Quote:
Originally Posted by maddz
Both of us used to get taken for a holidaying local and got addressed in the local language.
|
Some of my wife's relatives come from New Zealand, near where
Whale Rider was set. The author of that story mentioned that on a visit to Taiwan, the presumptive genesis point for Polynesian people, he was more than once mistaken for an indigenous Taiwanese and asked for directions. Pretty strong genes for the resemblance to hold good for a few millennia
