The "Uneducated" Know more about Gold and Silver

I have seen many times in my travels through Asia it is those people with the least formal education that are able to understand the wealth protection aspects of owning gold and silver the best. Such people shun debt, even consider debt a social stigma, and save their wealth in gold and silver, not as volatile zeroes and ones on a bank's hard drive.

Have a close look at the photo in this story below about a new language being "discovered" in a very isolated valley in northeast India. Notice the silver that both the speaker and her companion are wearing. Silver coins and silver purses. This custom can also be seen in the golden triangle area of Thailand, Burma & China. South East Asian tribes, such as the Karen & Hmong use old French silver coins as adornment and as savings. Actually looking at the speaker she seems to have very similar facial features to those SE Asia tribes, more so than classic Indian features. Maybe several thousand years of trading goods and silver has combined the genetics of these disparate groups.

From the Wall St Journal:

Rare Find: a New Language

By ROBERT LEE HOTZ

A Koro speaker talks to National Geographic Fellow Gregory Anderson in Arunachal Pradesh, India, as he makes a recording of the language.

In the foothills of the Himalayas, two field linguists have uncovered a find as rare as any endangered species—a language completely new to science.

The researchers encountered it for the first time along the western ridges of Arunachal Pradesh, India's northeastern-most state, where more than 120 languages are spoken. There, isolated by craggy slopes and rushing rivers, the hunters and subsistence farmers who speak this rare tongue live in a dozen or so villages of bamboo houses built on stilts......read on