What you're talking about is an experience that I have too, and just about every American who travels.

We live in a country that's got people coming in from all over the world. We have a global

economy. We have you know just the ability of the technology that's available to

travel and just transcend right now we're doing it through Zoom to do this interview.

We have interactions with different people all the time and in a pre- I'm thinking

pre-modern in a pre-modern world the differences between people

groups would have been so much starker you would have looked at genetic

differences cultural differences, religious differences,

cuisine, I mean it doesn't really matter what aspect of civilization or life I

should say that you're talking about people would be very particular depending on

where they were and that's just not the case today so you can't have the situation you

just talked about I think the difficulty is that I think the

the root question that people are that's controversial is

whether or not genetics has anything to do with it.

And so this is you don't really say this in the book but I'll just ask you this because I've heard

this described by others. Your friend let's, who's Chinese who speaks like occasion, how would you

categorize that? Would you categorize that as an adoption? I mean, he's been adopted

into a culture that's not perhaps native to his ancestors like you said he's not a

10th generation cajun but he's adopted their ways and been accepted as part of

their group just like families do this when they adopt and I thought that was to me that maybe I'm overly

Simplistic, but I thought that's a perfect explanation for

different kinds of people with maybe traditions and different genetic differences that go back but they've been incorporated

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