• grue@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    a woman from Sri Lanka (or some other country that’s not exactly known for their arian people)

    You might be surprised.

    (“Aryan” didn’t originally mean what the Nazis wanted it to mean. Like the swastika and a bunch of other stuff, it was stolen and twisted to suit their purposes.)

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      Doesn’t matter, the Roma are an Aryan people and were declared non-Aryan by the Nazis. Because the racist idea of Aryan has nothing to do with the correct scientific use of the word.

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      51 minutes ago

      I was wrong! Sri Lanka is majority Sinhalese not Tamil. Still, the situation is quote different from Brahmin Neo-Nazis in Delhi

      Sri Lanka is not part of the area you’re thinking of. South Indians and Sri Lankans have a completely different language family and ethnicity to North Indians.

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        5 hours ago

        Map from the article I linked:

        Remind me again what that mostly-burgundy (for Sinhala-Dhivehi language group) island at the bottom right is?

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          51 minutes ago

          Seems to be Sri Lanka if it didn’t have any Tamils on it?

          Edit: thanks for the correction!