Skin-Colour in Sri Lanka: The Prevalence of Pitch-Black?

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. 🙂 😛

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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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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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Obviously

Even one of the first participants from the South Asian subcontinent to the Miss World pageant is a Sri Lankan Sinhalese lady,Manel ilangakoon and she won the 3rd runner up.

To be honest, both Tamils and Sinhalese came from India. Nobody spawned magically in Sri Lanka as modern humans were originated from Africa and migrated around the world.

Establishing who came first is a controversial topic and I leave it out of this question.

I don’t know for others but i personally like them. I’ve never been but the immigrants I met in London seemed fine people. Hardworking and law abiding and enjoyed their cricket and delicious curries. I hope to visit Siri Lanka one day.

We are relatives, there are srilankans /sinhalese who know that significant relationship between sinhalese and bengali people . The closest genetic group to sinhalese in indian subcontinent. Our history begins with settlers from west bengal according to mahavamsa.(prince vijaya/bijoy)

Bengalis were great nation with great history ,culture, people . Rabindranath tagore was a bengali poet who has even won the nobel prize for literature , Satyendra Nath Bose who was a bengali Physicist best known for his work on quantum mechanics. Satyajit Ray was a bengali filmmaker regarded as one of the greates

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No.

Let me explain.

India is a country formed very recently combining many kingdoms. Sri Lankans have numerous blood relationship with many Indian cultures such as Tamils, Bengalis, Orriyas, Keralaties etc

But that doesn’t mean Sri Lanka got civilisation from india. It just the collaborations, invasions, and migrations between ancient kingdoms located under today’s India and Sri lanka occurred.

Sri Lanka is always been part of greater India also known as akhanda bharata and we aren’t considered foreigners (Mleccha)

As a Sri Lankan’s many don’t knows what is happening in Bangladesh and no news is highlighted in local medias. Majority knows Bangladesh about floods, garments and Sinhalese Prince Vijaya came from there. And 99% of Sri Lankans doesn’t know what is honour killing and why it ever happen. (Including myself) Probably some academics. And its not a practice in Sri Lanka no Buddhist, Hindus or Muslims do it in Sri lanka. Anyway as Sri Lankans we have the highest suicide rate in world.

Well sometimes. I’m from Sri Lanka and go to school in Germany. (10th) Especially teachers mistake me as an indian. And this is a big advantage for me :D. In maths they give me good marks because they think i’m indian :D. In grade 9 i tooked an IT cours.The teacher thought that i’m very smart.(Just because he thought i’m indIan) till 9 standart i’ve never been in contact with coding or never learned java,c, ect….

But sometimes It’s annoying. People ask me where i’m from and I answer with Sri Lanka. Sadly not many people have heard about this beautiful country. So i explain them that is a cou

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These are some of the traits which others have not mentioned before:

· Good in hospitality. Unlike in many western countries Sri Lankans visit relatives, friends without an invitation and sometimes even without prior notice. Yet, they are warmly welcomed and treated in the best possible ways.

· Family is considered to be number one and maintains a close knit relationship even with extended families.

· Sexuality is not something spoken in public and specially among family.

· Not much skinship is involved when greeting. (No hugs and kisses in traditional settings)

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Here you go—spot the terrorist! He is the young man on the right, Inshaf Ahmed Ibrahim, the son of Mohamed Ibrahim (centre), 2016.
Sri Lanka suicide bomber was wealthy businessman ‘brainwashed’ by his younger brother
Mohamed Ibrahim is the multi-millionaire founder of Ishana Exports, the largest spice company in Sri Lanka since 2006. His son studied aerospace engineering at Kingston University, London, in 2006; later posed as a postgraduate in Sydney.

Wretched and oppressed Inshaf was not.

See (above) the ruling-class giving awards to itself! See (below) a son of the ruling-class patting a poor

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Yes, they are basically just Island Indians. Before the modern day Republic of India was created, India referred to the land inhabited by all Indic people. And the name “Indian” was historically used instead of “Desi/South Asian/Indic”. The only difference between Sri Lanka and Pakistan/Bangladesh is that Pakistan/Bangladesh were part of the British Raj. But just because Sri Lanka wasn’t part of the British Raj doesn’t mean its not Indian.

Below is the map of India before the creation of the Republic of India, Sri Lanka is included:

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No. We are South Asians.

Sri Lanka is not a part of India. So we don’t qualify to be Indians. But like Indians, we are also a part of Asian continent, the Southernmost Asian country, in fact.

Genetically we are related to other Asians, especially various Indian human groups. The other answers here would tell you more on that.

Most Sri Lankan fair attractive female celebrities are burghers who are descended from Portuguese, Dutch, British marrying local people.They are the one being famous models in Sri Lanka. They often compete best in beauty peasant completions and international screens thus people stereotype them as Sri Lankan girls .

They mostly tend to live in western province and in capital city Colombo. But remember they are just a few percentage in total people.

Jacquline Fernandez also a burgher. But we don’t know many others are burgers too. Some examples are below

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1. The largest South Asian ethnic group in Canada are the Indians, not the Sri Lankans. There are 1,374,710 ethnic Indians in Canada as opposed to 139,415 ethnic Sri Lankans. So there are a lot more ethnic Indians than ethnic Sri Lankans.
2. The vast majority of Sri Lankans in Canada are Sri Lankan Tamils (a large minority community in Sri Lanka). There are so many Sri Lankans in Canada because they are Sri Lankan Tamils that are asylum seekers and/or supporters of the LTTE, had connections to the LTTE or were members of the LTTE. The LTTE was a militant organisation engaged in fighting a civil war w

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Normally.
No, not at all

When Muslims are in trouble
Yes.

At the moment there is a community clash between Muslims and Sinhalese in few districts. Now there are sentiments and voices for Muslims as Muslims are minority. And SL Tamils know about violence against minority more than them.

But typically although Muslims speak Tamil SL Tamils don’t naturally support them for many incidents that happened. In East Sri Lanka Muslims have done many atrocities to Tamils after they have appointed as Home guards. Whether knowing that in advance or not LTTE (the fighting force of SL Tamils) have evicted all

Tamil is a language and language is free from skin color. Tamils can be dark or light skinned, tall or short, or have curly, wavy or straight hair. Tamil is an identity for those use this language most and relate themselves to Tamil and Tamil culture.

There are only three pure races — negroid, caucasian or mongoloid. It is rare to see some with the qualities attributable to anyone race. People around the world are a mixture of all the three races in varying proportions.

What are your Parameters? Sample Size?

How many Bangladeshis have you examined or Sri Lankans?

I presume you need a Minimum 10,000 sample size to make such a remark right?

From the Limited Cricket Sample – I see no Color Difference whatsoever

I see a Group of People who range from Brown to Wheatish in Complexion.

Or did you mean ‘Darker’ as in Darker in the Heart ???

This Genial Old Lady is the PM of Bangladesh

The Terrifying man on her Right is the Sri Lankan Leader. He would terrify the living daylights of anyone who wasnt backed by 20 body guards.

So even by those Standards – Bangladeshis are certa

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The question is How do Sri Lankans interpret Ravana?

Such questions are meaningless. If you need an answer- they mostly don’t care.

Modern Sri Lankans are Sinhalese, of primarily Oriya and Bengali descent, who migrated to the island over the late Classical/ early Medieval period. The idea of them being associated in any way with the Ramayana’s events- purported to have taken place in the early Iron Age- don’t even arise at all. Until fairly recently, they worshipped ‘Hindu’ gods- including Sita, Lakshmi etc- but with the nonsense that has gone on in recent centuries with respect to Buddhism, the

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Why south asians are so obsessed with the skin tone? Can’t we just agree we all are brown after all? I think this is something those skin bleaching product ads put in our heads. ‘White is better, If you’re white you’ll find love, You’ll get hired, You’ll get promotions, You’ll get a BMW’ That’s what those ads put in our heads. Just be happy with your skin tone.