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To: Slagle who wrote (68010)	8/23/2005 3:08:41 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (4) of 74559

Slag, the difference between China and New Zealand is that for half a century, New Zealand was a good place to go and China was not. People escaped from China if they could. Of course there weren't hordes clamouring to get in. Same with India. So of course "racial purity" remains in those places while the seething crowds in desirable places comingle. That's what happens when boy meets girl and it's as old as the hills. Older actually as hills aren't as old as is popularly thought. There are lots of genetic tracking projects on now and they are showing just how much mixing there has been. As if we can't tell just by looking at people. Northern India and western Europe for example have ages ago shared genes. That process has been underway long before Queen Victoria and the founding of Bombay. If you think China, India etc are going to retain some ethnic purity, which they already don't have, then you are in good company with Adolf and the apartheid ideas of South Africa. India wasn't really ruled by the English in the way you imagine. It was part of the British Empire and the locals ruled the place, reporting to headquarters in Whitehall. There weren't hordes of English stomping around the world telling the locals what to do every step of the way. Americans have a false idea of how the British Empire was run because they have their silly 4 July Independence Day celebrations, tell stories of Paul Revere and think funding IRA terrorists a good thing to get one back on the English. They even helped foment the Suez mess and supported Islamic Jihad [belatedly realizing that that was not such a bright idea and that Gorby in fact had more in common with the USA than the USA had in common with Osama]. My understanding of USA occupation of the Philippines is that it wasn't all lovey-dovey and that swarms of Philippinoes were killed in outright conquest. But maybe I have that wrong. <the Philippines, an American colony for 45 years and a place that has an extremely fond memory of the American colonial era > Giggle... yes, they just loved being colonized by wonderful USA soldiers, who were much better than those mean English. Iraqis are delighted with USA soldiers too and celebrate daily with big fireworks [they are a bit careless about how they let them off so there are frequent deaths and injuries]. Mqurice

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