05-14-2006, 11:16 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Husky+May 14 2006, 06:08 PM-->QUOTE(Husky @ May 14 2006, 06:08 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Post 241:
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->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.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Yeah, that happens even with many Indians who don't have any extra-Indian ancestry. My sister has been mistaken for a South American by a lecturer from that part of the world, whilst other lecturers had long assumed that she was part European. I think she just looks Indian. But she's a dead-ringer for Angelina Jolie - an Indian one with black hair and brown eyes. My cousins and I look regular South Indian, though. Shows how the Indian gene pool is simply vast.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->when I <b>first saw</b> Norah Jones and Ben Kingsley I thought they had something Indian about them<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
her father is a certain Pandit Ravi Shankar.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Yes I knew that. I'll save you the trouble of telling me that Ben Kingsley is part Indian and part Jewish, in case you were planning to. I knew that too.
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I have been studying physical features of people from different countries. Though i am not an expert.
If you look at black people from north africa they differ from the central or southern africans. north africans have more of caucasian features though they are black. The same distinction can be made in india too assuming no migration is involved. Indians of mixed origin will slowly loose their ancestory after one or two generation as they mix with the local european populations. Which is why there is strong resistance in some communities to mix with the local population.
I see there have been a lot of controversy regarding my earlier post. I am sorry if i have offended anyone.
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->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.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Yeah, that happens even with many Indians who don't have any extra-Indian ancestry. My sister has been mistaken for a South American by a lecturer from that part of the world, whilst other lecturers had long assumed that she was part European. I think she just looks Indian. But she's a dead-ringer for Angelina Jolie - an Indian one with black hair and brown eyes. My cousins and I look regular South Indian, though. Shows how the Indian gene pool is simply vast.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->when I <b>first saw</b> Norah Jones and Ben Kingsley I thought they had something Indian about them<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
her father is a certain Pandit Ravi Shankar.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Yes I knew that. I'll save you the trouble of telling me that Ben Kingsley is part Indian and part Jewish, in case you were planning to. I knew that too.
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I have been studying physical features of people from different countries. Though i am not an expert.
If you look at black people from north africa they differ from the central or southern africans. north africans have more of caucasian features though they are black. The same distinction can be made in india too assuming no migration is involved. Indians of mixed origin will slowly loose their ancestory after one or two generation as they mix with the local european populations. Which is why there is strong resistance in some communities to mix with the local population.
I see there have been a lot of controversy regarding my earlier post. I am sorry if i have offended anyone.