Caucasians can't be dark skinned?

[k5125]

All the teenagers in my neighborhood always say thats a contradiction! They say you can't be a "dark skinned caucasian".

Why?

Since when are Italians not caucasian?

[Soomaal]

It depends how you see caucasian.

To me an Italian and Dutch are both caucasian.

Since when did Italians become dark LOL

[k5125]

Makaahiil said:

It depends how you see caucasian.

To me an Italian and Dutch are both caucasian.

Since when did Italians become dark LOL

lol I see your point

[mike2]

Well, what do they mean by dark-skinned? If they mean Dravidian brown, then they're right. But if they mean Italian olive, they're obviously dead wrong.

[NunzioGuido]

An Italian might be dark standing next to a Swede,but you put an Italian to stand next to a Ugandan and that Italian would be pale in comparison to Kamala. ;D

[k5125]

Mike said:

Well, what do they mean by dark-skinned? If they mean Dravidian brown, then they're right. But if they mean Italian olive, they're obviously dead wrong.

Yeah, I mean olive or "grayish".

Like Tony Shalhoub is dark skinned....sorta.

[alexandrian]

Caucasians can be pale white to dark brown, at least as I've come to understand the term. Anything that involves populations as diverse as Scandinavians, southern Euros, North Africans, Arabians, and southern Indians must be accomodating in terms of skin color.

[mike2]

Alexandrian said:

Caucasians can be pale white to dark brown, at least as I've come to understand the term. Anything that involves populations as diverse as Scandinavians, southern Euros, North Africans, Arabians, and southern Indians must be accomodating in terms of skin color.

Southern Indians? You mean northern Indians?

[alexandrian]

Mike said:

Southern Indians? You mean northern Indians?

Aren't all Indians Caucasian?

[k5125]

Some Indians are blacker than black people. I guess they are from the south or something.

[alexandrian]

k5125 said:

Some Indians are blacker than black people. I guess they are from the south or something.

Yeah

[Josh]

k5125 said:

Some Indians are blacker than black people. I guess they are from the south or something.

Still, many black-skinned Indians, whatever their actual racial makeup is, seem to have a Caucasoid facial structure.

[mike2]

Alexandrian said:

Aren't all Indians Caucasian?

Not by any means. India is racially diverse. The lighter-skinned Nordindids of northern India and Pakistan are the "purest" Caucasians. This is the characteristic type of the Upper Class, the race of the Bollywood faces you see. The Dravidians of the central and southern regions of the subcontinent however are of mixed Veddoid and Caucasoid affinity. It would seem most typical East Indians fit into this mixed Indo-Dravidian niche. India is perhaps the most racially diverse region of the Old World. It's kind of strange but Bollywood parallels the Spanish-speaking television shows over here in the Western Hemisphere. Most of all the Hispanic celebrities are white. You could say the same with Bollywood. A definite racial caste system.

Nordindids (the Caucasoid Indians of the North):



I think the most distinguishing characteristic of the Nordindid type is the tear-shaped nose.

Dravidians and Veddah (the peoples of the South with obvious Veddoid/Australoid affinities, though Caucasoid admixture is still rather evident, I will admit; still, a Veddoid base is too obvious to ignore):




Most East Indians are between these two extremes, and can be described as being of Indo-Dravidian race:

[gulereatie]

those north indians still dont look "european"

[mike2]

gulereatie said:

those north indians still dont look "european"

That's because they aren't.

In my opinion the Nordindid type is closest related to the Irano-Afghan.