Made me laugh!
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I have some serious doubts about that one anyplace in Asia other than some remote regions of China.
BTW,for those of you who don't know,back in ancient times the Chinese were great sailors and explorers,and were NOT the "closed off society" they later became. It has even been SUGGESTED that some may have sailed all the way to North America,and even Europe.
This means they COULD have also sailed to Africa,and taken a few Africans back to China to replace crew members that died for whatever reason. This could easily explain a few "Black Chinese" living in the hills in remote areas.
At some unknown time (unknown to ME,anyhow) the Ruler of China at that time died,and the new ruler shut down Chinese traveling outside of China,and it has remained that way to this day.
No way in HELL do I believe it about the Japanese,though. Don't forget,I lived in a Japanese Island for several years,and had many Caucasian GI friends that married into Japanese families.
Of course,a lot of what I saw was the Japanese,a VERY "wear red and march in a straight line people" reacting to drunken and out of control black American military service members,who primarily seemed to be US Marines for some reason.
I remember several instances of black Marines being arrested for raping teenage Japanese girls,and at least one case of them murdering the girls after raping them.
What these dumbasses didn't seem to realize was that the US military were GUESTS on that Japanese Island,and ANY crime committed against a Japanese citizen by a US citizen,even one in the US Military,would be tried and have the sentence handed out by a Japanese court.
And HERE is the most important part. When and IF found guilty,the accussed had to serve their time in a Japanese prison IN Japan.
Japanese prisons had different rules and treatements for troublesome prisoners than US prisons. Prisoners even had to stand at attention when approached by a guard,and if they didn't,the guards would take out their "billy clubs" and beat the offending prisoner even more senseless than he already was.
You do NOT want to be a foreigner prisoner in a Japanese prison that had been found guilty of raping and murdering a Japanese girl. Trust me on this one.
AND......,I do not feel even the tiniest bit of sympathy for these prisoners,REGARDLESS of their skin color. I might even send the guards some presents if I knew their names and mailing addresses,and thank them for their dedication to duty.
The Japanese ARE a VERY civilized and orderly society. They HAVE to be,given the lack of open space and the way they are huddled together and living all on top of each other in tiny apartments.
They take "order" to the point where ,IIRC,once a week the local patrol cop for each "district"visits with every family in his or her "district" to ask them about new people moving in,do their neighbors fight,are their neighbors children orderly and obedient,is anyone beating their wives,etc,etc,etc.
And the typical Japanese citizen accepts all this as normal and good for an orderly and safe life.
Don't get me wrong. The Japanese DO have a VERY organized criminal class that makes tons of money from bars,prostitution,theft (primarily from shipments coming into the country),and other typical criminal enterprises,but even THEY know that "You do NOT irritate or be disrespectful to the cops".
Truth to tell,they seem to pretty much not give a damn about the professional criminal class being attacked or murdered.
A friend of mine that wanted to marry a Japanese "bar girl" (they are/were everything but outright owned by the bar owner) asked me to come with him one night and act as "backup" because he was going to the bar where his girlfriend worked to "free her" after trying to buy her freedom so they could get married,and having his offer refused.
I said "sure",so we grabbed a couple of 9mm submachine guns,got on our motorcycles,and rode to the bar to show them who was REALLY in charge if push came to shove.
The bar owner changed his mind and graciously freed the young woman from her duties,so we left without having to shoot anyone.
They got married and had at least one child before he was killed running a SOG mission in Laos. Sadly,by that time I was already out of the army on disability,and only learned about it later. I am ASSUMING she remained on Okinawa because that is where her family was,but any child they might have had was an automatic American citizen,so it is possible his child came to America at some point to live with his or her American relatives.
The child MAY have had some problems in school in Japan due to not looking like his classmates. His father's last name was Kinnear,and he looked like he had just stepped off a boat from the Scottish Highlands. Over 6'6" tall,but so fit he didn't really look that big until you stood next to him,with bright orange/red hair,blue eyes,and freckles . LONG arms and legs with HUGE hands and feet.
He normally carried a full-auto M-14 (full auto selector switch) that had been cut down with a shortened barrel and the butt stock cut down into a pistol grip,and not many people are capable of handling that. He and his team were surrounded one night by the NVA and called for an emergency extraction,and one of my friends who was on the Bright Light team that went in to help load the wounded and dead told me it was easy to spot Kinnear as he moved around the perimeter firing his cut-down M-14 to keep the NVA at bay because "that damn thing would light up the whole jungle when he fired it".
He really was one of the "good guys",and I still miss him and all the others. There are damn few people in this world you can even count on to repay you a small loan,never mind people willing to charge into machine gun fire to rescue you when you are wounded and weak.
How many of you know even 2 people who you KNOW you can count on to come to your aid when you need help,regardless of the circumstances?
Damn near everybody I met and ALL the people I called friends in the army were in that category,and that doesn't even take into consideration the people I didn't know personally,like the chopper pilots and their door gunners,and trust me,NONE of us in SOG would be alive today if it hadn't been for the courage and dedication to duty of THOSE guys,and not a single one of them was in SF and damn few of them even knew any of us personally. It was all about "doing your duty to the best of your ability",and this they DID in spades!
These guys ALL had open invitations to visit our NCO club any time they were off-duty and could get there,and the food and the alcohol were free to them,as well as a free ride back to their base if they ended up being too drunk to drive or fly.
When they were in our club,they were all treated like Princes,regardless of their ranks.
