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[adiva_calandia]

You know you're a geek when a sociological/anthropological/historical article on the ethnogenesis of Chinese majorities/minorities makes you think of the Rihannsu.

Mainly I blame the terms used -- I know that Rihannsu, the language, is supposed to sound like Latin + Welsh, but I think there's a lot of Chinese to the way Rihannsu sounds in my head. Semu, Hanren, Nanren* -- and the dynasties and conquering and "civilizing projects" seem like they'd fit fine in Rihannsu history.

I wish I had the time to be reading Star Trek. :(

*"Much has been written about the Yuan status system, with its four categories: Mongol, Semu, ("Central Asian"), Hanren [people of the central plains], and Nanren [people of the South(?)]."

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[campkilkare]

No, you're dead on. In the political allegory of Star Trek, the Romulans are the Chinese, just like the Klingons are the Russians.

This holds at least through the first two shows--and my dad has a theory about how the later seasons of Deep Space Nine map onto fundamentalist interpretations of the book of Revelation.

Even the excrable Star Trek: Nemesis movie fits in, although again as a future projection more than the current state of play.