Great to hear your story. Currently in Switzerland here, French though. In love with Mongolian culture and throat singing too. Actually I was wondering how did you had the chance to learn Mongolian? I feel it's a necessary step to be able to develop further my throat singing by being able to try to reproduce Mongolian songs to improve my throat singing!
As a Dutchman, your Germanic language, as well as most of the other language families of Europe (Romance, Celtic, Hellenic, Albanian, Balto-Slavic, Armenian), the Indic & Iranic languages of South & West Asia (including Hindi & Farsi), and numerous extinct languages such as Hittite, Phrygian, Tocharian, and Thracian can be proved as related, and traced back to a reconstructed ancestor (termed "Proto-Indo-European"). The strongest contender for the homeland of the speakers of this proto-language is in the Pontic-Caspian steppe zone of Eastern Europe/Eurasia; they were pastoralist herders, just like the later Mongols were and are. They lived a lifestyle of extreme similarity to the Mongols, and are the people who domesticated the horse. Indeed, the Mongols themselves learned most of the skills they needed for their pastoralist life from Indo-Europeans who brought the technology and culture eastwards with them. The spread of the Indo-European languages, and, to a lesser extent, the culture of horse riding, is also associated with the spread of a specific genetic signal (termed "Western Steppe Herder" by archaeogeneticists) and paternal markers (Y-DNA haplogroups), which peak in Northern European peoples such as yourself. The Mongols, too, have some of this admixture; they have some Scythian ancestry, and, in rare cases, Mongol children can present neotenous blondness, reflecting these genes. Ruddy complexions and massive body size in Mongols may also represent the phenotypic expression of some of this latent ancestry! This is not to take away the uniqueness of the particularly Mongol modes of cultural expression, or to devalue them in any way: It is, instead, something I hope you will find interesting (if you did not know these things already), and which I hope can help you feel a very real kinship between yourself and your wife's people, the culture of which is clearly of the utmost importance to you. Hopefully you find it resonant and synchronous that deep in your own family's and culture's history, your ancestors were practicing similar customs, and leading similar lifestyles, to those of the people you have centered your life around. Cheers!
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What a beautiful, fascinating life! :-)
Wow nice.
Man is living the dream.
I love so much what you do, who you are...
Been following you here on YT for about three years now. Glad to see a personal-style video from you, very interesting. Keep up the good work.
Great to hear your story. Currently in Switzerland here, French though. In love with Mongolian culture and throat singing too. Actually I was wondering how did you had the chance to learn Mongolian? I feel it's a necessary step to be able to develop further my throat singing by being able to try to reproduce Mongolian songs to improve my throat singing!
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As a Dutchman, your Germanic language, as well as most of the other language families of Europe (Romance, Celtic, Hellenic, Albanian, Balto-Slavic, Armenian), the Indic & Iranic languages of South & West Asia (including Hindi & Farsi), and numerous extinct languages such as Hittite, Phrygian, Tocharian, and Thracian can be proved as related, and traced back to a reconstructed ancestor (termed "Proto-Indo-European"). The strongest contender for the homeland of the speakers of this proto-language is in the Pontic-Caspian steppe zone of Eastern Europe/Eurasia; they were pastoralist herders, just like the later Mongols were and are. They lived a lifestyle of extreme similarity to the Mongols, and are the people who domesticated the horse. Indeed, the Mongols themselves learned most of the skills they needed for their pastoralist life from Indo-Europeans who brought the technology and culture eastwards with them. The spread of the Indo-European languages, and, to a lesser extent, the culture of horse riding, is also associated with the spread of a specific genetic signal (termed "Western Steppe Herder" by archaeogeneticists) and paternal markers (Y-DNA haplogroups), which peak in Northern European peoples such as yourself. The Mongols, too, have some of this admixture; they have some Scythian ancestry, and, in rare cases, Mongol children can present neotenous blondness, reflecting these genes. Ruddy complexions and massive body size in Mongols may also represent the phenotypic expression of some of this latent ancestry!
This is not to take away the uniqueness of the particularly Mongol modes of cultural expression, or to devalue them in any way: It is, instead, something I hope you will find interesting (if you did not know these things already), and which I hope can help you feel a very real kinship between yourself and your wife's people, the culture of which is clearly of the utmost importance to you. Hopefully you find it resonant and synchronous that deep in your own family's and culture's history, your ancestors were practicing similar customs, and leading similar lifestyles, to those of the people you have centered your life around. Cheers!