I watched this documentary a while back on Channel 4. Thought i would share.
I guess the BNP-esque white supremacy theory has been well and truly flushed down the toilet.
"Geneticist Aarathi Prasad considers the theory that mixed-race humans are blessed with innate advantages, something farmers recognise in plants and animals as hybrid vigour. This idea is regarded as repellent by both dingbat racists and, as Prasad discovers, by many mixed-race people who object to being defined by their skin colour.
Before 1967, it was illegal in 16 American states for a black person and white person to marry. Right wing groups on both sides of the Atlantic continue to espouse that the mixing of races is destructive and against some kind of natural order. Aarathi Prasad, a geneticist and mother of a mixed race child, sets out to challenge the ideas of racial purity and examines provocative claims that there are in fact biological advantages to being mixed race"
I myself am a mixed-race person (although 100% Pakistani). Anyway, I too know exactly how advantageous it is genetically, culturally, and most of all, intellectually...
^Pakistan is not a multi-racial, but multi-ethnic and multi-lingual country. So what kind of mix are you actually talking about? Are you mixed Hazara/Kalasha/Siddi?
pls enlighten us on difference between race and ethnicity^^^^^^^^^^^^^they both are overlapping almost same unless u are talking about alien or human race.
pls enlighten us on difference between race and ethnicity^^^^^^^^^^^^^they both are overlapping almost same unless u are talking about alien or human race.
Race = People who are of the same anthropological phenotype.
Ethnicity = A Group of people who identify with each other based on cultural characteristics. Best Examples would be Hispanics/Latinos or Arabs.
There are Black, White, Amerindian, Mestizo Latinos or Black, White, Berber, Assyrian, Aramaic Arabs.
people who identify each other based on cultural characteristics are usually of the same race.
Then why are there Balochis, Sindhis, Pathans and Punjabis in Pakistan? Why can't they just be Pakistani and that's it?
So yeah, your claim is not true at all. Similarly you can look at South America. At countries like Brazil or even up North such as the USA, where you can see how people of different races identify with each other based on culture.
I already gave you the examples of Latinos, Arabs, Jews. and proved my point. If you still don't get the point, I don't know how to help you understand.
It's time for you to back up your claims instead of making baseless rants. Feel free to post some examples.
Then why are there Balochis, Sindhis, Pathans and Punjabis in Pakistan? Why can't they just be Pakistani and that's it?
So yeah, your claim is not true at all. Similarly you can look at South America. At countries like Brazil or even up North such as the USA, where you can see how people of different races identify with each other based on culture.
I already gave you the examples of Latinos, Arabs, Jews. and proved my point. If you still don't get the point, I don't know how to help you understand.
It's time for you to back up your claims instead of making baseless rants. Feel free to post some examples.
i have already made my point and sorry i dont where u got all this from.what has being Pakistani to do with race/ethnicity.
what has Nationality to do with race/ethnicty or religion?
i have already made my point and sorry i dont where u got all this from.what has being Pakistani to do with race/ethnicity.
what has Nationality to do with race/ethnicty or religion?
This thread is about mixed races? I don't get what your point is.
This guy says he's 100% Pakistani, but mixed race. Which in most cases can't be true unless he's mixed with minorities such as the Hazara, Kalasha or Siddi. I exactly tell him that. And then there are you who claims that ethnicity and race are the very same thing. So please, If you don't have a clue what you are talking about, do some research before you want to take part in discussions.
@Shahbaz Hasan Why should we ask you via PM? Why don't you just post it here? No need to be embarrassed or anything. And also, what does your rant have to do with this topic? LOL
Indeed. That’s the first the came to my mind. If a 100% Pakistani is somehow racially mixed then he has to be mixed with either the Makran, the Kalash or, the Hazara. Pashtuns, Punjabi, Sindhi, and Baloch aren’t really all that different from each other in terms of phenotypes.
Indeed. That's the first the came to my mind. If a 100% Pakistani is somehow racially mixed then he has to be mixed with either the Makran, the Kalash or, the Hazara. Pashtuns, Punjabi, Sindhi, and Baloch aren't really all that different from each other in terms of phenotypes.
Yeah, don't really know what he means. He doesn't want to tell us what his mix is either. Was asking people to PM him to find out. LOL
BTW, you mentioned Makrani people in your post. That term is actually misleading because the majority of people in Makran are Balochi. Don't know who came up with that.
I'm sure that what you meant are the Sheedi or Siddi people, right? Siddis are of African descent and only a minority in Makran.
Aren't people in South Asia mixed already? I mean the Mongols were there, the British, the Turks as well as the Greeks.
In my own family, my grandmother on my dad's side is of Mongol descent. One of my great great great (not sure how far back) grandmothers is actually black (as in African). My dad also has some cousins who look straight up white.
As far as looks are concerned I think mixed races are generally considered attractive is they have that "exotic" look. Ex: Brazilians
Yeah, don't really know what he means. He doesn't want to tell us what his mix is either. Was asking people to PM him to find out. LOL
BTW, you mentioned Makrani people in your post. That term is actually misleading because the majority of people in Makran are Balochi. Don't know who came up with that.
I'm sure that what you meant are the Sheedi or Siddi people, right? Siddis are of African descent and only a minority inMakran.
Yeah, I do mean Siddi, but I use the term Makran because I know Black Makrans who take offense and supposedly Makran is the proper term. It's weird but I actually know a Black Pakistani family. I know Makran is a place and most of its inhibitants are Baloch, but I find the words Siddi/Sheedi/Habshi to be a little derogatory.
Doesn't necessary mean that they procreated with the natives or vice versa.
Not even 1% of the South Asian population can actually claim foreign ancestry.
Who are "they"?
Define foreign? Does the Middle East count, what about Afghanistan?
Pakistan has a long exhausting history of foreign invasions. The Mongols no doubt had the biggest impact, not necessarily racial though. South Asia is quite diverse in terms of y-dna haplotypes, R1a is prevalent in most Pakistan and some India. J2 which belongs to the semitic people of the Middle East is surprisingly non existent in Pakistan. Yet half of them claim to be of Arab descent. South Asia as a whole reflects a wide range of haplotypes.