the Mayans today of the same people as the Mayans who built Chichen Itza or not?
According to your claim, they are not. Therefore why does any indigenous person need a reservation? Or even deserve to call themselves indigenous?
Okay, so then why does any person descended from any indigenous American group alive today have the right to call themselves indigenous or live on a reservation? Please explain it.
You are saying that modern indigenous people are not of the same people as their ancestors.
So why should they be given ancestral land and autonomy? According to you, the modern Sioux aren't of the same people as the ones who were there before Europeans got there, they're just Americans.
So why do they get special reserved land and autonomy? Why do they deserve it based on your rationale that they are not the same people?
Wait, so your whole argument has been that the Mayans aren't immortal? Yes, I'm aware.
Dear Quetzalcoatl, this is all because I accidentally left out the word "of" in one post?
In what way are they not the same apart from not living at the same time period? Again, you're making the argument that indigenous people today are no longer indigenous.
Romans? And many of their descendants live in Rome and call themselves Romans. What do you think people in Rome call themselves?
And I already explained that the Romano-British, who are called that, did not build Hadrian's Wall because Hadrian had legionnaires from other parts of the empire do that.
The only reason they're called Romano-British is to show what time period they're talking about. As for who built Stonehenge? Neolithic British people. Any archaeologist will tell you that.
Are you saying Romans aren't Italians? Are you suggesting the Italian Peninsula isn't the Italian Peninsula? Because if you are, we do not agree. Especially when the Romans themselves called it Italia, just like modern Italians do.
Also, Teotihuacan is in the Valley of Mexico. Did Mexicans build it?