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To: null and void
I've worked with a lot of Indians over the years. It's not just a language thing. We do think in the same patterns. The engineering solutions to problems are indistinguishable. Solutions that Chinese, Vietnamese, Philippine or Japanese engineers come up with, although perfectly valid, just 'feel' different. Don't know why.

India was invaded by the Aryans of Central Asia, who likely had a lot in common with the Celtic people who went on to settle Europe.

52 posted on 07/24/2011 10:47:54 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (When you've only heard lies your entire life, the truth sounds insane.)
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To: PapaBear3625
"India was invaded by the Aryans of Central Asia, who likely had a lot in common with the Celtic people who went on to settle Europe. "

Tocharians

"The Tocharians were the easternmost speakers of an Indo-European language in antiquity, inhabiting the Tarim basin in what is now Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, northwestern People's Republic of China. Their unique culture spanned from the 1st millennium BCE to the end of the 1st millennium CE. Their language is called Tocharian."

"The Knights With The Long Swords"

This is the Gansu Province of China and a handful of Caucasian only graveyards there were still being used into the 1300's. (The Chinese didn't show up in this region until about 200BC...they were the late-comers)

56 posted on 07/24/2011 11:49:12 AM PDT by blam
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To: PapaBear3625
India was invaded by the Aryans of Central Asia, who likely had a lot in common with the Celtic people who went on to settle Europe.

Posting such an idea can get you seriously flamed on some sites.

There is a whole group of Indians who for some obscure reason believe that saying the Aryans invaded India from Central Asia in the distant past is somehow insulting to India. They instead prefer a scenario where the Aryan languages originated in India and went west from there.

This is despite the fairly obvious fact that we have archaelogical and historical evidence of dozens of invasions of India from the northwest and exactly none going the other way.

I've never understood why they react this way, as the most common theories have the Italics, Greeks, Celts and other Indo-Europeans originating outside (western) Europe just as much as they do outside India.

57 posted on 07/24/2011 12:43:00 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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