The Tajiks (The people of Tajikistan, Peripheral Countries & Diaspora)

[qwerty7]

real Tajiks

[Basil]

Where are they from? Some of them look more like Uzbeks or other more mixed people...

Some Tajiks look like Uzbeks and vice versa. Do you think you could always tell them apart? From my perspective the people in the pics I posted are rather typical. A majority of Tajiks live in the plains and valleys and are no that different from neighbouring Uzbeks. I don't know why on anthroboards someone usually posts relict highlanders as if they constitute a group significant in numbers or even majority.

[WilliamWallace]

Now I' m confused. How do they look exactly the Tajiks? I' m speaking of the Tajik race, not of the many ethnicities who have settled in Tajikistan.
Do people with slanted eyes Tajiks?

[qwerty7]

Now I' m confused. How do they look exactly the Tajiks? I' m speaking of the Tajik race, not of the many ethnicities who have settled in Tajikistan.
Do people with slanted eyes Tajiks?

miting in Dushanbe(capital of Tadjikistan)

[Agrippa]

Some Tajiks look like Uzbeks and vice versa. Do you think you could always tell them apart? From my perspective the people in the pics I posted are rather typical. A majority of Tajiks live in the plains and valleys and are no that different from neighbouring Uzbeks. I don't know why on anthroboards someone usually posts relict highlanders as if they constitute a group significant in numbers or even majority.

Individually? Only probabilities.

In groups? Not with absolute, but relative high certainty.

There are Tajik minorities in Uzbekistan and vice versa.

although there is a sizable minority of Uzbeks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajikistan#Demographics

The differences between Tajiks and Uzbeks are, on average, in any case significantly greater, since major races being involved as a distinctive element, than the differences between most European people.

Now I' m confused. How do they look exactly the Tajiks? I' m speaking of the Tajik race, not of the many ethnicities who have settled in Tajikistan.
Do people with slanted eyes Tajiks?

The direct genetic and especially phenotypical Mongoloid influence in Uzbeks is significantly higher than in Tajiks.

However, it is right that there are more pure and more mixed Tajiks as well and they being different regionally too.

Here some Uzbeks from I. Schwidetzky's study about the Turanid race, the one from above is Pamirid, note how he looks like a lot of the Tajiks posted in the thread starting post, the one at the bottom has significant Mongoloid, that is more common in Uzbeks than Tajiks:


Of course they overlap, but Uzbeks are just way more Mongoloid influenced.

[Treffie]

I'd like to know how we can tell if they're ethnically Tadzhik or if they're mixed? I tend to agree with WillWall that Tadzhiks are pred dark eyed with a minority with light eyes. Fascinating people though.

[Agrippa]

I'd like to know how we can tell if they're ethnically Tadzhik or if they're mixed? I tend to agree with WillWall that Tadzhiks are pred dark eyed with a minority with light eyes. Fascinating people though.

Tajiks are mostly Pamirid, Uzbeks have stronger Mongoloid influences, as well as more Orientalid tendencies.

[Neanderthal]

I see plenty Irano-Nordoids, so they aren't a myth after all...

[Basil]

Tajiks are mostly Pamirid, Uzbeks have stronger Mongoloid influences, as well as more Orientalid tendencies.

Yes, Uzbeks are more mongoloid on average. But the plain Tajiks have this kind of admixture too. That's my point.
No one in my pics looks predominantly mongoloid though or at least mongoloid to the point when it could be stated they are more likely not Tajiks. Sorry, if they aren't that progressive as expected.

[Saruman]

Sorry, if they aren't that progressive as expected.

You are wrong to imply that Mongoloids can't be progressive.


Japanese


Chinese


Very progressive ^^

Though yes, in central Asia it was not as progressive Tungids who spread their genes more.