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Question is why do North East Indians look different from other Indians now?
India is a land of diversity and with many different kinds of people belonging to different races cultures and religions
So it is natural that people
Belonging to various different cultures would look differently however people from the North Eastern part of India have a different look altogether
And why is that?
Northeastern India it comprises of eight states we have Assam arunachal Pradesh mizoram manipur meghalaya, Nagaland
Tripura and Cecum Northeastern India Shares its borders with Myanmar
Bhutan China Nepal and Tibet
These countries are comprised of people from almost the same ethnic group even with that
There's a variety of ethnic groups that lived there mainly the mongoloids
Indo-Aryans the asteroids or Ostrich and the dravidians now
Let me pause there because I understand that in today's modern used the term
Mongoloid is often used as a derogatory term and it's also used insult people with a variety of different
Disabilities however for the sake of Clarity as well as the integrity of the original use of the word I'm using the term to relate
To people in East Asia and Southeastern Asia so no offense intended
I'm simply using the term how it was originally
intended to be used there's archaeological data that confirms that the Mongoloid race used to live in parts of South AsIa during the
Paleolithic age in fact some
Anthropologists see Modern Chinese people as secondary descendants of
mongoloids and since the people of Northeastern India are also
Descendants of the Mongoloid people you can see why all these races share familiar features?
So while the original settlers in Northeastern India were mongoloids in the indo-Aryan and other ethnic groups?
Arrived later and you can see that
there's a huge dominance of Mongoloid element in the population of
Northeastern Asia in some ancient texts the Northeastern regions belong to tribes who spoke languages from the Tibeto-Burman
Family than in other parts of the northeast there was a race of people
Who reach man Mar from the Yunnan region of China and from there to Assam?
The mantis Tribe of monitor state descended from the tartars who migrated from China in the Thirteenth of the 14th century?
But examining all the groups of people that migrated to Northeastern India would take forever
But in short there are more than 200 very interesting tribes in Northeastern India alone who at some point in history
migrated from the neighboring countries of China Myanmar
Or Bhutan and album came for various reasons whether to look for a fertile land or some sort of River or Valley to conquer now
Let's take a look at something pretty interesting and mind-blowing other than the racial differences. They're actually tribal and non-tribal
dualities recognized by the constitution of India that gives certain
benefits to the many Tribal communities in the
Northeastern parts of India this was all set up to help them catch up with the rest of society in terms of
educational standards and living standards
It's because of reasons like these that northeasterners are often non recognized and mis recognized
They're also viewed by a large portion of the Indian population as being
foreigners because when other residents of India see people from the Northeast or even if a
Tourist sees people from the northeast the automatic assumption is oh they're foreigners
maybe from China or Japan or Thailand or nepal and some label this as
withholding the Indian ness from the Northeastern Indian people and that causes in many cases for them to be discriminated and
marginalized a very common problem for
everyone here
To ask us where whether we are actually in that is very normal I wouldn't say it is normal, but it is very common
So there you have it guys
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