05-11-2006, 11:19 PM
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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.
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My cousins have Italian/Euro and Indian blood(My uncle). They all have dark hair and look between caucasians and Indians. When I told them that there is dominant traits such as black hair which is the most common in the world they were surprised.
Only one of my cousins looks totally european with a jewish nose but rest of them have been mistaken for mexican , meditranean and with Indian names they are Indians.
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.
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My cousins have Italian/Euro and Indian blood(My uncle). They all have dark hair and look between caucasians and Indians. When I told them that there is dominant traits such as black hair which is the most common in the world they were surprised.
Only one of my cousins looks totally european with a jewish nose but rest of them have been mistaken for mexican , meditranean and with Indian names they are Indians.