I totally went back to fix that, and then my Internet cut out. Of course there were all kinds of African expats, especially Nigerians. No excuses on my part beyond that I’ve been away from home too long and it warps your brain.
Every Peace Corps Volunteer dream is to get a free ride in a Land Cruiser and invited to a party with good booze. We knew plenty of businessmen.
Yao’s western expat scene was pretty small and I knew of most people even if it’s in a “hey it’s that French guy who’s always at Score!” kind of way. I’m probably only a degree or two from knowing any given white (or Lebanese or Chinese) dude walking around Yaounde. Douala has more westerners and I’ll admit I know nothing about Douala.
Outside of Yaounde, Douala, Baf and Bamenda I pretty much knew every time a white dude walked outside. We had around 130 volunteers in maybe 80 towns and villages. If I even saw a white guy driving down the highway (or if a kid in my village reported back to me that he saw one) I’d immediately text everyone I knew and within a few minutes we’d usually have figured out who it was and what they were doing. A Lebanese timber baron throws a party in Bertoa, I knew exactly how much everyone had to drink. A new French guy shows up at the Garoua Supermarche, I knew if he was cute or not. A random guy is spotted walking around in Buea, I’d know where he was from. We were isolated, bored and would go months without seeing a new Westerner so whenever we did it was big news.
See the C,I.A. notes on Algeria. The country is mostly inhabited by natives of Berber stock, with some admixture of ‘racial’ Arabs. Most of the Berbers speak Arabic, to be sure, but this is like saying that most ethnic Seminoles in Florida speak English – it says nothing about Ethnicity. There have also been a lot of Europeans, mostly of French extraction, there – while a lot of them evacuated in the fighting of 1958-62, it’s my understanding that a sizeable minority cast their lot with the Algerians and stayed.
The two countries even more homogenous than the Koreas listed on that C.I.A. thing were Tokelau and the Faeroes – which don’t even have the fraction-of-a-percent minority of the Koreas.
Ferdinand II of Aragon, V of Castile, III of Naples. Is he the same as your Ferdinand VII?
He conquered it Navarre, made the Navarrese recognize him as king, and installed a viceroy. After that, Spanish Navarre was in a personal union with the rest of Spain.
Eh, non, these countries are cross roads of trade, commerce and migration since ancient times. And Algeria has millions of French (French, Italians, Spanish, Corses, etc) colons who settle it for 100 years!
not at all, unless you only mean now people speak Arabic almost exclusively. Tunisia has Romans, has Punics, has Greeks, has all kinds of people settling it.
The only way you have a country that is “pure” (what it means pure, of course is to be defined since it is not really truly clear) is if it was long very isolated and has had very little migration. Only far off islands would meet such criteria, or perhaps far off up in Finland maybe. Iceland, the Faroes, even if there is “immigration” it is now recent to have non-Nordic or non-British Isles stock coming in. I do not know Asia, but similar places.
FAir enough, although not all business expats are white Europeans, as I can say. But I was thinking Douala as the capital, which is a dumb mistake since I know better.
Shit. I somehow managed to forget that the cultures around the Med actually go back quite a few thousand years. Instead of popping out of nowhere and going for a pillage and plunder session a mere thousand years ago.
Which leaves Finland, which has about 10% Finnish Swedes, a Sami population and then some more recent immigrants.
Guess that leaves some small island-nation in the Pacific?
The connection between Koreans and Japanese are fairly well established, but I’ve never read that they’re related to the Han Chinese. The typical conjecture is that Koreans are most closely related to Manchu or Mongols.
For Africa it’d be probably helpful to consider a tribe or a clan. Like Somalia seems like “everyone’s a Somali” which is close to being true, but there are so man different clans, the idea of Somalis being one easily breaks down.
I read Gabon is one African countries with the least different numbers of ethnic tribes
But they’re hardly homogenous white people. I mean you’ve got the Anglo-Saxon lowlanders, the old Gaelic highlanders, the descendants of modern Irish immigrants (=Gaelic/Viking/Anglo-Norman), the Norse, whoever the Picts were, the French (my own surname has the appearance of being French in origin, but the family was in Scotland at least as far back as the mid-17th century) plus whoever else might have immigrated in more recent times.
You are absolutely correct. There is also a significant Italian population in Scotland (and Ireland). But if we split ethnicities like this surely every country has this polyethnic background even amongst soi-disant racial monocultures?
What, you think it’s purely a question of Thai versus Lao? (And there are more ethnic Lao in northestern Thailand than in all of Laos.) There are SO many subdivisions. My friend in Roi Et, a fellow American farang (Westerner) can speak several local sub-dialects.