Why Indians Might Share the Same Genes as (White) Europeans and Americans
67As everybody knows, race has been used as an excuse for violence and hatred for countless centuries.
Unfortunately for white supremacists, however, the very idea of race is one that scientists barely employ, as it is such a complicated and unclear affair.
This hub will use the example of Indians and (white) Europeans and Americans to illustrate the case.
Anybody who knows anything about the history of the part of the world that stretches from Greanland and Iceland east across Europe to India, will know that this entire region, encompassing Scandinavia, Spain and Portugal, Turkey, Russia, and Iran, to name but a few countries, has been crisscrossed by various peoples for millenia.
Of particular interest on this topic is the notion of the "Aryan."
Perverted by Hitler and the Nazis, in fact the word Aryan most correctly refers to a people now called Proto-Indo-Europeans.
Proto- simply meaning 'earliest', these were a people who spoke a language called PIE (Proto-Indo-European). They lived in the southwestern part of modern Russia/Georgia/Ukraine, just northeast of Turkey and north of Iran.
These people spread over many hundreds of years as far east as India and as far west, eventually, as San Francisco, Seattle, and Vancouver.
Rather than attempt to use physical characteristics to identify this "race", something next-to-impossible to do even since the development of modern genetics over the past decade or two, anthropologists instead use language to map out who the descendants of the Indo-Europeans were.
In fact, a large number of languages were all once local dialects of this original Proto-Indo-European tongue, at first divergent to a small degree, like British and American English, then diverging over time, thanks to geographic isolation into similar languages (much like modern Italian and Spanish), until time separated their unique developments to a point where only a specialist can tell you which languages were originally local dialects of the original tongue.
Modern linguistics is able to tell us that Russian, Latin languages like French, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, etc., Germanic languages like English, Icelandic, Danish and Norwegian, and Slavic languages like Czech, Polish, Serbo-Croat and Ukrainian were all the same language several millenia ago.
More interestingly still, Persian (Farsi), which is the language spoken in Iran, as well as the language spoken by certain Indians of India, belong to this group which encompasses also Latin, Greek, and Gaelic (Scots, Irish, Welsh, Cornish, Manx, and Breton).
In short, the modern science of linguistics puts the theory of race supremacists to shame.
People who can rightly claim ancestry back to the ancient Romans and Greeks must recognize that they share genes with Iranian Muslims and certain people in India.
We know this because similarities that cannot be coincidence between some Indian dialects, Latin, Greek and Iranian (Persian), as well as English, Spanish and, yes, German, show that there was once a small band of people who spoke Proto-Indo-European, who gradually spread east across Europe and west down into India and Iran.
This alone is a reason to laugh at anyone claiming to know anything about 'race.'
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What a terrible, infactual article.
This is completely incorrect, and it's more anti-white racism.
European languages such as Pali (language of Buddha of the Russian Sakya Clan, who was white and called his religion the path of the 'Aharant' (lit. Aryan)), and Sanskrit, which served the basis of the Hindu Caste (lit. Colour) system dividing whites from Dravidian dark ethnicities, where brought into India from Europe. It is not only a fact that both these languages, and Zoroastrian Farsi, are European in origin, it is also plainly stated in these religious texts that this is exactly what happened.
Any ancestry we share is due to us moving into territory, which is true in every single piece of DNA evidence we have.
Whatsmore, in case you are really arrogant, and choose to ignore all the evidence, European mummies have been discovered in China--we were the first inhabitants of China ('Tocharians') who were wiped out in well-recorded genocidal campaigns by Siberian Asians who moved South.
Obviously though, there's not much of our blood in India, the resemblance is genetically misleading, we came in too few number, and lived along the Silk Road--Indians are more related to Chinese than Europeans, and they are really Austronesian-Asian-Middle Eastern hybrids. They have very little European blood, which wouldn't be surprising, since they live in Asia.
I am not a white racist supremicist, but I think you should get your facts straight. First of all, white people are the least racist on earth, evidently, there are no Indians in China, or Chinese in India. Second of all, Hitler killed Jews, Poles, French, anyone not German--your 'Aryan' theory does not apply to his actual actions, and he was a very minor figure in European World History, not comparable to Lenin or Napoleon, hence you have a racist bias.
I think you should stop writing articles like this because are offensive and racist, you're stirring up dead history to depict us as maniacs when we are not. You should look at how Zimbabweans have treated whites, and how Indians treat European tourists as an example of how intolerant they are towards us.
We have no obligation to bring them into our country if we are not allowed into theirs.
Whatsmore, seeing as we struggled through hundreds of years of Industrialisation and invented most scientific products the world has today, we do, in fact, have the privilege to use these for ourselves, as long as we don't hurt anyone else. Perhaps we haven't done as well on that last point, but have the Japanese?
You keep to your business, we keep to ours. That will end true racism, if you start moving into our countries and stirring up trouble, your asking for WWIII. You should seriously re-think that, because you simply do not have the technology to win, and the planet itself is now at risk.
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brilliant hub! I do believe that north indians (as many pakistanis) were mostly descendant from Aryans...hence explains the lighter skin color and hair. Also, my ancestors all spoke Farsi...but I had no clue as to that link you drew! wow...I must send this hub to my family...they'll love it as much as I did!
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