05-11-2006, 06:59 PM
Post 235
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->I think the indian gene pool is the key. if you people have observed indians physically resemble the caucasians but we are darker by colour. If we were to mix a white and an indian, the offspring most probably 75 to 80% will resemble the white in terms of colour and physical characteristics. there are many examples like nasser hussain, norah jones, ben kingsley etc. they look more like europeans than indian.
We are genetically weak compared to other races. it is very difficult to trace out our ancestory because of our diversity as we have the genes of all major races. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I think the poster means that Indian looks get swamped in an interethnic marriage, because "we have all the genes of the major races" which probably make the non-Indian parent's genes more pronounced in the offspring. Hence the genetics determining Indian looks are weak because the kids look more like the non-Indian parent's people? Not sure, but that's what I understood.
Actually, when I first saw Norah Jones and Ben Kingsley I thought they had something Indian about them. I thought they looked Indian, not European. Never seen Nasser Hussain.
Diya Handrich (aka Diya Mirza) is part Bengali Hindu, part German. Her mother remarried and the Afghan Muslim stepdad's surname helped to make Diya's surname sound less foreign. She looks rather Indian, I couldn't tell she had a non-Indian parent.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->I think the indian gene pool is the key. if you people have observed indians physically resemble the caucasians but we are darker by colour. If we were to mix a white and an indian, the offspring most probably 75 to 80% will resemble the white in terms of colour and physical characteristics. there are many examples like nasser hussain, norah jones, ben kingsley etc. they look more like europeans than indian.
We are genetically weak compared to other races. it is very difficult to trace out our ancestory because of our diversity as we have the genes of all major races. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I think the poster means that Indian looks get swamped in an interethnic marriage, because "we have all the genes of the major races" which probably make the non-Indian parent's genes more pronounced in the offspring. Hence the genetics determining Indian looks are weak because the kids look more like the non-Indian parent's people? Not sure, but that's what I understood.
Actually, when I first saw Norah Jones and Ben Kingsley I thought they had something Indian about them. I thought they looked Indian, not European. Never seen Nasser Hussain.
Diya Handrich (aka Diya Mirza) is part Bengali Hindu, part German. Her mother remarried and the Afghan Muslim stepdad's surname helped to make Diya's surname sound less foreign. She looks rather Indian, I couldn't tell she had a non-Indian parent.