Indians are dark skinned caucasians?

Question

Indians are dark skinned caucasians?

Answer 1

lol no....

Answer 2

Not really. You see historically and genetically we all came from Africa and spread out all over the world. The only reason we all look differently is because of environmental changes that we all have evolved to better adapt to our changing environments. So technically if you wanted, you could say that Caucasians are light skinned Africans. I leave with this bit of mental snack. GL.

Answer 3

We all came out of the same two people - Adam and Eve so we are all brothers and sisters - we are all genetically 99.9% identical - color is only skin deep - God just likes variety

Answer 4

Yes.

Answer 5

No. Because..

The Caucasian race, sometimes the Caucasoid race,[1][2] is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "relating to a broad division of humankind covering peoples from Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, and parts of South Asia" or "white-skinned; of European origin" or "relating to the region of the Caucasus in SE Europe".[3] The concept's existence is based on the now disputed typological method of racial classification.[4][5]

In Europe, especially in Russia and nearby, Caucasian usually describes exclusively people who are from the Caucasus region or speak the Caucasian languages.

In the United States, Caucasian has been mainly a distinction, based on skin color, for a group commonly called White Americans, as defined by the government and Census Bureau.[16]

The Supreme Court in United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923) decided against including people of Indian origin in the term "Caucasian" for purposes of U.S. judiciary judgements in spite of some anthropologists' classification schemes including Indians in "Caucasoid". The court argued based on common usage of "Caucasian" meaning "white", ruling that "Congress never intended for Indians to be able to naturalize". The ruling was rendered obsolete with the Luce-Celler Act of 1946

(Source: Wikepedia)

Answer 6

No. They're Indians or Native Americans depending on which 'Indians' you are referring to. I honestly don't even know what the h**l Caucasia is--- where did they get that term since there's no Caucasia on the map. Just wondering.

Answer 7

www.pbs.org/race

Answer 8

Who knows?

Answer 9

what?

Answer 10

Which Indians?  Some (certainly not all) groups of 'Native' Americans - primarily those in the northeastern US and eastern Canada - are essentially Caucasian.  If you mean the people of India; many people in the northern and northwestern areas differ from the Asian type, but they're not exactly classic Caucasian - more accurately Semitic, for those who make such a distinction (not everyone does).

Answer 11

No.

Arabs are caucasian.

However the ORIGINAL ARYANS (not to be confused with Hilter's sorry interpretation) do come from India.

Caucasian is a rediculous Biblical term going back to the story of Noah and the flood. It should be retired.

It was based on the assumption that all people were:

Caucasoids

Negroids

or Mongoloids (asians)

My Father born 1927, was actually taught that in school. And there was a belief that "interbreeding" would lead to mutated undesireable children.

Answer 12

No Indians: Neither Native American Indians, nor those from India are just dark skinned caucians. You should have learned this in 5th or 6th grade.

Answer 13

People from India are the south eastern anchor for the expansion of Indo-Europeans.  The culture and the language (refered to as PIE or Proto-Indo-European) originated near the Caucus Mountains hence the term Caucasian.  The PIE expansion displaced local population from Spain to India and from Arabia to southern Russia.  Few groups in this area were able to resist the technology (agriculture, chariot, bronze) of the  PIE peoples.  A notable exception is the Basque people of northern Spain and southern France.

The tone of skin is a result of Vitamin D production.  Human skin manufactures Vitamin D from sunlight.  An excess of Vit D is a bad thing as it is fat soluble and will build up in the fatty tissues of the body.  Therefore populations with little exposure to the sun (scandanavians for example) have lighter skin while those with higher UV exposure have darker skin to prevent the excess manufacture of Vitamin D.  Some populations with little sun exposure have dark skin as a result of high levels of fish in the diet as fish contains large amounts of Vitamin D.

Answer 14

Indians as in India?  Or American Indians?  I think that Indians from India are considered Caucasoids and American Indians are Mongoloid (closely related to Asians).

Answer 15

The "racial" classifications of Caucasoid, ******* and mongoloid is an outdated classification system.  As our knowledge of genes grow these morphological distinctions that used to be defined as "race" actually turn out to be a very small proportion of the human genome compared to the vast VAST amount of the "average" genome between each geographic area and the populations around the Earth being 99.9% similar.  The best way to answer your question with more factuality then simply relying on biases and guess work would be to look at the genetic frequency of Y-DNA and mt-DNA haplogroups between whichever area that, to you, represents "Caucasian" with whichever "Indian" population that you are referring to, be it the people from India, or Native Americans.  Here is a handy diagram that you can refer to: http://notavalidname.files.wordpress.com... Clearly since the Indian population has a high occurrence of the L Y-DNA haplogroup and the Native Americans have an extremely high occurrence of the Q Y-DNA haplogroup, whereas neither L or Q haplogroups are common within any of the areas that would typically be called "Caucasian", the relationship between Indians and Caucasians on the genetic level, therefore, is slim to none.  Anyways, I prefer to bring in conclusive empirical evidence that provides factual answers instead of just conjecturing at whim.  So there it is, a factual and empirically supported answer.  I would have also liked to have shown you the global frequency of mt-DNA haplogroups, but as-of-yet my internet searches have not been forth coming at finding such a diagram.  I have seen individual mt-DNA pie-charts for all the areas in question, and this same discrepancy as is observed in the Y-DNA haplogroups is repeated in the mt-DNA haplogroups but if anyone knows of a good link to demonstrate the global frequencies, please do post it as an answer or a comment, thanks.

Answer 16

No they are shorter, darker skinned, curly haired, skinnier caucasians.

Hmmmm... maybe they are better left as indians.

Answer 17

If you mean Native Americans, believe it or not they are actually an Asian ethnic group.

If you mean the Indians from India. Some of them have caucasian blood from the Aryan conquest of northern India and Pakistan. Also there may be some remains of caucasian blood from Alexander's expedition into India. But I think the original inhabitants of India are not caucasian at all.

Answer 18

ok

Answer 19

LOL i think they are human l

Answer 20

No they are not they are human just like the rest of us. Sucks people see just colors.

Answer 21

Yes they are - there is a strong selection for darker skin as populations live closer to the equator, and a strong selection for lighter skin closer to polar regions - in stronger sunlight, folic acid is 'consumed' by UV rays - pregnant women who are light skinned are apt to encounter neural tube birth defects, and in high latitudes, Vitamin D production is retarded by dark skinned people, resulting in similar defects in dark skinned people - modern nutrition can prevent these defects, so unless our capability to produce vitamins is damaged, the selection process is much less of an effect in the modern world.

Answer 22

they are as human as INdians and any other race period! It doesnt matter what the color of the skin is Ppl.. we are all the same and have the same rights!! come on lets stop all that!..

Answer 23

Your point is?