are japanese and chinese the same thing

iie! Chigai yo! Dame da!

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are they yes ro no man

Yes, they are exactly the same.

Just like English and German.

Just like Canadian and Mexican are the same thing. They're both North American, right?

They are all foreigners.

(With apologies to to those who have heard it)

Mr Greenberg from the deli goes next door into the Chinese restaurant, and tips a bowl of noodles over the manager's head.
"That's for Pearl Harbour !" he says.
"But I'm Chinese, not Japanese!" says the manager.
"Chinese, Siamese, Japanese ...they're all the same!" says Greenberg.

Next day, the Chinese guy goes into Greenberg's and tips a bowl of soup over his head.
"That's for the Titanic !" he says.
"...but that was sunk by an iceberg !"
"Greenberg, Goldberg, Iceberg.....all the same !"

One cannot doubt the powerful cultural influence of the Han on the nations which are their neighbors. However, the linguistic evidence is strong that the Chinese and the Japanese are only remotely related, that relationship lost in the mists of cultural prehistory. The Japanese and Koreans speak Altaic languages, and their nearest linguistic cousin is Turkish. The Japanese--for so far as the archaeological record reveals--invented pottery, ceramics, thousands of years before they are found in the archaeological, cultural record of any other civilization. The implication is clear that the Japanese were "in place" in the Japanese archipelago and using and developing their own, distinct culture long before the culture of the Han (i.e., China) had any influence on them. At that, their conduit to Chinese culture was by way of Korea.

I consider it highly doubtful that the Japanese and the Chinese are "the same thing."

C'mon, they both use chopsticks, they both eat a lot of rice, and they both drink a lot of tea. They are so the same.

iie! Chigai yo! Dame da! Whu wana secon wold wah?

Bad grown-ups. You're talking to a kid who's probably still a member of Club Penguin.

OK I take it back, our poster claims to be 15. Pile on.

I should in fairness point out that not everyone agrees that the Japanese "invented" pottery. But Japanese yakimono (which means "fired things") dates back at the lowest estimates ten thousand years--which is in the era or before the era when the Chinese were domesticating plants and animals.

This site by the Burlington Art Center states that Japanese yakimono dates back more than 10,000 years. I have read estimates as distant as 14,000 years, before the domestication of plants and animals. I can't vouch for the accuracy of such a claim; there are however, many reputable sources which date ceramics in Japan to 10,000 BCE, two thousand years earlier than the more conservative estimates.

you make me raff out roud

My grandpa.

True fact.
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I'd love to hear about it sometime

Yeah, and neither one of them speaks a language that is English.

Proof positive, that's what ya got right there.

We'll wait until this episode is over, and I'll start a thread. Pretty cool stories.

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Yes, please do..

C'mon, northern Chinese like steamed bread better than rice. And western Chinese eat highland barley.