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Uh, no, just because whites can't make a country without colonialism doesn't mean there aren't non-colonial countries. Iran, India, China and Egypt have had historical settlement for a good 5,000 years, their people are indigenous to the land. (Or have very close and long term migrations)
There are even indigenous populations in fucking Europe too, thinking of it
EDIT: For the 0 IQ blood and soil idiots in the comments, I'm referring to the indigenous people of these countries that have very long historical settlements
I think that's kind of a common misconception that occurs when you're implementing ideas like race, nationality, or ethnicity to historical people who didn't really know them or understand them in the same way.
In regards to China, are we talking about the ethnic han? Well they displaced and settled land from other Chinese ethnicities. If we're just talking about the ethnicity held within a single nationality. Well, see there's a place in China called Inner Mongolia.....
In regards to Egypt, it's not an ethnicity, it's a nationality. You obviously have the ptolemeic dynasty, who were just some Greeks. You had the Persian dynasty for a while, then the nubian, then the meshwesh(Libyan), you even had the Hyksos who were proposed to be from the Levant. It's all over the place.
My point being that the ancient world was more connected than most people originally think, and ethnicities tended not to stay in one place for thousands and thousands of years.
You may know better but continuing to use China as the example - weren't they also repeatedly conquored and resettled by steppe people? Like, not only have they not had a 5000 year historic settlement but they have had as chaotic history of conquest and resettlement as just about anyone in history.
Eh, I guess it depends on who you consider to be Chinese, and what period of history you're talking about?
For the most part the steppe people like the Turkic or the Mongolians did the majority of what we consider conquering in China in the 13th-14th century.
Before that they didn't really comprise a large threat unless you are going much further back in history. If we are examining the Han dynasty, who shares a piece of history around the same time as the Romans, then yes. We don't exactly have a bunch of primary sources, but we can tell a lot by the distribution of dna and language that they historically occupied large aspects of northern China, and are related to modern Manchu people's, and those who hail from Manchu people like the modern Koreans.
If we are speaking of the migration and conquest carried out by the Han, it's not even really been hundreds. In the 19th century during the Taiping rebellion the Han started a civil war/genocide that killed around 30 million people. You get some pretty contextual quotes that kind of put into perspective the ethnic conflict native to China ""China is the China of the Chinese. We compatriots should identify ourselves with the China of the Han Chinese."
Except most of China was colonised by the Han people after the fall of Mongolia...
This is ahistorical. If the "fall of Mongolia" refers to the Yuan Dynasty, then the Han very obviously ruled China both prior and after that.
If that isn't what you mean, then you really don't know what you're talking about
Something like that.
How long do you have to wait before it's okay to live somewhere?
You think that having an indigenous population means that everything was sunshine and roses, and no group of humans was killing other groups of humans over that particular chunk of land? You might need to brush up on your history lessons.
You're making a utilitarian argument that doesn't account for the value of sovereignty.
All those countries came about by conquering tribes. They were all empires at one time or another. China never stopped being an empire. Tibet & Taiwan would like a word with you...
Good job telling everyone you have no fucking idea what history is
Blisteringly stupid.