01-29-2008, 12:38 PM
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I am a non-brahmin Tamil myself, but one could place me anywhere in the subcontinent and I wouldn't look out of place there.
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There will always be exceptions, I am not denying that. But exceptions don't make the rule. All I am saying it that, usually, it's very easy to distinguish between the two. The diff. is too obvious to be missed. A person like Advani (or Khan or any NI), for instance isn't just slightly 'fairer' compared to SIs. He's as white as a caucasian, period. The same goes for many, many people I've seen in the North, it isn't relative at all.
As to Bharat Varsh's point on climate and Lanka, I've been to Lanka and I can say that the cricket team is hardly a true representative. Many Lankans are fair, some of them as white as Kashmiris or Punjabis.
I am a non-brahmin Tamil myself, but one could place me anywhere in the subcontinent and I wouldn't look out of place there.
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There will always be exceptions, I am not denying that. But exceptions don't make the rule. All I am saying it that, usually, it's very easy to distinguish between the two. The diff. is too obvious to be missed. A person like Advani (or Khan or any NI), for instance isn't just slightly 'fairer' compared to SIs. He's as white as a caucasian, period. The same goes for many, many people I've seen in the North, it isn't relative at all.
As to Bharat Varsh's point on climate and Lanka, I've been to Lanka and I can say that the cricket team is hardly a true representative. Many Lankans are fair, some of them as white as Kashmiris or Punjabis.