Happy New Year! Multiracial families and sundry observations.

+ Interesting backgrounds (still continued. . . )

I wish all readers of this blog and their loved ones a Very Happy New Year.

Here’s hoping for great things in 2015!

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(According to “Counterize” statistics, readers come from many different countries. That is great to know.)

In my last few blog posts I have been musing about peoples’ interesting backgrounds. Here are just a few more things I’d like to say on this subject, as well as mentioning some interesting facts.

If I were to choose an area of study today, I would be interested in looking back far into history and learning about how ancient peoples travelled around the globe. Now that scientists understand DNA, they surely have a greater understanding of where certain tribes originated.

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Another extremely interesting area of study would be linguistics. I only dabbled into that arena briefly when studying for a degree. It is extremely complicated. But isn’t it mysterious that some languages have developed such incredibly difficult grammatical structures and that these just came about naturally! However complicated and mysterious this process was, I do know that no living language ever originated from a group of ‘elders’ sitting in a circle round the room and dreaming up rules of grammar.

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While we are musing on interesting facts, here is one that I read about in The Metro in July 2014. The figures come from the Office for National Statistics. The quotation reads:

“Almost one in ten of all couples living together in England and Wales are of mixed ethnicity, latest figures have revealed.”

Here is another interesting fact:

Apparently Polish is now the second largest mother tongue language spoken in our schools in England today. Clearly many other mother tongues are represented. You can discover this by visiting any Nursery School, or Primary School that greets visitors with “Welcome” or “Hello” written in all the languages spoken in the local school community.

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So, to repeat myself, I say  “Happy New Year” to long-standing readers and a big “Welcome” to newcomers to my blog.

In the next post I shall carry on with the story of Jah, a little boy who came to join our family when he was aged nearly four.