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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (54252)	10/14/2004 10:38:11 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

<On the Great Wall there are Mongol Vendors selling all sorts of things ... they don't look Chinese.... Well not to me :o) Nor do American Indians actually, well some maybe but not as a rule... Inuit possibly... close at times... well closer than Brits :o) anyway... I don't think they were ever actually 'Chinese' I guess is my point...> KC, my cousins don't look like me either, other than generically. But that doesn't mean we aren't related. Chinese aren't some sort of clonesville where they all look the same. They have genetic variation just like all other humans. Though apparently an average African village has more genetic variation than all of Chinadom put together [including those aboriginals of North and South America]. Being separated for a few thousand years and having been derived from particular gangs of explorers who wandered of up to the Bering Straits when the ice receded and across to Alaska and down to Argentina and Chile, it's not surprising that different families from China look somewhat different from each other. But you wouldn't mistake then for English or Nigerian. If everybody in a country had to look the same, you wouldn't have any countries, or more accurately, other than with identical twins, everybody would have their own country, which in my opinion would be a good idea and how the world should be run. I dislike the serfdom style of life under which all humans live, even those in King George II's vaunted "Freedom on the March" society. Look at Bobby Fisher for example - that shows you how much freedom the USA allows. Not very bloody much. Cross the USA bosses and fail to obey and you get the whip, the gaol and the gun if you resist their oppression. The point Yiwu has been making is that China rules what they used to rule. I'm just trying to find a logical dividing line where they should rule based on their historical possessions. They have spread further than sars and chicken flu! History shows they should rule nearly all the world. That's if we want to try to do what Yiwu says and rewind the clock to some arbitrary date. Mqurice