I can’t talk for every one. What I feel is

• More down to earth than us
• More diverse multi cultured than us
• More spiritual than us
• Less literacy than us
• Caste is more prevalent than us.
• More patriotic than us
• More religious than us
• Most hate Pakistan. (We understand there are reasons for it)
• Have more festivals than us (Holi for eg)
• Have more vegetarians per capita (Great salute Indians)
• Treat visitors well same as we do
• Very similar to us in philosophies and giving random advices.
• Typical Indian English is considered funnier than sri lankan English by westerners.
• We clearly know Hindu is a religion and Hindi

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It’s not really hate but more like annoyance. Indians are usually overly arrogant and patriotic. It’s cool that you like your country but don’t wave your flag in my face, you know what I mean? We hate that a lot of people consider India to be the ONLY country in South Asia. There are a ton of countries in South Asia and yet people always assume India’s the only country in the continent smh

Simple because of stereotypes most people in the west specially Arabs believe that all Pakistanis look like this because we are part of South Asia .

No doubt a fair percentage of Pakistanis do have the similar features but then again same cannot be said for the majority people are mostly arrogant who think this way moreover most Pakistanis in the Gulf are from south Pakistan due to close proximity that’s why people think of Pakistani people this way

Due to Pakistan’s geographical location you’ll find a variety in skin tone like south Pakistan(Sindh) is dark compared to rest of the country.

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Imagine Indonesia as a student enrolled in University of Southeast Asia.

Indonesia saw Malaysia walking around campus.

“Ugh, that guy again,” Indonesia mumbles.

Malaysia saw him. Indonesia waves, with a forced smile. Malaysia does exactly the same. Then Malaysia continues his walk, away from Indonesia.

They used to be extremely close during elementary school. But then something happened when they graduated. Malaysia went to a British high school while Indonesia went to a Dutch one. After that, it is safe to say they are no longer close friends.

But each secretly likes to remember the good old days

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Simply put geography.

Having dark skin near equator protects one from skin cancer. Those in the temperate zones, it helps in vitamin D synthesis.

Surprisingly, those in the polar regions are dark skinned – from the reflection of solar radiation on snow and ice.

You may not know this. Color of the skin has nothing to do with intelligence, beauty, wit, sociability, loving, caring or hospitality.

Sri Lankans is a nationality. A nationality doesn’t have colour.

The people on the picture are of ethnic Tamils who live in Northern and Central parts of Sri Lanka. Even the tamils are generally darker than Sinhalese, you would find that it differentiates from the social class, so don’t be surprised if you find Tamils who might be even paler than a British.

It would be slightly safely to assume that the major races are of below colour ranges based on observation. Please note that there are exceptions.

Sinhalese – Pale, Brown
Sri Lankan Tamil – Pale, Dark Brown
Sri Lankan Muslims – Pale, Light Bro

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Thanks for reading this answer.  

This

and this

(I photobomb sometimes)

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First, I should say this is an outdated classification. And Sri Lankans don’t look like Europeans or people of the Caucasus mountains thus we are not Caucasians by European standards.

South Asians are basically a mix of the native hunter-gatherers (AASI), Indus valley people (Mix of AASI and Iranians/ Iranian hunter-gatherers), Aryans who migrated from the steppe, and additionally east/southeast Asian genes .

When it comes to Sri Lankans, they have exact same ancestry components

Probably closer to the following figure given below.

East Asian component is higher in Lankan Malays.

While AASI component… 

During a cricket match, Yes!
Otherwise, No.

This wannabe Pakistani syndrome is a serious problem with Indians. Such questions being repeatedly asked by Indians is quite derogatory for the Indians themselves.

It seems like they continuously want to satisfy themselves by confirming the fact that they are related to Pakistan in some way, which, seemingly, gives them some kind of inner gratification.

A common Pakistani wouldn’t even think about calling himself or herself an Indian – and why should they? – whereas Indians keep trying to associate with us in one way or another.

We Pakistanis are the proud offspring of the Indus and Gandhara civi

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Got some money?

I don’t think white girls are any different that the others.

I’ve seen a bit of the world and believe me, money counts.

Biologically women are looking for comfort and resources.

If you have the resources they want than your chances improve.

Of course, if you are extra handsome, tall and young then you may be able to dabble but long term it’s about the resources.

I’m Sri Lankan. Precisely Sri Lankan Tamil. I believe Ramayana is history and it happened in very old time (Treta Yuga ). I also think Ramayana might contain some exaggerations but the core history as i perceive. Because i have travelled in many places in india and places mentioned in the epic.

I consider Rama as a noble prince of Ayodhya (ancient kingdom). I also believe Ravana as a great king warrior excellent martial artist. But abducting wife of some one else’s wife is morally wrong and he paid the price.

Sri Lanka is filled with Gorgeous Women (North Indians say otherwise) so I’m going to show Beautiful Women from olden days to now.

Queen Rangammal

Kandyan Lady

Let’s move on to the 20th century

 

Maureen Hingert, miss Ceylon 1955 and first ever South Asian Woman to act in Hollywood movies.

Yolande Shahzadi Ahlip, Miss Sri Lanka 1970 and Grandaughter of T.B. Jayah.

Malini Fonseca, Sri Lankan actress and the Queen of Sinahlese cinema.

Angela Seneviratne, Sri Lankan actress.

Rosy Senanayake (née. Ramanayake) Former mrs World and Sri Lankan politician.

Shivani Vasagam, former miss Sri Lanka 1999 and supermodel

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It is funny that this question appeared on my feed today.

Just this morning I broke the lock or “kundi” to the bathroom door because *ahem ahem* it was an emergency and my sibling simply refused to come out.

I was surprised at my own strength. I am not bragging and this is a true story. I hope you got your answer :

This is an American thing. In the UK, Indians and Pakistanis are actually considered “Asian”. When people say Asian they usually mean South Asians, and not necessarily people from Japan, Korea, China, etc. This is probably because South Asians are one of the biggest minority groups in the UK. In contrast, in the US, it’s reversed. The combined totals of people with origins in East Asia in the US is greater than from South Asia. Therefore, in places like CA, the term “Asian” usually refers to people from East Asia. However, I have not found that people don’t think South Asians are “Asian”. They

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For some reason when I open up Quora I always see questions like…

Do Pakistanis look similar to Afghans,Arabs,Turkish, and Iranian?

Do Pakistanis look more Persian than Indians?

Are Pakistanis the white people of South Asia?

Why are Afghans and Iranians considered middle eastern but not Pakistanis?

Are Pakistanis Arab?

Are Pakistanis Afghan?

Are Pakistanis basically Persian?

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But I rarely see Iranians, Afghans, Arabs or Turks etc… asking these questions. And It sounds very clear to me that only a Pakistani would ask this question!

These questions dont make any sense and the answers are very clear b

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South Asians form more or less their own race. Ancient South Asians were a distinct group with no close relation to other races. Today West-Asian influence is higher.

Some speak about a “Australoid ancestry”…

South Asia has no Australoid ancestry at all. Modern genetic and anthropologic studies show not connection of the native South Asians to the Australoid populations.

According to various studies, the ancient South Asians had a distinct ancestry and were not closely related to any humans outside of the Indian subcontinent.

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Though Pakistan is a nation which belongs to the 21st century in it’s current existence; did not exist before 1947. But, Pakistan and India got independence in the year 1947 on 14th & 15th Aug respectively. The whole concept of dividing the single nation India in to 2 nations we framed by then Leader of Muslim League M.A. Jinnah.

British also did not want India as one large nation, kept supporting this theory and were even fueling the matter. After WW-II the British had to leave India as there was a significant revolt within the Royal Indian Army as Subash Chandra Bose was ready to attack the B

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Yes ..

We Sri Lankan peoples are considered brown people.

This is a recently I was privileged take picture of a beautiful little girl from my town by me. Although we have varying shades of brown she represent the average brown I guess.

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Most Sri Lankans are dark skinned. Living 5 degrees north of the Equator means we need our dark skins to protect against the fierce sunshine. That being said, there is an ethnic group called the Burghers, who are descended from the Portuguese, Dutch and British and this group generally tends to be fair skinned.

source : Burgher people – Wikipedia

Based on the following topics I am going to explain how a typical Sri lankan differs from a typical Indian.

1. Cleanliness-Sri lankan is cleaner than the Indian. As a proof I can give that Colombo is the cleanest city of whole south asia. However Sri lanka is much cleaner than India.

2.Education-Sri lankan is more educated. As a proof I can give that the Sri lanka’s population has an adult literacy rate of 96.3%(2015), while it records south asia’s overall highest literacy rate. India’s adult literacy rate is just 74.04%(2015). And also Sri lanka records the highest mean years of schooling by any

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Question: Who is brown? Are Arabs brown, and are Sri Lankans brown? What do you think qualify as brown by race countries?

Well, Arabs are mostly Caucasoids with Light Brown to Fair skin tones / complexions and they mostly inhabit in Middle East and North Africa. Sri Lankans are on the other hand basically South Asians and much more related to other Southern Asian ethnic groups such as Bengalis and Tamils than they are to Arabs and other Middle Eastern communities. Linguistically, Arabs are Afro-Asiatic speakers while Sri Lankans are mostly Indo-Aryan speakers (Sinhalese) and to a lesser extent … (more

Himachel Pradesh India

Pakistan

Rajasthan North India

Sindh Pakistan

Punjab India …

There is a mixture of various gene infusions into Sri Lanka, from Indo-Aryans, Dravidian, Persian Aryans, Arabs, Europeans and Vedoid. All this has added beauty to the Sri Lankan female. She is polite, elegant and culturally rich and family oriented. She was deeply desired by many foreign visitors. All Sri Lankans should feel proud of Sri Lankan women. I am blessed to be born from the womb of a Sri Lankan woman. To me, my Sri Lankan mother was the most beautiful woman of all. When she passed away, I held a small Sri Lankan flag in my hand together with her photo and cried for days and took a v

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Sri Lankan Tamils (Tamil: இலங்கை தமிழர், sinhala- ශ්‍රී ලාංකීය දමිළ) are a minority tamil (a dravidan language) speaking group native to sri lanka.

Maya arulpragsam (MIA) a famous rapper of Sri lankan Tamil origin.

They are a result of early trade and political relationships of southern India and Sri Lanka.

Some came here as traders, migrants, some came here as invaders. Especially during era of Tamil chola dynasty.

Tamil chola empire at It’s peak

Even though they migrated from south of India they have unique tamil dialect and some unique cultural similarities with Sinhalese majority of the island.

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Let me speak the truth.

Truth is not one. We consider some thing as truth as what we perceive and conclude.

Sinhalese and Sri Lankan Tamils hate each other’s political leaders. They hate each other’s ideologies and political stance.

But with in heart they don’t hate each other individually.

But both of these community has a hate for Muslim community and think they are not trust-able.

A Sri Lankan Tamil despite heavily hating Sinhala Buddhist ideology still respect Sinhalese and trust to do a business with them or willing to hire them. They would love to work under them. But when it come to muslim t

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I am a sinhalese of srilanka and srilankans are quite similar to indian communities . Here are some physical traits compared to indians. Ethnic group and origin wise. Almost every Lankan can be considered as Caucasoid.

Sinhalese

Sinhalese are majority of srilankans according to the legend of origin the north indians/indo aryans who settled here in srilanka in early ages. Genetic distance wise closest group to sinhalese are bengali people of eastern india. According to molecular anthropology 72% of our genetics are from bengalis 12% from Gujarati 15% from tamils of south india. Thus we should have

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I’m Pakistani, which is categorically South Asian.

I’ve literally had people start yelling at me for calling myself Asian, because, apparently, without having the typical East Asian phenotype, I can’t be Asian.

Let me show you something, that should answer your question.

That’s a map of Asia.

You’re not going to be calling me European, now are you?

I am actually Asian. Regardless of whether or not you think I “look” Asian. Your opinion doesn’t really matter here.

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