Re: Aryan invasion theory and race

From: tgpedersen
Message: 64520
Date: 2009-07-31

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
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> --- On Fri, 7/31/09, sree nathan <sreenathan.ansi@...> wrote:
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> From: sree nathan <sreenathan.ansi@...>
> Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Aryan invasion theory and race
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, July 31, 2009, 12:35 PM
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> Dear all
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> I feel ashamed to hear about Old versions of Arayan invasion.
> Let me know under which scientific evidences one can argue that
> the Indo Aryans belong to a superior race.
> The present Genomic explorations reveal the fact that Indian Gene
> poool has not been heavily influenced by a punctuation like Aryan
> invasion
> About language replacement of south Asia- It is an ongoing process.
> eventoday there are enough evidences  for communities shifting from
> one language to other or many.
> so it is not based on any racial structure.
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> sreenathan
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> So tell me, how many Hindustani gene markers are found in Europe
> (except for recent immigrants)? Virtually none. How many Dravidian,
> Burushaski and Munda loanwords are found in early IE? none.Why is
> the greatest diversity of Indo-Aryan in far-northern
> Hindustan? Because IE arose outside of India and entered the
> subcontinent c. 1500 BCE.

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> Note that there is very little diversity in Indo-Aryan languages compared to the rest of IE. If IE originated in India, then Panjabi, Guju, Hindi and Bengali would be as far apart as English, Albanian, Russian, Portuguese and Armenian BUT THEY'RE NOT.Only a narrow-minded dogmatic racist could disregard obvious facts and common sense. 
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One of the best arguments for AIT I heard at the Copenhagen conference: Sanskrit has Uralic loanwords (actually they might be ar-/ur- language). OIT proponents would have to posit the presence of Uralic speakers in India.


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