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<blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 4465360" data-attributes="member: 32536"><p>I am honestly not sure if it is really possible to make a list like this at all. Things are just too complicated... I mean, look at Japan, for example. It has certainly had a lot of influence from China, but it is incredibly distinct from China in many other ways. Unlike how most of Europe, the Middle East, and Northern India are unified by the Indo-European language family (which reflects these regions shared genetic and cultural origins), Japan and China's languages belong to totally different language groups. If you look more closely than that, you run into isolated groups like the Basques of northern Spain or the Ainu from northern Japan who have completely different cultural origins than the peoples around them... As a whole, trying to put together a simple list is incredibly difficult, because just about anywhere you look you will find specific examples that defy broad classification.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="TwinBahamut, post: 4465360, member: 32536"] I am honestly not sure if it is really possible to make a list like this at all. Things are just too complicated... I mean, look at Japan, for example. It has certainly had a lot of influence from China, but it is incredibly distinct from China in many other ways. Unlike how most of Europe, the Middle East, and Northern India are unified by the Indo-European language family (which reflects these regions shared genetic and cultural origins), Japan and China's languages belong to totally different language groups. If you look more closely than that, you run into isolated groups like the Basques of northern Spain or the Ainu from northern Japan who have completely different cultural origins than the peoples around them... As a whole, trying to put together a simple list is incredibly difficult, because just about anywhere you look you will find specific examples that defy broad classification. [/QUOTE]

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