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I know a Tamil guy we often discussed things and would end up on culture, language, ethnicity. He would say to me and I'm paraphrasing obviously, "Look at my n
by dghughes 3y ago
I know a Tamil guy we often discussed things and would end up on culture, language, ethnicity.
He would say to me and I'm paraphrasing obviously, "Look at my nose it is flat but your nose isn't you look like the people from the north. Look at my skin it is dark but the ones up north it is light like your skin" meaning Indians.
At the time I didn't realize he was most likely referring to the "Aryan Invasion" theory which is now seen as false. Even his own comment about his own nose I don't know if he knew nose shape was used to divide people into Aryan and Dravidian. Probably inspired by Eugenics ideas of the time.
Another person in our group was Mi'kmaq First Nations aka "Indian" he was also there when we were discussing this. So it was a bit bizarre or funny since the Indian was not an Indian and the Indian was Tamil and didn't consider themselves ethnically Indian.
- ralfd 3y agoBut the Aryan invasion is not false? https://scroll.in/article/936872/two-new-genetic-studies-upheld-aryan-migration-theory-so-why-did-indian-media-report-the-opposite https://scroll.in/article/936872/two-new-genetic-studies-uph... It is a political issue in India, obviously, but the North has more Aryan steppe ancestry than the south: https://araingang.medium.com/south-asia-ancestry-map-637092c0728a https://araingang.medium.com/south-asia-ancestry-map-637092c...
- dghughes 3y agoIt was and then wasn't back and forth. I think I'll just wait for the book to come out..
- amriksohata 3y agoThis is what I mean
- thaumasiotes 3y agoThe book came out a while ago. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1101873469/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/1101873469/ Here's a review of the part that applies to India: https://www.brownpundits.com/2018/03/30/the-indian-chapter-of-who-we-are-and-how-we-got-here/ https://www.brownpundits.com/2018/03/30/the-indian-chapter-o... There has never been a back-and-forth on the issue, only ideological insistence on ignoring the facts.