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From: "Tom" > >
<< They were spread about
> > during the war to promote the "we are different and
> > superior" mythos.  >>

A few years ago when I was still teaching university ESL classes, I made a
reference one day in one of my classes, predominantly populated by Far
Easterners, to some specific Asian Pacific Rim nations.  One of my Japanese
students took umbrage at the suggestion that he was--gasp!--Asian.  He
immediately corrected my error by avowing before the class that Japanese
were JAPANESE--they were *NOT* Asians.  Most of the rest of the students
thereafter allowed him to be as unique as he wanted to be, and to sit alone
by himself after that.

I have backtracked for two days trying to duplicate a search for a site I
stumbled upon week before last while researching rice bran oil.  No luck.
At the time I thought about posting it to the list, but I try to stay
mindful not to post too much  :-)  or too often.  The info that I thought
was vastly interesting was about a village in Japan (begins with an -H,
maybe?) where the people do not eat any rice at all, are exceptionally
long-lived in spite of high tobacco use,  stay youthful looking, and are
physically vigorous, strong and agile into very old age.  The main starch in
their diet, if I remember correctly, is a type of yam.

Tom, if you know of this village or group of people, I would be interested
in reading more.  And IF I ever find that site again, I will post a link.

Theola