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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There was an Indian ethnicity…

    Not just because of plate tectonics, but because a population lived there in isolation for thousands of years, long enough to become distinct enough genetically to be their own racial group.

    But then another wave of migration happened and modern Indians killed pretty much all of them. The ones who survived are the “bottom caste” in the caste system those new immigrants implemented.

    There’s a lot of Indian propaganda to make it seem like that native population just never existed. And modern Indians have always inhabited India, yet somehow still aren’t ethnically Indian either.

    If it’s confusing, that’s kind of the point. Lots of far right authoritarian governments don’t care about logical consistency, they just say whatever makes them look best in any situation