photos of Kashmiri kids

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Re: photos of Kashmiri kids

@Smurf

The blonde hair wont last, everyone in my family had hair like that when his age but it always darkens as we get older for some reason.

The more north west you go in South Asia the more Caucasoid the people get, Kashmiri’s are the lightest out of all South Asians followed by Punjabis from northern Punjab. I’d include Pashtuns too but the western half of Pakistan is Central Asia, not really South Asia geographically or ethnically. Pakistan in general is more Caucasoid than India or the other South Asian countries.

The Aryan invasion theory is true, the original inhabitants of South Asia were related to Austrailian aborginies, then came the Dravidians who merged with the locals, followed by the invading Aryans bringing their Vedic culture and eventually merging with the locals. Even the Brahmins mixed with the locals in most parts of India, it’s only the few Brahmins from Kashmir and Northern Punjab who have a ‘Pakistani’ phenotype.

I agree to an extent. Something bad did occur in prehistory, but I do not agree that there is a pakistani phenotype, separate and distinct from its neighbors. There’s a continuum of diversity. My braderi is from Rawalpindi, so we are Potohari Rajputs, and we definitely show signs of admixture reminiscent of the diversity you may see in many african american or latin american countries. A few come out with blue eyes and blond hair (which generally darkens as they grow older), but many are also very dark skinned, by any standard, sometimes even within the same family. Most are somewhere in between, and I think this kind of diversity is common in the region and is probably a legacy of caucasoids invading south asia, and simultaneously decimating and merging with the native black/dark brown aboriginal population. IMO, a tragedy given the historic legacy of this event with the animosity still present in our cultures towards those with beautiful dark skin and the caste system, and its inhumane treatment of dalits. I am a brown skinned punjabi, potohari who is decidedly anti-aryan.