(Opinion)Exoticness of South Asians is highly exaggerated on anthrofora

[SharpFork]

To be honest if we are not talking about quite light males, I don't think I have ever mistaken a South Asian for some other ethnicity, do you have any example?

[Trouble]

To be honest if we are not talking about quite light males, I don't think I have ever mistaken a South Asian for some other ethnicity, do you have any example?

Go watch some tiktoks of pakistanis/indians you will see what I mean

[Trouble]

It is worth remembering that regardless of whatever definition you use, South Asia/ Indian subcontinent has a whopping 1.7billion+ people living there; only China comes remotely close, that too lagging by almost half-a-billion. To put that into context, 1 in every 4 people on this planet live in this densely-packed region!

So when we talk about even 5%, that's more people than Germany.

Those peripheral regions (KPK, Baluchistan, JK, Nepal, Assam) are sparsely populated compared to everywhere else. The average South Asian (90% confidence interval) has no chance of passing anywhere else for anyone who even has a basic understanding of the region.

Put it this way, how many of those 75% people living outside South Asia could pass disregarding those 'peripheral' regions? Very few from MENA and SE Asia, maybe an extreme outlier from LATAM.

Go watch some tiktoks of pakistani/indian people you can see they easily pass outside south asia

[Trouble]

In terms of South Asia as a whole, the main regions in which people will have differing appearances/genetics to ‘typical’ South Asians are:

- North/West regions of Pakistan (parts of which are more Iranic than South Asian, case in point KPK)

- Nepal (Mongolian, Southeast Asian, Tibetan admixture with many individuals sitting at majority East Eurasian)

- The seven sister states of India and Bhutan (the people of which all also have a large degree of East Eurasian ancestry)

Minus the seven sister states, Sri Lanka along with India and Bangladesh unless you also exclude some of the extremities in the latter two contain the most pan South Asian looking people with few exceptions. There is obviously a lot of diversity in the region but people abuse this fact to push dumb notions. Just think of the ludicracy of being told that a typical Bengali looks like a white skinned Central Asian or Arab on some anthroforum and going outside to see a sea of brown Bengalis with an uncanny resemblance to East Indians. If you want to see a typical looking person from a region just type ‘____ people’ into google images, as cliché as it sounds. People are fuelled with personal bias here.

this woman looks more hispanic than indian:

https://www.tiktok.com/@nagmaa?lang=en

I suggest you get on tik tok to see for yourself

[Zoro]

I think that a sizable minority(around 30% of them) are able to pass in other parts of the world. The other 70%, or stereotypical looking ones, would not outside of megadiverse nations like Brazil. I fall into that latter category.

I have seen ones posted on here and European members say they can pass in Europe even, and they are not really anything special.

I agree that a minority of Indians can easily pass in other ME countries including my area in Kurdistan. Similarly about 60% - 70% of my Kurdish relatives can easily pass in Pakistan and people would think they are Pakistanis if they saw them in the streets. Reason is a decent percentage of Pakistanis are Pashtuns, Brahuis, Balochis, Parsis and the like.

However, the majority of Indians have a very distinctive "Indian" look and it's because of the combination of Iran-N and AASI and in some cases Iran-N, AASI, SE Asian and some other cases Iran-N, AASI, steppe. This is a very distinct combination of diverged lineages not found anywhere in the world (except steppe) except in S Asia. Thus the distinctive look. I have seen a few S Iraqis and S Iranians who have this distinctive look too but that's about it.

[Trouble]

I agree that a minority of Indians can easily pass in other ME countries including my area in Kurdistan. Similarly about 60% - 70% of my Kurdish relatives can easily pass in Pakistan and people would think they are Pakistanis if they saw them in the streets. Reason is a decent percentage of Pakistanis are Pashtuns, Brahuis, Balochis, Parsis and the like.

However, the majority of Indians have a very distinctive "Indian" look and it's because of the combination of Iran-N and AASI and in some cases Iran-N, AASI, SE Asian and some other cases Iran-N, AASI, steppe. This is a very distinct combination of diverged lineages not found anywhere in the world (except steppe) except in S Asia. Thus the distinctive look. I have seen a few S Iraqis and S Iranians who have this distinctive look too but that's about it.

Where do I fall in this category?

[Zoro]

Where do I fall in this category?

Never seen your photo

[sean]

30 % is way too high man. I see Indians on a daily basis, that means 3 out of the 10 Indians could pass further west and that's simply not true. For the most part Indians have a specific sub continent look that is unique to that region. It's quite bizarre but it's the reality .

It's called OWD. Indians and Pakistanis share equally in accountability for this lel.

Spoiler!

[lockdownboredom]

South Asians have baby faces. Middle Easterners look more mature and have more robust features.

There is definitely a transition zone however. I'd say Pakistanis/North Indians are the merging line between MENA and South Asian phenotypes.

Inconspicuous sock Trouble

[Negah]

I think that a sizable minority(around 30% of them) are able to pass in other parts of the world. The other 70%, or stereotypical looking ones, would not outside of megadiverse nations like Brazil. I fall into that latter category.

I have seen ones posted on here and European members say they can pass in Europe even, and they are not really anything special.

30% would mean around 600 million people and that is just pure unadulterated nonsense which you are spewing