im just curious since Ive heard my social studies teacher talking about it.
2007-11-01 07:37:52 · 14 answers · asked by ? 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Actually there is a theory that goes: The first Americans did not come from northeast Asia via the Alaskan corridor as popularly believed. They could have come from Europe (Caucasian) or from the South Pacific or Africa.
There are some bones of ancient Americans in South America which bear resemblance to African or South Pacific origin.
There are some stone tools and skeletons found in North America that are over 13,000 years old and bear resemblance to a Caucausian origin.
Furthermore, when we check the genes of native American Indians we find some evidence of Caucausian blood mixed with them.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/09/0903_030903_bajaskull.html
2007-11-01 07:50:42 · answer #1 · answered by Dr. D 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, since I know many Indians and since there are many who live in this area and that I've grown up with being my friends I can tell you there are all different types. Some look very caucasian, some look more mixed. My neighbor who goes by the last of Prasad are from Fiji and they were taken from India to Fiji to work the sugar cane fields, if you ask him he would tell you he is mixed and he knows it.
2007-11-01 08:06:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello,
Yes, Indians (India) are classed as Caucasian and even the word, Aryan that white supremacists and Nazis use a lot comes from a part of Northern India.
Cheers,
Michael Kelly
2007-11-01 09:56:03 · answer #3 · answered by Michael Kelly 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Scinetifically Indians are Caucasian (whatever bliss or statesman says is not going to change the fact either positively or negatively) - science is science. all anthropologists agree so and genetic/mitochondrial and skeletal studies show its so. those that live in cold climates have fair skin (Scandinavians), moderate climates brown skin (Arabs, Iranians, afghans, north Indians) and very hot climates dark skin (south India)....thats all. QED.
Caucasoid describes humans primarily from Europe, the Middle East (Western Asia), North Africa, the Indian subcontinent and parts of Central Asia, and is one of the four traditional major races recognized by physical anthropologists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasoid
2007-11-01 07:41:17 · answer #4 · answered by mikeydonatelli 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
yes they were at the time of AD's & when your teacher is talking about social studies it means history where the indians made it, they were caucasian along long time ago.
2007-11-01 07:49:48 · answer #5 · answered by boss of bosses 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No...Indians from India are definitely not caucasians...Indians as far as Natives of any culture are not considered Caucasian from an anthropological perspective.
2007-11-01 07:45:40 · answer #6 · answered by outspoken 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No,but Indians from the north ARE affected vy the europeans
2007-11-01 07:44:25 · answer #7 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Umm No. "Native Americans" are the natives of this country and they are not Caucasian. They are their own people. I think every country has a group that are the Natives of that country. The rest of the people in that country are just immigrants or of a mixed race.
2007-11-01 07:44:02 · answer #8 · answered by jmiller 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
That rumour was started by a caucasian
2007-11-01 07:48:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Uh NO. If you mean Native Americans they were originally asian.
And indians from india..No.
2007-11-01 07:41:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋