English & Irish apparently share the same origins

Stunning news I got to know from Dedanaan (excellent blog about Celtic culture), English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish may be much closer than they usually think, despite what historians say :
English descend from the Anglo-Saxons, Irish / Welsh / Scottish from the Celts.

Apparently, from a geneticist’s research, these “nations” would share a common ancestor. Genetic similarities are apparently striking between these people.

From this featured article, 3/4 of the ancestors of today’s British and Irish populations would have arrived 15,000 to 7,500 years ago from Spain, speaking a language related to Basque. A genetic pool where newcomers (Celts & Anglo-Saxons) had a small (genetic) impact on, due to a limited number of immigrants.

Belfast - history is written by the winner

Everyone who knows a bit about inhabitants from these Isles, could say how much different these people feel from each other. Maybe is it because they are so alike, they shared so many bloody wars.

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Posted on June 30th, 2007 by tanguy
Filed under: ENGLISH, Europe, cross-cultural, ethnic, "race", multicultural, mixity, society, demography, global trends, Zeitgeist | 2 Comments »

Global Cross-Cultural test / quiz

Test out your Cross-cultural abilities ; check out if you are ready to travel, or create local business overthere…
11 questions from China to Poland - pretty good (and short). In Flash.

Personnally, I reached a score of 7 out of 11 - nope, I don’t know everything yet… needing to check a bit more about Spain, England, Poland and Scotland… which is weird, cose I have been living in the UK, and spent some time in Poland and Spain - frustration, frustration…

Similar cross-cultural Local Lingo post…

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Posted on June 29th, 2007 by tanguy
Filed under: ENGLISH, Quiz, tests - are you from earth ?, cross-cultural, ethnic, "race", multicultural, mixity | No Comments »

360° Panoramas in the world

Just enjoy… no need to travel anymore !
360° panorama like if you were part of it (if u need to download a plugin or so, do not hesitate to do so). Put the sound ON.

360° picture

Machu Piccu, carnivals, venice gondola tour, Karnak temple, Gulf Cup footbal in Abu Dhabi, inside a rugby scrum …

Well, lots of different atmospheres to be in, check them all out…

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Posted on June 28th, 2007 by tanguy
Filed under: ENGLISH, Global, Babel, travel | 1 Comment »

USA stat maps

or how to visually compare populace, housing cost / market, school, safety (crimes), health, climate, income/ work, age/ ethnicity on a US map…

See how to :

- avoid hurricanes (avoid the whole East Coast then), earthquakes (West Coast) and Tornado’s (inside country) - well, in other words, go to another country,

- get sun (Las Vegas) / clouds (alaska),

- make Hispanic (South West + Miami) / African American (South East) / Asian (Californian coast + New York) / White (the rest of the country) friends,

- avoid high “cost of living” places (California, Denver, Minnesota, from New York until Maine, Miami)
…

Excellent if you plan to travel, relocate,… or just are interested about the US situation.

Related posts : World Global Trends, Running the numbers

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Posted on June 27th, 2007 by tanguy
Filed under: America, ENGLISH, society, demography, global trends, Zeitgeist | No Comments »

European webcams - quiz

Curious about live European footages (EU countries more precisely) ?

Go and check this then. Click on the country you want to get views from.

Not always the best locations (highways, streets for the most), while the good spots look like nothing special … just a normal place, without the magic of travel marketing make up, or postcard perfection ; with cranes, traffic jams and rain… be ready to see an everyday life of what seems “immortal / eternal”, printed in our minds. Advertising, advertising, beautifying your vision of life..

Could you figure out what are these (pretty wellknown) touristic hot spots ? Without cheating ? If the image is dark, think about time zones, as this could be night…

1. Lake
2. Skyline
3. Place
4. Avenue
5. Mountain

Some places seem to be sunny everyday… strange…

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Posted on June 26th, 2007 by tanguy
Filed under: ENGLISH, Europe, Quiz, tests - are you from earth ?, travel | No Comments »

Italian and European stereotypes

Pretty cute Flash presentation full of stereotypes about Europeans and Italians.
Through this presentation, Europeans seem to all behave like either English, Scandinavians or Germans… Fortunately, this is not the case !!

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Posted on June 25th, 2007 by tanguy
Filed under: ENGLISH, Europe | No Comments »

The power of laugh

soldiers vs clowns

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Posted on June 24th, 2007 by tanguy
Filed under: ENGLISH, society, demography, global trends, Zeitgeist | No Comments »

Modern privacy / slavery

Google, Linkedin, Yahoo, Youtube, Gmail, Flickr, Myspace, delicious, Stumbleupon… it is possible now to get any type of data about you (tastes, friends, contact details, and so on), not only if you are an Internet freak.

What happens when your moves, your thoughts could be completely foreseen ?
What happens when your political views, shopping tastes, friends, private setting (owner, married, studies, work position, colleagues name) could be all known ?
What if someone wants to control you ?

Or is it just about irrelevant paranoïa ?

Even if (of course) it is not comparable to “real” contemporary slavery, we are never too carefull about our own privacy in this online world. Beware.

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Posted on June 21st, 2007 by tanguy
Filed under: ENGLISH, society, demography, global trends, Zeitgeist | No Comments »
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