whats the difference between an indian and a sri lankan?
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I know you are expecting the answer as \n"Main difference is the amount of ingredients they use to make food (Exp: spice & coconut milk)"\n\nBut please note there are sooooooooo many big differences between India & Sri Lanka. \n\nI would like to know whether you are an Indian or Sri Lankan? Just send me a message. Tks.
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To distinguish them from Indians form India.
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I don't see any difference between the 2 terms but you seem to have stumbled on the answer yourself.  Amerasians are those born of an american and a Filipino parent but were born in the Philippines, hence the Filipino citizenship.  Fil-ams are those born of an American and a Filipino parent but have dual citizenship because they were born in the US. The US follows the principle of Jus Solis when it comes to citizenship so that whomever is born on US territory gets their citizenship while in the Philippines, the principle of Jus Sanguinis (citizenship by blood) comes into play so no matter where in the world the baby is born, if it was born of a Philippine citizenship, the baby also gets Philippine citizenship. So a Fil-am would have dual citizenship having been born in the US of American and Filipino parents.
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WINDIES HAVE MORE INDIAN ORIGINATES.\n1.SARWAN. 2.SHIV NARAINE. 3.GANGA.\n4. RAMDIN.\nNEW ZEALAND HAS J.PATEL.\nKENYA HAS MODI.\nSRI LANKA..THE GREAT MURALIDHARAN.\nENGLAND..RAM PRAKASH, SOLANKI, PANESSAR.\nBANGLADESH..ITS TOLD KAPALI IS INDIAN ORIGINATE.\nPAK..... KANERIA IS A HINDU.\nAND MORE INDIAN ORIGIN PLAYERS SERVING IN \nHOLLAND,  MALAYSIA, HONG KONG, UAE, USA.
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it is not true that 72% indians are aryans.They are infact admixtures of ayrans and dravidians with greater percentage of latter one.Officially 5 southern states are recognized as dravidian states and other indo-aryan.It means most of indian people are indo-aryrans not pure aryans that is why they are not light-skinned,tall or muscular
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Asian Americans are good for people from oriental descent. American Indian is more difficult to evaluate but is good for Native Americans. Hispanic according to what they told me is for people that descend from countries colonized by Spain or Spain.
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It is a habit which many South Indians have. I am a Tamil, though I don't do this, I have seen many people doing it.
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Sure. It used to be called Ceylon. It's a very beautiful Island nation south of India.  It is tropical and lush with greenary.  Used to be a British Colony until 1948.  The government is of course democratically elected with some crooks too. \n\nThe country althouh not very rich has a very high literacy rate 0f 99%.  The people generally look like the Indians. Majority of Sri Lankans are Sinhalese Buddhists, Tamil Hindus about 15%, Muslims, Christians probably about 8%.   \n\nUnfortunately A minority of the Tamil population known as the tigers has been waging an ethnic war that has taken a lot of lives during the last 20 years.  This group has been classified as terrorists by the US, EU, Canada. \n\nPeople are people, there are good, nice,bad , crooked. But hospitality is outstanding.
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Well, i live in south east asia.. and i consider all asians to be asians.. just different ethnics... here in Malaysia, we have really a lot of diff. ethnic groups, and we live considerably well togather..\nthe three major groups are malay, chinese and indian...\nso i do consider indians as asian...
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Why not vice versa. One tree does not make a forest.\nIt is all individualistic based on case to case, gender to gender,age to age, hobby to hobby, interest to interest,\nI hope you mean people from India as INDIANS and not Native Indians in America.\nAmerica is a big country with people of various ethnic backgrounds. So too India which differs in culture within itself between north and south.\nIt is not like adding milk to a tea decoction.
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Indian peoples are intelligent,nationalist with better\nsouls.But when they become Indian American then they are\nmore dedicated,more patriot & more friendly like Bangladeshi\npeoples.
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the Tamils have no choice but 2 revolt.The Sri Lankan gov is racist and tortures them.i heard there was a time wen they even killed the tamils and sold their meat.I don noe bout malaysia but in s'pore we r multiracial and united we(tamils) don get bullied by others.
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the official language of Srilanka   -  Sinhala and Tamil
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Tamil (தமிழ்) is a classical language and one of the major languages of the Dravidian language family. Spoken predominantly by Tamils in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Singapore, it has smaller communities of speakers in many other countries. As of 1996, it was the eighteenth most spoken language, with over 74 million speakers worldwide. It is one of the official languages of India, Singapore and Sri Lanka.\n\nTamil is one of the few living classical languages and has an unbroken literary tradition of over two millennia. The high level of diglossia exhibited by Tamil, and the prestige accorded to classical Tamil, have resulted in much of the vocabulary and forms of classical Tamil being preserved in modern literary Tamil, such that the higher registers of literary Tamil tend towards the classical language. The classical language also forms an important part of Tamil-medium education: verses from the Tirukkural, a classical work, are, for example, taught in primary school. The ordinary form of the modern language used in speech and writing, in contrast, has undergone significant changes, to the extent that a person who has not learnt the higher literary form will have difficulty understanding it.\n\nThe name 'Tamil' is an anglicised form of the native name தமிழ். The final letter of the name, usually transcribed as the lowercase l or zh, is a retroflex r. In phonetic transcriptions, it is usually represented by the retroflex approximant.\n\nThe origins of Tamil, like the other Dravidian languages are unknown, but unlike most of the other established literary languages of India, are independent of Sanskrit. Tamil has the oldest literature amongst the Dravidian languages (Hart, 1975), but dating the language and the literature precisely is difficult. Literary works in India or Sri Lanka were preserved either in palm leaf manuscripts (implying repeated copying and recopying) or through oral transmission, making direct dating impossible. External chronological records and internal linguistic evidence, however, indicate that the oldest extant works were probably composed sometime in the 2nd century CE.\n\nThe earliest extant text in Tamil is the Tolkāppiyam, a work on poetics and grammar which describes the language of the classical period, the oldest portions of this book may date back to around 200 BCE (Hart, 1975). Apart from these, the earliest examples of Tamil writing we have today are rock inscriptions from the 3rd century BCE, which are written in Tamil-Brahmi, an adapted form of the Brahmi script (Mahadevan, 2003). Linguists categorise Tamil literature and language into three periods: ancient (500 BCE to 700 CE), medieval (700 CE to 1500 CE) and modern (1500 CE to the present). During the medieval period, a number of Sanskrit loan words were absorbed by Tamil, which many 20th century purists, notably Parithimaar Kalaignar and Maraimalai Adigal, later sought to remove. This movement was called thanith thamizh iyakkam (meaning pure Tamil movement). As a result of this, Tamil in formal documents, public speeches and scientific discourses is largely free of Sanskrit loan words.\n\nTamil is the first language of the majority in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and in northern, eastern and northeastern Sri Lanka. The language is also spoken by small groups of minorities in other parts of these two countries, most notably in the Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra, and in Colombo and the hill country in Sri Lanka.\n\nThere are currently sizeable Tamil-speaking populations descended from them in Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa, and Mauritius. Many people in Guyana, Fiji, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago have Tamil origins, but the language is spoken only by a small number there-.
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http://balancinglife.blogspot.com/2005/06/of-languages-and-tongues.html  - I hope it helps..\n\nThe Tamil language is a classical language, 4000 years old, with a huge literary tradition on the level of Sanskrit, but Sanskrit is a dead language now. Hindu is related to Sanskrit. Many southern languages relate to classical Tamil.
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I am curious, why are you separating yourselves into 'indian'?  Are you American?  Are you just an ordinary couple?  Why the 'indian' couple?  You need indian advice?
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North Indians belong to the race of north indians. Just as africans belong to the race of africans, asians to the asian race and so on and so forth. If you dont want people to give you crappy answers, dont include crappy things like north indians look better than the dravadians. Im sure that is a matter of opinion and if you asked a dravadian, they would beg to differ. I am also pretty sure that the north indians do indeed have colored eyes and hair, unless they are a race of albinos. You have failed to ask a scientific question and will fail to get a scientific answer.