{"id":6067,"date":"2010-01-06T18:28:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T23:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=6067"},"modified":"2010-01-06T22:38:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T03:38:55","slug":"seems_like_abhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/06\/seems_like_abhi\/","title":{"rendered":"MexiDesi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like Abhi may have more in common with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/003275.html\">turban wearing LA Mayor Villaraigosa<\/a> than we thought. (<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gnxp\/\">via Razib<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Indians and Mexicans.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/Indians%20and%20Mexicans.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"412\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>In world wide context South Asians and mestizos can be viewed as somewhat analogous; a stable admixture between West and East Eurasian elements. Of course, the &#8220;East Eurasian&#8221; ancestry of mestizos consists of the New World descendants of Paleolithic Siberians, while those of South Asians are the ancient long resident populations of that region of the world.[<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gnxp\/2010\/01\/columbus_was_a_seer.php\">geneexpression<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>It is kind of a surprising finding. As an activist that works in the umbrella political category of Asian American and Pacific Islander, it&#8217;s interesting to see that Houston Gujaratis have more in common with LA Mexicans than East Asians. Of course, one is a construct of political identity and the other one is purely genetics.<\/p>\n\n<p>Still. I totally see this as potential marriage fodder for Desis who want to prove to their parents that they have more in common with their Mexican boy\/girlfriend. I guess <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/005762.html\">Columbus wasn&#8217;t that far off then, was he<\/a>? <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like Abhi may have more in common with turban wearing LA Mayor Villaraigosa than we thought. (via Razib) In world wide context South Asians and mestizos can be viewed as somewhat analogous; a stable admixture between West and East &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/06\/seems_like_abhi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,47,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}