Reader comments: Study shows it really is a small world after all
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Me | 6:18 a.m. Aug. 3, 2008
Interesting!
Gramma | 8:07 a.m. Aug. 3, 2008
I have sort of tested this on my own with people I've recently met and it seems to ring true. In some 'circles' such as a church circle, there were amazingly small degrees of separation: a Vietnamese student who was baptized by, then a companion of my grandson's friend; a young Japanese man who knew my son's Brazilian friends. I have many more such connecting stories of my own. This study reported here in the Deserest News shows us that we are a world community and we should have love for all members of that community. Who wants to go to war with the friend of your friend?
Carol B. Moss | 9:58 a.m. Aug. 3, 2008
Fascinating! I love the thought of this. It might be worth mentioning here that there is a similar theory in Genealogy that connects spouses and other family members if you go back far enough in the generations. Maybe that's why Genealogy has become so interesting for so many people.
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Doug in Louisiana | 12:21 p.m. Aug. 3, 2008
Similar theory in Genealogy, When I was able to turn in some of my Genealogy to the Church one of my records got a flag to check if it was true. After I was able to put these records together from my father, the 6th ancestral Grand Pa and Grand mother was the same persons. It comes around again with me and my wife who just passed away, her Gr.Grand mother and my Gr.Gr.Grand mother was the same person, this was due to a death in my family and a marriage to my wife family.
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