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Just came back from Turkey recently (from Dalaman airport). I really enjoyed my stay in Mamara and the Aegean region. It's an very mountainous country with so much greenery. Turks seemed to be more hospitable than I thought and didn't mind mingling with the tourist, complete opposite of most...

Imagine if the Song Dynasty continued. They produced 200-300,000 tons of Iron and steel in an single year, mostly in shantung peninsula (where one of the oldest cast iron pillars still stands to this day). They used hydrolic systems to power spinning mills that produced Value added goods...

LSE’s Karl Muth suggests Detroit’s Somali community might hold the key to the city’s revival. After past trips to Somalia and Somaliland, I’ve argued that Somalia is really the westernmost province of China. But, today, I argue there is – in turn – a westernmost province of Somalia in the...

Don't bother trying to reason with him. He has his own racial agenda, hence vested bias. Plus he is renown troll on PDF, his speciality being Indians.

Abbas I of Persia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Seems like an progressive man. Do they see him as an national hero, an great monarch or an tyrant?

Before the revolt, the EIC was quite moderate to Indians in terms of racism but was economically and politicly reckless (e.g. pig and beef cartilages for musket balls in the Indian army). Only After the revolt and the crowing of Queen Victoria's crowing as Empress of India, did the British...

@al-Hasani What your opinion the Somali minority the Gulf nations? Why are they treat more with respect then the Ethiopian/habasha groups in SA, UAE etc? Hence why I mentioned the 1857 revolt. The British saw how united India became and wanted to fragment the nation via religious and racial...

This comment one thousand percent true. This is an common trait in British colonialism where Anglo-Saxons don't form an nucleus in an colony's society (e.g. can't be settled like temperate Americans, Australia). They either do divide and conquer of the indigenous when the demographic map suits...

Ever saw the occupy wall street poorest in Oklahoma in 2011? You'd be surprised. And you are right in some sense, the problem with B.Americans is that their mindset is in the past believing it's like 1938 or something and all European Americans are still against them, when are actually they are...

Considering other human beings an plague is not an good thing. I was arguing with an British guy in my two week holiday who was saying similar things about Bulgarians and Romanians and I disagreed and argued against his generalization (like Romanians are thieves and Bulgarian women will be...

What are Ethiopians to you then? I also remembered living in my grandma town in Eritrea for two months in 2009 and not an single criminal incident happened.

That's an brash statement. I remember when I was in Ethiopia, I could sleep with the hotel doors open. I t was really an safe society despite being poor.

Yep. And Istanbul is massive (largest city in Europe I heard). Yeah I always wanted to see the Aegean coast, Interior Turkey is cold as hell esp. Ankara :X

Merhaba, I am literally go to the Airport in an hour so, can Turkish members advice me which places to visit (I am planning to go to Marmara and then to Rhodes, Greece) and your personal attractive places. :)

True. What makes Western military organization so stable and effective is not the weapons or generals but the power and training of the NCO, who is allowed the take greater powers and control of the situation when in combat or drill duty. Even Nazi Germany, an dictatorial western nation, had an...

Sorry, I can't speak hindi. I learned that word from my S.Asian friends :P

Let me guess, damn Guras :D?!

Haha, I am half East African (Hebesha/Eritrean) and Asian. I like both cultures, we are not subhumans that many racist try to protery them.

East Africans developed complex culture 3,000 years ago. And Khoi-San people have one the lowest testosterone levels.