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Tag: Open Thread
Open Thread – 05/15/2021 – Brown Pundits
What’s going on? COVID-19 in India, the Middle East conflict, etc. I can’t wait for “white boy summer” to really start. Too much news.
Open Thread – 04/30/2021 – Brown Pundits
Readers of BP will be interested in a free piece I have on my Substack (I’m writing this before I send it so not a direct link). It’s brown-related.
Open Thread – 4/24/2021 – Brown Pundits
My piece on India was hated by the Left and far Right (“Trad” Twitter). Both were pretty incoherent and smug too.
Open Thread – 4/17/2021
What’s going on brownz?
Open Thread – 04/10/2021 – Brown Pundits
What’s going on?
Open Thread – 04/03/2021 – Brown Pundits
What’s going on? Will be posting multi-part series on the steppe on my substack.
Also, BP-brand is growing on Clubhouse. Android will come on soon.
Open Thread – 03/20/2021 – Brown Pundits
What’s going on? Lots of “brown” chat on Clubhouse.
Open Thread – 03/13/2021 – Brown Pundits
A long (paid) piece on Substack, They came, they saw, they left no trace…
except for all of Western Civilization. This is about the genetics of Italy.
My usual 7 PM PDT Friday night chat on Clubhouse will be about the genetics of Italy (Saturday morning India time). this link should work (if you are on an iPhone click it).
What Can Biden’s Plan Do for Poverty? Look to Bangladesh. The usual Nicholas Kristof thing. That being said it is interesting that when there is talk about Bangladesh’s economic success (relative), a fair number of Indians point out major issues (reliance on the single sector for export). This is all fine…but honestly, it feels l ike sour grapes. In 2020, a horrible year, Bangladesh was #3 in growth in the world (and the fastest large nation).
Going to do an interview with a linguist who studies Proto-Indo-European for my podcast. Interesting how his papers suggest Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic are a clade. R1a FTW!
Update: Someone on the Subreddit found the archives of the original BP site from 2011/2012 (I have the archives in MySQL but haven’t loaded them; we suffered intense hacks from Hindutva in 2012/2013 so moved to blogspot for a while).
Also, BP got a Clubhouse Club! So we’ll do chats there soon.
Open Thread – 03/06/2021 – Brown Pundits
A Muslim Indian is kind of annoyed that I say “Muslims in the subcontinent are descended from Hindus.” By this, I mean 99% of the ancestry.
Of course, it can be hard to see the impact of Iranian ancestry. I’m going to look more closely to update my estimate.
I recently got contacted by a British research group. They sample thousands of Bangladeshis, and unlike the Pakistanis, they saw no internal structure aside from some individuals who seem to be a Tibeto-Burman tribal people. Like I said: the Bangladeshis might be called Hindus by Pakistanis, but the Pakistanis marry like they’re Hindus, the Bangladeshis don’t.