User:Stone put to sky

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I am an American Expatriate, living in Taiwan. I am fluent in Chinese, and work here as a teacher.

I am also an amateur historian, with great interest in gaining a broader understanding of the role of Nomadic and Pirate societies in Chinese history, the methods by which Chinese colonization took place, and certain aspects of International Law as they apply to the Taiwan Problem.

I come from Amerind ancestry (the Pawnee, via Pawnee, Oklahoma) and old-South Slaveowner stock (Biloxi, Mississippi). I grew up in Texas, and have an abiding interest in socialist politics and labor movements.

I am fiercely anti-nationalist. I am an anarchist; not the bomb-throwing kind, but the refuse-to-pay-my-taxes kind. I am also an entrepeneur, inveterate traveller, a diver, and a writer.

I use Wikipedia all the time, and spend several hours each semester instructing my Chinese students in its use as a research and understanding starting point.