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Post by Soju on May 29, 2004 11:41:32 GMT -5
Here are a couple of links to sites with information about Behcet's Disease (what the King has): From the National Institutes of Health - www.niams.nih.gov/hi/topics/behcets/behcets.htmAnother one - www.behcets.org/Michael, youv'e said you are attending school; are you studying medicine? It would sure come in handy for subtitling this show
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Post by jacques on May 29, 2004 13:54:32 GMT -5
Here are a couple of links to sites with information about Behcet's Disease (what the King has): From the National Institutes of Health - www.niams.nih.gov/hi/topics/behcets/behcets.htmAnother one - www.behcets.org/Michael, youv'e said you are attending school; are you studying medicine? It would sure come in handy for subtitling this show Fascinating. The minute I clicked on the link and saw the spelling of behcet, I knew it was Turkish, owing to the disease being initially classified in Istanbul. Reading further revealed it was predominant along a North-Central corridor of Asia, from Japan to Turkey. This make sense since there is an anthropological basis for this phenomenon. The eastern extreme of the population being Japan is logical since there was migration of people and genes to the islands from the Korean peninsula. Many have pointed out, in discussing Korean history, how the peninsula was essentially the gateway of the eastern Asian mainland (i.e. China) for the Pacific Rim. But the Korean peninsula also has a buffer zone between it and the Middle Kingdom, that being the steppes and highlands of Manchuria (present-day Liaoning/Northeastern China). This area was inhabited by all the nomadic peoples, many of whom through their conquest of the coveted Middle Kingdom have assimilated into the Chinese populace, resulting in their culture being rendered into an artifact. These include the Jurchens (Khitan) who formed the Liao dynasty (referenced in AOW series) and the Manchus/Qing dynasty. The nomads of Manchuria in turn interacted with their Mongolian cousins who we know went on a westward expansion through the Eurasian continent, the middle chunk of which are populated by the Turkic peoples (current Central Asia including Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyztan, etc) whose descendants also went west, settling into and absorbing indigenous bloodlines of what is now known as Turkey. A linguistic footnote: Turkish and other Turkic languages, together with Korean and Japanese constitute the Ural-Altaic extended family of languages. This particular viewer traces the Asian part of his heritage to India and China, both of which lay along the Silk Route/North-Central Asian corridor. The way I respond to Korean culture--the arts, cuisine, people--is one with a certain degree of familiarity, though not as familiar as I am with North Indian and nomadic Chinese cultures, but there is something that lights up the memory circuits of my genes. What do they say about the persistence of memory, especially when it's encoded into the genetical make-up of the human being? Human civilizations and cultures are more closely inter-related than you think. Americans and Asians watching K-drama, Koreans watching Russian opera and listening to Turkish music--all manifestations of the need to establish and re-establish cultural and ultimately, human connections. I am as comfortable eating pide bread with hummus and olive oil with my right hand, as I am eating Mughlai pullaos and kababs, and Korean dinners with ahguchims, chigaes, mulchae and chopsticks! Living in our own little corner of the world does not in any way impede us from experiencing the entire world that is the green earth of the Creator.
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Post by velvet inkbrush of YiSoonShin on May 30, 2004 1:24:29 GMT -5
okay so when i read that the king had this particular disease, i nearly fell over laughing - not that this is a laughing matter, but i'm a med student and the claim to fame of behcet's dzs is that it causes oral and genital ulcers! i never knew that the king came down with it.
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Post by jacques on May 30, 2004 2:02:54 GMT -5
okay so when i read that the king had this particular disease, i nearly fell over laughing - not that this is a laughing matter, but i'm a med student and the claim to fame of behcet's dzs is that it causes oral and genital ulcers! i never knew that the king came down with it. Hey, the guy was a royal pimp daddy (not that he's not entitled to it, as dictated by the times ). Whatcha expect? ;D Btw, I have a cousin who was diagnosed with this at age 13!
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Post by TheBo on May 31, 2004 13:09:10 GMT -5
Aiee. I think that's the longest, most information-intensive post I've ever seen from Jacques.
Thanks, me hearty.
Bo
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Post by jacques on May 31, 2004 13:11:57 GMT -5
Aiee. I think that's the longest, most information-intensive post I've ever seen from Jacques. Thanks, me hearty. Bo We aim to please...
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