Funny, the narrator speaks of variety of tribes in Northeast India 3:13 while he shows a crowd of as much variety of people across India as possible, including the most obvious, Sikhs, who are chiefly from Punjab albeit spread everywhere. There goes the different races thought!
Northeast Indians are not "viewed as foreigners" 3:00 - 3:34, any more than southern or northern ones, but looks alone aren't enough to define nationality, and differences of culture are quite extreme in distant corners - a deep southerner is as diverse from a typical Punjabi, especially if neither is urban, and the same is true of northeast vs Punjab or Kerala or even central parts.
We recall a time when we saw a very strikingly beautiful woman with her husband and son in South India, and while the two males looked Indian enough, she had the most brilliantly beautiful green eyes, colour of fresh grass in spring, with very oriental shapes of features, and we thought she could be from Ladakh. Turned out she was from Kazakhstan, the husband from U.S. and while we didn't question his race it became obvious he was of European ancestry. They were then living, and working, in that region of India. The son went to school there, and they counted all three countries as their own.
Often when differences of behaviour are beyond reconciliable and there are tensions, it's convenient for those attempting to disturb India as general racism or worse, but exactly the same tensions can and just as often do exist within not only people of the same regions, they do in families, between blood relatives too. Strangers taking advantage of this is no different whether it's a family or a nation.
Narrator mentions Nepal, 3:30 - 3:50 but people of Nepal or Bhutan or Sri Lanka or so on aren't visibly or otherwise so strange or different from the adjoining parts of India, culturally or otherwise. Political boundaries count for legalities, but not for relationships of people. Nepal strictly speaking isn't foreign to heart of India and for that matter the Tibetan refugees considering India a home or not is entirely their own choice, they arent given any tsuris! Nor were Jews, ever, in any part of India. Or Parsis.
Really this video seems to be made by an agency with an agenda of poking to see if they can make troubke in India. Isn't Alabama police paralyzing old fathers of U.S. residents, or Mississippi police shooting local youth for perfectly normal behaviour such as shopping, enough to concern this narrator? Racism is rampant when young brilliant sons of India are shot dead in U.S. by locals for no reason at all. Stop making trouble for India and see what werewolfish interests that troublemaking serves.
India isn't a race, it's a culture, and as for looking different, there are as many similar people as extremely dissimilar given any two locations, however close or far. There is huge southern chip on shoulder about colour, but anyone with unbiased eyes can find dark northerners and fair, even light eyed and light haired southerners - or westerners or southwesterners - and the northeast merely is adjoining a border, but so is any other border region or coastal region. Stop feeding the separation feeling and let India love diversity of every kind allowed to grow through millennia!
Responding to a comment below the original YT video by Atolimi267 Kiba:-
"I am from north east NAGALAND and i dont think it's just the north east people look different but people from different part of India has different looks and different identy . PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN , PROUD TO BE A NAGA ."
Atolimi267 Kiba - very well said, and what's more, looks are quite often typecast incorrectly too, especially due to Brits trying to break up India after 1857.
Responding to a comment below the original YT video by Serchhip Chelsea:-
"Wow! These people looks like us. I'm from Osaka, Japan."
Yes, Japan to central Asia to southeast Asia there are similarities, not everyone identical but lot. Just as Europe to central Asia to southernmost tip of India there are light eyes and hair and fair skin, too, with more or less occurrence, and similarly other colours throughout India including separated parts. Diversity in India is a rich heritage.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KhMVjEVD6aI
Northeast Indians are not "viewed as foreigners" 3:00 - 3:34, any more than southern or northern ones, but looks alone aren't enough to define nationality, and differences of culture are quite extreme in distant corners - a deep southerner is as diverse from a typical Punjabi, especially if neither is urban, and the same is true of northeast vs Punjab or Kerala or even central parts.
We recall a time when we saw a very strikingly beautiful woman with her husband and son in South India, and while the two males looked Indian enough, she had the most brilliantly beautiful green eyes, colour of fresh grass in spring, with very oriental shapes of features, and we thought she could be from Ladakh. Turned out she was from Kazakhstan, the husband from U.S. and while we didn't question his race it became obvious he was of European ancestry. They were then living, and working, in that region of India. The son went to school there, and they counted all three countries as their own.
Often when differences of behaviour are beyond reconciliable and there are tensions, it's convenient for those attempting to disturb India as general racism or worse, but exactly the same tensions can and just as often do exist within not only people of the same regions, they do in families, between blood relatives too. Strangers taking advantage of this is no different whether it's a family or a nation.
Narrator mentions Nepal, 3:30 - 3:50 but people of Nepal or Bhutan or Sri Lanka or so on aren't visibly or otherwise so strange or different from the adjoining parts of India, culturally or otherwise. Political boundaries count for legalities, but not for relationships of people. Nepal strictly speaking isn't foreign to heart of India and for that matter the Tibetan refugees considering India a home or not is entirely their own choice, they arent given any tsuris! Nor were Jews, ever, in any part of India. Or Parsis.
Really this video seems to be made by an agency with an agenda of poking to see if they can make troubke in India. Isn't Alabama police paralyzing old fathers of U.S. residents, or Mississippi police shooting local youth for perfectly normal behaviour such as shopping, enough to concern this narrator? Racism is rampant when young brilliant sons of India are shot dead in U.S. by locals for no reason at all. Stop making trouble for India and see what werewolfish interests that troublemaking serves.
India isn't a race, it's a culture, and as for looking different, there are as many similar people as extremely dissimilar given any two locations, however close or far. There is huge southern chip on shoulder about colour, but anyone with unbiased eyes can find dark northerners and fair, even light eyed and light haired southerners - or westerners or southwesterners - and the northeast merely is adjoining a border, but so is any other border region or coastal region. Stop feeding the separation feeling and let India love diversity of every kind allowed to grow through millennia!
Responding to a comment below the original YT video by Atolimi267 Kiba:-
"I am from north east NAGALAND and i dont think it's just the north east people look different but people from different part of India has different looks and different identy . PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN , PROUD TO BE A NAGA ."
Atolimi267 Kiba - very well said, and what's more, looks are quite often typecast incorrectly too, especially due to Brits trying to break up India after 1857.
Responding to a comment below the original YT video by Serchhip Chelsea:-
"Wow! These people looks like us. I'm from Osaka, Japan."
Yes, Japan to central Asia to southeast Asia there are similarities, not everyone identical but lot. Just as Europe to central Asia to southernmost tip of India there are light eyes and hair and fair skin, too, with more or less occurrence, and similarly other colours throughout India including separated parts. Diversity in India is a rich heritage.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KhMVjEVD6aI
