To: Mortimer Snavely
I've had several Asian friends (both Americans and ones from Japan/Singapore/etc.). They've all been nice folks. Of course, after reading this I'm suspicious that they were stabbing me in the back secretly!
47 posted on
10/20/2003 8:30:39 AM PDT by
mikegi
To: mikegi
Read a good article in the Financial tiems hte other week, about China's economy booming and it brought up a good point -- the idea of Asia is a Greek invention, considering as:
1. Europe's actually part of the Eurasian landmass, beign littler more than a peninsula.
2. The term 'Asian' doesn't mean that there is any commonality between the 4 different regions there, each with it's own history, language groups and religion. The 4 regions being: The Indian Sub-continent, The Egyptian-Mesopotamian, Central Asia and The Chinese-japanese-Korean part.
52 posted on
10/20/2003 8:57:14 AM PDT by
Cronos
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