if 1 in 3 people can trace their ancestry back to china, does that mean you can randomly pick 3 people and one of them is part chinese in the smallest possible ways?
2006-08-10 04:17:55 · 17 answers · asked by deal 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
sounds like a lot of BS to me. State your source.
2006-08-10 04:21:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. This is a deceptive statistic. It all depends on where you are doing the picking.
If you were in the middle of Africa, you could pick 100 people (unless you were right next to a Chinese tour bus), and none of them would have Chinese ancestry. Same thing in most parts of Harlem, or Sweden. There are scores of regions in the world where there are no traces of Chinese culture.
However, because there are like 100 Septillion Chinese people ON THE PLANET, statistically it can be said that "1 in 3" have some Chinese origin. Its just another way to lie with statistics.
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2006-08-10 11:29:19 · answer #2 · answered by robabard 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess so. I didn't know that you could trace 1 in 3 people back to China.
2006-08-10 11:22:25 · answer #3 · answered by Hot Pants 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why not go further?
100% of people are related in the smallest possible way, since we all came from the same common ancestor.
2006-08-10 11:24:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm Filipino - so yeah, you can probably trace my heritage back to China someway or another... and even to the Spanish.
2006-08-10 11:26:10 · answer #5 · answered by abcinco 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no you can't. It just statistics since there are over a billion chinese
2006-08-10 11:23:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Damn Temüjin Borjigin,
2006-08-10 11:30:42 · answer #7 · answered by Blasphemer 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It would make since.
2006-08-10 11:22:09 · answer #8 · answered by WENDY G 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
perhaps. you would have to carefully look at family trees, and you would have to study gene sequences
2006-08-10 11:25:42 · answer #9 · answered by Misscheerios2 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Good question... I think it is very possible
2006-08-10 11:22:04 · answer #10 · answered by Magix 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋