All Her Life, Nikki Haley Was the Different One

New York Times ^ | June 13, 2010 | SHAILA DEWAN and ROBBIE BROWN

[Tax-chick]

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.

[Scanian]

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.

[Scanian]

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.

[Tax-chick]

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.

[njslim]

Northern Indians (Indo-aryan) are Caucasians

Southern Indians are Austro-Asians, related to Australian
aborigines

[tophat9000]

No, Indians are not Caucasian.

Per my Indians friends, according to US Government racial pecking order, their are

[Tax-chick]

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.

[Scanian]

Who knows? Maybe “identity politics” will be a casualty of genetic studies as well.

[Tax-chick]

We should all have “Earthling” as our identity ;-). Unless we’re not, like my 3rd son ...

[driftless2]

"Indians considered caucasian?"

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.

[driftless2]

Indians are considered Caucasian by many researchers.

[driftless2]

"problematic"

Closest to the truth. Many people who think they're part of some "race" might be disturbed by findings that go back far enough.

[Tax-chick]

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.

[Bullfrogg]

You need eye transplants, friend

[Citizen Tom Paine]

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.

[battousai]

Why shouldn't Indians vote Republicans?

'Cause you know all us brown folk only got to stay on the Dim plantation along with the black people, that's what the liberals expect, and they dare to say conservatives are the racists LOL.

I am south asian, but not Indian, and have been conservative all my life, I thank my dad who was a great believer in Reagan and Thatcher for bringing me up right.

Things are changing up here in Canada too you find many conservatives from the south asian community, but its still an uphill battle to get people's minds out of liberal slavery, but I strongly believe the truth will always prevail and conservatism IS the truth.

[driftless2]

"people are human"

I couldn't agree more. "Race" is mostly a myth.

[JmyBryan]

Yep.

[Scanian]

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.

[RipSawyer]

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.