"Red Haired Barbarians", that's how the Chinese described my ancestors when they dealt with the first Dutch mercenaries who sailed to China about 500 years ago. According to the Chinese stories around that time. The Dutch are into piracy. They live on their ships, along with their children and wives and they have no land.

Most of those prejudices have been disproved  since my ancestors visited China for the first time. Nowadays, on Chinese schools, every Chinese student is learned that the Dutch come from a Country called The Netherlands or Holland and that they are not really into piracy but that they are true mercenaries. As most of you all know, most Dutch do not have red hair, but have blond or dark hair.

From the ones who do have red hair, an official scientific research have proved they are also common people. Every year, the famous British Medical Journal publishes a funny research in their Christmas edition. This year, a research on red haired people was published. The article proved that the prejudices about red people are based on rumors, not on truth. They do not lose more blood than others when they are wounded, they do not have a bigger chance to get a Hernia and they can resist pain as good as others. The research proved, however, that red haired people cannot stand extreme heat or cold as others. This is a remarkable conclusion if you take in account that those Red Haired Barbarians tried every way, in despite of the cold or the Barentsz sea or the Indian and Chinese sea to find their way to China.

What ever history tells us, due to technological advances, we know much more about each other now. What that is exactly I hope to learn from you: What is your view on the Dutch?