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To: Moominoid who wrote (68099)	8/25/2005 4:46:09 PM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Moominoid Re: "Mother Theresa" She was a European nun and missionary and as far as is known she or the other sisters don't have any offspring there. And if this Fernandes guy is an Englishman, then I am an Eskimo. Now France and Portugal both had tiny Indian coastal colonies (Goa, Pondichery, ect.) and maybe the Fernandes dude came from there. And I didn't say that no Indians have ever been born abroad. The point I am trying to make is very simple. The world's second most populous nation, for 300 years part of the British Empire now has no significant English population what so ever. NONE. There WAS a considerable number of Englishmen living there, but with independence in 1947 they were ordered to leave the country and to not come back. My friend and his brother, certifiable members of the Indian upper class say that growing up there in the 1950's there were no Englishmen there. HE DID say that in the 1960's he had an English instructor in his engineering college there, but that this guy was some sort of "exchange" prof and didn't stay there. Moominoid, out of a BILLION people in India I am sure that somewhere there an English family or two remains that managed to stay there after 1947. Out in the jungle or up in the Himalayas somewhere. But that doesn't matter. A handfull out of a billion is still ZERO, statistically speaking. In a large country that had once been home to many THOUSANDS of Englishmen and their families. At the same time in say 1960 when there may have been a handfull of holdout Englishmen hid somewhere in India there was only ONE American in all of mainland China, Sidney Rittenberg, and the reason he was there was because he was in jail. Only one! Moominoid, do you not understand the point I am making? 1 or 2 or 20 parts per billion in terms or cultural or genetic intermingling is just ZERO any way you shake it. By the way, with regards to Indonesian Chinese, many of them adopted Indon names in anticipation of the bloodbath that they feared would happen when the Dutch left. And the bloodbath finally came, in 1965 and those Indon names probably saved thousands of them. Slagle