I'm from Australia, I'm not a 'bangman' because I'm a girl, and nope I'm not Sylheti-although I have an aunt who is from there, and cousins who are half- not that it really matters.I'm Bengali Australian.

And Jagger thanks for the welcome!

5'10-5'11 still looks average to me. I would consider anything above 6 to be tall, IMO. 6 ft is borderline, depending on how you carry yourself and how you look. Some people, who are 6 ft, slouch and look shorter. Same thing goes for guys that are 5'10. The ones that slouch and become rounded end up looking like they're 5'8.

well am 6ft1 an all my uncles are 6ft5 but my dads short hes 5ft8 lol (NOT SAYING 5FT8 IS SHORT SHORT ITS A GOOD HEIGHT AS WELL)

and i find if your 5ft10 or 11 ur medium hieght which in some peoples eyes is tall not tall tall but just u know some thing thats really acceptable
anyway everyone has tall and short people in the countrys so its no big deal talking about it anymore.
safe

lol I wasn't implying that it's bad to be 5'10-5'11. A 5'10 male is good enough for the dating market, since the average female is about 5'4-5'5, and girls just want guys that are taller than them.

Maybe it's because 5'10-5'11 is so common now...It starts to look average and not tall.

I can't believe this is still a active thread.


what about 6'0" guy you ignore on IM?

Just curious, are the older generations in all of your families shorter than the younger ones? Almost all of my adult male cousins are over 6 ft, the shortest ones are me at 5'10" and another cousin at 5'7". Only my dad and a couple of my uncles are taller than 6ft. Desis just seem taller in the States than in India where most dudes I noticed were about 5'8"-5'10".

This sentence doesn't make sense. Personality counts when it comes to chatting on IM, not how they look.

ummm, yeah I'm 6'0" guy you keep ignoring on IM

dammit I want to know all your families' heights.

Fine, how about Bangwali?

If not Sylheti, then are you a Dhakaite or Chittagonian?


~5'9 is the average height in Britain and America.

I always slouch whenever I'm sitting down, like now for example.


Nutrition makes a big difference. Very few people in my parents' generation are 6 ft, and are probably 5'7-5'8 ft average. Most of the 2nd generation kids on my dad's side are about 5'11-6 ft average (and happen to be dark). Most of the 2nd generation kids on my mum's side however are about ~5'9 average (and happen to be whiter).

SPAM IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH!

My mom's taller than me (she's 5'6 and I'm 5'5). A couple of other female relatives in India are 5'6-5'9. Brothers are over 6 ft, but my grandfather and uncle on my mom's side in India are also 6'2. We're the only ones who came to America, so I don't know anyone else to compare.

I'm taller than my mum , she's 5-4, i'm 5-5. My brother is also taller than my dad by about 2-3 inches. My dad's 5-10. Most of my cousins are really tall but they have extremely tall parents so i guess it's in the genes( I somehow didn't inherit this tall gene). I don't really have many male cousins, I have one he's 30, so i can't really say he is this generation( or can i??) He's 6 feet, taller than his father by an inch or so.

I'm from Bangladesh born in Dhaka. Not sure where from because my grandparents are from all different regions- Chittagong, Barisal, Momesing. So yeh just an Australian Bengali with no loyalty to any specific area.

PS my friend in London says that she can't understand anything the Sylheti people are saying as apparently there's a lot of Sylheti's in England? How do you say something like 'how are you' in Sylheti?( Jut so i can figure out the accent)

It is not rare for Indians to not have light eyes...In Kashmir/Rajasthan/Uttaranchal/Punjab etc, Northwest India and Gujarat are known for light eye colours. As the pictures were shown earlier, there are Indians from all regions/divisions North to South that have light-eyes. In my family, my grandad has grey/bluish eye colour.

lol theres loads unbelivably loads of syhletys man
anyway u wna how to sa how r u
well its ketha khuro bala asu ne
lol

Do you have any relatives from West Bengal aswell, or just Bangladesh?

The majority of BBBs are Sylheti. There are also a significant number from Chittagong, while those from around Dhaka or Kolkata are in the minority.

As a Sylheti, I have a hard time understanding what people from Dhaka or Kolkata are saying. I probably understand Hindi and Urdu better than the Dhaka or Kolkata dialects.

b!tch, please. Did you forget about your "One day the black man will rise!" and "Dravidian power!" charades back in the day? Who are you to criticize someone who is content with themselves, while YOU can't decide whether you want to be black, Dravidian or Gujarati.

Your FOB-iness shined through when you asked me what was wrong with me because I didn't speak Hindi or when you assumed that "chicks aren't supposed to talk and care about certain things." Don't expect all girls to act like your Dunkin Donut Ditzy Crew up in Jersey.

What was up with that"Who's a Patel" thread? You damn well know that you and ACMILAN are the only 2 Gujaratis in this forum, yet why did you feel the need to ask who's a Patel? There are plenty of Patel Samajes in the states to do that.

So, b!tch please.

lol, sista go change your tampon. The only thing that surpasses your lack of humor is your retarded obsession with flaming me.

Uh, earth to JiggyJiggy. Do you think that I mean everything I say?

You're not the only one that can fu-k around on here.

ex, I don't wanna be mean. If I wanted to be mean, I would post something like you can't take back the fact that you act like a c_nt, but see I'm not gonna go there.

Mean comments are irrelevant and shouldn't have an effect on others. I'm not here to be nice and make friends.

Just Bangladesh. Man Sylheti is completely incomprehensible to me. You guys have your own language and I can't understand . I though it would just be the accent that would be different. Regarding eye colour ( to stay on topic) yes there are lots of people with lots of different coloured eyes in India, but I think us curries( the Australian equivalent of desis) have georgeous eyes no matter what eye colour they are! People are always admiring our eyes and saying how nice they are etc.! I think we're all really lucky to have such georgeous subcontinent eyes.

Could this be love?


That's what I mean, some Bengali dialects sound completely different from each other. I didn't really understand the standard dialect a couple of years ago, but I have learnt some since then.

Desis can pretty much have any eye colour, but most still have brown eyes. On the other hand, skin colour varies a lot more for Desis. Is "Curries" a word white people use to refer to South Asians or is it just Desis themselves who use it there?

i think the term was invented by desis themselves to describe each other. Generally just curries use the term amongst themselves. I've heard asians and aussies who have curry friends also use it sometimes but obviously they've learnt it from a friend so no one really finds it offensive in any way.

Hans Raj Hans - Famous Punjabi singer from Jalandhar, often mistaken for a Middle-Eastern/Arabian



Yograj Singh - Father of Cricketer Yuvraj Singh, famous actor in Punjab




Sanjay Dutt is Half-Punjabi and Uttar-Pradeshi.

A person from Haryana (North-West India)



A person from Madhya Pradesh (Central Zone of India)

^ What is the purpose behind showing these kind of pictures ? What do you want to convey ?

These people at best would be considered gypsies, they don't look white.

I would rather love Pervert Burger.

I love the Pervert Burger too. It looks delicious.

This girl...boy...whatever it is! Is absolutely gorgeous. He/she will grow up to have super-model good looks. That goes for a lot of the pictures of people in this thread - damn these people and their naturally stunningly beautiful eyes!

^ She is a girl.


Many gypsey tribes have their origions in India, like Roma people.

SHE IS A TIBETAN,CANADIAN AND A NEPALI (SHRESTHA)AS WELL..COLOR OF HER EYES AQUA---
ISN'T SHE PRETTY*O*

AM TIBETAN,NEPALI,JAPANESE PRIDE WITH GREEN EYES...MY MOTHER IS TIBETAN,MY DAD A MIX OF TIBETAN ,JAPANESE AND NEPALI....

^ Ahh beautiful big eyes. I think the eyes are hazel. But very beautiful I like it.

They look like contacts to me. But the other girl with the aqua eyes has a very unique eye colour.

Sorry but they are REAL ,..but sometimes i wish i had hazel eyes like RANI MUKHERJEE....its so light and so beautiful...

^ You look good in your own way. Your eye color and double eyelids makes you unique.

THNX TONS dear..but yea i love big eyes but i hav chinese eyes except for the double lid..lo'l..

I am just replying to what was said about the Afghan girl, I am an Afghan refugee, and I was just going to say, the reason many afghan's have green eyes is because of our Aryan blood, I have 3 sister and 2 brother and all except 1 of us has a green eyes. I also can't belive that thing about Aryan's is a myth.
by the way I am new here, so if any one can tell me a good discusion that would be nice.

welcome

i hope u enjoy ur time on AF

gawd you're misinformed. There's a genetic cline for light eyes radiating outwards from the Baltic Sea area. You just seem like a genuine idiot when you talk about stuff like "Aryan blood" to a more informed person. Goebbels would take pride in your idiocy.

Someone needs to lock this thread before I decide to crap all over it.

My moms cousins son has green eyes but the other one doesnt. I have pics of him but they are at night so the quality is very grainy so you cant see it. We are from andhra too so its quite rare.

The tibetans are wearing contact lenses for sure.

Yes, because colored contacts are readily available in the Himalayas.

It has to do with heterogeneity within a specific population!
Pushtuns and Northern Indians do have a propensity for blue/green eyes as opposed to others in the southern part of the country! Hazara and Uzbek have a lesser frequency but Tajik, due to their backbround express it more.

The mixed groups (mestizaje) known as Hispanics also express this gene.

Wow, his eyes are freaky.

Indian girl: