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Other than the Tajiks in Tashkurgan, are there any other Indo-European people left in Xinjiang?
 
Are their certain areas where the local Uighurs still look "white"(couldnt think of a better description)?
 
If their are regions where their are many people with light hair and blue eyes,or even sharped featured people lacking the epicanthal fold-type eyelids, these may be the descendents of the Scythian, Kushan and Tocharian peoples of the ancent Tarim Basin.
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玩文字游戏没有任何意义。严格的讲,“中国人”=\=中华人民共和国公民。中国人的意义在不同语境中也会不同。中国人可以是华人的意思,也可以是汉族人的意思,也可以是所有56个民族所有人的意思。你可以从国籍上定义,也可以从民族上定义,但从政治目的上下定义没有任何意义。

surely, you can consider Chinese means the people who live in Republic of China, namely, Taiwan.
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You have problems with logic, you said that "When have I said Huaren is not Chinese?" So, it means that you know that Huaren means Chinese.
 
I'm telling you that Taiwanese have no problems with calling themselves Huaren. So, what is your opinion on that? You think it's not true or what?
 
However, most Taiwanese would never call themselves Zhongguoren. Because, although it also mean Chinese, it also presumes some political meaning i.e. someone from the Middle Kingdom i.e. from the modern PRC.
 
Unfortunately, there is only one term for both of these words in English it is CHINESE. That's why it may be hard for an English speaker to comprehend it, but the difference between Huaren and Zhongguoren has been explained by me already.
 
So, yes, Taiwanese do consider themselves Chinese in a meaning "Huaren," but not "Zhongguoren."
 
It has been repeated to you one more time. And what is your point here? You say, that Taiwanese don't consider themselves "Chinese" it's not correct because they consider themselves Chinese in a cultural sense expressed by a Chinese term "Huaren."
 
So your point that "the the Taiwanese don't want to identify themselves with the Chinese and there are no feelings of connection" is total crap.
 
Because every Taiwanese is aware of their connection to Mainland China and that they originate from China and that they have the same traditional culure and that they all are "Huaren." However, Taiwanese don't want to be identified with the state of the PRC, PRC nationhood and jurisdiction. They consider themselves as idependent nation, yet culturally and ethnically they belong to the same group with Mainland Chinese and overseas Chinese "Huaqiao." There is also a misleading stereotypical feeling of slight arrogance among Taiwanese towards the Mainlanders because they are believed to be "poor and less civilized," but that by alone doesn't create any feelings of "ethnic difference."
 
It's complitey natural given that one Chinese ethnicity was separated into different political entities through out its ancient and long history and also that we know of other examples when one ethnicity lives in different political states and even feel animosity to their keen in a different state, like for example when Dutchmen from Belgium were fighting for independence against other Duthchmen from the Netherlands in the 19th century.


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To the nonsense above, I'll say it again, stop pretending you speak Chinese when you clearly don't. How many years did you even take Chinese to make an insolently arrogant comment like the one above? When have I said Huaren is not Chinese? Stop making  worthless strawman arguments and learn to grasp the point. You claimed that Uighurs are close to Turks because of a feeling. My point was simple, the the Taiwanese don't want to identify themselves with the Chinese and there are no feelings of connection. And I already proved my point.  Its not my problem that you are too slow to catch that.
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To all the nonsense posted above, I can only repeat again:

You translate Zhongguo ren as Chinese. Good, then how would you translate Huaren?
What is it? It's not "Chinese" in your opinion? Then what it is?
 
Since your Chinese vocabularly seems to be on a very basic level,please check a list of Chinese language equivalents for an English term "Chinese."
 
Good luck !
 
 
 
All the Taiwanese consider themselves Huaren, as well as Singaporeans, Hongkongnese, and other Overseas Chinese, but few of them would call themselves Zhonguoren.
 
However, both Huaren and Zhongguoren are translated in English as "Chinese."
 
I explained everything very clear, and if you have problems with understanding this simple truth it's your issue, not mine.
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  Quote dick Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27-May-2009 at 20:08
Originally posted by Sarmat

Originally posted by dick

Please don't tell me what to do. Your Chinese history is far below my level. The disparity is prodigious. No. Chen Shui Bian wanted independence from China period. Han ren is just an ethnic group, not a nation. The Americans are also Anglo Saxon, not British. Most Taiwanese today clearly don't think they are chinese, which is zhongguoren.
 
 
LOL
So far you didn't demonstrate any knowledge at all, and you continue to impress us with more examples of wild illiteracy.
 
First of all, the whole discussion is about ethnicities not about nations. It wouldn't make sense to argue about nationhood at all. Cause  Uighurs, Mongols, Tibetians etc. belong to China by "nationhood." And all of those people can be called "zhongguo ren" with an additional remark "ethnic minorities" (shaoshu minzu).
 
Anglo-Saxons are old Germanic tribes which contributed to the formation of English ethnicity.
 
Neither can you say that Americans are "Anglo-Saxons" in ethnic sense. How about African-Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans etc.?   Seems that it's beyond your comprehension.
 
You translate Zhongguo ren as Chinese. Good, then how would you translate Huaren?
What is it? It's not "Chinese" in your opinion? Then what it is?
 
Since your Chinese vocabularly seems to be on a very basic level,please check a list of Chinese language equivalents for an English term "Chinese."
 
Good luck !
 
 
 
 
Its quite clear that I've demonstrated far more than the pitiful things you've shown.LOL You generalize all the time and you were completely wrong about Uighur script. I never talked about nationhood, I talked about identity, please get that through. The Taiwanese don't identify themselves with the Chinese, thats a fact, 8/10 times you tell a Taiwanese in US that he is Chinese and he will correct you or get offended. Ethnicity is not important to our discussion, you claimed that people of the same ethnicity is bound to feel closer. I told you that Taiwanese felt far closer to America and Japan than they are to China, political reason or not. Americans also identified themselves differently from the British during the revolution despite being of the same ethnicity. So your argument for a "feeling" of belonging to prove greater closeness collapses. And I believe I've already proved my point.
 
 
Originally posted by Sarmat

Originally posted by dick

Please don't tell me what to do. Your Chinese history is far below my level. The disparity is prodigious. No. Chen Shui Bian wanted independence from China period. Han ren is just an ethnic group, not a nation. The Americans are also Anglo Saxon, not British. Most Taiwanese today clearly don't think they are chinese, which is zhongguoren.
 
 
And finally, what Chen Shuibian thinks about the ancestry of Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese. A quote from the English translation of his first inaugural speech.
 
 
"The people across the Taiwan Strait share the same ancestral, cultural, and historical background.
 
 
 
No offense, but you apparently know nothing about Chen Shui Bian. Do you even read Taiwanese news at all? Apparently not, because Chen Shui Bian is very famous for saying this; "Most of us see ourselves as Taiwanese, NOT Chinese." that http://claudiajean.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/bian-detention/
And who ever denied that Taiwanese have the same ancestor as the Chinese? You are still confused aren'T you? The point here is that the Taiwanese don't identify with the Mainland Chinese and consider them to be enemies. Same ancestry does not make up for the suspicion and derogatoration that exist in Taiwan for the mainland chinese. The fact of the matter is, most Taiwanese don't want to be grouped together with the other Chinese.
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TOP10 IN POPULATION
name     population(ten thousand)
Zhuang(壯族) 1548.96
Manchurian(滿人) 982.12 
Hui(回族) 860.29  
Miao(苗族) 739.80
Uighur(维吾尔族) 721.44
Yi(彝族) 657.22
Tujia(土家族) 570.42
Mongol(蒙古族)480.68 
Tibetan(藏族) 459.33  
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  Quote Sarmat Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15-Mar-2009 at 18:55
Originally posted by dick

Please don't tell me what to do. Your Chinese history is far below my level. The disparity is prodigious. No. Chen Shui Bian wanted independence from China period. Han ren is just an ethnic group, not a nation. The Americans are also Anglo Saxon, not British. Most Taiwanese today clearly don't think they are chinese, which is zhongguoren.
 
 
LOL
So far you didn't demonstrate any knowledge at all, and you continue to impress us with more examples of wild illiteracy.
 
First of all, the whole discussion is about ethnicities not about nations. It wouldn't make sense to argue about nationhood at all. Cause  Uighurs, Mongols, Tibetians etc. belong to China by "nationhood." And all of those people can be called "zhongguo ren" with an additional remark "ethnic minorities" (shaoshu minzu).
 
Anglo-Saxons are old Germanic tribes which contributed to the formation of English ethnicity.
 
Neither can you say that Americans are "Anglo-Saxons" in ethnic sense. How about African-Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans etc.?   Seems that it's beyond your comprehension.
 
You translate Zhongguo ren as Chinese. Good, then how would you translate Huaren?
What is it? It's not "Chinese" in your opinion? Then what it is?
 
Since your Chinese vocabularly seems to be on a very basic level,please check a list of Chinese language equivalents for an English term "Chinese."
 
Good luck !
 
 
And finally, what Chen Shuibian thinks about the ancestry of Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese. A quote from the English translation of his first inaugural speech.
 
 
"The people across the Taiwan Strait share the same ancestral, cultural, and historical background. "


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Originally posted by Leonidas

Originally posted by calvo

Despite recent protests in Tibet stir up international sensation, the largest ethnic minority in China is actually the Uyghurs (how do you pronounce it?), a Turkic-Muslim people.
the largest minoirty is the tai Zhuang group not the uighers.
 
 
The most of the Zhuang living in China are sinicized, they couildn't speak their own language and their names are just Chinese.
20 million speakers, the language shift from one to the other is not complete yet - just in the urban areas. You may not see it in the rural parts. Any language lost is nothing to be happy about.

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  Quote man2rk Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15-Mar-2009 at 09:18
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One of my coworker was an Uygur from China.  He can easily pass for Turkish or Persian.  But, funny thing was during lunch, he sometimes shared with me his meals.  Some of his noodle and dumpling dishes look similar to what Chinese eat (exception being most of his meat consist of lamb).  There is another Uygur from China (Wu Arkaishi) who led the 1989 Beijing student demonstration, if you look at his face, he can easily pass for Chinese.  Uygurs are very mixed people in terms of facial feature.  In terms of genetics, Uygur and Uzbek are some of the most mixed and heterogenous in terms of Y chromosome (paternal genetics).  About 10%-15% of Uygur paternal genetics have the O3/O3a5 markers. This the same marker that is shared by 60-80% of both northern and southern Chinese.  It is not surprising given how many different peoples pass through and settled along the silk road in the past.
 
As far as Japanese, 50% of their paternal genetics (Haplogroup D) share in common with Ainus and Tibetans.  The other 30% is O2b marker (Korean) and 20% O3a5 (Chinese).  As you can see, Japanese also have very mixed paternal origins.  Their maternal origins (mtDNA) however, is very close to Koreans.
 
Koreans themselves are 50% O2b and 50% O3/O3a5 paternal genetics.  They too have a lot of Chinese influences.  From genetics point of view, Koreans and Japanese appear more closer to East Asians (ie Chinese) than to Central/North Asians (ie Mongol-Turkic people).  That is only paternal lines.  But, the odd thing is Korean mtDNA (maternal lines) appear closer to Siberians than to Chinese.  It means there was "demic diffusion" into Korea/Japan in the past.  Men from East Asia sailed/migrated into Korea and Japan bring rice agriculture civilization but largely intermarried with the native Altaic/Siberian women.  This might explain the complexities of Korean/Japanese language affiliation too.
You should not be that certain about the racial matters about Uighurs. You han chinese are also a racial hot pot like brazilian, if you look at han chinese people living in Guansu province you easily can find some people with blue or green eyes and they are proud to be han and also some southern chinese han people can easily be passed for Thai or vetnamese something. You don't understand the whole people you are judging about , so please learn first then talk.
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  Quote Leonidas Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15-Mar-2009 at 09:18
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Originally posted by dick

Seems that you need to upgrade your knowledge about the things Chinese. The overwhelming majority of Taiwanese  never deny that they are Chinese. Even the excentric presiden Chen Shuibian said that both the Mainlanders and Taiwanese are descendants of the Yellow emperor. Those nationalists just don't want to be a part of political entity called PRC. Moreover, there different terms that are used to for a notion "Chinese" in the Chinese universe. What Taiwanese use is Huaren, which means Chinese in a cultural sense, why they don't want to be called Zhongguo ren (Chinese in a more political sense, Zhongguo literally means the Middle Kingdom i.e. Chinese state) since it could imply a connection to the Mainland China i.e. the PRC.

 
Please don't tell me what to do. Your Chinese history is far below my level. The disparity is prodigious. No. Chen Shui Bian wanted independence from China period. Han ren is just an ethnic group, not a nation. The Americans are also Anglo Saxon, not British. Most Taiwanese today clearly don't think they are chinese, which is zhongguoren.
 

 

Dick try and enlighten us with your superior knowledge. this is what the forum is for, don't hold back we can keep up with anything new you share with us.

 Taiwanese think they are 'Chinese' ive never met one that would say otherwise, that goes for others from ASEAN or born in the west. They are not a part of the PRC which doesnt preclude them from their linguistic, cultural and ethnic roots. However there will always be confusion with westerners on Han ren, Hua ren or Zongguo ren, especially if people like you try to use one exclusivley to translate 'chinese'. All are correct in their own way.  In english this difference is normally infered within context of what being said, instead of those  more specific labels.


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Originally posted by calvo

Despite recent protests in Tibet stir up international sensation, the largest ethnic minority in China is actually the Uyghurs (how do you pronounce it?), a Turkic-Muslim people.
the largest minoirty is the tai Zhuang group not the uighers.
 
 
The most of the Zhuang living in China are sinicized, they couildn't speak their own language and their names are just Chinese.
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You stated exactly that Japanese and Chinese are closer to each other than Uighurs and Turks. .
 
No I didn't, point out the quote. Whatever I said about Japanese and Chinese are closer to each other, it was specifically relating to one category, not a generalization like you are trying to state.
 
 
 
 
 
Originally posted by dick

Seems that you need to upgrade your knowledge about the things Chinese. The overwhelming majority of Taiwanese  never deny that they are Chinese. Even the excentric presiden Chen Shuibian said that both the Mainlanders and Taiwanese are descendants of the Yellow emperor. Those nationalists just don't want to be a part of political entity called PRC. Moreover, there different terms that are used to for a notion "Chinese" in the Chinese universe. What Taiwanese use is Huaren, which means Chinese in a cultural sense, why they don't want to be called Zhongguo ren (Chinese in a more political sense, Zhongguo literally means the Middle Kingdom i.e. Chinese state) since it could imply a connection to the Mainland China i.e. the PRC.

 
Please don't tell me what to do. Your Chinese history is far below my level. The disparity is prodigious. No. Chen Shui Bian wanted independence from China period. Han ren is just an ethnic group, not a nation. The Americans are also Anglo Saxon, not British. Most Taiwanese today clearly don't think they are chinese, which is zhongguoren.
 

 

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Originally posted by dick

 
Uighur and Turkish are mutually inteligible to a certain degree. While spoken Chinese and Japanese are complitely uninteligible. And Cantonese and Mandarin are 100% more closer to each other than Mandarin and Japanese if you didn't know that. Moreover culturally Cantonese and Mandarin speakers are the same people unlike Chinese and Japanese..
 
First of all there are many similarities between Chinese and Japanese words so they are not completely uninterpretable. The fact remains that they are unintelligible regardless of the degree of similarity.
 
And I can argue the same for writing, Chinese and Japanese share many similar characters and are mutually comprehensible to a certain degree, while the Uighur script and the Turkish script ARE completely uninterpretable.
 
 
 
[QUOTE=dick] The factors which you think about are unimportant.
 
 
Thats according to you my friend. You only think that because your views were preconceived by Western history. I can also tell you your views are unimportant. If I did that, it remains my subjective opinion with no facts to back it up, just like your comment.
 
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Thats not go over this again. Uighur and Turk is unintelligible too, in fact cantonese and mandarin is unintelligible, so what is your point? I've already said this, its the script which united China, not the language.
 
Uighur and Turkish are mutually inteligible to a certain degree. While spoken Chinese and Japanese are complitely uninteligible. And Cantonese and Mandarin are 100% more closer to each other than Mandarin and Japanese if you didn't know that. Moreover culturally Cantonese and Mandarin speakers are the same people unlike Chinese and Japanese.
 
Originally posted by dick

 You are bringing up facts which you think are important, ignoring others which others think are important.
 
The factors which you think about are unimportant.
 
 
Originally posted by dick

I did not say Japanese and Chinese are closer than Uighurs and Turks are in everything, I stated since the beginning that there are closer similarities between the two comparisons in different places.
 
 
You stated exactly that Japanese and Chinese are closer to each other than Uighurs and Turks.
 
 
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Also, identity perception is completely irrelevant to our discussion here. Why can't you answer me the simple fact that Taiwan and China also share a commom history and even as recent as the early 20th century, the Taiwanese are still completely Chinese natinalists, but today, there are more separatists than pro-unificationists. Does that mean Taiwanese and Chinese are more different from each other than Some Chinese nationalist Uighurs are to the Han? Nationalism is just a feeling, nothing more, it is not objective.
 
Seems that you need to upgrade your knowledge about the things Chinese. The overwhelming majority of Taiwanese  never deny that they are Chinese. Even the excentric presiden Chen Shuibian said that both the Mainlanders and Taiwanese are descendants of the Yellow emperor. Those nationalists just don't want to be a part of political entity called PRC. Moreover, there different terms that are used to for a notion "Chinese" in the Chinese universe. What Taiwanese use is Huaren, which means Chinese in a cultural sense, why they don't want to be called Zhongguo ren (Chinese in a more political sense, Zhongguo literally means the Middle Kingdom i.e. Chinese state) since it could imply a connection to the Mainland China i.e. the PRC.
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  Quote dick Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13-Mar-2009 at 04:49
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Japanese have even less in common with Chinese in terms of genetics.
 
Prove it.
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I don't agree.
 
Japanese and Chinese languages are mutually not intelligible. Yes, Chinese and Japanese can guess the probable meaning of the written passages in another language, but here the connection ends. And although, most of the Japanese words have Chinese origin they are pronounced very different from a contemporary Chinese. It will take many years for a Chinese to become fluent in Japanese language.
 
By contrast, Turkish and Uyghyr language do share some degree of mutual intelligibilty and it will take a short time of the speakers of both languages to become complitely fluent in anothr.
 
The genetic connection of Japanese and Chinese is minimum. By contrast Uyghyrs and Turks come from the same ancestors.
 
Historical connection as I said, Turks and Uyghyrs view their past in the terms of their common Turkic origins, byt contrast despite of the adobtion of the most civilizational values by Japan from China, historical memories of both countries about themselves are rather bitter than positive.
 
Thats not go over this again. Uighur and Turk is unintelligible too, in fact cantonese and mandarin is unintelligible, so what is your point? I've already said this, its the script which united China, not the language. You are bringing up facts which you think are important, ignoring others which others think are important. I did not say Japanese and Chinese are closer than Uighurs and Turks are in everything, I stated since the beginning that there are closer similarities between the two comparisons in different places.
 
Also, identity perception is completely irrelevant to our discussion here. Why can't you answer me the simple fact that Taiwan and China also share a commom history and even as recent as the early 20th century, the Taiwanese are still completely Chinese natinalists, but today, there are more separatists than pro-unificationists. Does that mean Taiwanese and Chinese are more different from each other than Some Chinese nationalist Uighurs are to the Han? Nationalism is just a feeling, nothing more, it is not objective.
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  Quote dick Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13-Mar-2009 at 04:33
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You're lying. Never a person whose first language is Chinese would call Chinese characters "kanji."
 
Even if you're an Asian-American, you first language is English. It's true that most of the young Asian Americans can't speak the languages of their ancestors.
 
And don't brag about how many years you lived there. I met people who have been living there for 20 years and speak not a word of a language.
 
Finally, Asian-Americans look different from real Asians from China and Japan. They look "American." It's also actually very easy to see whether a person is a Chinese or Japanese-American or China-Chinese or Japan-Japanese.
 
So, indeed, if you want to distinguish between Asian-Americans in the US and Canada; it would be some times very hard to say.
 
But if you see a person raised in Japan and compare it to a person raised in China the differnce is more then obvious. The environment has a great influence on the outlook and behavoir of the person.
 
Please, kanji is the English word for Chinese characters in many dictionaries. I use whatever pleases me. You just base your judgment on generalizations, stereotypes, and god knows what else. My first language is BOTH Chinese and English, and if you are picky, its actually Chinese first, because I grew up with my Chinese grandparents. So save your groundless speculations.
 
I don't brag about how many years I lived there. There is nothing to brag about. Facts speak for themselves. Its you who commented on me been foreign first, so I responded in kind and told you I'm far more qualified than you to make a judgement.
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One of my coworker was an Uygur from China.  He can easily pass for Turkish or Persian.  But, funny thing was during lunch, he sometimes shared with me his meals.  Some of his noodle and dumpling dishes look similar to what Chinese eat (exception being most of his meat consist of lamb).  There is another Uygur from China (Wu Arkaishi) who led the 1989 Beijing student demonstration, if you look at his face, he can easily pass for Chinese.  Uygurs are very mixed people in terms of facial feature.  In terms of genetics, Uygur and Uzbek are some of the most mixed and heterogenous in terms of Y chromosome (paternal genetics).  About 10%-15% of Uygur paternal genetics have the O3/O3a5 markers. This the same marker that is shared by 60-80% of both northern and southern Chinese.  It is not surprising given how many different peoples pass through and settled along the silk road in the past.
 
As far as Japanese, 50% of their paternal genetics (Haplogroup D) share in common with Ainus and Tibetans.  The other 30% is O2b marker (Korean) and 20% O3a5 (Chinese).  As you can see, Japanese also have very mixed paternal origins.  Their maternal origins (mtDNA) however, is very close to Koreans.
 
Koreans themselves are 50% O2b and 50% O3/O3a5 paternal genetics.  They too have a lot of Chinese influences.  From genetics point of view, Koreans and Japanese appear more closer to East Asians (ie Chinese) than to Central/North Asians (ie Mongol-Turkic people).  That is only paternal lines.  But, the odd thing is Korean mtDNA (maternal lines) appear closer to Siberians than to Chinese.  It means there was "demic diffusion" into Korea/Japan in the past.  Men from East Asia sailed/migrated into Korea and Japan bring rice agriculture civilization but largely intermarried with the native Altaic/Siberian women.  This might explain the complexities of Korean/Japanese language affiliation too.
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