Ainu Music II

Two Ainu women singing. Shot during a performance in August 2005 in the Ainu village of Porotokotan near Sapporo.

Category:

Music

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• Ainu
• Hokkaido
• Porotokotan
• Japan
• アイヌ
• 北海道
• ポロトコタン

[thairakbnbn]

i mean about the right for land

as for america the latest research shows caucasians were the first people and later mongolian indians arrived  and now most people admit caucasians have more rights on that land than mongolian indians

the same way goes about japan

[tanpopo03]

That is the biggest BS I've heard in a long time. Don't post anymore crap like that to my videos, or I'll block you.

More rights to the land my ass. *shakes head*. People like you make me really mad.

[thairakbnbn]

i learne ainu tribe is the oldes of japanese

that is older than american indian that is mongolian

but ainu is a tribe of caucasian

you see japan as well as america must be land of caucasian

[tanpopo03]

I sure hope you don't mean this in a "caucasians rule the earth way?" Can't really tell.

And no one really knows when exactly the first Ainu people migrated to Hokkaido, so you can't know whether they were the first people on the japanese islands.

[kazaya2]

以前白老のアイヌ民族博物館で「録音していいよ」と言われたので­録っていたらちょうどこの歌でした。ウコウク（ukouk）＝輪­唱です。

なんだか涙がでるような思いにとらわれ東京に帰った後もこの曲を­聴いています。

半小節ずらして歌うことでエコーがかかったように聴こえ、清涼た­る大地の広がりが感じられます。まさにカルチャーショックでした­。respect。

[tanpopo03]

録音してたのにこの歌のなめは今まで知りませんでしたよ。教えて­くれてありがとう！:o)

[mabewa]

Ainu are NOT Caucasian. That's just a old, tired white supremacy myth. Actually, there is more and more evidence that Ainu are related to Native Americans (they certainly look like natives of the Pacific Coast). As for Caucasians being the first people in N. America--there is SOME evidence that not 100% of the people who originally settled N. America were Asians. But, it's extremely clear that most of the Native American genetic stock comes from Asia.

[Bodgyalo319]

beautiful song..lets keep this culture alive and revive it for future generations

[ninjinninjin]

@thairakbnbn

Besides from you being a complete Shithead, you got it completely wrong.

The Ainu are NOT geneticaly related to caucasians! They are most likely descendants of the Jomon people. Who were the first people to inhabit Japan in the early stone age. Yes, that´s 10.000 years ago.

read Wikipedia-->Ainur

Educate yourself before spewing retarded nonsens out.

[Karwamaka]

No vivo en el Japón. Has deducido algo correcto de premisas falsas. Pero como dices, no es el punto. Gracias por la info.

[hxc4328]

@hxc4328 Para alguien que vive en Japon, escribe en Castellano y tiene en sus favoritos el festival del humor, que mas podria ser?

Pero ese no es el punto

[Karwamaka]

¿Y cómo sabes que soy paisano tuyo?

[hxc4328]

@Karwamaka Paisano, mira este video "Looking for the Genetic Roots of the Japanese(3/5)" te vas ha sorprender en la semejanza que existe entre los Ainus y los Indigenas de los Andes.

[OriginalVenusius]

Well if you guys look far enough, we all came from Africa. That's right, we're all brothas!

[mabewa]

I should also add that some Ainu have an opposite theory--not that N. America was settled by prehistoric people from Japan, but that Japan was settled by prehistoric people from N. America. In other words, Native American explorers settled in Japan and became the descends of the Ainu. None of these theories are proven, but they all have a fair bit of credibility. The "Ainu are Caucasian" theory, however, is has been much long been abandoned and recent DNA testing further proved it false.

[mabewa]

Well, there WAS a hypothesis (mostly by Pierre Naerte) that Ainu might have a relationship with Indo-European languages. However, this was based on a mere 14 words and has pretty much been long abandoned for lack of evidence. There have been other theories connecting Ainu to Polynesian, Native American and Altaic languages, and those have more credibility in modern linguistics, but none have been conclusive. At this point, Ainu can only safely be classified as a linguistic isolate.

[karaaybeyazay]

Well...Ainu LANGUAGE is supposed to be related to caucasian old languages, but as you say, Ainus themselves (their physics) are not Caucasian :)

[Mrvort]

what the fuck

Caucasians visited America before Columbus, sure, but they Native Americans arrived waaaaay before any whites did.

Also the Ainu are far from white. If anything, they're closer to Native Americans.