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Topic: simalaraties between south india and africa Posted: 04-Apr-2007 at 02:06 |
how is it that south india and Africa are so simalar in things? south india definatly looks like part of africa for some reason, i guess once the india landmass was part of africa, i guess that has to do with something
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Posted: 04-Apr-2007 at 02:24 |
Not sure what you mean by "things". I take it you mean the animal species. I'm no expert but would guess the fact that the Indian sub-continent drifted from Africa as at least part of the reason.
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Posted: 04-Apr-2007 at 02:48 |
If you do mean in terms of nature, the answer is that Africa and South
Asia used to enjoy a fertile connection of land in the Middle East,
allowing the spread of many animal species. Many of the species
existing in South Asia and Africa, such as the elephant, also existed
in the Middle East but were wiped out by human activity and possibly
climate change.
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Posted: 04-Apr-2007 at 06:41 |
If you are talking about people and culture, then the east coast of africa as far south as Madagascar have been trading with the, particularly south, indians for thousands of years. Not to mention the British moving thousands of Indian peoples to South and East africa to work on plantations only a century ago.
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Posted: 04-Apr-2007 at 20:01 |
yeah i am talkin about preety much everything, people, culture, land, nature etc.... like a lot of south indian tribes have a lot in commen with african tribes
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Posted: 05-Apr-2007 at 14:36 |
I think that there is a superficial resemblance which is the result of very similar environmental conditions. On the other hand, one should be careful about saying that they have a lot in common. For starters, both south India and especially Africa, have a very wide variety of cultures and languages. If one analyzes the respective social structures, religion, language, architecture and arts, one would probably notice enormous differences between South India and most of Africa. Most cultural similarities are likely the result of the two or even three millenia of trade between India and the East coast of Africa.
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Posted: 06-Apr-2007 at 15:58 |
i heard that dravidians have many similar genes as some eastern african tribes, is it true?
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Posted: 06-Apr-2007 at 23:08 |
As do the scottish, the Amazon tribes and the Japanese: we all have similar genes. Unless there's a specific marker, that doesn't mean much.
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Posted: 07-Apr-2007 at 02:24 |
wow u seem to be really racist, why though?
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Posted: 08-Apr-2007 at 23:11 |
I find it interesting that you got the impression that I was racist, when in fact, I had the exact opposite intention. To elaborate, I think that a statement such as "many similar genes" is not very useful, unless we are talking about specific "marker" genes which are only encountered in certain populations (and there's not many of those). My remark was referring to the fact that as humans we all have similar genes: in fact there's more variation among a given population, than between the so-called races. So one could say that some from among the scottish, the Amazon tribes and the Japanese, the Dravidians and the Africans, they all share similar genes.
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Posted: 04-May-2007 at 05:54 |
Once India and Africa really was connected, but that was hundreds of million years ago, long before man existed. So because of that (and many other circumstances) some flora and fauna are similar.
Concerning humans there are some differences and some similarities between Africa and southern India. Some of the similarities is due to contact (trade) and others are due to similarities in climate and ecology. This ofcource does not apply for the whole of Africa but only those parts who lies at the same ocean (the Indian Ocean) as southern India.
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Posted: 01-Jul-2007 at 14:53 |
Africa and India were part of Gondwana, the Southern supercontinent:
So flora and fauna were very similar several million of years ago. Since then, they have evolved separately, but you'll still find some similarities. For example, lemurs currently live in Madagascar and South Asia.
Of course, this has no effect on human culture.
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Posted: 27-Dec-2007 at 04:47 |
There are some tribes in south india that are very similar to african tribes
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Posted: 27-Dec-2007 at 05:11 |
There are some tribes in south india that are very similar to african tribes
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Oh really, please elaborate on which specific tribes so that we can discuss the various differences and similarities. I mean there are some tribes in America that are very similar to Aboriginees, they were forced onto reservations.
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Posted: 27-Dec-2007 at 05:55 |
Some South Indian tribes on the coast migrated from Africa. Here 2-3rds of our coastline is populated by decendents of AFricans.
Mekrani people of Pakistan (not India)
Edited by Sparten - 27-Dec-2007 at 05:56
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