Ainu people
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Nov 4, 2026
Rudyard LynchHOST
But then in a segment on Asia, he says that the yellow race has not accomplished anything historically and.
Rudyard LynchHOST
He attributes Japan's success, which was already visible at the time of the decade or two after the US Civil War, to them having traced European ancestry through the Ainu.
Rudyard LynchHOST
And Gobineau, who was one of the big racial thinkers of the 19th century, he said the same thing, where their idea was the white race was the descendants of...
Rudyard LynchHOST
Noah's three sons, which they divided into the Semites, the Aryans, and the Hashemites, who were the Ethiopians and the Egyptians, because they had fused modern biological theories with the Bible at that point.
Zach BrassPANELIST
Yeah.
Tyler NiddlePANELIST
is an Ainu girl Ainu are like an indigenous people of I don't know if it's northern Japan or like southern Russia that part of Russia depends on who you ask depends on who you ask but yeah it goes into a lot of their cultural like things that they do hunting cooking social interactions etc yeah I love when an anime is just like here's a
Dom BrassPANELIST
normal plot sorry there's like guys who like skin people for their maps and stuff it's great there's like a lot going on yeah That's the most
Nate BrassPANELIST
down sentence ever.
Ryan GableHOST
But I do think this is an interesting little perspective that's completely unrelated to this encyclopedia.
Ryan GableHOST
But there's a group of people over here in Japan called the Ainu.
Ryan GableHOST
They're mostly up north, Hokkaido, northern Japan.
Ryan GableHOST
And they're like the Japanese Native Americans, where you think, oh, the Native Americans were all living in harmony and peace, and they all lived within.
Ryan GableHOST
Maybe they lived somewhat more in harmony with nature, but that also might be cut because of lack of certain advancements.
Ryan GableHOST
But the Native Americans also were at war with each other.
Ryan GableHOST
And I just learned this about the Ainu, because you hear about the Ainu over here once in a while.
Ryan GableHOST
You'll hear about this from Western sources, like, oh, the Japanese, they're like colonists, imperialists.
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okay
HanaeGUEST
i don't know to the uh was it uh i know Yeah, the Ainu
speaker_5UNKNOWN
are real.
HanaeGUEST
But
HanaeGUEST
I was like, oh, wow.
HanaeGUEST
This is like totally racist.
HanaeGUEST
Because like the Ainu, you know, that's like an actual native Japanese person.
HanaeGUEST
Yeah.
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Whether these arrangements represent genuine ritual behavior or are simply the result of natural processes remains debated, but the idea has persisted for over a century.
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The bear has been a central figure in the mythology and folklore of cultures across the Northern Hemisphere, from the Ainu of Japan to the Norse of Scandinavia to the indigenous peoples of North America.
speaker_0HOST
The ubiquity of bears in human mythology is not a coincidence.
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Bears share with humans a set of characteristics that made them natural subjects of storytelling and symbolic thought.
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In Japan, the island of Hokkaido is home to a population of brown bears that have been separated from the mainland Asian population for roughly 20,000 years, since the land bridge connecting Hokkaido to the continent was submerged by rising seas.
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These Hokkaido brown bears, known as Usuri brown bears, are genetically distinct from mainland populations and are an important part of the island's ecology and cultural identity.
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The Ainu people of Hokkaido traditionally regarded the bear as a deity in earthly form, and the bear ceremony, a complex ritual involving the raising and releasing of a bear's spirit, was one of the most important ceremonies in Ainu culture.
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In the Ainu worldview, bears were kamui, divine beings who visited the human world wearing coats of fur.
Ryan Daniel GableGUEST
I don't know how old it is, but it was in the Smithsonian.
Ryan Daniel GableGUEST
I'm sure you know the Ainu people of Japan.
William RamseyHOST
Yes, yes.
William RamseyHOST
I was thinking that actually just now.
Ryan Daniel GableGUEST
Uh, but the, I knew, uh, they were sort of the indigenous people of Japan.
Ryan Daniel GableGUEST
The reason I bring them up is because I was reading last night, uh, in an unrelated, uh, theories of research, I was looking for a report from the Smithsonian about there's a codex from Mexico that talks about how their version of Horace, going back to those comparisons again, had walked on water.
Ryan Daniel GableGUEST
And I was reading that and I came across that the Ainu, and when you say Ainu, we're talking the Jomon go back like 13, roughly 13,000, 14,000 BC.
Ryan Daniel GableGUEST
The Ainu can be traced back to around that period in Egypt.
Mike WattHOST
Kind of.
Mike WattHOST
Trip to our tribute or incorporating music of the Ainu, some indigenous people, Japanese islands.
Mike WattHOST
Sam Block Ward out of Iowa City with Keep Holding, Shock and Awe, Bleak.
Mike WattHOST
Finally, book on VHS.
Rose LifschitzGUEST
And they've also got beautiful national parks.
Rose LifschitzGUEST
And again, they've got the indigenous Ainu culture there.
Rose LifschitzGUEST
And a lot of great wildlife as well.
Rose LifschitzGUEST
Like in Shiratoko, you can see the brown bears and foxes and the deer.
David PalmerGUEST
They were primarily students, but the community was also involved.
David PalmerGUEST
And so Tonahira not only involved local Japanese people, but also local Korean people who were only a few, but also was aware of the indigenous people, the Ainu.
David PalmerGUEST
So it was a very inclusive thing, but it mainly was students and young people.
David PalmerGUEST
And these Korean and Japanese students at that time, most of them had never had any interaction with the other ethnic group.
Robert TempleGUEST
I like the idea of the Vedas in Sri Lanka, although I've never met one.
Robert TempleGUEST
I like the idea of the Ainu in Japan, although I've never met one.
Robert TempleGUEST
And I think the Bushmen of South Africa must be wonderful, but I've never met one, although I did know Van Der Post.
Robert TempleGUEST
And so I like real people, and I like real people in modern society.
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