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chinese girls are beautiful with exotic eyes and soft fair skin and thin bodies!
Mm Tuesday, December 25, 2001 at 14:21:34 (PST)

We are all one,

I have once did some studies on the Ket people in the Yenisei region of Siberia.
The Yeniseian languages, once widespread across the region, are now represented only by Ket, a linguistic isolate spoken by approximately 500-1000 people living near the Yenisei River north of Krasnoyarsk. The Ket have been posited by some scholars to be a remnant of the Siberian groups which gave rise to Native Americans, but this is supported by very little clear data. Interestingly, Ket is the northernmost Asian member of the Dene-Caucasian linguistic family, which includes Na-Dene (spoken in North America), Sino-Tibetan (e.g. Chinese), Basque (spoken in NE Spain), Burushaski (spoken in N. Pakistan) and the North Caucasian languages. If this linguistic grouping is valid, it provides supporting evidence for the proposed relationship between the Ket people and Native Americans, and may represent the remnants of one of the earliest languages spoken in Eurasia, tens of thousands of years ago.

Ronald Tuesday, December 25, 2001 at 03:23:32 (PST)

We are all one;

Where exactly did you come about with these fact about the languages connection of "Basques, Etruscans, Hurrians, Urartians, Georgians, Abkaz, Chechens, Ket (a Siberian people), and the NaDene (a Navajo tribe)"?

Did you get it from a reliable; ie encyclopaedias or research by accredited linguists? I am curious to find out, so I myself can study these findings. If you are quoting these facts from a linguist, my question is; has the community of linguist accepted these finds and researches. Much like when a Medical Scientist presents his findings on research he has made, it can only be taken for granted and universally accepted if fellow researches analyse and agree with the findings.

I myself am a linguist. Firstly, from my extensive research and much study I have yet to see any correlation between Basque (a language spoken in north-eastern Spain and France, which is also known as Euskadi and the Basque country is know as Euskara) and any other language in the world. And I do not know of any study that states otherwise.Who conducted this research that you are quoting?
Basque has no connection to any language at all and it is the sole member if it own linguistic family. There are no sub families to that branch as there is with the for eg. The Indo-European branch or the Indo-Pacific or the Uralic Family of Languages etc… Years of study and research has yet to come up with concrete evidence that Basque has any living language (spoken) or dead language (extinct, not spoken) relative. The same goes for all American Indian (Native American) languages.
The American Indian group of languages has never been proven by anyone to have descended from any other group of family of languages spoken anywhere in the world at any time in history. It is well documented that American Indian languages are distinct from all other world languages. It has been a very difficult and almost impossible task to pin point the relationships between one American Indian language with another,. And much less to what you suggest, correlate it with a foreign language. Once again, I urge you to please forward me the works where you quote your information. I am eager to read these.
All American Indian languages evolved on their own over time from when they first ventured into America over 40 thousand years ago to the present time, and the mother language you say that they descend or are reminiscent of didn’t even exist at that time in human history. As for Alaska Native languages, here I can declare possible similarities between itself and another non-native tongue from Russia, because as we all know Alaska Natives only recently ventured into America less than 10 thousand year ago (unlike the Native Americans). This is also why Native Americans are racially classified as Amerindian (American Indians) and why Alaska Natives (also know as The First Nations in Canada) are racially classified as Mongoloid (or Mongolian).

The five major races of the world are:
Ethiopian (aka Negroid or Black Race)
Caucasian (aka White Race),
Mongolian (aka Asian or Yellow Race),
Amerindian (aka Red Race),
Polynesians (aka Pacific Islanders or Brown Race).

And each of these races has their own subraces. Anything apart from these five is a mix of two or more of them, for example Indians from the Indian Sub-Continent.

The reason the races are classified as such is because genetically they are different enough to be considered separate.

Regarding the person who wished to know where Malays come from.

Malays are generally considered distinct from the major branch of Mongoloids. However, because Malays evolved from the Mongoloid race (and not from the proto-Asian race from which the Caucasian, Mongolian, Polynesian and Amerindian races evolved from) after the Mongoloid race had established itself in Asia, that is why Malays are also included in the Mongoloid race. And yes, there has been some admixture with the Negrito populations, which are native to the Philippines and Indonesia. These Negritos are classified as Australoid people, which Australoid themselves are also a mix between Ethiopians, Caucasians and Mongolians. It’s just that Malays have much more Mongolian make-up than they do of Australoid. And you may like to know, Australian Aborigines are also considered Australoid, as are many Indians from the Indian Sub-Continent.
Walking Talking Library :-) Monday, December 24, 2001 at 14:32:37 (PST)

As I do more and more research knowledge over the Internet, I realize this notion of race is a bunch of baloney. Take for example my heritage, Chinese. I know there are many Caucasoid bodies found all over ancient China. What's more, I just recently found that the Chinese and Tibetan languages are grouped together with very ancient and archaic linguistic groups such as the Basques, Etruscans, Hurrians, Urartians, Georgians, Abkaz, Chechens, Ket (a Siberian people), and the NaDene (a Navajo tribe).

The Chinese Neolithic culture (Yangshao)may have been a connecting point between all these people. The pottery design is not only found in China, but also in northern Iran and Armenia (ala, the Caucasian/Georgian/Urartian connections). Also, there are evidence that ancient Chinese seafarers of the Shang Dynasty may have ventured across the Pacific Ocean to the Americas. This may explain the similarities between NaDene (a Navajo language) with Sino-Tibetan. I wouldn't be surprised if Mayas, Aztecs and Incas have this Chinese connection. The pyramids they built look remarkably similar to the ones I saw in Xian, China.

If you imagine it, this language group appears in East Asia, the Americas, Siberia, the Caucasus mountains and the isolated regions of farther Spain...this tells us that people in the past probably spoke only a couple languages and race back then probably did not evolved into what we are now. It seems many people of this larger family language group were eventually displaced and or replaced by Indo European and Ural Altaic speakers. But, pockets or geographical and remnants are living proof. So, it is ridiculous to say whether the Chinese are a race or not. They are not. And, if we go way back, the distinctions become murkier.
We are all one Monday, December 24, 2001 at 04:02:47 (PST)

Amber Li, you self-important Jap lover. good for you. and please, save your gainsays for a dupe.

and to the filipinos proud of actually be of ASIAN descent, good for you. And remember, power to the people, the true people.

LOL, ROFLMAO

chinatown Sunday, December 23, 2001 at 23:00:13 (PST)

Where do the Malay people from historically? To me they look like a cross between Dravidian South Indian and Cantonese/Southern Chinese blood lines, with a little bit of East African thrown in.. I hear there is a strong linuguistic and grammatic link between Malay Languages and Ancient Tamil from South India and the Chinese influence is fairly obvious.
Does anyone know?
Tink Sunday, December 23, 2001 at 14:33:21 (PST)

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