To: Ilaine who wrote (62327 ) 4/20/2005 9:57:13 PM From: Cogito Ergo Sum Respond to cops kicking the stuffing out of Rodney King... on TAPE ! dumb dumb dumb dumb...however, within China a small group of ethnic separatists have taken advantage of this opportunity to stir up trouble and are acting like buffoons, (styling) themselves the descendants of these ancient ?white people? with the aim of dividing the motherland. xenohistorian.faithweb.com What anthropologists tell us is that before the beginning of history the islands of Hokkaido and Honshu were settled by the Ainu, a mysterious bear-worshiping tribe whose relationship cannot be traced to any other people. They certainly stand out in a crowd of other Asians; the Ainu are wide-eyed and have large amounts of body hair, while the Japanese are one of the most hairless races around. It has been suggested that the Ainu are the last remnant of a Caucasian ethnic group that once lived in eastern Siberia. As more of Japan came under the pale of civilization, the Japanese pushed the Ainu northward; by 1600 only Hokkaido was left to them. Now only about 20,000 Ainu are left, as most of them have been assimilated into the Japanese population around them. About 250 A.D., yet another group of invading newcomers (possibly Huns, but more likely Koreans, see footnote #1) came across the Tsushima strait, bringing horses, iron armor, and superior iron weapons. Little is known about them, except that they founded the hereditary aristocracy that governed Japan for most of the time since. Following a precedent started by Himiko, the new rulers were buried in huge keyhole-shaped mounds, guarded by pottery statues known as haniwa; so strong is the Japanese respect for their ancestors that many of them still stand undisturbed today.
