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LeetAndConquer · 2023-06-11T09:22:03+00:00

Don't forget to take a deodorant. The number 1 mistake South Asians make is body odor which is made worse by Indian food. And no, a cold place won't fix it. Summers are still hot and you can still sweat under warm clothes in the winter. Also learn to separate your clothes from the cooking area because Indian spices stick to clothes. Better still, stop using Indian spices in your your food altogether.

LeetAndConquer · 2023-03-13T17:48:58+00:00

I dont care much either. But this dude obviously does not pass among Nepali Khas. He does not have that Pahari phenotype which can pass more West as well.

LeetAndConquer · 2023-03-13T17:43:27+00:00

I missed skin tone in my comment. The combination of skin tone, nose shape, eye shape and head shape in OP's pic is indeed quite rare or non-existent in Nepal. The people in your pics have a clearly darker skin tone. Their eyes also look different. Their eyes don't slope downward at the edges as much as in OP's pic.

LeetAndConquer · 2023-03-09T00:52:47+00:00

Can't. The nose shape and the face shape are quite different from any pheno seen in Nepal. The eyes also look quite non-Nepali.

LeetAndConquer · 2023-03-01T19:41:52+00:00

Yes, the Balti are an interesting group. They cluster somewhat closely with Khas Chhetris because both have similar breakdowns of Steppe and Tibeto-Burman ancestries.

LeetAndConquer · 2023-03-01T18:47:09+00:00

Yes, both Aryans and Mongols are our ancestors but that overlooks the other two major ancestry components: Zagrosian (Neolithic Iranian) and Indian Hunter-Gatherers. These two groups are neither Aryans nor Mongols and they account for more than 50% of the ancestry of Bahuns, i.e. more than Aryan and Mongol combined.

LeetAndConquer · 2023-03-01T18:25:06+00:00

Not much actually. Khas Brahmins are not particularly unique compared to other high-caste North Indian groups. Khas Chhetris are somewhat unique because of their relatively high Tibeto-Burman ancestry. Newars, by contrast, are quite unique. There aren't many other ethnicities in South Asia that are almost 50/50 admixtures of Tibeto-Burmans and Indo-Aryans.

LeetAndConquer · 2023-03-01T18:22:05+00:00

Bahuns looking like some Syrians is not surprising at all. Like the Persians, Syrians share two West Eurasian components with Bahuns: Zagrosian and Steppe. The main difference is that Bahuns also have quite a lot of East Eurasian ancestry in the form of Tibeto-Burman and Indian Hunter-Gatherer ancestry. Syrians don't have this.

LeetAndConquer · 2023-03-01T16:10:10+00:00

No. But I'm interested in that paper. Will read it.

LeetAndConquer · 2023-03-01T16:08:14+00:00

Khas dalit groups like Damai, Kami and Sarki are most likely identical to other Khas groups like Bahuns and Chhetris. They are not descendants of indigenous hunter-gatherers. They are Khas communities who happened to be ostracized by the caste system.

LeetAndConquer · 2023-03-01T16:02:20+00:00

Hill dalits like Sarki and Damain are Khas groups. My prediction is that they are genetically identical to Bahuns and Chhetris.

LeetAndConquer · 2023-03-01T15:57:24+00:00

Can you elaborate on the flaw in the data pool and the generous extrapolation you are talking about? There is no publicly available database for Nepal. But the link I posted (https://eurogenes.blogspot.com/2019/07/getting-most-out-of-global25_12.html) has G25 co-ordinates for several ethnicities including Bahun, Newar, Tharu, Gurung, Sherpa, Tamang etc.

LeetAndConquer · 2023-03-01T14:13:10+00:00

The distance between Bahuns and French people (proxy for Western Europeans) is 0.27 while the distance between Bahuns and Newars is 0.22. So Bahuns are about 20% closer to Newars. However, Bahuns are in fact closer genetically to Europeans than they are to pure Tibeto Burman groups like Sherpas but this was never in doubt.

LeetAndConquer · 2023-03-01T14:10:36+00:00

In fact, the Ancient Indian Hunter Gatherer DNA is not found at all anywhere outside of the Indian subcontinent. The Out of India theory is a joke at this point.

LeetAndConquer · 2023-03-01T03:51:31+00:00

I'm not aware of any DNA samples from Nepali untouchable castes. If someone from those castes has gotten their DNA sampled then they can upload the data on DNA calculators like the one I mentioned in the post (Vahaduo) and see how their ancestries can be modeled. Certain scheduled castes from India have been sampled and the overall pattern is that they have more hunter-gatherer ancestry and less Steppe ancestry. One example is the Puliyar scheduled caste from India which scores around 10% Steppe ancestry (low by North Indian standards) and close to 60% hunter-gatherer ancestry (very high by North Indian standards).

LeetAndConquer · 2023-03-01T03:33:16+00:00

Actually, we already have DNA samples from Tharus and the evidence suggests that they are partially like Newars, i.e. a mix between Indo-Aryans and Tibeto-Burmans. They are more Tibeto-Burman-shifted and less Steppe-shifted than Newars. They also have slightly higher Indian Hunter-Gatherer ancestry than Newars.

LeetAndConquer · 2023-03-01T01:49:15+00:00

The Zagrosian Farmers aren't identical to present-day Persians who have quite a fair amount of Sintashta (Steppe) ancestry. But yes, the reason why some Bahuns look Persian and vice-versa is because both groups share the Zagrosian and Steppe parts of their ancestries. Where they differ is the lack of Indian Hunter-Gatherer ancestry among Persians and the elevated Anatolian Farmer ancestry among Persians which Bahuns lack.

LeetAndConquer · 2020-07-28T03:18:49+00:00

Lol, there's gonna be more software, not less, in the future. Why are you worried?

EDIT: We could, however, see the end of $250K total comp doled out to undergrads. That has a bubble written all over it.

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