Comments on: And You Don’t Look…

By: Anirvan

Anirvan — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 02:26:40 +0000

It looks like the image at http://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/?p=4694 was replaced by an excerpted version of the public domain South Asia map at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:South_Asia_%28ed%29update.PNG . Can’t get more South Asian than that, right?

By: test

test — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 06:25:33 +0000

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By: razib khan - atheist

razib khan - atheist — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 06:27:26 +0000

scientific press releases...sigh.

and of course they don't look like typical south asians. and i surely have more east asian ancestry than most people on this thread (nepalis, etc., excepted). some south asians look east asian, some look white, some look black. most don't. most ~95% i'd say.

By: nk

nk — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 22:52:20 +0000

imbibing spirits isn’t the only way to get a glow – quality cardio workouts provide a nice healthy glow – we’re lucky in my family we have no diabetes -good sattvic diet, meditation plus some sort of daily exercise goes a long way towards preventing many illnesses as well as genetics: carefully arranged marriages can be highly eugenical (no inbreeding or radical outbreeding) -when i was in school and toiling away in retail hell, my worst customers (through no fault of my own) were the non-Punjabi “indian/s. asian” customers – i think a lot of this has to do with the political situation of Punjab (divided/oppressed) so they just saw me as easy target -

By: Sujata

Sujata — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 20:12:51 +0000

Here's the response from NYU to my pointing out that a picture of drunk asians was probably not the most educational choice they could have made for the article:

You are absolutely correct, and I apologize for the very poor choice of picture by one of our editors (not the author or reviewer) and the lack of pickup by anyone else on our staff. Unfortunately, most of us including myself have been very distracted evacuating and repopulating our hospitals because of Hurricane Irene. Regardless, that is not an excuse and I am ultimately responsible for the content of our website. Iâ€™ve removed the picture and replaced it with a proper map of the region. Thanks for the pickup and please accept our apologies.

Neil Shapiro Editor-in-Chief, Clinical Correlations

By: Jeevan Devanur

Jeevan Devanur — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:51:23 +0000

Arvind, it is not just the correctness but (correctness * probability of being correct) that matters more. You are correct when you say they can be from north-east, but probability is very low (consider the total rest of the Indian population & N-E population). So a brown face should be more appropriate to represent Indians. If you go that way you can put an Africans photo & claim that they are some remote tribe in India!

By: dhruva

dhruva — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:40:06 +0000

As a graduate of CEG, Madras I was quite taken aback by the word Guindian appearing in the article- the link to Urban Dictionary does have an entry for the usage I'm familiar with. Considering that CEG is the oldest engineering college in India there might be more Guindians who satisfy that definition!

Btw, @PeoplesRepublicofDravida- Anne Hathaway is like 5'8", not petite by any stretch of imagination!

By: aravind

aravind — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:14:29 +0000

Come on, SepiaMutiny. They could be Burmese, Mizo or Manipuri. Maybe not Naga, Khasi or Boro, because they seem fairer than the average Nagaland-niwasi, but they could very likely be from Manipur. In fact, one of my manipuri friends’ sisters looked exactly like that. Get off the criticism and the hyper-reactiveness. Determining race by skin color and epicanthal fold size is just another way to fall back on the ignorant western classification of racial types popularised by enthropometricists in the 20th century. Coming from an area as racially diverse as India, lets try to unlearn some of that European misconception, shall we?

By: Vipul Divecha

Vipul Divecha — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:41:54 +0000

Paul, I’m actually making a documentary this year that I’ve been planning for about eight years now. It’s about Indian American artists and what they’ve been through. Some of what I write about here is in the documentary. If you know of anyone that would be interested and they’re in Texas or from Texas, it would be great to interview them. I’m looking for people of all ages, but the best range would be artists in the range of 30-70 male or female. If they can trace some sort of ancestry to the Indian subcontinent, it will work. For example, in Houston I found a man who on both sides of the family they are British Anglo and Indian.

By: rcola

rcola — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:04:29 +0000

Anna, this is not a big deal even if the author posted this unintentionally. South Asians from northeast India may well look more East Asian. India is a diverse nation, much like the U.S. It would be just as fair to portray Indian/Pakistani-Americans as prototypical Americans in an article on diabetes in the U.S. #mash-up