[Cronos]

Hey, but it's a fact that the Japanese are Korean-descendents. And that Japan was, for centuries a backwater island compared to mainland China and Korea. You also had Wokou pirates from Japan right until the 1500s or later. What Japan has done since the Meiji era is to be praised (except the war of course), but let's not forget historical facts!

We all need to accept that our ancestors weren't all noble folks -- we may have had cannibals (yes, even the Nordics and Celts and Semites had cannibals millenia ago) and definitely were at one point uncivilised.

[AnAmericanMother]

LOL!

Some of us have doubtful ancestors even more recently than that -- my 5xg grandfather fled Scotland under a cloud. He was a MacGregor (the Mafia of Scotland) but changed his name either after he got to Virginia or before he left (at one point the British outlawed the use of the name, as you can read in R.L. Stevenson's David Balfour).

I used to be into genealogy in a big way, and it's my observation that a hanging six generations ago becomes less a source of shame and more a romantic story.

[investigateworld]

The Japanese I know would be offended to even think there is a drop of Korean blood in their ancestral lineage.

Of course they would be horrified to find a butcher or tanner "back there".