View Poll Results: Do Punjabis look like Tamils with lighter skin? similar facial features?

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Thread: Do Punjabis look like Tamils with lighter skin?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thambi View Post


    This picture exists for a reason. Although exaggerated with the explanation, the faces in that picture are relatively common for their respective regions. From afar, most indians will look like brown blobs but if you observe their features, facial metrics, skin texture, head sizes, and other factors closely there are huge differences.

    I have not been to punjab but I have been to rajasthan and western UP. South indians in these areas stand out quite easily.
    South Indian pictures are heavily cherrypicked imo. They should've cherrypicked from upper caste South Indians if they want to do fair comparison lol. Anyways, I do think there's some difference between North and South India. Northwest India was migration/invasion corridor to South Asia, so they're more phenotypically diverse than rest of South Asia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NPKTO View Post
    South Indian pictures are heavily cherrypicked imo. They should've cherrypicked from upper caste South Indians if they want to do fair comparison lol. Anyways, I do think there's some difference between North and South India. Northwest India was migration/invasion corridor to South Asia, so they're more phenotypically diverse than rest of South Asia.
    Yeah, they always pick Tamils and shit like that. A lot of Kerala people and mid castes dont look horribly different from other Indians.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Questioner View Post
    true

    They're genetically so similar
    This chart is very outdated. Check out some gedmatch results.

    This PCA below demonstrates how diverse indians are. tamil brahmins and tamil dalits are as different from each other as northern europeans are from kurds. With addition of pakistanis(similar to indian punjabis) and irulas (tribals), the differences are immense.


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    Quote Originally Posted by NPKTO View Post
    South Indian pictures are heavily cherrypicked imo. They should've cherrypicked from upper caste South Indians if they want to do fair comparison lol. Anyways, I do think there's some difference between North and South India. Northwest India was migration/invasion corridor to South Asia, so they're more phenotypically diverse than rest of South Asia.

    If you change colours I think they can still pass for each other in that picture

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thambi View Post
    This chart is very outdated. Check out some gedmatch results.

    This PCA below demonstrates how diverse indians are. tamil brahmins and dalits are as different from each other as northern europeans are from kurds. With addition of pakistanis(similar to punjabis) and irulas (tribals), the differences are immense.
    Lol i don't think so

    The differences aren't that big.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Questioner View Post
    Lol i don't think so

    The differences aren't that big.
    They are that big. Trust me. Genetically speaking at least because phenotype is a different story with lots of overlap.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Basilisk View Post
    They are that big. Trust me. Genetically speaking at least because phenotype is a different story with lots of overlap.
    There's some genetic difference but its much less than difference between kurds and northern europe.

    The PCA was published before the chart so how can the chart be outdated if the PCA isn't?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Questioner View Post
    There's some genetic difference but its much less than difference between kurds and northern europe.

    The PCA was published before the chart so how can the chart be outdated if the PCA isn't?
    Okay actually yes on G25 the difference appears to be less but its still pretty large. I used Mala as substitute for TN scheduled caste. The distance between kurd and norwegian is 18 while Mala and TN Brahmin is 10.

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    there are some similarities between all south asians (because of ancient shared ancestry), i have seen Sirilankans who look paki punjabi to me, but when you will take large groups differences will be obvious to natives.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Questioner View Post
    There's some genetic difference but its much less than difference between kurds and northern europe.

    The PCA was published before the chart so how can the chart be outdated if the PCA isn't?
    This new PCA shows similar trend. Its more recent than the other two charts.


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