^about the Japanese - Cantonese thing..
I'm going to try to make this as least unoffensive as possible, because this kinda touches on some racial issues with the Chinese Han population and Mandarin and such...
There are some words in Cantonese that closely resemble Japanese words, such as the word for "Yes" is "Hai" in both Cantonese AND Japanese...I can't think of any else right now...but some people believe that the Japanese originally migrated from Southern China, and that's why they're so similar.
Or perhaps the Japanese migrated from the Korean peninsula. Or maybe the Okinawans migrated from Southern China and Taiwan.
I could really branch off into many different beliefs and arguements here. But I won't. So there.
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