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My friend told me that in India there are some people who have differences in skin color and such. I am a bit confused because most Indians I have run into here in the US have had a dark brown skin color like that of Sendhil from Heroes.
I hear from my friend that when he went to Indian, he saw quite a bit of Indians with the same skin color as Latinos and some even had Olive skin. He told me that he saw a female there who was ethnically Indian that had Brown hair, palish skin, and green eyes and she was from a small village in the north.
Well, India is vast country bordering on various ethnically diverse regions with a millenia long history characterized by successive invasions by outsiders. What do you think?
My friend told me that in India there are some people who have differences in skin color and such. I am a bit confused because most Indians I have run into here in the US have had a dark brown skin color like that of Sendhil from Heroes.
I hear from my friend that when he went to Indian, he saw quite a bit of Indians with the same skin color as Latinos and some even had Olive skin. He told me that he saw a female there who was ethnically Indian that had Brown hair, palish skin, and green eyes and she was from a small village in the north.
Is there really that much variety in India?
Isn't the Aryian race and Indo-European language based on the fact that Europeans came from India...or have some strong connection at least.
Gypsies certainly came from India even more recently, and basically look European, more or less, to me as well. Well, they don't look tradional Indian anyways.
That being said, the stereotype does seem to be that they are very dark skinned, etc. However, must be some variation in there as well, it seems.
Part of the variation comes from the amount of time an individual spends in the sun.
That is miniscule, whether or not they spend more time in the sun doesn't hide the fact that there is a huge variation of people from very light skin to very dark skin, and not only due to amount of time spend in the sun..
It seems to be a global phenomenon, not only in India, but also Latin America and the Middle East, that models, movie and TV stars, politicians and statesmen, U.N. diplomats, and other role models are much lighter-skinned that average for their particular country. You can also see this in classical and antique paintings of India, where everyone in the painting is very light-skinned.
The geographic origin of the Indo-Europeans is in dispute but is generally regarded, through linguistic analysis, as being somewhere around the Black Sea (hence the term Caucasian).
Anyway, these people we call Indo-Europeans eventually split into two groups, one that migrated west into Europe, and one that migrated east into central and south Asia (think Iran and India).
In the middle, there are languages that include elements of both the eastern and western branches of I-E language. The mythologies are even related as can be seen when comparing the older Indian texts, the Rig Veda and Norse and Greek mythologies.
In both places, the I-Es encountered and mixed with the indigenous populations.
That is miniscule, whether or not they spend more time in the sun doesn't hide the fact that there is a huge variation of people from very light skin to very dark skin, and not only due to amount of time spend in the sun..
I have indian friends who are whiter than I am
Thanks for the update, I thought the sun caused pigment to darken but what do I know?
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