Just the other day, a Turkish friend of mine, a sri lankan friend of mine and me were playing soccer with other people.
We decided to play brown vs non-brown. While the Sri Lankan and Indians went on the brown team, my turkish friend and me got grouped in the non-brown team because my turkish friend said that pakistanis are olive skinned and thus not brown.
So are Pakistanis Brown in the purest definition that it encompasses Indians and Sri Lankans or are we Olive skinned like Syrians, Lebanese Turkish or Iranians?
We decided to play brown vs non-brown. While the Sri Lankan and Indians went on the brown team, my turkish friend and me got grouped in the non-brown team because my turkish friend said that pakistanis are olive skinned and thus not brown.
So are Pakistanis Brown in the purest definition that it encompasses Indians and Sri Lankans or are we Olive skinned like Syrians, Lebanese Turkish or Iranians?
All this talk of skin colour is frankly ridiculous. Skin colour has very little to do with a person's ethnic grouping. Pakistanis come in all different colour, from blonde haired white skinned, to black haired black skinned. There isnt a particular physical definition for a Pakistani. But most Pakistanis are brown skinned dur to the heat that generally exists in the country. Pakistanis are also completely different to Indians in facial features, and are not the same as Turks or Iranians either, except in religion and political friendliness (with the Turks).
some pakis can look like turks, but most can usually be distinguished, though Pakistan does for sure contain some Turkic groups. You will get some Pakistanis who look like Turks like you get some Turks who look say Morrocan. Most of Pakistan though is not ancestrally Turkic (or Iranian) though, and it's certainly not Indian. Pakistan is just a mixture, probably the most mixed country in the world.
One question for my "gora non-brown" Pakistani friends :
When you say INDIANS - What kind are you exactly referring to ?
Indians come in all shades, shapes and sizes. If you have met Manipuris or Nagas, you will know some Indians even look like Chinese people. (Bhaichung Bhutia - our Soccer captain for example)
I do agree because I am scared of you hehehehe
U have like the stemina of a real "road runner" So I don't want any contradiction with u.
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^^ I dont mind if you disagree with me. It's just some people with an agenda (especially anti Pakistan ones when they live in Pakistan) that I find annoying.
I couldn't agree with you more I had an indian roommate once.
From him and few other indian I have learnd their thinking pattern about our religion, ethnicity, culture and social conditions.
Its more like they want to be some thing else then what we are.
