Do People from India look Asian or Arab to you?

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sanved

Ethnicity of Indian is a mix and you can trace Aryan, Dravidian, Negroid, Mongoliod, and many other amongst the Indians. Looks wise Indians are as diverse as their religion, geography and culture.

Arabs also have Asian ethnicity and devoid of their Arabwear they will look like Indians generally!

Once getting out of a roundtable meeting Churchill commented to Gandhi that how come Indians are black, brown, yellow where as Englishmen are only white. On this Gandhi replies that Horses come in various colours whereas Donkeys are just one shade!

onkarmann

Indians from different parts of India look very different from each other and there are some communities which can look similar to arabs.

However, there are communities which look like south-east asians, but they are not so commonly found in the USA.

premsebastianantony

Arabs look like Arabs, Indians look like Indians.. you can easily make out the difference.

Foo

No... They usually just look Indian to me. I find it very easy to tell.

ian_ejb2001

they are indians!...not asian, arab, nor others...they are INDIANS....do you get it.... they are indians....

amylee_1994

personally i thought they looked indian

StupendousMan

It is strange that you said so..
Cause they Look Indian most times!

However, Indians have a mix of features with different faiths and traditions...

they look arab as in your context generally as they have more facial hair when compared to a chinese or Japanese...
Plus muslims and sikh communities generally do keep their mustache/ beard which is more towards arab...

But if you look at an Indian from eastern/northeastern parts of India (they are less visible in US of A) then they have features that are more chinese or high cheekbones
as that of a mountanious region dweller...and do not really resemble arabs..

The Indian community that you see in USA is more of south or west or bit of north India

harmony

they look indian too me. some cooley also looks indian.

rolex

indians look like arabs living in the gulf especially kewaitians. but donot look like arabs in north africa because we donot have the type of the hair of indians.

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Ghost Shipâ™€

Yes I agree. If in comparision between two ethnicities as Asian and Arab, I would say people of India(n) descent facial structure and complexion looks more "Arab."

I say this in regards to first, the eye shape. Which is very opened and round, and not small or oval (Asian). Also, the long nose and longer faces which is a common Middle Eastern (Arab) feature.

crazyme_4ever

arab ppl are actuallyalso frm central asia so there is a lot of similarity in d features of asians n arab...i mean d arabian countries r a part of asia also..... so technically they r asians too.....asians have a wheatish complexion like d arab(thogh dey r way more beautiful)

Aeris

to me they look like a combination of both... at least the Indian women do.

amusicalmitch

east india-Asian
North and central india-Arab
south-african

stanlrose

yes...even some look like srilankans

tak_duma_dum

India is in Asia as are Arab, Iran ,China and Japan among many more countries.
Anthropologically, there are many racial features among Indians - they are as diverse as Americans. Indians are said to have Aryan blood. But this idea is based on their languages, about 50 of them, which are members of Indo-Germanic group of languages. Hitler notoriously believed this and tried his theory to support 'Eugeny".

This similarity is because these languages are derived from Sanskrit. Which is the most scientific but elaborate language; and closely related to Latin and the languages derived from them. Iranian language is also in the same group. But not the Arabian languages or Chinese.

So, Indians have diverse mixed features, obtained from native Indians, central Asian, European, Africans, Australian as well as Mongolian and some others to a lesser degree. Sometimes they resemble Central Americans very much.

the kiddy violator

they look like dirty beggars

guide

People of the indian subcontinent look like people for Arab rather than rest of Asia

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