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ASIAN AMERICAN MEN
(Updated Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008, 05:12:28 PM to reflect the 100 most recent valid responses.)

Which of the following is the most attractive quality about Asian American men?
Good Looks | 60%
Attractive Build | 7%
Attitude & Personality | 17%
Education/Culture | 16%

Which of the following is the least attractive aspect of Asian American men?
Looks | 4%
Build | 5%
Personality | 10%
Success Fixation | 17%
Insensitivity | 64%

Which factor contributes most to the negative image of AA men?
Large proportion of recent immigrants in the AA population | 22%
White American men seeing Asian men as a threat | 26%
The media catering to existing prejudices | 32%
Asia's relatively recent emergence from poverty | 20%

Which would most dramatically help the image of AA men?
Asian male achieving sports stardom on par with Michael Jordan | 6%
AA male becoming elected President of the United States | 13%
East Asia attaining living standards on par with the U.S. | 24%
Asian male achieving movie stardom on par with Tom Cruise | 57%

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physical anthropologist,

Your knowledge of Sub-continent migration is impressive, however your a bit off on your facts. The brachycephallic Armenoid migration was not as large as the Indo Aryan migration which makes up the vast majority of North Indian blood. And your use of the term Urdu is completely out of place. The migration you mention was over 3000 years ago and Urdu is a 400 year old language spoken primarily by Mughal-Turkic Muslims who arrived in India in 1550 A.D.. Urdu is basically a mixture of Hindi and Persian with a little mixture of Arabic and Turkish. The root word for Urdu is "Horde" as in horde of soldiers and in Turkish means encampment. Urdu was a linguistic compromise for ruling Muslims to communicate with Hindi speaking natives. Many Hindu people in north India picked up Urdu because it was the official language for over 300 years in parts of north India and many people to this day still consider Urdu to be the most beuatiful and poetic language in India.
The long and the short of it is that brachycephallic strain is almost nonexistant in North India and particularly rare among Urdu speaking people since most Urdu speaking people are from a Turko-Mongol-Aryan stock. In Gujurat the brachycephay is more prominant but Gujurat is more central India and has been more gentically isolated then the north which is been invaded over 15 times in the last 2500 years alone by Hellenic, Turkish and Mongol people.
Seaman Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 11:25:44 (PST)

I think America holds a lot of opportunities for Indian blacks because many white women are really starting to like black skins, I have seen far too many successful relationships between whites and African Americans, if there is a popularity for African blacks then the popularity for Indian blacks will sky rocket.
Panduranga Venkataswamy Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 08:06:47 (PST)

On the issue of skin color it really depends where you are, I mean which country you are, here in the USA the phenomenon now is a preference to have dark skin even among many Americans and Europeans. In India people love white skins. I am from south India and growing up i was considered an ugly duckling because I am dark, even I considered myself ugly, but after moving to the USA I did undergo a major transformation when all the white women would complement me on how nice and beautiful my skin was. At first i was very shocked but now I am used to these comments. I date a new girl every two or three weeks, mostly white but I find asians and latinos very attractive.
Ponduranga Venkataswamy Sunday, February 03, 2002 at 08:02:41 (PST)

Jasmin St. Claire does the same thing Aria does, Italian, Sweedish, etc........these two Madurai girls really try to push their caucasianness too far.
Be proud to be Asian
Be proud to be South Indian.
Latino lover Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 18:02:52 (PST)

This is so sad, Indians are some of the world's most exotic people, why does everybody want to be a caucasian, I have to admit that Aria giovanni is simply gorgeous, but she keeps calling herself Italian and half a dozen other european nationalities. Somebody should just ship her off to POLAND or something.
Latino Lover Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 17:54:00 (PST)

2 LATINO FLAVOR:
you are very right!, in fact every state you go to in India has a different language, clothing, food, and culture! And those don't have anything to do with race, but if you want to see racial diversity, then just go see the Nagas of Northeastern India, they look more east asian. Look at the South Indians, they are darker, more Dravidian. Look at the Punjabis, they look more persian, everywhere you go in India you won't see the same things! Hey its not called the SUBCONTINENT for no reason!!
NdN Gurl....India, its HUGE!!! Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 14:21:59 (PST)

In dealing with the ancient remains of ancient Harrappa and Mohen Jo Daro, the so called brachycephallic skulls were erroneously called "Armenoid" possibly to indicate similar findings in central asia, Brachycephally really has a presence in eurpoe, western asia and was even introduced to India, no doubt.
latino flava Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 10:25:01 (PST)

Do malays really resemble Philipinnos and indonesians or are they more distinct looking? Are Malays more distinct looking. I am aware that Indonesians are very hetrogenous.
Latino flavor Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 10:18:28 (PST)

To all Indologists
Kindly post as much information on ancient Dravidians and dravidian like peoples and societies for instance (Dravidians and ancient Iran-Elam, plus the tremendous south Indian influences in all of south east Asia.
Did somebody say Schythians!!!! I don't know the origins of these folks, but I believe I have an idea as to what these people look like in Lanka and south India, the complexion is brunnet white, hair is light to brown, the head shape is brachycephallic or dolichecephallic, these are white people but they do look distinctly Indian at the same time. Bharathanatiyuum female dancers fit this description very well.
Even though Indra Varma of Kama Sutra fame is not Schythian, she fits this type very well i believe. correct me if i am wrong.
latino lover Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 10:14:44 (PST)

May I be spared from the wrath of Lord Shiva's fiery third eye and may the love god Kama grant me a special boon of 1001 voluptious women!!!!!!!!!!!! Did somebody say south Indians are caucasians? Does anybody have a photograph of the great black Asian Dravidian golf player VJ Singh!
Latino flava Saturday, February 02, 2002 at 08:08:48 (PST)

Somebody over here must be very confused. I am an Africaner of Dutch descent, I am a white South African. Over in South Africa all the women go crazy for Sri Lankan tamil men. Tamil men are very popular among North Indian girls, black African women and also the whites. Tamil men are treated with a very high status in this country, infact they are considered to be the most desireable and good looking of all the men in the country, even men from the other races will admit this at once.
Hindi, Gujarathi and Sikh men do not even get a second look, infact south African women do not even find them a little appealing.
In Kenya African and north Indian girls will go out of their way to have a relationship with a Tamil man. African women consider Sikh men totally unattractive, they call them men with big beaks, and all the facial hair turns them off.
The best example of Dravidian supremacy has to be Ethiopia. When King Hilae Silasse was in India he completely ignored the north and went south. He was so impressed by the character, beauty, grace and intelligence of the South Indians that he imported 75,000 teachers from there. There is nobody in Ethiopia that dose'nt know South Indians.
I have compared these blacks with my very own family and relatives and I see no similarities at all. South Africa is a very hot country so we whites become almost red in color but that is it nothing in common.
Dravidian men have an incredible combination of awesome features, their faces are sharp and well chisled, they are also very exotic looking with full lips and expressive eyes, their skin is black and their bodies are slim and hard. Tamils are the only people like this in Africa. I have never seen any other men with so many beautiful combinations. In Africa they are the handsomest race. I say this with authority because I have travelled to just about every country there is since I am a full time journalist for three major newspaper companies in South Africa.
I have attended so many Bharathanatiyam dance programs and the male dancers are gorgeous, so dark, agile, graceful, talented and sorry......BEAUTIFUL. Is there anything else that comes close to this.....you may say Bhangra......please I beg to differ. Is'nt Tamil culture ancient, I think only China can come in at a poor second.
Eileen Kronnestrausse Friday, February 01, 2002 at 18:07:41 (PST)

South Indian Guy,

The whole Idea that Aryans were only a trickle of people is complete revisonist B.S. Lets see...we have a Tamil speaking Dravidian people living in modern day Pakistan whos own artistic depictions illustrate them as dark, squat, curly haired people. 1000 years later we have the entire region speaking Sankrit and religious works in that language called the Vedas, Mahabharata, Ramayana and Bhagvad Gita. The description of all the kings and leaders and general populace in these works is a fair and tall physical appreance. Infact the only notable dark person in the work is Krishna, whos complexion is "unique" in it being dark. If you really want to study the new theory of the Indo-Aryan Invasion, what it states is that it didn't happen overnight in one mass wave with violent outcomes; but rather that there were small waves that streched over several hundred years and that the Tamils were eventually made the minority and forced to serve. I mean isn't the imagery obvious? I A black skinned man-god (Krishna)who teaches the white skinned kings of men (Arjuna who's name is pronounced Aryuna in Sankrit). It is no mystery that the dark skinned Dravidians of the Indus valley civilized the barbaric, nomadic and warlike white invaders from the north.
But a less savory fact and outcome from this migration is that the Dravidians were oppressed by the Aryans likes the Greeks by the Romans, skin complexion become a religious obsession, and the only place you see people speaking Tamil based languages of the Indus Valley civilization are 2500 miles at the very tip of India. Infact all the great naval explorers and colonizers that came from India were Dravidians who were literally pushed into the sea. Today Tamil speakers, who once lived in the North-West, were pushed south and the region was replaced by an Indo-European people who spoke the mother of all Indo-Europeans languages...Sanskrit.
As far as the purity of Punjabis and Afghans is concerned, the conquerors who came through those regions ( Alexander, Mahmoud of Ghaznavi, Timurlane, Sher Shah Suri, Mohammed Bin Qasim, Ahmed Shah Abdali, Gauri, Babur) were mostly Turkic Caucasoids that only manged to whiten the populations. There is also a presence of Mongol blood and bit of Arab blood but it was already mixed with Turkic blood from the beginning. Bin Qasim was an Arab but his army was Syrian and Persian who are quite white when compared with your average Indian.
I have done a bit of research myself, and the fair skinned communities of South India always seemed to have cultural roots in the north. Nehru and Jinnah were both from Gujurat and looked like white men ( especially Jinnah); but if you study thier family histories who will see that both of thier familes orginally came from Kashmir in the north. Under Samundar Gupt Mauriya in 400 A.D., there was migrations of Aryans into the south so that the southern people would be adminstrated by and ruled by fair skinned Brahimins from the north. It was such an ugly and biggotted system that many of these people of teh south welcomed and helped the Gauri Muslim conquerors who believed in a more egalitarian society.
Makadu Friday, February 01, 2002 at 17:20:58 (PST)

Latino Flavor: Really, so you do really believe a stanford genetecist who was given a grant by major institutions to conduct a gene study on world populations actually smoked a joint before coming to this conclusion?

what are you an archeologist? if not, shut up.

I will post a very informative study right after this reply to educate some of you blowhards who like to talk without any real evidence.
INDIANS ARE CAUCASIANS Friday, February 01, 2002 at 16:47:15 (PST)

Hi Latino flavour
Is'nt it just commonsense that after Africa, Asia has the largest black population, India has a treasure house of black people, Indonesia's Irin Jaya has a million black people, Papua New Guniea maybe less than a million, Australia has native black people, plus malaysia and the Philippines have native black populations. Are people just discovering these folks today?
observant white girl Friday, February 01, 2002 at 14:26:21 (PST)

aria giovanni is HOT!!!!!!!!
giovanni? Friday, February 01, 2002 at 13:38:10 (PST)

To Queen of Taipei LOL
I have had more than a handful of Indian negroes in my time, this one boy by the name of Devaraj was so impressive, he was 6 feet 5inches and coal black, do these n!!!!!s know how to party or what!
Suzy Olafsen Sterkfontein Friday, February 01, 2002 at 13:29:42 (PST)

BiKaramba Korean Girl you is just too sharp and too slick!!!
Mahatma Gandhi is a good example of a brachycephalic Gujarathi
Daler Mehndi is one thick featured and large Punjabi
latino flava Friday, February 01, 2002 at 12:24:31 (PST)

To Truth Sayer, Great Ceasers Ghost!!!!!!!! obviously u hav'nt been properly informed, Chinese and Koreans marrying up Indians is excessively common, no kidding here, infact there is a large Korean and Chinese community in the sub continent. The characters of north east Indians, Punjabis and Gujarathis are all down right obvious, whether the population be big or small.
SUDANESE!!!! there u already have a picture in your mind of this relatively small African community, how many have u encountered in your lifetime, maybe a few!!!
latino flavor Friday, February 01, 2002 at 11:20:14 (PST)

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