One day I am going to gather somewhere as many Marinas Kim as possible. I am going to announce a Worldwide Symposium of Marinas Kim. And make it a biannual event, where we all would report on our life achievements in front of each other and promote the brand Marina Kim. Imagine!
Russian speaking women I meet here in England are called either Olga, Marina or Lena with some rare exceptions. But let us not overestimate. Let’s say, there is roughly 8% of Russian speaking women with the name Marina. And the surname KIM belongs to about 21% of ethnic Koreans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_(Korean_name). There are about 500000 Russian speaking Korean people in the world. About 250000 of these are women. 21% of which are under the surname KIM – let’s round it down to 50000. And 8% of those are Marinas. Which leaves us roughly 4000 Marinas Kim. A force to be reckoned with.
When I was at school, there was another Marina Kim in my year. She didn’t last long though, died of cancer in the year two. I have two nieces named Marina, one of them is Kim. And the list goes on…
The attempt to be more unique might have been an underlying reason of my emigration. And to make sure of that, I had to be a deep deep countryside of England. And so, here I am, one of 5 oriental faces in the town, one of two Koreans ( for a long time they thought we were the same person, naturally) and the only Marina Kim in 50 mile radius at least.
By the way, I am convinced that one day the whole of humanity will end up blond and with blue eyes. When you think, that some time in the past there weren’t any pale human beings, and the blue eye gene only first appeared about 10000 years ago as a mutation in one single person, and look at them all now! The conclusion is obvious – they’re gonna spread. Don’t you worry about Chinese and Indians being too many, that’s not gonna help them. My kids can prove it.