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A nonviolent model of language spread through influence, prestige, and imitation rather than conquest.
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Cultural diffusion
A nonviolent model of language spread through influence, prestige, and imitation rather than conquest.
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Mayan collapse diffused Mayan cultural patterns across Central and South America, the way Jiang compares dominant cultures radiating into surrounding regions.
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Jiang says the long debate over Proto-Indo-European spread has shifted from cultural diffusion toward violent conquest and genocide because recent DNA evidence shows many prior genes disappeared.
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"They are symbiotic. They work together. And they all spell the end of civilization. Okay? This is true for Rome. This is true for..."
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"...belief is that it was not violent okay it was just cultural diffusion meaning i came to your country or your village and i..."
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"that my language is superior okay so we call this cultural diffusion so think of english where okay okay china has not been conquered..."
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"...question okay the question is what's the difference between conquest and diffusion okay the answer is this if I conquer you I eradicate your..."
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Disease, steel, horses, and divide-and-conquer matter.
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Gimbutas's Old Europe becomes Jiang's Paradise Lost: a Mother Goddess civilization where art, writing, sexual agency, and nonviolent social control show that war, property, and patriarchy are historical arrivals, not human nature.
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