speed said:
I dont know if these are cultural or biological predispositions (towards music etc). That's what I was trying to figure out in one of my previous posts. But, you know, white people are related to Indians (the sub-continental variety), yet, we share very few cultural similarities.
I will state that Culture is the much more important than race or appearance.
As whites went through the iceage it was necessary to have forsight, because of being subjected to seasonal variation and extremely hard times. They had to lay down stores and think ahead constantly. The part of the brain to do with this is the frontal lobes. Genes determined who had most efficient frontal lobes and natural selection bred those with this feature.
The people who couldn't plan ahead or were feckless just died. Year after year, generation after generation. That bred into Europeans the ability to predict events, plan and use imagination. But it also evolved indiscriminate altruism because, while at the beginning no one looked after the good-for-nothings and were a lot more selfish, the fact is at the end of this rigourous selection, people had a stronger sense of bond and there were no useless people. Whites were left with an instinct to think that everyone was worthwhile and to want to care for unfortunates.
This is why whites are the most charitable people and the most likely to believe the best about people.
It was in this time that Europeans' peculiar facial features evolved - sexual selection. Since only the face was visible through the furs, figure was hard to judge, and choices of mate were more face based than would otherwise have been the case. Nose shape, eyes, lips, cheekbones etc all were important.
(To find out more check out Carlton S Coon).
The people of modern India are a halfbreed population, decended from a majority negrito genepool (Andaman Islanders are a relic population). When the Aryans crossed over from Afghanistan, they described the inhabitants of India as looking like monkeys. (See Rig Veda, the Hindu holy book). They tried to exterminate them for centuries. Then they decided to use them as slaves. The caste system was then invented and enshrined in religion to prevent intermarriage, and preserve Aryans. It did not work, because of uncontrolled sexual liasons.
India became a racial melting pot riven with bizarre cults (from which people found group identity).
There remains an Aryan element in India. As recently as WWI, the British empire raised a regiment from Northern India called the "Aryan Legion". About 2000 strong, they were over 6ft tall, fairhaired and blue eyed.
Certain people could use a genetic analysis of such "Indians" to prove there was no racial difference between Indians and British.
