How big is the community and what is their stories about being in Baluchistan ?

Excellent work u/TeluguFilmFile really appreciate the hard work you are putting in this subreddit.

True, OP fully knows she’s living with a straight-up racist. Yet she still wants to continue the relationship but is looking for strangers on Reddit to help her decide. Deep down, her gut is already telling her something’s off.

As for JD, he’s just a grifter who was definitely marrying up when he got with his Indian wife. He wasn’t openly racist back then. Flip side is, Asian American women often have this pattern of marrying down in North America as long as the guy is white. Being white gives these men status that Asian men don’t get with these high-achieving women - lots of psychological stuff going on there. There’s this female Chinese comedian from mainland China who has this really sharp joke about Asian women chasing after any white guy they come across.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

From where did Munda disperse from if we stick to oceanic dispersal hypothesis ?

I know Persian speaking Dehwari people are shifting to Brahui as well in a mustang.

So how do Middle Indo-Aryan words reach remote Baluchistan when they are surrounded by Baluchis who have a different word.

Look at this thread

https://www.reddit.com/r/Dravidiology/s/7uwaHBWsNa

So let me find some data, I had an interesting conversation about Todas and Kotas. Apparently Todas and Kotas differ in significant ways, with Kotas showing East Asian admixture like Mundas. One group that came into picture was that Nihali were an AASI group who were sedentarized by Dravidian speakers who also had East Asian admixture. It’s possible Todas and their companion group like the Nihalis (I.e Kotas) left Maharashtra at some point and settled in secluded Nilagiris mountains and stayed intact.

The AfD leader in Germany who wants to kick out all non-Germans (even citizens whose families have been there for generations) is actually in a relationship with a Sri Lankan woman. It’s kind of telling how some people who hate certain groups often have deep issues with their own identity (The AFD leader is Gay by the way). Psychology has a lot to say about this kind of contradiction. I’d call him damaged goods - without some serious therapy, he’ll probably carry that hatred his whole life. And sadly, if he has kids with you, those attachment issues and prejudices might get passed down to them too. It’s a cycle that’s hard to break.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

I corrected it, I copy pasted verbatim from the source no changes initially. Yes who ever wrote it, included the respectable word marriage instead of what it really was, a liaison or concubinage.

About matrilineal decent, that is an age old Dravidian custom that even some tribals practice. Brahmins simply superimposed themselves on it just in Kerala and Tulunadu. So the practice is as old as Dravidian society but most shifted over.

Who do the Todas and Kodavas reflect ?

Citation please ?

For sure Dravidian was there because Dardic languages along with even Nuristani have the same structural impact that IA went through coming from an IE root implanting itself in South Asia that is supposed to have come from Dravidian including key Dravidian loanwords. Either the synthesis of Dravidian and IA happened somewhere else and Kashmiri communities settled there afterwards or Kashmiris assimilated local Dravidian people.

Go to r/SouthAsianAncestry for answers and results

Indian manufacturers do not have room to give 20% discount. They should hold their numbers and not budge. Many US importers have already raised their prizes by 8 to 12%, it will go up another 10 to 20% in the next year. Indian currency is devaluing anyway so they can afford to buy Indian products at the agreed upon prices. What can they do, go to China or Vietnam instead ?

Some said they are pausing big-ticket purchases and reconsidering home renovations, while others said they fear their quality of life will be adversely affected by all the turmoil.

This kind of attitude is what triggers a recession. But honestly, if you’re a retiree with everything invested in US stocks, you should probably hold off on those retirement plans for at least 2 years if possible. This mess could lead to an even bigger market correction before things finally bounce back.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Tamil doesn’t have Ku ending at any stage, we are not sure what language it is. It could be Tamil or early Telugu but we can’t be so sure. Most probably Old Tamil but anyone who makes a pronouncement one way or the other has not read completely about it just one side of the story. We have to be ok with ambiguity, that’s life.

So this is a Brahui word, origin unknown.

That’s not what happened to a Canadian woman, her TN visa was denied I think rightfully so but she was put in jail for two weeks in Arizona before being deported to Canada instead of just making her go back to Mexico.

My experience entering a very small airport with inexperienced customs agents. At that time I was on L1 from Canada living in the US. I went a small airport in Puerto Rico in a corporate jet. Just a handful of agents. One agent took me aside and arbitrarily changed by visa to B1 in the system and wrote it down on my I-94. After I came back home, I called my lawyer who called customs and reverted it back to L1. So my lesson learnt is small airports can be tricky.

And Tea considering there is 44% tariff on Sri Lanka, the country that exports Tea to the US.

Are they an identifiable community or just part of mainstream Assamese folks ?

Just go through this subreddit. No reason given most of the time.

They used to eat gruel and live in sheds just 20 years ago, as a country and a people they know what it means to live in poverty during times of calamity. China has seen its share of calamities through its 5000 years of existence . You can’t bring them to their knees whereas the question is can Americans live in abject poverty if this gets to that stage ? I can see a depression, mass layoffs, soup kitchens, widespread failures of companies and farms, consolidation of trade bypassing the US.