Do you think Indians are like Blacks/Africans?

[Soul83]

traditionally they have been slaves of whites and arabs like the blacks, and they look similar. does any indian identify as black?

 

[Glint]

traditionally they have been slaves of whites and arabs like the blacks, and they look similar. does any indian identify as black?

I've started to think that you have a really bad identity crises

First Roma people now Black Africans?

No Indians don't identify themselves as Blacks

We are nowhere connected and you asking that is really not relevant.

 

[Soul83]

I've started to think that you have a really bad identity crises

First Roma people now Black Africans?

No Indians don't identify themselves as Blacks

We are nowhere connected and you asking that is really not relevant.

i see roma people as indians, so i talk about us all. roma people are considered as blacks/negroes/sort of mullatos in eastern europe, they adopted it themselfes

example there is roma rapper who calls himself black and makes songs like chocolate rapper

also some indians were sold as mullato slaves in colonial america and in southafrica they were named coolies that is a slave and similar as "******", i also think that indians and blacks look similar, indians are very dark like lighter blacks, ethiopians or like that. i support blacks.

 

[Dovah]

Good post.

Well researched question. Will lead to stimulating discussion.

10/10. Will contribute.

 

[pmaitra]

What I think (partially unfounded):

Order of separation from a common major ethnic group:
Persian
Scythians
Indigenous Australians
Navajo
Inca

Regarding "traditional" slavery (whatever that means), see the movie "Ben Hur," or read Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons."

 

[abhi_the _gr8_maratha]

traditionally they have been slaves of whites and arabs like the blacks, and they look similar. does any indian identify as black?

that's funny, indian wasn't slave of arab and european

 

[abhi_the _gr8_maratha]

I think we are brown and some are whitish brown

 

[pmaitra]

i see roma people as indians, so i talk about us all. roma people are considered as blacks/negroes/sort of mullatos in eastern europe, they adopted it themselfes

You don't have to buy into Eastern Europeans' ignorance. Tell them to read Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons." Turgenev is Eastern European himself.

 

[pmaitra]

I think we are brown and some are whitish brown

Some of us are as black as Blacks, and some of us are as white as Whites.

I have seen Blacks who are whiter than I.

What is more important is anthropometry, and not merely skin colour.

Look at these people. They are both "white," but the one to the right has high cheek bones, that indicates he is Asian, at least in part, if not full.

 

[pmaitra]

@Soul83, do you have "Shift" key on your keyboard?

I want to ask the same question to @abhi_the _gr8_maratha.

 

[abhi_the _gr8_maratha]

Some of us are as black as Blacks, and some of us are as white as Whites.

I have seen Blacks who are whiter than I.

What is more important is anthropometry, and not merely skin colour.

Look at these people. They are both "white," but the one to the right has high cheek bones, that indicates he is Asian, at least in part, if not full.

but why the report says he is russian journalist?
.
though I agree some are white and some are black and with your post

 

[abhi_the _gr8_maratha]

@Soul83, do you have "Shift" key on your keyboard?

I want to ask the same question to @abhi_the _gr8_maratha.

I am using a mobile so no shift key

 

[pmaitra]

but why the report says he is russian journalist?
.
though I agree some are white and some are black and with your post

Because he is Russian.

 

[abhi_the _gr8_maratha]

Because he is Russian.

Sir, now that's funny we are taking about Indian

 

[pmaitra]

Sir, now that's funny we are taking about Indian

I gave that as an example to support the importance of anthropometry.

Read up on P. C. Mahalanobis and the Mahalanobis Distance.

 

[abhi_the _gr8_maratha]

@Soul83 , please tell me how Arab and European was master of Indians or Indians were slave

 

[Soul83]

@<a href="http://defenceforumindia.com/forum/member.php?u=14080" target="_blank">Soul83</a> , please tell me how Arab and European was master of Indians or Indians were slave

indians were slaves of portuguese and british (white) and of arabs and turks (mughals) at one point, also nowadays many indians are still (not slaves) but servants of arabs in emirates etc.

white finnish man calls a indian a "******"

arab overlord beats an indian

 

[Ray]

I am sure we are not Norwegians.

 

[thethinker]

Indians are mixed race with caucasian, negroid and mongoloid influences. Happens when there are so many invasions from outside for a prolonged period of time.

Multiracial is how it can be described.

Multiracial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Ray]

Indians are mixed race with caucasian, negroid and mongoloid influences. Happens when there are so many invasions from outside for a prolonged period of time.

That would make Indians a total cockup Asians and never really Caucasian.