Etho theriyaama vaaya kuduthuttu muzhichindu irukken ( I want to say "aalai vidunga saami" so badly :-) but I won't
Jokes aside, here's what I actually meant to say ( disclaimer: this is strictly my understanding, not based on any scientific studies :-)
Doesn't proximity to the sun over thousands of years play a part in one's skin color genetic makeup? (as in early man or when human species evolved?) and then gets handed down generations? I meant to add genetics/heredity to my 'proximity theory' but I was half asleep when I wrote that (infamous) email :-(
So Krupa, I agree, if you put a black man/his future generations in white country for 400 years, his skin color is not going to change.
I guess I really meant my theory for when the human species was evolving.
Thilak, I think Columbians/Brazilians are darker skinned compared to say, north Americans, right?
I could still be wrong, of course which won't be the 1st time too :-(
here's a link that talks about skin color and its relation to the effects of sun.it's a bit long but I'm cutting/pasting an excerpt from it:
Until the 1980s, researchers could only estimate how much ultraviolet radiation reaches Earth's surface. But in 1978, NASA launched the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer. Three years ago, Jablonski and Chaplin took the spectrometer's global ultraviolet measurements and compared them with published data on skin color in indigenous populations from more than 50 countries. To their delight, there was an unmistakable correlation: The weaker the ultraviolet light, the fairer the skin. Jablonski went on to show that people living above 50 degrees latitude have the highest risk of vitamin D deficiency. "This was one of the last barriers in the history of human settlement," Jablonski says. "Only after humans learned fishing, and therefore had access to food rich in vitamin D, could they settle these regions."
Humans have spent most of their history moving around. To do that, they've had to adapt their tools, clothes, housing, and eating habits to each new climate and landscape. But Jablonski's work indicates that our adaptations go much further. People in the tropics have developed dark skin to block out the sun and protect their body's folate reserves. People far from the equator have developed fair skin to drink in the sun and produce adequate amounts of vitamin D during the long winter months.
Here is something I read sometime during DEC 2002. I wanted to ask knowledgeable people about this. I am glad that I could do that now (finally..... phew)
cool link mathy, thanks.so it says indian journey was like this m168, m8, m9, m20. and m20 is the decendents of central asia and iran (m9) and mark 50% of south indians. so, the other 50% enna aachu? adhan dravidiansa?ayayo! latha effect... thookathla olarrennu nenakiren.. puriya vainga!Wait pannikondirukum,Thilak
btw Ms. Latha, anchor tag use panninaa, close panra pazhakkam illayaa ungalukku? mothalla nalla editor-a paaththu mail type pannunga (adhiga prasangi:)))
btw, thilak, chat-la paaththukkarane. inga podhu idaththula vaendaam. idhukku, kalla vottu poattadhukku (CVP), yellaaththukkum thaniyaa paesalaam naama rendu paerum.
maruththuvar ayya...
ungalidam niraya paesanum...
first,
>Was it a Aryan way of keeping the natives(Dravidians) out of their >social system...and creating a social barrier.,....
If Dravidians are the natives and Aryans are from some other place, then the entire brahminic system in India is not a big joke. There is evidence that the so called "brahmins" existed in India even before the so called "Aryan invasion". I can prove this, sort of. So, whatever this theory, the brahmana, kshatriya, soothira, and chandaala (Untouchables), was not developed the "Aryans", but by Hindus. And Hindus mean Indians, not just the so called Aryans.
>So was there a change or confluence we may be evolutionary >descendants of a mixture of the two races like the fair >afrocaribians in the US
If we are such a hybrid "kuzhandhaigal", how did we manage to forget our mother tongue and still follow our "Aryan Culture"?