Ask CosmoLady anything, she has lived on 6 continents!

[rothaer]

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I wanted to say something unrelated to any particular topic:

Respect.

[CosmoLady]

I was actually reluctant to do DNA testing due to my privacy concerns, but later curiosity got the best of me. In today's world, almost nothing is left private anyway.

I understand, even if you never test yourself, the CIA already has the genetic profile of the entire Turkish population by now.

(In a future war, perhaps a new pandemic will appear, to which Turks or Arabs or Persians are unusually susceptible.)

Normal people should not worry because they have no control over this.

I am worried about (possibly) being personally targeted by someone who has my genetic information.
Again, normal people do not need to worry about this.

[Petalpusher]

I don't want a DNA company (and thus a Western government) to possess and surveil my personal genetic information.

If I were a normal person, then this would not be a problem.

But I am not a normal person unfortunately, and I sometimes worry about my privacy and safety.

They've cloned you already, you are double posting

I understand this...didn't like much the idea either. I would like to be able to disappear, even if i didn't necessarily ever want to, i would still like to be able to. I don't think they can do much with what's tested unless you do full genome but who knows in the future with more advanced mandatory biometric.

What i was getting at...is if there would be a chance through testing to know more about your biological parents/family and how would you feel about that.

[gixajo]

I understand, even if you never test yourself, the CIA already has the genetic profile of the entire Turkish population by now.

(In a future war, perhaps a new pandemic will appear, to which Turks or Arabs or Persians are unusually susceptible.)

Normal people should not worry because they have no control over this.

I am worried about (possibly) being personally targeted by someone who has my genetic information.
Again, normal people do not need to worry about this.

Why do you think someone would personally target you?

What were they going to prevent or get you to achieve that they would avoid by getting you out of the way?What kind of danger can you constitute so that someone in power perceives you as a real threat that cannot constitute anyone else who does not agree with how things are being done in the world?

I mean...You have had some curious circumstances regarding your origin and what you have experienced and traveled, which have undoubtedly shaped you as an "unusual" person, but that alone does not seem to me to make you a target for anyone. Apart from those circumstances, little habitual, why do you consider that you are not normal?

[Universe]

How common are interracial dating and interracial marriage among Blacks, Coloreds and Whites? Do White South African men or women marry out more?

[Ruggery]

Where you live?

[CosmoLady]

What i was getting at...is if there would be a chance through testing to know more about your biological parents/family and how would you feel about that.

I accept the mystery.

I am blonde with straight hair and a large forehead, Subnordic-looking,
so probably I am mostly Dutch or from some other Nordic European populations

[CosmoLady]

Why do you think someone would personally target you?

What were they going to prevent or get you to achieve that they would avoid by getting you out of the way?What kind of danger can you constitute so that someone in power perceives you as a real threat that cannot constitute anyone else who does not agree with how things are being done in the world?

I mean...You have had some curious circumstances regarding your origin and what you have experienced and traveled, which have undoubtedly shaped you as an "unusual" person, but that alone does not seem to me to make you a target for anyone. Apart from those circumstances, little habitual, why do you consider that you are not normal?

First I should say that people may consider me to be wealthy,
but I am not personally wealthy, I refuse to be, I do not pay myself much,
I am part-owner of companies that are wealthy,
and the profits are reinvested or spent on charitable projects, local taxes, salaries, other business expenses.

In general, I have to seriously consider my safety.

About my paranoia,
I believe that I may be at risk because I do business with people who may be considered to be problematic,
such as wealthy Russians or Chinese.

Even my physical proximity to these people, combined with frequent travels, can make me a target.

Of course they can also shoot me out of the sky while I am flying!
Such as they did with both Malaysia Airlines flights (the one in the Indian Ocean and the one in Ukraine)

But I want to minimise my exposure to risk as much as possible.

[CosmoLady]

How common are interracial dating and interracial marriage among Blacks, Coloreds and Whites? Do White South African men or women marry out more?

I don't know what the current situation is.
There may be some interracial marriage of whites with middle-class Coloureds, I don't know how much.

There may be a little interracial marriage of whites with middle-class blacks (a tiny percent of blacks),
but I think that this is much less common than in the US, because many South African blacks openly hate whites.

Some liberal whites (a minority in South Africa) may be susceptible to miscegenation,
but these liberal whites have mostly left the country after contributing to destroying it.
They can hardly survive in the paradise they have created.

The remaining white population tends to have greater white solidarity, I think, than whites in other countries.

In the past of course,
the Dutch were so racist that they interbred extensively with the Hottentots and formed a new race of Coloureds,
who are badly discriminated against and not welcome in the new country post-1994.

Likewise the Dutch were so racist that they interbred with Indonesians and formed a new race of Indos,
who were badly discriminated against and not welcome in the new country post-1949.

The English also interbred with the Indians, forming a new race of Anglo-Indians like Ben Kinglsey,
who were badly discriminated against and not welcome in the new country post-1947.

(Ben Kingsley's real name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji, and he played Gandhi wearing blackface)

Sometimes humanistic ideas are only pseudo-humanistic.

Well I meant that Smith was humane in general, not that he was a follower of the philosophy of humanism,

which led from Voltaire to Diderot to Robespierre to Marx...

[CosmoLady]

Where you live?

Nowhere in particular, several places every year,

usually 4 months a year in the US,

1.5 months in Canada, 1.5 months in Australia, 1.5 months in Europe, 1 month in South Africa...