Here in SA, anyone with mixed blood is referred to as coloured. And the rest is referred to as Indian, White (English or Afrikaner), Blacks. Very dynamic and awesome country to be in!!

for google, this person is wrong, though they don’t know as much as i do, so no worries. The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans has data on cape coloureds. jump down to figure 6, and it is clear that cape coloureds are probably as much indian as they are european. genetically if not culturally.

Well, The recent Indian election have 550 million voters, 55-58% average vote, that is more than 300 million legal votes. 2 million government officials were working especially for election, 200,000 military/CRPF were deployed in 7 phases of the election. And not all the votes were electronic. So just think how big the democratic process of India is.

        I'm avid cricket fan but who cares about it. Please tell me one single un-developed country that has maintained democracy for more than 60+ years (barring 6 month emergency). May be cricket will never become soccer or NFL. But democracy is the single biggest achievement of INDIA. 

The Deccan chargers represent Hyderabad.

What you said is wrong. The south african “coloureds” are primarily a mix of european and african. The indian contribution to their mix is not a “lot” by any reasonable measure. The malays in South Africa were also classified as coloureds in the apartheid system while the japanese, taiwanese and koreans were treated as “honorary whites”. Indians had a separate classification:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_South_Africans

During ideological apartheid from 1948-1994, Indians were called, and often voluntarily accepted, terms that ranged from “Black” to “Asians” to “Indians.” Some citizens believed that these terms were improvements on the negatively defined identity of “Non-White”, which was their previous status. Politically conscious and nationalistic Indian South Africans wanted to show both their heritage and their local roots. Increasingly they self-identified as “African”, “Black”, “South African” and, when necessary, “Indian South Africans”……………….Discriminated against by apartheid legislation, such as the Group Areas Act, applied in 1950, Indians were forcibly moved into Indian townships, and had their movements restricted. They were not allowed to reside in the Orange Free State, and needed special permission to enter that province. They were also, as a matter of state policy, given an inferior education compared to white South Africans.

obama isn’t south african. in any case, coloured is a cultural as well a a biological group. they speak afrikaans and tend to be dutch reformed, aside from the cape malays who are muslim. in any case, as i said the average coloured as a lot of indian ancestry anyhow.