[Lio]

> Don't be ridiculous. Yes, Indians are much more closely related to whites than Asians are. You don't need to support basic well-known facts. Recall that Indians were usually "white" under US law...

I’m sorry but that is not a “basic well-known fact” that is just conjecture.

Dubious, now repealed, racial laws are not a sound basis on which to hang an argument.

If you want to make that claim stick you’d need to do a peer reviewed comparison of DNA and prove it.

If you really want to play this game consider that China and India share a border.

Where do the people 20 miles on either side of that border fit in your racial hierarchy?

[thaumasiotes]

> I’m sorry but that is not a “basic well-known fact” that is just conjecture.

Wrong both times.

> If you want to make that claim stick you’d need to do a peer reviewed comparison of DNA and prove it.

Seriously, it's been done. Your personal massive ignorance is not a good argument for anything.

> If you really want to play this game consider that China and India share a border.

Yes, the Himalayas. It's one of the most formidable, uncrossable borders in the world.

[Lio]

I guess you can keep resorting to ad hominem or you can admit this is not settled and India is a genetically diverse place.

If you pick a different haplogroup such as O-M122, which is believed to have originated in China, you’ll see that is highly present in northern India showing that that border is porous, Himalayas or not.

[thaumasiotes]

This is as far from "not settled" as it's possible to be.

Have a look at some ADMIXTURE results from HGDP data: https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/figure/image?... . (I pulled it from https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/jo... )

Notice how the modal component in Indian groups is the "Europe" component. Notice how the East Asian groups share almost nothing with the European groups.

And the next time you want to have an argument in public, please try to make sure you know at least a little bit about the topic. Come on.

[Lio]

OK it seems that I am wrong and I concede the point.

Thank you for posting links to supporting evidence.

[edflsafoiewq]

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Genetic_similarities...