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From: "Adele Duff" <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Indian characteristics
Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 10:30:50 -0500
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Said much better than I could have said it, but claim your ancestry on
research and facts, not on how you or someone looks.
Adele
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Subject: Re: [Q-R] Indian characteristics


> . ca writes: I had a Jewish friend whose daughter had
just
> married a Black man, and he
> once commented to me, "You know, someday, I think we will all be
> coffee-coloured." Thoughtful but how do you like your coffee, black, with
> lots of milk, maybe with whipped cream, strong, weak, even all 'coffee' is
> not the same.
>
> Dear Cousins:
>
> If your family lineage includes the lines of Rodrigue or Dassilva, you
have
> Portuguese ancestry. If you have Portuguese ancestry, you are likely to
have
> distant cousins not only in Portugal, but in Goa, on the Indian
subcontinent,
> on the island of Ceylon, [Sri Lanka], on the East Coast of Africa [Kenya,
> Tanzania], and in Brasil. If you have Portuguese cousins in Goa and
Ceylon,
> in East Africa, or in Brasil, there is a strong likelihood that they
> intermarried with the native populations in those places. If your lineage
> includes the lines of Breault and Gélineau, then you have Hebrew ancestry.
> You probably have Hebrew relatives in every nation of the Mediterranean
> basin, and in every nation of Western and Eastern Europe, as well as in
> Central Asia and even in China. If your lineage includes Russian,
Ukrainian,
> or Polish lines, you most likely have Kazak, Turki, and Mongol cousins.
And,
> in all probability, your Kazak, Turki, and Mongol cousins have Chinese and
> Korean relatives. Then again, if you are of Métis origins, you have
kinfolk
> among the native populations of North America, just as the Mestizos in
Latin
> America have relatives in the Native populations there. But the best
> anthropological research suggests strongly that the First Nations in the
> Americas have Kazak, Turki, and Mongol origins. If you keep traveling
> westward, you will certainly get back to La Rochelle, which is where many
of
> us started from in the first place, including the Rodrigues and the
> Dassilva's.
>
> It would seem that among folks of African origin, there are indeed
> distinctions made between "café noir", café-au-lait" and "café-crême"
> complexions. Some groups consider that lighter is better, some that
blacker
> is better. In ways perhaps a bit more subtle than in May 1968, 34 years
ago,
> when Martin Luther King died, it appears that we have not let learned to
> judge others "not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their
> character".
>
> Father Owen Taggart
>
>
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