Posted on 06/10/2010 6:35:11 PM PDT by shibumi
The Good People are nothing you want to fool with.
/mark
Not what I would... expect... to see on Free Republic.
I almost expected some kind of joke about Japanese people being short.
The Ainu are supposedly the purest lineage on the planet.
LOL! I was looking for a photo of those two. I hadn’t checked to see that you posted it already.
I only posted the thread so I could post the Twins.
“We come from Mothra Island!!”
ザ・ピーナッツ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1yBlC5BhlQ&feature=related
Left to right: Odo and Frenella Proudfoot with son Galbo; Halfarad Boffin; Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, carrying Otho; Hafdan and Hardan Hornblower; and Amidala Grubb.
Mothra’s Song - “The Peanuts”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbfMLE4De2s&feature=related
That was really beautiful!
Yes, you hear singing.
“We represent the Lollipop Guild, the Lollipop Guild, the Lollipop Guild! And in the name of .........”
Seriously though, I haven’t a clue. Except that I know the Ainu are the original people of the Japan islands and live in the northern island of Hokkaido. But who are these twins, anyway?
Science Frontiers, 1989
Dr C Loring Brace
THE SAMURAI AND THE AINU
Findings by American anthropologist C. Loring Brace, University of Michigan, will surely be controversial in race conscious Japan. The eye of the predicted storm will be the Ainu, a "racially different" group of some 18,000 people now living on the northern island of Hokkaido. Pure-blooded Ainu are easy to spot: they have lighter skin, more body hair, and higher-bridged noses than most Japanese. Most Japanese tend to look down on the Ainu.
Brace has studied the skeletons of about 1,100 Japanese, Ainu, and other Asian ethnic groups and has concluded that the revered samurai of Japan are actually descendants of the Ainu, not of the Yayoi from whom most modern Japanese are descended. In fact, Brace threw more fuel on the fire with:
"Dr. Brace said this interpretation also explains why the facial features of the Japanese ruling class are so often unlike those of typical modern Japanese. The Ainu-related samurai achieved such power and prestige in medieval Japan that they intermarried with royality and nobility, passing on Jomon-Ainu blood in the upper classes, while other Japanese were primarily descended from the Yoyoi." The reactions of Japanese scientists have been muted so. One Japanese anthropologist did say to Brace," I hope you are wrong."
The Ainu and their origin have always been rather mysterious, with some people claiming that the Ainu are really Caucasian or proto-Caucasian - in other words, "white." At present, Brace's study denies this interpretation.
Our Marines in WWII were surprised to find at the start of the war on at least one island (Tarawa?) the Imperial Marines waiting for them were as big or bigger/taller than they were.
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