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Originally Posted by Nerroth
I was doing some digging about the Ainu online, and I found this very interesting piece from 2010; done for Al-Jazeera English's 101 East program:
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What a fascinating people. The Japanese archipelago houses two very different yet equally compelling cultures.
I find it disheartening the level of knowledge presented by the Japanese surveyed, but am not surprised. I doubt many in my hometown could name the natives who once lived here either (though the time scale is different).