Category: Open Thread

What’s going on? We’re out of Afghanistan!

I might as well mention that I’ll be doing a Pathan genetics and history room on Clubhouse in a bit over 5 hours. Clubhouse is now open to anyone on all major platforms.

I didn’t post an open thread last week because we haven’t been posting much content. But I’ll post this early.

A comment thread emerged on Twitter that “Indian American” culture is basically Punjabi culture. Thoughts? It was a fork on a comment that “German American” culture is a debased form of Bavarian culture.

I still post podcasts early from Unsupervised Learning on Patreon. Thanks to everyone who is a patron, since that keeps me paying for the podcast storage and software.

In case you aren’t subscribed, Akshar interviewed an Afghan official on the latest BP podcast. Our cadence has dropped off lately, but I’m assuming we’ll speed up again at some point soon.

On Kushal Mehra’s show talking about Dragon Man.

To prevent the extinction of Adibashis, the Bangladesh government must recognize their right to self-determination.

Happy birthday soon America.

A lot of the comments on the Pew India survey are quite dumb. Some not so dumb. The problem with stupid and emotional responses is that it makes it more difficult to address real issues of bias.

Indians: A Brief History of a Civilization looks good. Lots of reviews how it is Leftist.

What’s going on? Books on the Mughals? Something I can find in the USA?

I was on Abhinav’s show.

What’s going on? Sweet-meat Islam is the best Islam.

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This is an important paper, Why East Asians but not South Asians are underrepresented in leadership positions in the United States.

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