[bluish29]

> What exactly gives Egyptians an exclusive claim to an ancient culture that’s as foreign to them as anyone else—blood and soil?

Extend this logic and then any country who want to consider inclusive claim on this matter to abolish inheritance law. Why do you have exclusive claim to your dead relative wealth? Is that because you maybe lived together or only blood?

Or why only ancient world, let's treat the Modern world like that as well. And then let's distribute the wealth.

> Maybe I’m being naive

I do agree with you.

[philwelch]

The fact that you’re looking at this in terms of wealth and not even in terms of cultural heritage is revealing. Would you rather an Egyptian use the Rosetta Stone for building materials than a French scholar use it to decipher the hieroglyphs?

> Or why only ancient world, let's treat the Modern world like that as well. And then let's distribute the wealth.

This might be shocking to you, but not only am I opposed to blood-and-soil ethnonationalism, but also communism!

[bluish29]

> The fact that you’re looking at this in terms of wealth and not even in terms of cultural heritage is revealing

I am not comparing both cases. I am just giving an example to show how your logic and argument is ridiculous.

Ironically the world common heritage that you are describing is core idea for communism. I know that you oppose them but for your racist views, there is no problem into having similar ideas.

And you calling it ethonationlism doesn't change that facts. By the way I can extend this and call each inheritance, culture and everything a group of people did/doing as such. I hope you would support eliminating passports and abolish borders to be consistent (as just another example)

[philwelch]

There's a difference between inheriting property from your immediate parents and trying to lay claim to cultures that ceased to exist centuries before you were even born, and there's a difference between allowing a society that exists in the year 2024 to conduct its own affairs and allowing that society some proprietary claim to ancient artifacts that it had no part in uncovering or studying. Your arguments are glib and your resort to incoherent accusations of racism is laughable.