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LMAO...I mispoke and didn't make myself totally clear....Israel IS in the "Middle East" but it is still connected to the African continent by land. Close enough for idiots like me to consider it part of the "dark continent". Asia???LMAO. Never heard that one before.
That's OK--you wouldn't be the only person who is geographically challenged! It seems to be an American epidemic. I love maps and geography, though, always have.
And yes, Israel is very close to the African continent. Not quite there, but close.
Let's remember the idea of an area being "Middle East" or "Far East" is a leftover from the British Empire as Center of the World days, and is just another idea, not a real location.
Being a cultureless second-generation American, I think "cultural heritage" is way overrated. In addition, I don't think DNA mixtures are cultural heritage material. An American friend of mine, who is way into multiculturalism, adopted a Chinese baby. He said, "It'll be hard to keep Chinese culture alive for her where we live." I said, "What culture, for a place that is eight time zones across and has some 5,000 years of history? A culture that literally threw her away for being female? A dragon parade in the local Chinatown, where most of the people trace their Chinese background to one small area of that huge place? She's being raised in America with her American-born sister. They are having the same experiences, except that she has Asian features. Is the dragon parade in the DNA?"
Let's remember the idea of an area being "Middle East" or "Far East" is a leftover from the British Empire as Center of the World days, and is just another idea, not a real location.
Being a cultureless second-generation American, I think "cultural heritage" is way overrated. In addition, I don't think DNA mixtures are cultural heritage material. An American friend of mine, who is way into multiculturalism, adopted a Chinese baby. He said, "It'll be hard to keep Chinese culture alive for her where we live." I said, "What culture, for a place that is eight time zones across and has some 5,000 years of history? A culture that literally threw her away for being female? A dragon parade in the local Chinatown, where most of the people trace their Chinese background to one small area of that huge place? She's being raised in America with her American-born sister. They are having the same experiences, except that she has Asian features. Is the dragon parade in the DNA?"
"A culture that literally threw her away for being female?"
China will be paying for high male to female ratios going into the future. I did a study in college that indicated that Cities and Towns in the US had much larger crimes issues when Male/Female ratios grew large.
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