Are Indians (the ones from India) White?

Question

That is what i have been told.If not what "racial" category do they fit into.What is their genetic makeup? What race are native americans?

Answer 1

Noun 1. Indian race - sometimes included in the Caucasian race; native to the subcontinent of India

race - people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock; "some biologists doubt that there are important genetic differences between races of human beings"

Indian - a native or inhabitant of India

2. Indian race - usually included in the Mongoloid race

Amerindian race

race - people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock; "some biologists doubt that there are important genetic differences between races of human beings"

American Indian, Indian, Red Indian - a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived

Answer 2

More tanned in my opinion

Answer 3

h**l no they consider as middle eastern instead of white

Answer 4

Some are considered "caucasoid", however many are also 'mongoloid'.

Answer 5

check my pictures from my profile, and south indians are little blac, but specially north, and east indians are pretty white.

Answer 6

the ones in the north are most definitely considered white.

Answer 7

Not "White", but they are Caucasian

Answer 8

Northern Indians and Pakistanis are dark skinned Caucasians. Southern  Indians are more closely related to the Melanesians and Aborigines, strangely enough, with a bit of Negrito ancestry thrown in too.