This is, I guess, Reich's locus classicus of mixture amd migration that needs to be embraced now by everyone everywhere.
Most Indians, with all their variety, Reich describes briefly at p 127: "...The people of India are also diverse...skin from dark to pale,...some faces like Europeans, others like Chinese (or like African negroes)."
African negroes look like dark Chinese, or Chinese look like yellow or tan colored negroes, however you want to put it.
Few African or Chinese faces look like Europeans, colors aside. Many more Indians do, for the obvious reasons he describes, West Eurasian penetration.
African negroes look like dark Chinese, or Chinese look like yellow or tan colored negroes, however you want to put it.
Few African or Chinese faces look like Europeans, colors aside. Many more Indians do, for the obvious reasons he describes, West Eurasian penetration.
Yet, Reich cautions against overinterpreting physical appearances as genetic, saying it could be just environment and diet. He really knows better.
What has their exemplary multicultural mixing and migration, but with intermittent clashes, and grinding age old caste endogamy, going back to prehistoric days, obtained for Indians today?
As BBC News noted the other day, billions, including hundreds of millions of Indians today, probably the great majority of them, defecate out in the open.
Think about these things when contemplating economists' global economic convergence of global population income and wealth, or geneticists' ideology of global convergence of genetic characteristics.
Giving them Bill Gates toilets makes about as much sense as distributing Twinkies to them.
Giving them Bill Gates toilets makes about as much sense as distributing Twinkies to them.
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