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[Tyler]

Hi Michael I hope you like it here.

[Daniel]

Hello.

My name: Daniel.
My age: 31.

Location: United States, central region.

Interests: Mandarin Chinese, gaming, fiction, history, sea piracy, racquetball, weight lifting, fencing, movies.

Other forums visited: Pirates Message Board.

I am grateful to find this forum, especially in my native language. I am a beginner at Mandarin Chinese (about 500 words in my vocabulary and I can read maybe 130 characters), so I could not possibly conduct an intelligent conversation in it.

My wife is a Chinese citizen, Uyghur in background, and I am trying to learn more about the history of all China. I have visited mainland China three times, spending most of my time in Urumqi, Xinjiang, plus a few weeks in Beijing.

[General_Zhaoyun]

Hi Daniel.. welcome to CHF

[Tyler]

Daniel I hope you find CHF to be a great place.

[General_Zhaoyun]

Gweilo, a non-chinese CHF member, also has a hongkong chinese wife.

[Wú Fēi]

My wife is a Chinese citizen, Uyghur in background, and I am trying to learn more about the history of all China.  I have visited mainland China three times, spending most of my time in Urumqi, Xinjiang, plus a few weeks in Beijing.

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Really? That could be explained as two facts:
1.You are a muslim.
Or
2.You are so handsome that no girls can refuse you.
It is said by my Uigur classmates,
the Uigur girl generally will not marry someone who is not a Uigur.
Even a muslim from another Islamic nationality, such as Kazak,
would be not always allowed to wive a Uigur girl.
However, I don't think what they told me are unchangeable rules,
for I have seen some Uigur girls and boys who had having a BF/GF
with background of Han or other ethical groups.
I can find it unsurely that some Uigurs may be worried about Han peoples
for making them impure in both consanguinity and mind.
It can be understandable but not supported at all time.
After all, as the fact of being own brethren
living in the same country and under the same sky,
everyone should cherish each other.
For who doesn't know cherishing the others,
who will not cherish self.

[Wú Fēi]

Nothing is special of the Uigur girls, but they indeed have differences in feature to majority common people living in Centeria.
Since you brother is neither handsome guy nor a musilim, you'll have no chance to make even one of them want you, except want you to keep a distance from them.

[Tyler]

Interesting, seems like a few non-chinese CHF members who are interested in chinese history has chinese/asian wife. lol maybe liu ce will grow up and marry chinese wife (though i dun know what nationality is liu ce).

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When that time comes and when I am the legal age, it'll be someone who I hold special. I don't think people should marry, just becuase of a nationality.

[Daniel]

Really? That could be explained as two facts:
1.You are a muslim.
Or
2.You are so handsome that no girls can refuse you.

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Well I'm not a Muslim, so that leaves only one possibility, doesn't it?

No, I jest. I'm not that handsome, and ladies before I met my wife found it easy to refuse me. My wife is exceptional in that, as in so many other ways.

All I can say is that the times, they are a-changing. What Uyghur women might not have done a few generations ago, some now do. And my new in-laws have treated me with all the warmth and welcome I could possibly have wished.

[Daniel]

"Aye there, matey" The sea, the carribean, the swasbuckling rapiers and cutlasses. The crews, the cannons, the mutinies. Henry avery, blackbeard and the spanish treasure fleets. The galleons, the sloops, the pinnaces, the plundering.

When i get my hands on sid meier's pirates, i will disappear from CHF horizon till "boredom beckon's me back to privateering".

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I have attended the Pirates: Fact and Legend message board in the past, and I wrote a complete novel about pirates. Alas, no one will publish it yet.