Michelle Wrote:
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> Hi prema
>
> Nice pictures!
>
> Maybe the problem is that people tend to get a
> "sterotype" idea of foreign cultures and even how
> different races look thanks to movies and TV etc?
> When I was a kid there were always lots of World
> War 2 movies on TV and the Germans were always
> tall and blonde. I have two German friends and
> they're both short and dark haired. Maybe that's
> why some people don't think you look "Indian"?
>
> Ok, I've been thinking about my friends back home
> in South Africa. My friend Jagrutti (?not sure of
> spelling, that's how it sounds) is born in India,
> but never told me where exactly. She came out to
> South Africa to marry, but before then she'd lived
> in New York most of her life and so that was where
> she missed and talked about the most. Her skin is
> as dark as yours as is her sister-in-law's who was
> Indian descent, but four/five generations born in
> South Africa. I'm not sure where the Indians who
> came out to South Africa were originally from.
> Ghandi was from the same ancestry, if that helps
> any.


Most of the South african indians are gujaratis who are very dark skinned and short, but thin lipped and sharp nosed. they look very different from us the south indians. there is another dark skinned people, bengalis (people from Bangladesh and state of West bengal in india). they are also very dark, very short but very very thin lipped people. again they look very different from us.

Tamilians can be easily mistaken for an african (I don't know which part exactly though).

I am going home to india tommorrow. I will post some pictures when I come back.


>
> Now, my other friend, Daria, her husband could be
> your brother! Honest! Unfortunately I don't have a
> photo of him as he was the one who took all the
> photos when we last got together before I left
> South Africa. He's what in South Africa is called
> "Cape Malay". His ancestry would go back to the
> Malay people who were brought out to the Cape
> Colony, where they mixed with other races.

malay are mix of tamils more than other groups in india.



>They
> are a mix of Malaysian, Indian and some European
> and Negroid. Daria's mother is Indian, her father
> Cape Malay. She is very dark skinned and has sharp
> features. You have a more gentle face. Softer
> lines and more curves.

yep. my nose is not that very tamilian nose. but my brother's is very much a tamilian nose. very big. I used to call him "potha molaha mookka" meaning, "your nose is as big as green pepper". I was mean, wasn't I. (he called me big mouthed, I mean shape of the mouth!!! I still go crazy if anyone referred my mouth)



>I hope that makes sense, I
> can't figure out how else to say it. LOL

Thanks that was a nice sum-up.



>
> PS - my friend Jagrutti introduced me to
> vegetarian Hindu food a long time ago. she used to
> bring me samples to try out. *drool*






Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/22/2005 03:45AM by prema1.