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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open thread for general discussion, asking readers to keep other posts on topic, with links to the podcast, Twitter, RSS feed and Patreon.
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The rise of Islam after 1500 in the Indian subcontinent
Razib Khan recommends Richard Eaton’s The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, which explains Muslim majorities in eastern Bengal by peasant adoption of Islam under Mughal-era elites after 1576,…
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Brown privilege in the American executive suite
Discussing a study across nine experiments finding East Asians underrepresented in US leadership while South Asians outperform whites, the author draws out its explanation: cultural differences in assertiveness rather than…
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Family Karma: the power of assimilation
Comments that a new Bravo show about Indian Americans in Miami appears to follow the formula of similar reality shows, adding a superficial ethnic cast.
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Why physical appearance is an imperfect individual proxy for ancestry
Razib Khan argues that physical appearance is an imperfect proxy for individual ancestry, using the Kalash: some look European and some South Asian, yet genetically they are about 30 per…
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Open Thread – Brown Pundits
Open thread for general discussion, asking readers to keep other posts on topic, with links to the podcast, Twitter, RSS feed and Patreon.
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Most Bangladeshis are 10% to 20% East Asian
Notes that consumer DNA tests fail to make clear that Bengali ancestry typically includes 10 to 20 per cent East Asian ancestry, using a vlogger’s puzzled results as the example.
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The Indian Neolithic
Observes that understanding South Asian genetic patterning needs better knowledge of Neolithic archaeology, citing Chirand in Bihar, with extensive Neolithic remains at least 4,500 years old, and asking who those…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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