<!--QuoteBegin-sureshmoorthy+Jan 27 2008, 12:33 PM-->QUOTE(sureshmoorthy @ Jan 27 2008, 12:33 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->I don't believe in AIT, but there's something bothering me just the same, and I hope someone can clear it up.
I am South Indian, Tamil to be precise, and in my experience, I've found North Indians to be light-skinned, how? Why is it most SIs, especially tamils, are dark, whereas most NIs are light-skinned? And if at all there are light-skinned SIs, they happen to be Brahmin.
This is the question AIT sympathizers repeatedly ask me, and to be honest, I am beginning to find it puzzling too. Climate cannot be the reason, it may effect minor changes, but it can't alter skin color as such. So what could be the reason?
I cannot believe in AIT fairy tales, so there must be some other reason as to why most NIs and SI brahmins are light-skinned. The reason I am asking this q related to color is because this happens to be AIT's strong point, they always harp on the color diff. between N and S to prove their point.
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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. The fact is that Indians are almost universally on the darker side of the scale and contain only a few populations that are relatively light skinned (by Indian standards). Most of these states are in the north-west, an area which has been subject to so many invasions by fairer-skinned people (not referring to AIT). From my own observations, most Indians are morphologically very similar (in terms of facial structure etc) and only differ (that too slightly) in skin color and height.
Thats my view. Climate differences aren't relevant in this case because Punjab/Delhi summers are hotter and drier than in Chennai and it barely even touches 0 in the winter.
I am South Indian, Tamil to be precise, and in my experience, I've found North Indians to be light-skinned, how? Why is it most SIs, especially tamils, are dark, whereas most NIs are light-skinned? And if at all there are light-skinned SIs, they happen to be Brahmin.
This is the question AIT sympathizers repeatedly ask me, and to be honest, I am beginning to find it puzzling too. Climate cannot be the reason, it may effect minor changes, but it can't alter skin color as such. So what could be the reason?
I cannot believe in AIT fairy tales, so there must be some other reason as to why most NIs and SI brahmins are light-skinned. The reason I am asking this q related to color is because this happens to be AIT's strong point, they always harp on the color diff. between N and S to prove their point.
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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. The fact is that Indians are almost universally on the darker side of the scale and contain only a few populations that are relatively light skinned (by Indian standards). Most of these states are in the north-west, an area which has been subject to so many invasions by fairer-skinned people (not referring to AIT). From my own observations, most Indians are morphologically very similar (in terms of facial structure etc) and only differ (that too slightly) in skin color and height.
Thats my view. Climate differences aren't relevant in this case because Punjab/Delhi summers are hotter and drier than in Chennai and it barely even touches 0 in the winter.