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The meaning of
Get a Life is...
Get moving with your life. Participate in life. Make friends. Do something.
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And I remember my kid saying…
Dude-buddie-ish…
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Anthropologists have long classified the Indian subcontinent as being predominantly Caucasian, although there are numerous enclaves of other groups. In his 1965 book “The Living Races of Man,” the leading physical anthropologist of the day, Carleton Coon, summarized, “India is the easternmost outpost of the Caucasian racial region.”
The anthropologist’s son, Carl Coon Jr., a former U.S. ambassador to Nepal, told UPI, “The public take on who are ‘Asians’ is completely muddled. For me, it is a divide between people of Mongoloid provenance and people whose ancestors are from more westerly regions – call them Indo-Aryans or Caucasians or whatever. Thus, Nepal is split, while Bangladesh and most Indians are essentially Indo-Aryan; Burma is clearly on the other side of the divide.”
For determining ancestral affinities, anthropologists have learned from DNA samples that South Asians tend to share far more ancestors with Europeans than they do with East Asians. In the landmark 1994 book “The History and Geography of Human Genes,” Stanford’s L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza, the dean of population geneticists, reported that the “genetic distance” between Asian Indians and Thais is 3.3 times greater than the distance between Indians and Italians. Indeed, Indians are 2.9 times genetically farther from the South Chinese than they are from the English.
How does the government justify its definition of Asian-Americans? “The concept of race as used by the Census Bureau,” it explains, “reflects self-identification by people according to the race or races with which they most closely identify. These categories are sociopolitical constructs and should not be interpreted as being scientific or anthropological in nature.”
Yet, do Indians actually self-identify with Far Easterners instead of Caucasians? There is little evidence for that. The stars of Bombay’s Bollywood movies are drawn from the fairest, tallest, most European-looking Indians. Marriage ads in India stress fair skin and height as crucially desirable characteristics. And South Asians seem to blend easily into the American population, largely because in the main the immigrants speak excellent English.
http://www.isteve.com/2002_Who_Exactly_Is_an_Asian_American.htm
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OK
Whats the meaning of riding the Bandwagon
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Riding the bandwagon means to follow the crowd. It suggests a dull person incapable of independent thinking and actions.
Fallen off the bandwagon means someone who returns to drinking alcohol after quitting for a while.
regards,
bob
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In my opinion, rock is a reference to jhumna not pathar. It comes from liking rock and roll. Something that makes you feel good.
regards,
bob
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what is the meaning of "kala dooriya kunday Nal lariyae OYE."
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thanx
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I think its “kala dooriya kunday Nal ARriyae OYE.”
But i donno what it means,but i think this a style in Punjabi poetry in which one meaningless verse is followed up by a meaningful one just to keep the “rhyme”
Like
Wagdi ae Ravi which sattoo kanganaan
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