Just Watched Someone Correcting Someone Else Saying The Mythology Of A Carp Jumping Over The Dragon Gate

just watched someone correcting someone else saying the mythology of a carp jumping over the dragon gate to become a dragon is japanese and not chinese and like.

so silly to me when people very confidently say things about culture or mythology like “umm actually its not from (country) its from (the country thats literally right next to the first country)” without even looking anything up. like yes multiple countries and places are absolutely not capable of sharing the same or similar things between their cultures ever, no!

it would blow these peoples minds to pieces if i told them a popular chinese tradition thats still practiced today actually came from jewish people moving out of egypt in the ancient past and the chinese tradition and jewish tradition that came from the same event are still very similar lol. they could not fathom how far stories can travel