tibetan and han are brothers....

http://english.people.com.cn/english/200011/22/eng20001122_5 5867.html

excerpts:

Han and Tibetan People of Same Origin: Research

A latest research on Man's chromosome Y further proved an earlier theory that China's modern Han and Tibetan people are of the same origin.

More than ten scientists, both Chinese and foreign, from Fudan University, Yunnan University, Harvard, Stanford and some others took part in the research. Through a comparison of the chromosome Y of Hans in 22 Chinese cities and provinces with that of Tibetans in Yunnan, Tibet and Qinghai they found that the two ethnic people share the same special chromosome Y, a type rarely detected on other peoples throughout the world.



At the beginning of the 80s, scientists found out that modern Han and Tibetan people were much similar in inheriting features as blood type, protein and so on. Basing themselves on this, they conclude that there must be the same ancestry the two ethnic nationalities have come to share.

Linguistic studies also give their support to the theory. Linguists found out quite early Chinese and Tibetan languages bear much similarity in vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation, hence the Sino-Tibetan, world second language family containing 360 different languages and further divided into Chinese and Tibetan-Burmese branches used by most ethnic minorities in Tibet and Yunnan Province.



This, in a view of molecular genetics, has proved the fact that modern Han and Tibetan people are of the same origin providing direct evidence to earlier theory, experts said.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

what next?koreans look are more similar to chinese han than tibetan.i mean seriously how the heck can the communist scientists expect us to believe it?

who did they check for the DNA?not the khambas or amdowas for sure...maybe some bhepas from lhasa as they look kinda similar to chinese.

please fell free to add to the discussion.

Is that Northern Han or Southern Han

What's up with all that genetics-based nationalism and regionalism in the PRC anyway? Is it about trying to construct a chinese race, because a chinese people isn't good enough anymore?

"Who cares about race?  Just face it we are all Africans!! "

Absolutely correct.we are all descendents of africans but that doesnt give license to conquer and kill your supposed "brothers" eh?despots of ROC are equivalent to imperial japan for their brutality and racism...look at how they treat taiwanese hans and imagine what happens to oridinary Tibs or Ughirs.

Taiwan is 99% Han, Tibet may get independence, but lacks the will to do so (apart from the Dala Lama and other overseas Tibetans, the Tibetans who live in Tibet have little incentive to get independence).  East Turkestan has the will, but lacks the power (too many Chinese military bases and attention).  Inner Mongolia is as Chinese as New England is Anglo-Saxon - take a look around and you hardly find any pure Mongols.  From a historical point of view, Mongols were relative newcomers to what is now Inner Mongolia, much later than the Hans (circa 500 B.C), Xiongnu (circa 200 B.C.), Xianbei (circa 400 A.D.), Khitans (circa 900 A.D.), and Jurchens (circa 1100 A.D.)

I think the any effort to "scientifically" further political agendas is very pathetic and counter to the true nature of science.  Tibetans and Hans are two different ethnic groups with two different cultures, histories, and languages.

I am very sympathetic to the feelings and anger of overseas outcasted Tibetans and Ugyhurs, but independence is far far from reality.

But the existence of two separate and different ethnic groups does not preclude the existence and possible harmony of a country that includes both ethnicities.

However, I must say I am very vexed at Turk forumers constantly and relentlessly prodding for independence against other countries: I am going start a thread requesting for Turkey to return Western Anatolia to Greece if this trend continues.

I would love to have Ishan back, for he is one Turkic forumer who is a true scholar and not ingrained in the constant feuding initiated by the others.