Hybrids hailed in China

Hybrids hailed in China
Sep 25, 2007 11:01	#11
AL32 Points: Join Date: Sep 11, 2007 Status: Offline	Iceblue, youcan't figure out what I meant...or what I smoke??? lol - I'm just joking again My cigarettes joke was in reference to traditional Chinese weddings where the man pays the bride's familly a dowry [pay the father some money for marrying his daughter] and also bring many gifts for the wedding. I believe that the weddings traditionally also often took place betweeen a man and a woman coming from different villages, but close to each other. On the day of the wedding, it was the tradition for the man's familly and friends to carry the couple's gifts and furniture by hand from his village to the bride's village (or sometimes half of the way where the bride's familly would take over). And during that trip, the 'carriers' were often "paid" with cigarettes; hence my joke. The longer the trip between the bride's and husband's village, the more cigarettes it would take. Nowadays, with inter-racial weddings occuring so often, you can image how long those trips would be...chances are that the husband's friends would die of lung cancer before they ever reach the wedding ceremony!! ...I hope I've now been a better professor to you now... and that the lesson will not leave you with a bitter after taste (from smoke). Don't put yourself down by saying that you're stupid or slow; asking for clarifications is the best way to learn and a clear sign of intelligence; the teacher was clearly to blame in this case... Peace out!

Sep 25, 2007 11:01

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AL32
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Iceblue, youcan't figure out what I meant...or what I smoke??? lol - I'm just joking again

My cigarettes joke was in reference to traditional Chinese weddings where the man pays the bride's familly a dowry [pay the father some money for marrying his daughter] and also bring many gifts for the wedding. I believe that the weddings traditionally also often took place betweeen a man and a woman coming from different villages, but close to each other. On the day of the wedding, it was the tradition for the man's familly and friends to carry the couple's gifts and furniture by hand from his village to the bride's village (or sometimes half of the way where the bride's familly would take over). And during that trip, the 'carriers' were often "paid" with cigarettes; hence my joke. The longer the trip between the bride's and husband's village, the more cigarettes it would take. Nowadays, with inter-racial weddings occuring so often, you can image how long those trips would be...chances are that the husband's friends would die of lung cancer before they ever reach the wedding ceremony!!

...I hope I've now been a better professor to you now... and that the lesson will not leave you with a bitter after taste (from smoke). Don't put yourself down by saying that you're stupid or slow; asking for clarifications is the best way to learn and a clear sign of intelligence; the teacher was clearly to blame in this case...

Peace out!

Sep 25, 2007 11:27

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I brought cigarettes to my wedding. Lao po asked me to. Well, it was only a family dinner, but... Didn´t pay anything with them.

When I employ a new worker, I always say: if You don´t know or understand something, to ask is not stupid, to not to ask is.

A joke about same thing: Boss says: If someone explains something to others in a way others don´t understand, that someone is a donkey, understand? Workers: No!

Nov 19, 2007 14:35	#13
PYGRANT Points: Join Date: Nov 15, 2007 Status: Offline	It is also possible that people whose parents come from different genetic pools may be more "healthy" in the sense they are not "inbred" in the sense of being less at risk for being heterozygous for deleterious genes. This may be somewhat true, but I agree with a previous poster that it is most likely environmental (exposure to a more varied cultural and educational background).

Nov 19, 2007 19:31

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Al 32,
Thanks for your illustration! You have been a professor to me!
Carlos' joke is a good stuff. LOL!

PYGRANT,
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"It is also possible that people whose parents come from different genetic pools may be more "healthy" in the sense they are not "inbred" in the sense of being less at risk for being heterozygous for deleterious genes."

Do you think which one is more important, genetic factor or environmental factor?

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