http://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/a-little-asian-in-all-of-us/
Repost from the old site.
Well not quite, but you get the picture.
I am going to write a post about Asian genes in non-Asians. Mostly
or fully-Asian groups obviously occupy most of Asia. Even if we
subtract Australoids from Asians, many Melanesians have some Asian
in them, especially those in the east end of Indonesia> and
along the coast of New Guinea. In this case, the Asian is
Austronesian from Taiwan.
Papuans and Aborigines have little to no Asian mix. Polynesians are
a highly controversial people who have usually been thought of as
being 50% Melanesian and 50% Austronesian from Taiwan. However,
there is a new paper out suggesting that they are a
mostly-Austronesian people.
Micronesians are said to be the same. Previously, they were thought
to be Polynesians mixed with Melanesians. Polynesia is thought to
have been populated from Eastern Indonesia. Micronesia is thought
to have been populated from around Fiji. Fijians are Melanesians
with considerable Polynesian genes.
Obviously, mainland Asia is all Asian. Siberians are mostly Asian.
The Yakut, for instance, are mostly Asian, but they do
have 6% Caucasian in them.
The Caucasian comes from a group called the Sakas
who conquered Siberia 1,500 years ago. The
Mongolians are 86% Asian and 14% Caucasian.
The Hui are in interesting group inside China, south of Mongolia,
who are 93% Asian and 7% Caucasian. The Han
have no Caucasian in them.
Going west of Burma, we run into trouble. In NE India, the people
are mostly Asian. Going north to Nepal, you get an odd mix of all
sorts of people, some mostly Asian but others more of an East
Indian type.
A
very interesting, yet unclassifiable, type in Nepal. Clearly there
is an Asian component to this phenotype. There are some phenotypes
that look something like this in SE Asia, especially hill tribes in
Burma and Thailand. Come to think of it, doesn’t she look a bit
like the Naga below?
Nagas
of Northeast India. They cluster genetically with Tibetans. Some
think that they are the leftovers of the original people of the
region.
The
mother of this Nepalese family looks pretty Caucasian, but I have a
hard time classifying that phenotype. Something resembling that
phenotype can be seen in some of the Kalash. There is also some of
a North Indian-Punjabi component. The two daughters clearly have a
strong Asian element, thought it does not much resemble other Asian
types. The girl on the right looks a bit like a Filipina.
A
very Asian type in, believe it or not, Nepal. Yes. This phenotype
looks very Chinese and could be related to Tibetans. Nepalese are
very difficult to classify genetically due to the divergence of
types. Further, the peopling of Nepal is very poorly
understood.
North
Indians, possibly Punjabis. Many Punjabis look something like this.
They have 10% Asian genes and it is often apparent, especially in
the eyes.
Punjabis have about 10% Asian genes. You can sometimes see it in
their eyes.
Heading into Pakistan, some Pakistanis appear somewhat Asian. The
Kalash, whom we discussed in a previous post, often appear somewhat
Asian.
A
very interesting Kalash woman. The Kalash are so divergent that
they form one of two splits in the Caucasian Race – Kalash and
non-Kalash. No one quite knows much about them, but they seem to
have come from the Caucasus. Their genes are radically divergent.
Either they have experienced tremendous genetic drift or they are
some of the most ancient Caucasians of all.
The very early proto-Caucasians may have looked something like this
– they had heavy Asian admixture. This mixing of Black and Asian
was taking place in the Caucasus region.
More
Kalash. There are some very interesting types in this fascinating
group. Both the woman and her daughter look Asian, the daughter
more so. The woman seems to have an East Indian component.
Some Pashtuns look a little Asian, but many others just look pure
Caucasian.
When we head north from this area, we start running into some heavy
Asian-Caucasian mixes. This is the zone where these two great major
races have seriously mixed. Heading East to Western China, we find
the Uighurs, a group that is 61% Asian and 39% White. This Muslim group is
heavily repressed by China and some have taken up arms against the
state. I do support this secessionist movement.
Uighurs.
A most interesting group of people from West China. This area has
clearly seen a tremendous amount of Caucasian-Asian mixing for a
long time now. It is in this region that burial tombs have been
unearthed that revealed Caucasian mummies, some with red hair.
Of course, this drove White nationalist insane people even more
insane. China was an ancient White homeland! Except the “Whites”
were probably some Iranian or Caucasus types that these idiots have
excised from their precious White race. At any rate, a few
Caucasian bodies here and there does not a homeland make. There
were and are plenty of Asians running around this region too. Truth
is that Iranian types from the steppes have been invading this
region for ages.
Tocharian, perhaps one of the earliest forms of Indo-European, may
have been spoken on these windy steppes 8,000 years ago. The
Uighurs are 61% Asian and 39% Caucasian. Their movement for
liberation has been heavily repressed by the Chinese. Some have
been radicalized and have moved down into Afghanistan and the
Pakistan tribal areas to work with the local Taliban, but in
general, Islam in this region is quite moderate and reasonable.
It’s questionable whether or not China even has much of a claim to
this land. The girl on the right has a very interesting phenotype.
She looks quite Caucasian, but that Caucasian look is actually
specific to the Caucasus. I look at her and think “Dagestani”.
White-Chinese hapas in the US often look something like this
also.
Heading West, Uzbeks in Uzbekistan are clearly a very mixed race
people – they are 59% Asian and 41% Caucasian.
An
Uzbek man with a turban. A syncretic form of Islam was popular
here, but due to religious repression, some Uzbeks have turned to
radical Islam. The group is called the IMU. They were defeated in
Uzbekistan and the remnants moved to Afghanistan to link up with
the Taliban. After the Taliban were defeated, many moved into the
tribal areas where many IMU fighters married local women. They form
a significant component of the Pakistani Taliban who are fighting
in the tribal areas right now.
A
young Uzbek man. This man looks very Caucasian, other than the
slight Asian eyes. The outfit would not be out of place in
Afghanistan.
An
Uzbek woman. As you can see, at 41%, the Caucasian element is very
high in Uzbeks. The phenotype is difficult to place, but the
Caucasian element could resemble a Greek, a Georgian or possibly an
Iranian.
Heading further West, the Kazakhs are strangely even more Asian:
they are 70% Asian and 30% Caucasian.
Heading back towards China, we come to the Altai, a region where
Mongolia, China and Russia all come together. This is thought to be
the region from which the Amerindians came from. These people are
best categorized as Northern Turkics and they all speak a Turkic
language.
Some people here are very mixed (figures here): The Shor are 51% Caucasian and 49%
Asian, the Altai themselves are 53% Asian and 47% Caucasian, the
Khakass are 72% Asian and 28% Caucasian, the Sojots are 81% Asian
and 19% Caucasian and the famous throat-singers, the Tuvans, are
89% Asian and 11% Caucasian.
These people are best thought of as members of a subrace known as
the Uralic Race, even though they speak Turkic tongues. The Uralics
generally speak languages related to Finnish.
Anthropologically, the Uralics are mysterious. We do not really
know much about them or where they came from, but they are the
subject of endless speculation, especially by Finnish researchers,
who are fascinated by the question. For instance, the proto-Uralics
were said to be neither Asians nor Caucasians. Ok, fine, so what
were they?
Moving into Europe, we continue to encounter Asian genes. The Turks
have a very large component of Asian genes, such that it is
difficult to characterize them as Asian or Caucasian. I put them
into Caucasian more on appearance than on anything else.
Heading north into Russia, it has long been known that Russians are
part Asian. One can often note an Asiatic component in Russians. I
had a Russian girlfriend once named Natasha who lived in the Bay
Area. She had some slight Asiatic phenotypical traits.
In the part of Russia called Novgorod Oblast, the Russians
are 3% Asian and 7% Finn. The Oblast is in the
western part of Russia near Latvia, Estonia, St Petersburg and
Leningrad. Heading into Europe now, we are surprised to find
that Czechs are 3% Asian.
Although
Yugoslavians are Slavs just like Czechs, I am not aware of the
amount of Asian genes in them, if any. Some say that Yugoslavs,
especially Serbs, look very Mediterranean, but I am not so sure. I
am not sure which part of Yugoslavia these young women are from,
but they are wearing traditional costumes.
What amazed me was how similar these women looked in phenotype.
Granted, they’ve all curled up their hair the same way and they are
wearing the same costumes, but if you look closely at the first
five women from the left, tell me I’m hallucinating when I see a
common phenotype in their facial appearance. Anyone else see
it?
That the Hungarians are part-Asian has long been noted. I am not
sure about the exact numbers though.
Both the Finns and Estonians are thought to have Asian genes and
the Lapps surely do, but I believe they only have 7% Asian
genes.
It often doesn’t take much Asian genes to affect the phenotype. One
of the first things you notice is a sparseness of body hair and
tendency of body hair to be more straight than kinky. Also, even at
low gene levels, you often start seeing a bit of an epicathal fold
in the eyes.
