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What continent are you from?

What continent are you from?

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#181
BOOG said:
Btw... I apologize for being rude. Your compliments and recognition of the city is much appreciated. I am glad you liked it here. I grew up across from edgewater Park and now live in bay Village. My daughter goes to school in the university circle area and consequently, I spend even more time over there, than ever.
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Didn’t take it as rude, no worries.
It’s been 6 years or so.
I was in Old Brooklyn.
 
#182
equill said:
Tasmania is on the Australian continent, to the best of my recollection.

The NZ issue has already been covered sufficiently.
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I'm really confused if an island can actually be on a continent... Tasmania is on the Australian tectonic plate as is half of New Zealand, but does that make it part of a continent? Maybe the poll should be "which tectonic plate are you on" but that would be tricky for New Zealanders and Icelanders :)
 
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#183
ficelles said:
I'm really confused if an island can actually be on a continent... Tasmania is on the Australian tectonic plate as is half of New Zealand, but does that make it part of a continent? Maybe the poll should be "which tectonic plate are you on" but that would be tricky for New Zealanders and Icelanders :)
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Of course it can! It's just that not all of the continent is above water.

But yeah, NZ's in kind of an interesting situation there. The part of it I grew up on isn't on the Australian plate, but the part of it I last lived on, is. There are things I miss about that place, but the shaking isn't among them.
 
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#184
retslock said:
Same with Australians unless you’re indigenous. If you go back far enough we’re a lot more related than you’d first think. We’re just a big pot of genetic soup - no such thing as a pure race but let’s not go there. Brotherhood of man and all that you know - citizens of the Earth. That’s gonna get more and more relevant as time goes by.
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Yup. In the Americas, even if your indigenous, you're not, you're just more indigenous than the newer arrivals. From the best linguistic and DNA studies, 15000 years ago the first of 2 waves of settlers came - the first from Siberia. These migrations moves south and east and then started differentiating by language and looks over time. There is no way to tell if anyone else was there before them, only that we haven't yet found evidence that any hypothetical previous residents passed their language or DNA on. All of us alive now are from common ancestors.
 
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#187
cchorney said:
Yup. In the Americas, even if your indigenous, you're not, you're just more indigenous than the newer arrivals. From the best linguistic and DNA studies, 15000 years ago the first of 2 waves of settlers came - the first from Siberia. These migrations moves south and east and then started differentiating by language and looks over time. There is no way to tell if anyone else was there before them, only that we haven't yet found evidence that any hypothetical previous residents passed their language or DNA on. All of us alive now are from common ancestors.
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There is a very strong similarity to the indigenous Australians in physical features and manner of vocalising, though not the language as far as I know, with the people from southern India. I’ve thought for sometime now that they must have travelled down through the islands but since the oldest evidence of humans in Australia has been estimated at 50 to 60 thousand years old, there may have been a larger land mass for them to cross back then. There is also some suggestion that there were others here before them. I know that there were previous inhabitants of NZ before the Maori’s arrived. I’m no anthropologist but it’s interesting to speculate how we all found our way to where we are.
 
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#189
retslock said:
I know that there were previous inhabitants of NZ before the Maori’s arrived.
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I remember being taught about the Mori Ori in school, who were thought to have arrived first. I found out later they were actually a sub-tribe who split off early and colonised their own island, and were there long enough to diverge from the main population. It's a pretty elaborate way of pranking future anthropologists, but it worked for them for a while. The museum curator who set me straight was very patient about it, and managed not to look exasperated while telling me that this was already known before I'd been misinformed at school.
Or were there others before that? Wouldn't surprise me.
 
#195
Pbassmanca said:
The ca is supposed to stand for Canada. I probably could've have made that less ambiguous...:smug:
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Eh, always good to keep’m guessin. My deductive reasoning lobe should’ve recognized it, combined with the location tag RIGHT AT THE BOTTOM OF YOUR AVATAR!:banghead: Ah well, I admit, I have my moments of density.
Btw... I was up near you a couple of years ago in Oakwood, for my daughters rugby tournament. Man, I love Toronto :thumbsup:
 
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#196
cchorney said:
Yup. In the Americas, even if your indigenous, you're not, you're just more indigenous than the newer arrivals. From the best linguistic and DNA studies, 15000 years ago the first of 2 waves of settlers came - the first from Siberia. These migrations moves south and east and then started differentiating by language and looks over time. There is no way to tell if anyone else was there before them, only that we haven't yet found evidence that any hypothetical previous residents passed their language or DNA on. All of us alive now are from common ancestors.
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"In the Americas, even if your indigenous, you're not, you're just more indigenous than the newer arrivals."

Very good point. My wife and one daughter are avocational archeologists, so I hear a lot about this this as well as the alternates. Too deep to discuss here, but thanks for mentioning this.

PS Kennewick Man.................
 
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