Trevek
27 Aug 2010
Genealogy / Mixed-Blood Poles in America (Do we count?) [118]
lol, it's a bit like the Irish-speaking Chinese guy in a take-away in Galway.
But is that because they are Indian muslims, Pakistani people of the Indian subcontinent or just Hindu/Christian brown skinned people who others thought were from Pakistan? often, in old literature, someone is defined as a nationality based on something like their faith, so Muslims are often referred to as "Turks", even tho' they weren't from Turkey.
I was thinking of something like this when I saw "Who do you think you are?" a couple of weeks ago. There was a British actor whose family, on his mothers side, had been involved in India for several generations, as members of the Raj and British army. Eventually it turned out he had an Indian, or mixed race, ancestor. But I was wondering if his family could be called 'Indian' just because they had been based in the country for so many years, even though they were white British colonialists.
I remember being a small kid and meeting a black man in London and I was surprised that he spoke English with such a definite London accent, it appeared like a dubbing.
lol, it's a bit like the Irish-speaking Chinese guy in a take-away in Galway.
What if, like many Indians, you were called Pakistani?
But is that because they are Indian muslims, Pakistani people of the Indian subcontinent or just Hindu/Christian brown skinned people who others thought were from Pakistan? often, in old literature, someone is defined as a nationality based on something like their faith, so Muslims are often referred to as "Turks", even tho' they weren't from Turkey.
You can be just as much a white Zambian as you can a black Irish but generally people with less melanin in their skin originate from Europe.
I was thinking of something like this when I saw "Who do you think you are?" a couple of weeks ago. There was a British actor whose family, on his mothers side, had been involved in India for several generations, as members of the Raj and British army. Eventually it turned out he had an Indian, or mixed race, ancestor. But I was wondering if his family could be called 'Indian' just because they had been based in the country for so many years, even though they were white British colonialists.