(November 4, 2013 at 7:52 pm)Brian37 Wrote:Well, we do, and so do you. I have inherited a culture from my ancestors, and so did you. IT matters little if you profess to it or not, its still the culture of your ancestors, and by that name it will be hailed aloud. I gave you an example, the Sumerians, a people that do not exist anymore, had a culture. And today, by translating their tablets, we know certain things about this culture, and we call it by the name of its creators, the Sumerians. The Sumerians have the right to claim this culture as their own, as they spawned it. It's a dead culture but its a culture nonetheless, and is associated with a group of people, as it has always been, and as it always will be.(November 4, 2013 at 7:16 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: I do have a claim on my culture by rights of ancestry, just as I have a claim on inheritance left to me by a dead relative.
Besides, even dead people can make this claim by simply proving their existance, and that they had a distinctive culture that they had laid claim on previously when they were alive. For example, the currently non-existant people of Sumerians, now lay claim on the Sumerian culture from the earth that they're residing in. No one can take their culture away from them no matter how hard they try, unless they're Sumerians themselves.
NO you don't, NONE OF US DO, 1 million years from now if we still exist as a species, the boarders will have changed, the land will have changed, and our species may evolve to have different features that make us look different than we are now.
Evolution does not have the ability to care where you are from or what your race and religion or national background is. It's only goal is to make babies.
As for evolution, I don't think that this had anything to do with our discussion. Why you constantly bring it up is beyond me.
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