Posted on 10/21/2007 6:49:56 AM PDT by avacado
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (AP) -- U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal became the nation's youngest governor and the first nonwhite to hold post in Louisiana since Reconstruction when he carried more than half the vote to defeat 11 opponents.
Jindal, the Republican 36-year-old son of Indian immigrants, had 53 percent with 625,036 votes with about 92 percent of the vote tallied. It was more than enough to win Saturday's election outright and avoid a November 17 runoff.
"My mom and dad came to this country in pursuit of the American dream. And guess what happened. They found the American Dream to be alive and well right here in Louisiana," he said to cheers and applause at his victory party.
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When he takes office in January, Jindal will become the nation's youngest governor in office. He pledged to fight corruption and rid the state of those "feeding at the public trough," revisiting a campaign theme.
"They can either go quietly or they can go loudly, but either way, they will go," he said, adding that he would call the Legislature into special session to address ethics reform.
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It's true alot of East Indian girls look very caucasian, basically seem like white girls with a dark tan. Here's the sexy Huma Naeem, a Jindal supporter:
I agree it's kind of silly to classify them as "Asian" when they have virtually nothing in common with people from Japan, China, Korea, etc.
Nevertheless, that IS how governments classify people descended from the India subcontinent... "East Asian". They are Indo-European by ethnicity but they not classified as "Caucasian" in the census.
“Aye, but the “Official” (and therefore Sacred) definitions do not correspond to the ethnographic definitions.”
I still remember the first time (and there have been many times since), the real reason that educated liberals like abortion so much. "Do you know how many babies 'they' would have otherwise", I was told. I didn't have to be told who 'they' was.
The classic Linnaean races are: Mongoloid, Caucasoid, and Negroid.
"Modern" thinking has Africans, Caucasians, East Asians, Oceanian, and Native Americans.
In terms of genetic diversity, there isn't a pinch of sh!t's worth of difference between them.
Wasn’t that why Margaret Sanger started Planned Parenthood?
“They” were the Irish, Italians, Jews, Blacks, etc.
Congrats Bobby! Now show the country what a conservative practicing Catholic can and won’t do with the reins of power.
The word Aryan and Dravidian are politically debated and their application by europeans, iranians and so many other people only adds to the confusion. Its easier to use Caucasian, but Russians and other eastern white people dont regard them self as such. They use that word to identify those from the Caucas regions - Georgian, Armenian, Azeris - etc.
India has three main groups of people. North, south and north-eastern people. One can distinguish between them by their facial features than skin color, since in this day and age every one is mixing. Northies have prominent caucasian features and many have light eyes. Southies have (typically) aboriginal+ caucasian mixed features. North-easterners are mostly a hybrid mixture of Indians and Chinese.
Now even though Jindal’s parents are from Punjab, north punjabi, he is a bit dark complexioned than the average Punjabi. His wife looks more north indian than him.
Bollywood movies teach us that the average punjabi couple looks like this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=NM1MUgW4sqE
Yeah, the best ones hit and start to hurt long before the target knows anything landed...
"She's a friend of them long-haired, hippie-type pinko fags,
I betcha she's even got a Commie flag
tacked up on the wall inside of her garage.
She's a snake in the grass, I tell you guys,
she may look dumb, but that's just a disguise..."
- With apologies to Charlie Daniels. :-)
Yes it was, primary the blacks today is what they mean. In the past, it included others such as you listed, the so-called undesirables.
What “ethnographic definitions” are you referring to?
The classic Linnaean races are: Mongoloid, Caucasoid, and Negroid.
“Modern” thinking has Africans, Caucasians, East Asians, Oceanian, and Native Americans.
In terms of genetic diversity, there isn’t a pinch of sh!t’s worth of difference between them.
His Mongolian race included all East Asians and some Central Asians. Blumenbach excluded Southeast Asian islands and Pacific Islanders from his definition as he considered them to be part of the Malay race; and American Indians as he considered them to be part of the American race.
It is Blumenbach’s five race model and not Linneaus’ four race model that has been more widely accepted ever since.
For some interesting reading on the subject “google” “The Geometer of Race” by Stephen Jay Gould and check it out!
Thanks. That was more or less what I was looking for. I don’t think much about race, and so was having trouble selecting good search terms. (I did get a lot of useless info on various marathons, though)...
I think this is great! Hopefully more and more minority voters come over to the conservative side. He is a success story, what an inspiration! Now, lets hope he is a good governor.
They are considered this scientifically speaking, yes. But some of them have beautiful dark skin even darker than mine. Isn’t that interesting?
...brushcut or mullet...?
There are some real babes in those Bollywood films! I get a kick out of all the musical interludes, too!
There are approximately 174 million Muslims in India (according to government census 2001), i.e 16.4% of the population. India has the second largest population of Muslims in the world (the largest being Indonesia).
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_India
Huma Naeem is a quite attractive young lady! No wonder Bobby won with supporters like her!
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