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To: shades who wrote (50655)	5/6/2006 11:13:46 AM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 116555

Well, India has done that as well, thousands of years ago. Most Indians now are of mixed Aryan-Dravidian lineage. The Aryans were fair-skinned people from Central Asia and the Dravidians were the indigenous, dark-skinned people. The two races merged with one another over the generations. Which is the reason why present-day Indians are generally brown-skinned.

To: shades who wrote (50655)	5/6/2006 2:00:19 PM
From: arun gera	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

Cultural and religious diversity is more important. Racial diversity is anyway a misnomer. In US it has become associated with skin color and features. But whether Mohammad Ali, the boxer, is genetically more African or more Irish is judged based on melanin rather than his chromosomes. Some have traced back his Irish ancestory. The impression is that the old world had distinct races and the new world has mixed races also does not stand. There was enough globalization in the world 2000 years ago to have mixing of races. Alexander the Great came all the way to India. And you know how the soldiers and local women always have wasy to redefine race genetics. Selucus Nicator, Alexander's general, married an Indian (Pakistani?) princess about 2000 years ago. The area around Kandahar, Afghanistan was where the Greeks settled down. In fact the artifacts from that area bear a strong Greek influence. Many americans refuse to acknowledge significant differences among 1 billion indians or 1 billion chinese, just bundling them into one race. India is very diverse. Remember that it was quite a destination for raiders for 1000 years. For example this tower in Delhi en.wikipedia.org was built in 12th century by a Turkish slave who became an emperor. Their dynasty is called the Slave Dynasty. Among that dynasty was Razia Sultan, the first woman ruler of Delhi in the 13th century. I don't know why the feminists never highlight this character. en.wikipedia.org The Moghul emperor, Shah Jahan, en.wikipedia.org, who built the Taj Mahal, had his ancestors from central Asia (Samarkand), who were wannabe Persian, as persian was the cool culture in that area. So he married a persian and built a monument to her with a mix of Indian and persian art. Briefly, Indians are as fair as europeans in Kashmir. Indians look like the Chinese or Thai in the north eastern part of India. They can be as dark as the darkest Africans in South India. Mostly they are brown. However, a trained eye can spot the brown from Hyderabad compared to the brown from Punjab. They are not necessarily of the same race. >I see Arun - that is some great diversity - the context from the post was talking about "racial diversity" I have not been to india - are there lots of mexicans, blacks, whites, yellows etc etc? Rainbows are more pretty the more colors they have eh? hehe In my travels over the globe - racial hatred was a very easy hatred to extract before the religious or national ones. That is just my experience though - very limited.>