Yeah. It is a very diverse region of the world. But people from India, including Sikhs, are most definitely Asian. They consider themselves Asian, as do all demographic statistics and whatnot.
They do not consider themselves "Asian," as in the mongoloid Asians familiar to China, Japan, and Southeast Asia.
Most Sikhs hail from the Punjabi region of India and Pakistan. They consider themselves Aryans and might be offended if you were to refer to them as otherwise.
They do not consider themselves "Asian," as in the mongoloid Asians familiar to China, Japan, and Southeast Asia.
Most Sikhs hail from the Punjabi region of India and Pakistan. They consider themselves Aryans and might be offended if you were to refer to them as otherwise.
Is there such a thing as a non psychotic mass murderer?
When we use caucasian we mean white and i doubt anyone from india consider's themselves white.
Caucasian race - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe term Caucasian race (also Caucasoid, Europid, or Europoid)[1] has been used to denote the general physical type of some or all of the populations of Europe, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Western Asia (the Middle East), parts of Central Asia and South Asia.[2] Historically, the term has been used to describe many peoples from these regions, without regard necessarily to skin tone.[3]
No, when you use the term Caucasian you mean white, but that's because you don't know what you're talking about. Do you even know where the Caucasus mountains are? Do you know anything about the history of the term "Aryan"?
Aryan is an ethnicity within the Asian race. Look man, I've been there. I have a lot of friends who are Sikh. It's cool man, no worries. It is a confusing thing. No judgment for not knowing that, but yeah, they consider themselves Asian, as does everybody else.
They are geographically "Asian" in that they hail from Asia. They are NOT mongoloids. "Asian" is not a race in the geographical sense by which you are using the term. Now sit down.
im of indian descent so yeah i know.
US census considers it a race.
Not sure if serious.
I do not care a whit.
What could possibly be more right wing than beating up a Sikh because you thought he was Muslim and you hate Muslims? That's so right wing that even Bachmann would be a bit uncomfortable about it... Somebody who does that is hard core right wing by definition...
Then your not getting the argument. There are 5 race categories in the US. Im sure you know what they are. Which one do you think a punjabi person indentifies with?
US census considers it a race.
Does the US census have a category
Caucasian right now?
Sikhs do identify as Asian and demographics always categorize them as Asian.
But, in Sig's defense, it is kind of an interesting question. India is one of the places where our concept of race breaks down. It's right at the intersection of three different "races". And it was a massive trade hub for all three areas for thousands of years. There is even evidence of a trade route between southern Africa and India going back 4,000 years, which is totally insane... In reality, probably just about everybody in India has some ancestors that would today have been considered white, black and Asian.
But, India is some 3,000 miles past the border between Europe and Asia. It shares a border with China. That doesn't necessarily mean they are Asian, but that kind of puts their decision to identify as Asian in context I think.
Does the US census have a category
Caucasian right now?
Racially speaking, Punjabis do NOT consider themselves mongoloids. Never have.
Racially speaking, Punjabis do NOT consider themselves mongoloids. Never have.
the current thinking is that the asshole who shot these people was too stupid to understand that Sikhs are not Muslims and it appears that this mope-who had 9-11 tattooed on him was a muslim hater.It would surprise the hell out of me if it was random. My money says that if the shooters were white guys the shooters are ignorant pissants who don't actually know anything about Sikhs. Rather, they chose to shoot them because most Sikhs are brown and they were turbans.
One thing for certain is that it's another hate crime. I'm getting sick of hate and haters. I'm tired of people who label and stereotype and hurl invectives at an entire group.
As always I regret the tragedy. I am sorry that it has happened to the Sihk community. I have friends who are Sikhs. They are peaceful people, but are revered and regarded as fierce fighters in combat.
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