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BREAKING: Trump: Secretary of State Pompeo heading back from North Korea with 3 released prisoners
CNBC ^ | Mike Calia

Posted on 05/09/2018 5:39:13 AM PDT by LiveFreeOrDie2001

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that three American prisoners released from North Korea were headed home.


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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Guess there aren’t that many Koreans in the world.

Almost every one I've known has been Kim or Park. I think they employ very few surnames.

181 posted on 05/09/2018 6:00:04 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We're even doing the right thing for them. They just don't know it yet. --Donald Trump, CPAC '18)
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To: Albion Wilde

I don’t have the numbers in front of me, but check Wikipedia.

Korea is an extreme case with the dominance of Kim as a surname — something like a quarter of the population. Ditto for Nguyen in Vietnam.

China is more varied but you still have a disproportionate share of people named Li, Chang, Wang, Liu etc.

Japan has something like 100,000 surnames in use, but again you’re dealing with a lot of people named Sato, Saito, Watanabe, etc. But Japan is still rather diverse compared with China or Korea.

Conversely, in the West, some countries are wonderfully varied. Take, for instance, Italy, where you could often tell from someone’s surname what town or village they were from. With population shifts — poor south to industrial north — this is no longer as extreme. But to this day, I guarantee you that the top 50 surnames in Torino won’t look much like the top 50 surnames in Palermo.


182 posted on 05/09/2018 6:19:07 PM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: Albion Wilde

You’re exactly right. I’ve worked with a lot of Chinese, Indians, Koreans and Viet Namese. The same family names keep popping up with the Chinese, the Korean Kims, the Vietnamese Nguyens and Phams. But the Indians have many more and more widely varied family names.


183 posted on 05/09/2018 6:24:00 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Nothingburger
I agree about Italy. It is a very ingrained cutural habit. I lived among Italian-Americans for a long time; they would identify people by what street corner they were from. After two decades, they were still telling me I was not a "real" member of "da neighborhood."

In Italy itself, they have a term called campanilismo. It's an idiom that means to rarely venture farther than the sound of one's own parish church bells.

184 posted on 05/09/2018 6:32:17 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We're even doing the right thing for them. They just don't know it yet. --Donald Trump, CPAC '18)
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