Tuesday, January 27, 2004

 
Re "Siberian-Americans"
Or: "Kill Yue-chi Scum"?
Or: My cup runneth over at the Cryonics Bank Night Deposit Slot

Just got in from work and noted JD's "Siberian-Americans," reminding me on "The Lost Man" published in the June 16, 1997 New Yorker. I've lost and given away(to mine kinder for school reports) but the article may be worth a trip to the library for some.(In the event anyone has any doubts about how I write, I pretty much hack away without much aforethought and little editing, with the puns popping up as I write("Like, 'Duh'" quoth the Reader upon whose brow may break out beads of blood whilst trying to read the awkward verbiage *written*relatively effortlessly) I won't add to what is undoubtedly a JD email inbox bulging with notes that the Siberian-Americans more probably than not essentially exterminated "caucasoids" who were "here first." The New Yorker article describes the forces of political correctness and Amerind groups that have sought to suppress and re-inter evidence of the ancient presence of caucasoids in the New World. When one expert was asked about how many of the ten or so(relying on memory here)very old(8-10 thousand years)skeletons show caucasoid characteristics, the answer given was "All of them." In spite of a very recent find covered in Science magazine about artifacts found in Asia, there may still be more evidence for links of the American "Clovis" culture to the european "Solutrean" culture than to possible Siberian forebearers.
This may be part of some grand Darwinian trend(perhaps approved of by some Darwinian Deity, for all we know)of replacement of caucasians or caucasoids by "Asiatics." Chinese chroniclers describe at least some of the Hsiung Nu(or Xiong Nu or other spellings-also "Yue-chi"- appear in print in my meager library and elsewhere), who ravaged China's frontiers for hundreds of years, as being unmistakably non-chinese and fair-haired in appearence. There has also been television and print(National Geographic comes to mind) of caucasian skeletal remains in tombs in far eastern asia. And across the real estate which includes those graves, gallop people who seem to have inherited a cultural, but not a visible genetic inheritance from the those horse-mounted europids.
Unlike "Dr."(nice Sharpton-based comeback by the Derb, btw.,) Derbyshire, I can't presume to say that I "have" some "Mongolia Guy" and I've had little excuse to converse with my source since I transfered within my company, but do remember what "my" guy, who has spent months with modern day Mongols(eating and drinking stuff cooked over dung fires) said about traveling to Japan after his stay in Mongolia-- that the Japanese then looked "almost caucasian" in appearance. Perhaps the overall advance of "asiatic" genes westward across Asia over the past two millenia was to some extent based upon the chance occurences of some great battles, lethal blizzards and the like,(coulda' gone either way, in other words) but the suspiscion remains that "our" "white" guys lost out, big time, fair(in "love" and in "war") and square, in countless, statistically significant struggles in eastern asia. And perhaps the primary lesson that the people of the world will learn from Western Civ's *relative* open-mindedness to "foreign" ideas and genetic influxes(based on the West's "tolerant" genes or memes or both-the attacks on the West's "racism" and cultural assertions of superiority are made in large part because of its relative *lack* of racism and arrogance )is that this ultimately led only to its genetic and cultural extinction.
Then again, perhaps parents in the not so distant future will pick and choose genes for their prospective offspring from banks of the choicest snippets of DNA from, I dunno, the Ashkenazi, Asiatics, Hottentots 'n whatnots. Or perhaps as emailed years ago, our descendants will owe more to what we have fashioned out of silicon than our sem-...gag...genes. -not exactly rousing or rally-round-the-flag stuff here, and JD isn't the only one who pounds out stuff while deep in his cups...

***browsed through a National Geographic mag recently about the Great Wall(s) of China. Some of the place-names around the walls have translations like "Pacify the Hu"-or as one local distilled it: "Kill the foreigners." JD opined that a wall on our southern border seemed un-American to him...And perhaps it *is*---more's the pity, perhaps-then again, maybe not--channelling Eric "All-Sides" Sevareid more than Dennis Miller here...