For the last few years, I've been lucky enough to be friends
with two guys with Mongolian blood who are outstanding doctoral candidates in
the sciences at UCLA. In China, those who have a Mongolian bloodline are called
"meng gu." They frequently have Han blood in them. (94% of Chinese
are Han).
Inner Mongolia is the third richest province in China with a
lot of natural resources. There is much to be proud of in Inner Mongolia.
I recently became friendly with a sushi cutter from Mongolia.
He works in a Japanese restaurant run by Koreans. (This is not unusual in Los
Angeles. Not a lot of Japanese immigrate to America so Korean-Americans have
jumped in to provide a popular cuisine for Americans). They hired this
Mongolian guy and taught him to be a sushi chef.
Since I'm just an average horseman, this guy impresses me
because he's one of the outstanding horseman produced by that country of 2.6
million people. He can do things I could only dream of. His language is written
in Cyrillic, because the Russians controlled Mongolia for a long time. But things are changing. Mongolia is set to become as rich as inner Mongolia, with resources
that have the world's miners salivating.
The way I figure it, those with the blood of Genghis Khan
flowing through their veins are going to end up on the top of the pile once
again. These hard-working, intelligent people conquered the world before, and I
expect they may do it again.
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