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p>It’s pretty common for bigots to complain that outsiders are intent upon luring, seducing and despoiling their women. The defense of the motherland is intimately linked to the defense of mothers, and women in general, who have to be protected from the depredations of the evil other. It’s also common for nativists to complain that there are too many immigrants, and that those who arrive under legal cover often stay to do something else. However, it’s rare to complain that illegal immigrants pose a national danger because they’re just too good looking.
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Warning: Bangladeshis will not be allowed into Malaysia if they look too much like this man! |
Until now.
Malaysia is being swamped by thousands of illegal Bangladeshi workers who are gaining entrance on the pretext of being students, according to reports… Home affairs minister Radzi Sheikh Ahmad said the men end up doing menial jobs in response to a labour shortage. [Link]
Malaysia has a manpower shortage, and Bangladeshi men are arriving in Malaysia to fill the gap, to give Malaysia what it needs. There’s nothing to be ashamed of in this – it’s completely natural. Why should the minister object, then?
Home Affairs Minister Radzi Sheikh Ahmad said Bangladesh workers were still spotted on construction sites and in restaurants despite a ban on their employment two years ago over concerns they were causing “social problems”. “They have blue eyes and look like Hindi film actors and they create social problems here,” Radzi was quoted as saying by the New Straits Times of the reason for the ban…. Hindi films are popular amongst Malaysian women, as are handsome male Bollywood film stars. [Link]
Ahhh … that explains it. Bangladeshis are too sexy for their jobs (too sexy for their jobs, so sexy, they’re fobs). Can you just imagine the Malaysian ambassador asking the Bangladeshi PM to make sure that only ugly “students” go to Malaysia? [Give us your tired your poor, your ugly masses yearning to be free, the unattractive refuse of your too too sexy shore … ] And what does it mean that no such restriction is imposed upon Indians? 
I’m sure that today, all over Dhaka, Bangladeshi college students are walking around, catching reflections of their butts in shop windows, and comparing each other to movie stars. “Dude! You so look like SRK! I’m not kidding man, you really do! You’ve got the same blue eyes as he has!”
[Thanks also to technophobicgeek who blogged this story on the News tab]
Talking about facial features and color, a lot of south Indians especially in North and coastal Karnataka are central asian looking. I know of two cases of German women came and married South Indian brahmin uncles but I heard Bengali Brahmins are their favourites.
This is lisa from Chittagong,Bangladesh.Chittagong is the largest port city in bangladesh.Various kinds of people can be found in this city.During 17th century a lot of european traders came here and married local women to spread bussiness.One can easily find european looking people here.I myself have blonde hair,green eyes and reddish skin.A lot of portuguese and italian word can be found in the chittagonian[local language] language.Rest of the bangladeshi can not understand this language.Green,blue,hazel eyed people can also be found throughout Bangladesh.Bangladeshi people are the mixture of europoid,alpean,aryan,middle eastern people.
>>”Some Afghans consider themselves Aryans while some theories say they are tribes of Mongol origin.” Both. the northern aliance fraction is more central asian looking. While the southern is a mixed bag with iranian and indo-pakistani looking people.
The asian looking ethnic are actually descendant of Mongol origin. The are from Hazara ethnic minority in Afghanistan.
um, afghans can’t be judged on what you ‘percieve’ there are hazaras who look quite pashtun or tajik or uzbek, etc, as well as there are pashtuns who look quite hazara, tajik, etc …. due to the fact that intermarriage between afghans isn’t at all uncommon.
and most afghans find it just as insulting to be linked with mongols as others do to be linked with indians (no offense to either groups). We just prefer to be considered what we are, afghans
“The asian looking ethnic are actually descendant of Mongol origin. The are from Hazara ethnic minority in Afghanistan.”
just had to add, ALL afghans look quite asian. There is NO stereotypical look for an Asian. ALSO, there are plenty of other ethnic groups (not including ppl who have intermarried, and now identify w/ the father’s tribe) who have single eyelid folds – NOT just hazaras – this is not a trait limited to just one ethnic group inside afghanistan. Secondly, if you’re going to be talking about AFGHAN history, read a bit more. There is quite a large influence from the turks, not just the mongols, among OTHER groups.
Don’t get too excited. Some Malaysian politicians – like yours – are idiots. When they can’t think of a reasonable excuse for their racial xenophobia, they will come up with all kinds of shit. This is true even when the dominant muslim UMNO party in the ruling BN coalition wants to justify discrimination against non-muslim Malaysians. Just yesterday a Chinese Malaysian Deputy Minister was accused of not providing jobs for muslim graduates although his portfolio is training – he is not allowed to dictate to the private sector that already has to comply with Govt requirements as to distribution of wealth, etc and the Govt sector is 95% or more muslim Malay. Please visit “Malaysia Today” if you want a good laugh or, if you are a Malaysian, to cry. I left because I did not want to put up with this idiocy and took my first world education to a first world country where I’m happy and secure.I fear for Malaysia because I still have a residual affection for the land of my birth and the people I grew up with.
I’m bangladeshi and my grandma have blue eyes. My mother has hazel eyes, i have light brown eyes. My mother’s family originally come from Chitrtagong, so they descend from the Porteugese [I know I spelt that wrong!].
Its very said. How can they cause social problems if they are helping you by working at construction sites. if you look in to UK, There are millions of illegal immigrants from all over the world but they never said they are creating social problems. everyone is participating in country’s ecconomy, doesn’t matter if they don’t pay much tax.people shouild grow up by now its 21st century or secure your borders, but don’t comment so badly to hurt other people. dr singh http://www.drsingh.org.uk
Green eyes do not mean much they are quite common in India. 72% of modern India is pure Aryan. In the ancient times the Aryan was described as a person living in the Indian subcontinent whose colour was from brown to white with specific Indo-Iranian features. This word originated from ancient Indian and Iranian texts.
Most people living in the colder parts of Indian subcontinent have extremly light skin. See this Indian Kashmiri Girl-http://www.delhiteam.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/kashmir_muslim_girl.jpg
See also this Tajik girl-http://farm1.static.flickr.com/78/392577802_2a0b852458.jpg?v=0
Now note the similarilty of looks and colour. In this region people in general are fairer than most Europeans.
53 · lisa mourice said
Bangladeshis are also part Dravidian and Chinese and Australoid.
26 · RC said
However, one thing that I must admit is that many Indian communities have engaged in revisionist history, and they have effectively changed their own pedigree. The Chitpavan Brahmins, on Wikipedia, claim: (1) Berber origins, (2) Egyptian-Greek origins, (3) and Israeli origins. This highlights that they are very ashamed of their own origins.
The common wisdom and the local wisdoms indicate that their origins is from the Portuguese people who ruled there for a while. The Portuguese men intermarried with the local woman.
Very interesting to read thoughts on Chitpavans indeed!
I am a chitpavan and frankly I don’t know what our origins are. I am a 100% kobra – and by that all I mean is that my ancestors on paternal and maternal sides of my family were Chitpavans to as long as I can go (17th century). However, it is indeed true that many of my family members look very different than the “typical” look from the Indian sub-continent. My mother gets confused for a european person but my father is very dark. There are lots of people within my family that have light eyes – blue, green, hazel. My daughter has amazing blue eyes – I am sure partly because my wife is French but I know that I carry that gene since I know my relatives and mother have it.
I have observed similar kind of pattern in other chitpavan families. The Imperial Gazette in the 18th or 19th century published a description of Chitpavans that says “we have nordic features” and are employed as spies.
Almost all Chitpavan families have a “kulvrutanta” – a book that documents their ancestry as much as is know.
Even the word “chitpavan” has conflicting meanings: – one thought is that it means someone who has been brought back to life/purified by fire. One old story I heard is that we are descended from people found on the konkan coast. – another story says that many have origins in Chitpol and hence the name
My ancestors migrated from the konkan coast into interior Maharashtra in the 19th century – however, we were always looked on as “different”. Our staple diet is slightly different from the “rest” of the inhabitants of Maharashtra.
A few years back someone was sponsoring free DNA testing if you had chitpavan surname but I didn’t do it.
Quite a few Melungeons (S.E. Appalachia) are having DNA testing done, some have discovered they have a close genetic match to the Chitpavan Brahmins.