That's actually far too depressingly plausible to be especially funny.
But I like how your brain works. Woo. :)
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Fri 22 Jul 2005, 11:30,
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mmm
i can see the future, they will be 'REQUIRED BY LAW' soon .. i can see it coming now...
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Fri 22 Jul 2005, 11:38,
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bugger....
errm well i grew up in dorset, as far as I was concerned there were white people and those that came from Somerset
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Fri 22 Jul 2005, 11:31,
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And
there was I thinking Cherokees were indians
/comes from Somerset
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Fri 22 Jul 2005, 11:34,
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/comes from Somerset
Hitler was a bit mad
and randomly decided they were blonde and blue eyed.
In reality they were (and still are, to a degree) a definitely darker-skinned race from nothern India.
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Fri 22 Jul 2005, 11:34,
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In reality they were (and still are, to a degree) a definitely darker-skinned race from nothern India.
bloody hell
B3TA taught me something today ...
who says it's just a bunch of ppl posting stupid pictures
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Fri 22 Jul 2005, 11:38,
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who says it's just a bunch of ppl posting stupid pictures
it isn't?
erm, I mean, yes, yes every day is a school day etc etc
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Fri 22 Jul 2005, 11:39,
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Nah
The first group to invade India were the Aryans, who came out of the north in about 1500 BC. The Aryans brought with them strong cultural traditions that, miraculously, still remain in force today. They spoke and wrote in a language called Sanskrit, which was later used in the first documentation of the Vedas. Though warriors and conquerors, the Aryans lived alongside Indus, introducing them to the caste system and establishing the basis of the Indian religions. The Aryans inhabited the northern regions for about 700 years, then moved further south and east when they developed iron tools and weapons. They eventually settled the Ganges valley and built large kingdoms throughout much of northern India.
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Fri 22 Jul 2005, 11:38,
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much of this is true
but that doesn't change the fact that they ain't blonde, blue eyed or particularly white.
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Fri 22 Jul 2005, 11:41,
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indeed
The idea of blue eyed blond Aryans was not suggested by Hitler, but by the Nazi philosopher, Alfred Rosenburg. He had a fondness for the blue eyed blond Nordic people. He thought that if Aryans are superior, why not identify them with the Nordic people. Thus, the compounding of many errors shifted the idea of Aryans by leaps and bounds.
Got to love google ;)
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Fri 22 Jul 2005, 11:45,
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Got to love google ;)
Nice quotes...
.. full articles here:
www.mapsofindia.org/history/
.. and here:
www.viewsunplugged.com/VU/20030306/mRajagopalan_aryanNation2.shtml
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Fri 22 Jul 2005, 12:59,
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www.mapsofindia.org/history/
.. and here:
www.viewsunplugged.com/VU/20030306/mRajagopalan_aryanNation2.shtml
Of course
If you ask an Indian/Pakistani historian, they'll be more likely to say the Aryans WHERE the Indus/Harrapan people, and it was them invading and settling out of India that spread Indo-European language, technology and religion to Iran and Europe. That's not the accepted intepretation by Western academia, but it's (not surprisingly) very popular in South Asia, where the entire concept of the Aryan Invasion is viewed as essentially being European propoganda.
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Fri 22 Jul 2005, 13:01,
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You are so right
however, it does appear that Sanskrit did arrive with people from the West. Of course they may have come from Central Asia or from the Middle East but I'm more inclined to believe the Western academics version, simply because of the cultural explosion that happened in that part of the world after the arrival of Sanskrit.
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Fri 22 Jul 2005, 13:22,
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No, I agree with you too
Although, er, technically the accepted view among Western historians and linguists is that the Proto-Indo-Europeans did come from Central Asia, around about the north-east of the Black Sea, and spread out from there to Europe in the west and Iran and India in the south-east (The Wikipedia article on Indo-European languages has some pretty good maps that illustrate the theory well).
I was merely pointing out that the theory popular in South Asia is that they came entirely from India, and that there was no invasion at all - just saying that there's always another viewpoint, especially on something as emotive as history ;)
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Fri 22 Jul 2005, 13:40,
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I was merely pointing out that the theory popular in South Asia is that they came entirely from India, and that there was no invasion at all - just saying that there's always another viewpoint, especially on something as emotive as history ;)
im confused...
what was hitler on about then when he was
speaking about the aryan race etc?
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Fri 22 Jul 2005, 11:34,
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speaking about the aryan race etc?
Blue eyed, blonde haired
more what we'd call scandanavian or norse.
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Fri 22 Jul 2005, 11:36,
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"the other"
might have been a better phrase than aryan.
I can't hear the phrase without thinking Nazis.
But your idea is amusing though.
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Fri 22 Jul 2005, 12:48,
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I can't hear the phrase without thinking Nazis.
But your idea is amusing though.
I feel sorry for them too
people kept moving away from my mate Ali this morning. Mind you, he does look a bit dodgy in a suit.
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Fri 22 Jul 2005, 11:31,
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What a smashing
idea :¬)
But the bombers will be easier to spot now that al Qaeda are cashing in with merchandising...
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Fri 22 Jul 2005, 11:32,
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But the bombers will be easier to spot now that al Qaeda are cashing in with merchandising...