[lbo-talk] Testy

[kjkhoo at softhome.net]

At 3:23 am -0700 6/9/04, Chris Doss wrote:
>I think people don't understand how complicated that
>part of the world is. You have 40 or so ethnic groups
>all living in close proximity to each other with a
>long history of doing each other in... they all hate each other 
>because somebody
>back in 1750 killed somebody else's
>great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. It's
>very volatile.

At 9:05 am -0700 6/9/04, Chris Doss wrote:
>Almost nobody in Russia is "pure" anything. Even the
>Cossacks, who consider themselves to be some kind of
>Slavic paragon, have been intermarrying in the
>Caucasus with the Chechens and everybody else for
>years (and actually there are Cossacks with Tatar last
>names). Most people are
>Russian/Ukrainian/Latvian/Ingush/Jewish/Uzbek whatever.

And we have these hyphenated's "impure" all going at each other's 
throats in the name of the "pure"? What decides for one "impure" 
lining up with one or other side of his/her "impurity"?

kj khoo