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I would say the Calusa Indians of the Florida Keys may fit your question...although they were not all killed for the intention of "wiping them out" circumstances pretty much acomplished it..Calusa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This smacks of those Americans who proclaim that they are "Indian,"....and then offer up a figure like 1/246th Cherokee.
The existence of some Tasmanian genetic material in people who are essentially European doesn't make it in my book. We may find that a few people today have some Neanderthal genetic material, but that would not mean - at least to me - that Neanderthals exists today.
As the OP posed the question the Tasmanians are no more as a people and a culture.
That seems to be the subtext for what's really on people's minds when it comes to rights in Arizona. First some people are denied their rights and then they're oppressed by the majority and usually what comes next is that the majority tries to get rid of those people either through expulsion or genocide.
My question is, has genocide ever been successful? I know recently it was/is attempted in Dafur, it's kind of happening in Zimbabwe and obviously the whole thing with WWII. But has it ever worked where a race or culture has been completely wiped out?
Yes. The native aboriginal Tasmanians (island state of Australia) were hunted like wild animals by the white settlers, and completely exterminated from the island during the 1800's.
Races haven.t been wiped out but some nations have vanished one of the most thorough examples is China which in its core area is 98% Han Chinese. But several thousand years ago the Han were one of many nations but the Han either totally absorbed the others, killed them or sent them fleeing south in order to survive. Where did you think the Burmese, Thais, Cambodians and Vietnanese originally came from. Another people who found themselves between a rock and a hard place were the Bushmen and Hottentots of Southern Africa. They where either victims of the Bantu or the Europeans who came on the scene about the same time. Then you have the Dravidians who are racially related to both the Australian Aborigines and the Southern African Bushmen. They were practically into the sea by the Indo-Europeans who came from the North of India. People with Dravidian blood are now the lower castes (untouchables) or the Sinhalese. The Sinhalese just won a civil war against the Indian Tamils but the rancor between these groups goes even more fundamental than just being Tamils and Sinhalese. In Europe the Celts once dominated Western Europe but are now found only on Europes Atlantic coastal fringes like Ireland Wales, Scotland and Breton. They lost big time. How about the Sea People and their descendants, the Phoenicians, Phillistines, and Carthaginians. Cathago delenda est.
In Europe the Celts once dominated Western Europe but are now found only on Europes Atlantic coastal fringes like Ireland Wales, Scotland and Breton. They lost big time.
Descendants of Celts are all over Europe, though. Even in Turkey.
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How about the Sea People and their descendants, the Phoenicians, Phillistines, and Carthaginians. Cathago delenda est.
The Maltese consider themselves to be descendants of Phoenicians via Carthage, and their language is based on ancient Phoenician with later influences from Maghrebi Arabic, Latin, and Romance languages especially Sicilian. Most Lebanese consider themselves to be descendants of Phoenicians even though they speak Arabic and are part of Arab culture.
Descendants of Phoenicians and Carthaginians are found in many parts of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Even as far away from the Levant as Ireland (some sources claim that Irish people with Mediterranean appearances are descended from Phoenicians - what is referred to in North America as "black Irish", a term not used in Ireland)
I think the problem is defining "race." I suggest that race is fundamentally undefinable in todays modern scientific paradigm. To the extent that people are talking about people of different skin color, facial characteristics, etc, we are all "mixed race." Everything else is cultural. Cultures certainly have disappeared.
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