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Last I checked India was in Asia. Secondly, I'm in the Bay Area, if that was not evident. Third, Manju Kulkarni quoted in the article as Manju Kulkarni, execu
by yumraj 6y ago
Last I checked India was in Asia.
Secondly, I'm in the Bay Area, if that was not evident.
Third, Manju Kulkarni quoted in the article as Manju Kulkarni, executive director of the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council is also of Indian decent.
So, yes, I'm an Asian.
BTW, if you go to UK, people from Indian sub-continent are referred to as Asians..
- staticautomatic 6y agoSure, but aren’t East and Southeast Asians mainly at issue here?
- hungryhobo 6y agogenetically i'd say indians are more caucasian than asian
- brokencode 6y agoThis makes no sense, because Indians are literally and indisputably from Asia. What is Asian genetics but the genetics of people who live in Asia? Asian is not a specific nationality or people, and applies to the people of any Asian country.
- hungryhobo 6y agosure, i'm not saying indians aren't asian. but in the context of this article, when the attacks are based on people looking a certain way, indians don't fit that mold.
- myWindoonn 6y agoFYI this isn't how gene pools work, mathematically; there's no specific profiles of genes which are "Caucasian" or "Asian". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedigree_collapse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedigree_collapse will get you started on a better understanding.
- hungryhobo 6y agoThe link doesn't support that you are saying, it illustrates there must overlap between ancestry else the growth is exponential. But doesn't prove that there aren't groups or clusters of gene pools
- myWindoonn 6y agoGenes have physical loci, sure, but there's no partition of humans into haves and have-nots which prohibits gene transfer; humans aren't Sneeches [0] and our offspring often inherit a spectrum of possible features. Pedigree collapse is one of the two main reasons why we are not even as genetically diverse as chimpanzees [1], with the other main reason being that our parliament of genes [2] is very homogenous and rejects many sorts of non-hereditary gene transfer. Ironically, humans form only one race because our genes are in strong agreement with one another and work to reject any radical gene changes, which is likely because human population had a bottleneck in recent history [3]. We haven't had enough time to speciate; we haven't even had enough time to genetically specialize to a degree which would allow speciation to be a possibility. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sneetches_and_Other_Stories#The_Sneetches https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sneetches_and_Other_Storie... [1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/10/why-are-apes-more-genetically-diverse-than-we-are/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/10/why-are-apes-more-ge... [2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13169-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13169-3 [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory#Genetic_bottleneck_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory#Geneti...
- hansvm 6y ago> Last I checked India was in Asia. So is Russia. The objection isn't that you're calling yourself Asian but that your definition is likely different from that in the article, so using that description to associate yourself with the article can come across as misleading/wrong.
- yumraj 6y agoI could be wrong but I've always seen Russians identify themselves as Europeans than as Asians, even though large part of Russia falls in Asia.