Human rights are edgy now

@DudemanJenkins@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Human rights are edgy now

@irmoz@reddthat.com · edit-2 2 years ago

And why exactly do you think present day ‘Mayans’ are so mixed?

diprount_tomato · 2 years ago

It’s not being mixed what I’m talking about, I’m talking about being barely native and claiming to be one

Mixed is what you call “latinos”

@irmoz@reddthat.com · edit-2 2 years ago

Let me spell it out for you:

The Mayans are fucking dead

Straight from the first sentence of Wikipedia:

The Maya civilization (/ˈmaɪə/) was a Mesoamerican civilization that existed from antiquity to the early modern period.

Was

Absolutely zero people are alive today with 100% Mayan ancestry.

@s_s@lemmy.one · 2 years ago

You’re insane.

@irmoz@reddthat.com · 2 years ago

Nice rebuttal

@TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee · edit-2 2 years ago

Gengis Khan is dead too. The Mongol Empire is long gone. He’s known for being ancestor to millions today. Do you understand that part?

@Pipoca@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

They’re not? Based on a study of Guatemalan genetics,

Analyses of uniparental genetic markers indicate that Maya have a dominant Native American ancestry (mitochondrial DNA [mtDNA]: 100%; Y-chromosome: 94%). ‘Ladino’, however, show a clear gender-bias as indicated by the large European ancestry observed in the Y-chromosome (75%) compared to the mtDNA (0%).