FriedRiceNSpice
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Korean ultra-nationalists cannot accept that their entire culutural heritage is derived from Chinese culture. Their belief that the Korean race has been a pure race for 5000 years stems from denial of the fact that the Korean people are descendants of multiple waves of refugees from China conquering and mixing with the native primitive tribes that inhabited the Korean peninsula. Korean claims that their ancestors invented Chinese culture is technically true only because their ancestors were ancient Chinese.The Korean people have cultural heritage. But theirs is very closely intertwined with the Chinese. The South Korean nationalists see themselves as some kind of superior race above the Chinese.