Word black and racism

[Sahir Shah]

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

It may interest you that Indians are categorized as Caucasians - both Aryan Indians and Dravidian Indians.

There are also people of australoid, mongoloid and (possibly) negroid race in India. People from the eastern states of India such as Nagaland are Tibeto-Burmese i.e of Mongoloid race. South Indians are largely mixed austroloid and caucasoid. North Indians are predominantly caucasoid in appearance but people of pure caucasian race are rare, you can say the predominant part of the mixture is caucasian. People of South Asia are of largely of mixed race with the exception some isolated tribes such as the Kalash of Hindu-Kush[^] who are said to be a pure (white) caucasian people. There are also some mysteries such as the Kodava[^] of Coorg (in Karnataka state) who look completely different from the surrounding south Indian people. They are like the Iranians in appearance but no one knows where they came from and how they got there. Anyway, people who do not have some kind of mixed ancestry are very rare. Even the royal families of Europe had some african ancestry[^].

modified on Saturday, February 28, 2009 8:23 AM

[Sahir Shah]

I read somewhere that roaming bands of vigilantes looking for escaped slaves in the US would catch the "high yaller" ones who were trying to pass off as whites by taking off their trousers and looking at their genitals. I am not sure what was it that gave them away, I think it was the color of the genitals or could be the size ;). It is believed that persons of mixed race may look white but will still have dark genitals.