Posted on 06/14/2010 6:15:04 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Nikki Haley, the favorite to become the first governor of South Carolina who is neither white nor male, has always challenged established norms with her own brand of moxie.
As a girl, her parents the first Indian immigrants this small, working-class town had ever seen entered Nikki and her sister in the Little Miss Bamberg pageant. The judges of the contest, one that crowned one black queen and one white queen, were so flummoxed that they simply disqualified Nikki and her sister, Simran but not before Nikki, about 5, sang This Land Is Your Land.
Ms. Haley, 38, upended things again last week after a sharp-elbowed primary that included allegations of marital infidelity and pitted her against the lieutenant governor, the attorney general and a congressman. Ms. Haley, a state legislator, received 49 percent of the vote, but faces a June 22 runoff with Representative Gresham Barrett, whom she beat by more than 25 points Tuesday. And this from a campaign that was so underfinanced that it had to sell yard signs at $5 apiece, Ms. Haley said.
Now, she finds herself one of the brightest rising stars in the Republican Party, a Tea Party favorite, a Sarah Palin endorsee and the subject of national attention.
I love that people think its a good story, but I dont understand how its different, she said in an interview Friday, in a voice with a faint watermark of Southern drawl. I feel like Im just an accountant and businessperson who wants to be a part of state government.
Ms. Haley born Nimrata Nikki Randhawa and always called Nikki, which means little one, by her family said that growing up in Bamberg was at times tough.
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I was trying to think of some “race” that would include a Scandinavian and a Tamil, and it wasn’t working well ... but then I remembered the Indo-European language family. I guess there’s a connection somewhere.
Yes, there were a lot of tough fits under that system. I’ve seen numerous “races” under the new one.
DNA research will probably make any racial classification system problematic in the future.
Yes, there were a lot of tough fits under that system. I’ve seen numerous “races” under the new one.
DNA research will probably make any racial classification system problematic in the future.
Good. We don't need racial classification. Issues such as hereditary disease can be dealt with in the specific populations where they're found, without trying to reach for bigger groups.
Northern Indians (Indo-aryan) are Caucasians
Southern Indians are Austro-Asians, related to Australian
aborigines
Per my Indians friends, according to US Government racial pecking order, their are
My post has been overtaken by further, more detailed, discussion. *Of course* the US government doesn’t consider Indians a “minority”: they get jobs and aren’t lockstep Democrat voters.
Who knows? Maybe “identity politics” will be a casualty of genetic studies as well.
We should all have “Earthling” as our identity ;-). Unless we’re not, like my 3rd son ...
Yes they are, which simply underscores the idiocy of trying to pigeonhole people by skin color. Many people of Indian descent have darker skin colors than Americans of so-called negroid or black descent. Making skin color irrelevant. It's what's inside that counts.
Indians are considered Caucasian by many researchers.
Closest to the truth. Many people who think they're part of some "race" might be disturbed by findings that go back far enough.
Yes, thanks. “Caucasian” to me implies Georgians and Chechens, not Bengalis, but the Indo-European language group includes both. Unless they’re Indians with a Dravidian language.
Doesn’t matter, anyway. People are human, that’s all that matters.
You need eye transplants, friend
According to the original dfn Indians are Caucasians. Recently the meaning has been taken to mean white from northern Europe. I hold with the original dfn.
I couldn't agree more. "Race" is mostly a myth.
Yep.
Take a look at her photo on Wiki.
She looks like a hard-edged, thin-lipped white woman with a tan.
Not to my taste at all but to each his own.
Wasn’t it actully CaucaSOID, Negroid and Mongoloid? It has been a long time since I studied all this but I think Caucasian was a subset of CaucaSOID which included at that time not only much of India but Australian aborigines. That was forty years ago, I don’t know what changes have been made since.
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