The other day while eating lunch, I found myself yet again on Wikipedia. This is always something of a dangerous proposition for me. With the obscene amount of links peppering most wikis, it's nearly impossible for me to resist clicking from one place to another and spending ridiculous amounts of time learning about all manner of things.

On this particular visit I started out reading up on the death of Peter Tosh. That led me to Bob Marley, which led me to the Rastafari movement, which led me to Haile Selassie I and Marcus Garvey and so forth and so on.

Within minutes I'm always reading up on something completely unrelated to what I was first reading. This visit I somehow ended reading about the Amish. (And finally I'm beginning to get to the point.) Apparently, the Amish have the highest percentage of twin births among any ethnic group.

This reminded me of something I read years ago (so I don't have a source). The two ethnic groups that are most closely related at a genetic level are the Japanese and the Koreans. Which kind of makes sense when you consider that the two populations have historically been somewhat isolated and have spent millennia conquering each other and intermarrying.

I have a quirky prejudice. Anytime I think of Koreans, I always think of Chiun from the crappy 80s movie Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. There are two things I learned from this movie. First, haberdashery is a very cool word. Second, Chiun is very cool and very Korean.

Except that he's not. The actor who played Chiun, Joel Grey, is very Caucasian.

Here he is as Chuin:

Maybe it's just me, but I believe that he's Asian. But he's not. He's so not. Here's Joel Grey in the most Caucasian environment imaginable… standing next to Liza Minnelli:

I'm so crushed. The world will never be the same for me. Chiun isn't Korean. He's a gay white guy from Ohio. (I'm assuming he's gay because he's standing next to Liza Minnelli.) I'll be alright. I'll try to console myself with two odd photos I found while searching for Chiun.