Commonalities between Siberian and Alaskan/Canadian natives aren’t based in the ancestral link between the peoples, though–they’re based in the similar climate and resource conditions of the regions, and the seaborne cultural exchange that occurred long after the Beringia bridge was submerged.
If you’re looking for continent-wide similarities between Asians and Native Americans, the only ones you’ll find may be, I think, ascribed to universal human traits. The first peoples of the new world are long separated from their Asian kin, and long diversified into their own multiplicity of cultures.
Maybe. But there are some similaries between Siberians and Native Americans that calls the attention. For instance, the teepees, and certain forms of shamanism that resemble each other closer than with other tribal cultures. Coincidence? It may be, but perhaps they are what is left of a common heritage.
Did you really just claim that the Swiss Confederacy wasn’t diverse?
Swiss is a weird mashup of pretty much every surrounding European Nation, and some that aren’t so close, isn’t it? If we’re going to say Europe as a whole is diverse, you can’t say that the Swiss Confederacy isn’t – it was a representation of quite a few nationalities.
As for “liberal lies,” really? You don’t think it makes your argument seem a bit… biased… when you have to preface it with a qualifier in order to convince someone?
“These aren’t the regular kind of lies, these are the especially dangerous liberal lies.”
If the U.S. can claim any link or example from the Old World that is not Switzerland but Dutchland.
In any case. Why do you think that recognizing the influence of Iroquois on the Founding Fathers is a treason to Europeans? After all, you should remember the early Americans were escaping from Europe because a reason: with exception, that continent was full of wars, injustice and tyrany. In doubt, see the violent explosion of hate against the European regimes during the French Revolution.
In any case, what the Founding Fathers learned from the Iroquois was not democracy, as some believe. They learned the Federal system, that allowed diverse tribes to consolidate in a single nation by consense.
And why Americans shouldn’t be proud of theirs Iroquois ancestors? The first democratic nation that existed ever in the Western Hemisphere?
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And why Americans shouldn’t be proud of theirs Iroquois ancestors? The first democratic nation that existed ever in the Western Hemisphere? People remember the architecture of the Aztecs, the mathematics of the Mayans and the engineering of the Incas, but all those peoples were ruled by tyrans. The Iroquois were the first people in the Americas that introduced democracy and federalism in the Americas, a route that the U.S. will follow some centuries afterwards, in the very same lands.
that’s right, pinguin. 18th century Europe (Swiss Confederacy included) was full of tyrants and oppression, everybody remembers the architecture of the “all we ask here is that you give us your heart” Aztecs http://www.despair.com/sacrifice1.html and the Mayan math is beyond compare. I cannot even fathom where would we all be without our democratic “Iroquois ancestors”, regardless of the fact that the Federalist papers prefer to focus on the Swiss example instead. We are in full agreement now.