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My Indian friend tells me that Indian drivers are the most intrepid in the world: if you have driven on Indian roads, you can drive anywhere. You jostle with cows, buffalo, bullock carts, reckless lorries, tuk tuks, motorcycles, bicycles, pedestrians who treat the roads like a footpath, even...

Admiral Zheng He was born in Kunming. If the video is correct, Islam came to the peninsula from Yunnan. That clears up the misconception that the Malay race originated from the southward migration of Yunnan aboriginals.

Mixed wedding, but it's always the non-Muslim kaffir that has to convert to Islam, never the other way round. My wife's cousin married a Malay man; he converted to Christianity (very rare) but was ex-communicated by his family. So much for religious tolerance.

Pundek gets drunk, pundek turns violent. Same old same old

Privatize the profits, socialize the costs. The American way.

You'll always be tied to your soulmate beyond birth and death, which is just life changing forms. The physical body has a certain lifespan and will eventually perish. Realise that all is impermanent on this material plane, release all attachments, and peace will be yours.

This is democracy in action, something that Sinkies can only dream of. As I've said before: in a 2023 survey, only 49% supported independence, while 51% preferred status quo or reunification (under whatever terms). The reality is Taiwanese want jobs, they want the economy to grow, they want a...

As long as you have enough to cater to your basic living needs, you don't actually need anything outside of yourself - money, assets, status, even a 'soulmate' - to find happiness and contentment. Everything comes and goes, even relationships. Connect to your innermost being and peace and joy...

Han is just a cultural construct... barbarians toughen Han genetic stock but get assimilated into Han culture and become civlised. Win-win. Actually most of the genetic variation in Han DNA lies in mitochondrial DNA, only transmitted maternally. That means a lot of Han men were fucking non-Han...

Myth. Li Bai's lineage goes back to the Longxi Li family - a Han clan - that founded Western Liang, but his family was forced into exile in central Asia, where Li Bai was born. He later moved to what is today's Chengdu. The founders of Tang Dynasty are also the descendants of the Longxi Li...

Li Yuan, founder of the Tang dynasty had a ethnic Han father and Xianbei mother. The Xianbei tribes occupied a vast stretch of land over today's Mongolia and Manchuria, so were probably proto-Mongolic, proto-Tungusic. Anyway, from a genetic standpoint, there are no pure Han people today...

You forgot the Saxons from Saxony and to a lesser the extent, the Jutes from northern Germany. These were brutish pirates who settled alongside the Angles. To this day the Celts are still being oppressed in the UK, much like how the Yamato Japs have oppressed the Ryukans and Ainu.

That's why invasion will always be a last resort for the CCP. Status quo always. In the event the final red line is breached (Taiwan declaring independence) an economic and naval blockade will achieve the same end with far less casualties and economic cost.

Taiwan has the best healthcare system in the world. Their NHI puts our MediShield/Medisave/MediFund to shame. But while the NHI provides universal access to psychiatric care, social stigma and poor awareness lead to under-treatment of mental illness. Staff shortage also aggravate the situation...

Ditto for the Anglo-Saxons, also descendants of Germanic tribes. (If you've studied Old English, you'd notice the similarity with German.) They cause the most trouble in the world.