Hello from Belgium

Are you a Walloon or a Flemish? Or maybe another background? English must be a piece of cake for you if you speak Flemish 

By the way, many prominent historians from my country actually from another professions. Religion, health and history are three areas that everyone think they know a lot about it but infact only the tip of the iceberg 

Congratulations on your excellent English!  We may be able to help you with aspects of your characters from our own rather colorful family, but please indicate what you are looking for.  We have done genealogy on parts of our family back to around 900 A.D.  Regards.

You are right, many Americas do this and I think it's a good thing.  But most of us don't search so hard as a means to prove any sort of superiority for self-gratification.  I keep hoping this searching will come to sensitize "Americans" more to the rest of the human family and get rid of the horrible racism and xenophobia that persists here and that we manage to spread everywhere else.  Too bad the "white" supremicists everywhere don't require dna to prove their "whiteness," no?  Their groups would disappear.  My mitochondrial dna says I am mostly "Sami," the aboriginals who migrated out of the Asian Steppes 30,000 years ago into northern europe -- at one point some adopted the viking culture.  It is suspected that these migrants also crossed the polar ice cap during the last ice age into N. America to become Native Americans.  It drives me crazy to see Americans looking back a few generations to "prove" their ethnicity. And I am as white, blue-eyed and fair-haired as the next "white" person. But I do not see myself among the human family as such.

Paradigm of Humanity wrote: Hah! I only know my paternal ancestors to six generation back. Nobody has such an interest on genealogy as Americans has

Wo cheng

Are you Wo Cheng? Or Lao Tse?  Or does Wo Cheng mean something?  I am learning this system just today and haven't quite figured it out.Don'tworry about Surahki, maybe he's asleep so we can type quietly and not wake him.    Of four of my mother's children, Mom and I have the most pronounced eye folds although the eye shape does not match the almond japanese type. They are, interestingly, elongated upward. I have the electric blue of my father's German eyes and not the black of my mother's, but do have her high cheek bones. Why do you ask?  My son's deceased father was Persian/Arab/Kurdish so between the two of us I jokingly tell my son that he has acquired three caucasian toes. I am so glad that racial features are no longer of much importance to the newer generations in the U.S. (I guess depending upon where you are nesting). My family over the generations and I have worked so hard to end racial discrimination/.  Tell me about yourself.  We are not that far apart in age, and I believe we can only learn technology from the younger people.  They seem to be uninterested in much of anything else, do you agree?  saamigirl

I always thought myself as a neanderthal, I've very pronounced eyebrow bridges and my sister always called me a barbarian when I looted her snacks  Did you mean grey by electric blue? If it appears green or blue depending on light level, then it is most likely grey. We men are not sensitive to shades of colours as much as women  I have grey eyes too. 

Don't worry, commoners will gradually lose their fear of "alien" as they get more and more accustomed to them. If it fails, then the Master should unite all mankind into one single race of supermutants! That's scenario of Post-Apocalyptic role playing game Fallout. According to scenario, nuclear apocalypse occurs in 2077 after a decade of war between China and USA over scarce resources. You start to game as a resident of an underground vault in Southern California in 2161. Your vault's water chip is broken and the vault only has left a few months of water supply. Naturally you are chosen by your vault's people to find a new waterchip. Vault's door opens after 84 years and you start completely unaware of outside world just as other vault residents. As game progress, you discover a religious organisation called the Unity in almost every place you went. They perform charity and medical care for poor people around them and they don't appear to be suspicious. Later you discover true secret, they are actually controlled by a human-machine cyborg called "the Master" for gradually converting humanity to "supermutants" with Forced Evolutionary Virus, uniting them into one race for his plans of "perfect world".

That's the thing I love about computer technology, it give us interactivity. They are like novel's of the past but they do have interactivity. For example, you can change end of the game, you can side with the Master or you can defeat him. 

Edited by Paradigm of Humanity - 05 Apr 2013 at 21:27

Paradigm of Humanity wrote: I always thought myself as a neanderthal, I've very pronounced eyebrow bridges and my sister always called me a barbarian when I looted her snacks  Did you mean grey by electric blue? If it appears green or blue depending on light level, then it is most likely grey. We men are not sensitive to shades of colours as much as women  I have grey eyes too.

Edited by Lao Tse - 05 Apr 2013 at 21:32

@Lao Tse

Sorry 

Surahki: Oh dear, now I understand some things. apologies to all. I responded to a comment I thought was from one person, but was from another. All the "eye-fold" and racial interest was not from whom I thought it was, so sorry. I am pleased to discuss those topics via anthropoligical interests, but not socio-political. PoH: Now I understand -- you are probably American military or a child thereof living in Turkey. And here I thought I had an opportunity to learn much about Turkish people and culture. Oh well. Please share with me some of what you've learned of that great civilization during your time there, it may certainly be valuable to Surahki.  Regarding electric blue eye color (from my father) PoH -- ask a woman to describe the blue sky - only neon. 

 I'll see if she wants to. She's still in kind of recuperation from our family move, we had to look in a lot of places to find everybody and she's still sorting things out whileI pay off a few loans we had to get.

kaysu wrote: -PoH: Now I understand -- you are probably American military or a child thereof living in Turkey. And here I thought I had an opportunity to learn much about Turkish people and culture. Oh well. Please share with me some of what you've learned of that great civilization during your time there, it may certainly be valuable to Surahki.

Edited by Paradigm of Humanity - 06 Apr 2013 at 14:17

To kaysu: I'll get to work on it . Do you want it in Traditonal, Simplified, or Pinyin script? (Pinyin is the english spelling of Chinese characters)

Lao Tse:  Pinyin, please!  How kind you are!  I studied Harvard-Yale formula Mandarin while in high school, but these 50 years later I have of course forgotten it.  Except for my name, Bei Mai Hwa.  Xi-Xi-ni Xienxien!