Are Sri Lankans considered African American people?
The question is totally wrong. They can never be african american, if they are not from Africa. Sri Lanka is a hot pot of mixed genetics for thousands of years people from Africa, India, Arabia, Europe, look at all images here, East asia has ended up on the island and stayed and spreed there gentics. But i agree that you have a small portion of African DNA in both Sri Lanka and South India. Even Sri Lankans with african futures. yes it exists not in big numbers but in coastal areas, alot of Soldiers from Mosambique (another portugese colony) and Kenya by the british . You also have sea people who eneded up in Maldives and Sri Lanka, there faces looks like Eritreans or Somalians came to Sri Lanka. Yemeni travelers also has african futures also came to Maldives, and Sri Lanka and stayed. Lastly you have the natives aborignal african group in Sri Lanka very low numbers but still looks like Brazilians or mixed Africans. You can see them in Kataragama. USA is to much focus on skin color. Race is more about scull and face structure. Sri Lankans i would say looks more european in the face structure than even indians, many Finish, hungary people, Russians who have more east asian genetics but are “white in skin”. Even do many Sri Lankans are darker skin they have more a european face . The Nazi regime racial maped Sri Lanka allways mentioned as Indo-Aryan. Many Sri lankans defentily has more an aryan look exept the skin color than other peoples with lighter skin like arabs or north indians , Many north europeans like Finland, Hungary, Russia has alot of East asian DNA in there face. Angelo Mathews Cricketer on the picture below
Angelo Mathews - Sri Lankan tamil ancestry
(Stereo typical random Sri Lankan sinhalese persons)
Sri Lankan Sinhalese wedding
As you can see the genetics here is a very mix of both east and west and south .
Cricketer Jayasuriya sinhalese with African ancestry
(Mozambique ancestors during portugese or birtish colony era) , bigger lips, wider nose bridge and stronger body, naturaly more curly hair.
Sri Lanka Vedda people ( Aborignal first people in Sri Lanka)
N U M M W SENANAYAKE (Sinhalese Commander of the Army of Sri Lanka)
Can just speculate, cos people and ancestors have changed names to fit in the racial catogry on the island. But as you can see on his face he is really african looking futures. My guess (no evidence) is that he have ancestors from Kenya or West Africa.
Vedda people are today mixed in with local population but still many african futures can be seen. They have seperate uniq language
Sinhalese with European ancestery.
Dumminda Silva (portugese), Former MP in the Sri Lanka parliment ( prisioned now)
Sri Lankan - Malay (Indonesian ancestry)
Cricketer with Malay ( Indonesia ancestry) wider east asian eyes, round face.
The 4th edition of Meyers Konversationslexikon (Leipzig, 1885-1890) shows the Caucasian race
Ok i’m not trying to be racist here, but should say the truth because people abusing srilankans without a reason.
The people in this pic dosen’t represent most srilankans. These people are tamils (தமிழர்) which are mainly related to south india. They do looks like south indians (facial features,skin color ). This dosen’t represent average srilankan . The sinhalese are different and lighter skinned than those people,
Indian tamils
Malayalis
Telugu people
Kannadiga people
Those people are same as most dravidan speakers of south india very dark complexion , facial features… And also don't get distracted by their celebrities that dosen’t represent common folks.
Sinhalese
Do we look african americans? Or different ? Most Lankans/sinhalese are lighter most south indians(as an average ).
This question is quite similar on asking “Are Egyptians Black or White with a African or European ancestry”?
What you need to know is all continents and islands in the planet were once connected with the great continent “Pangaea”
Further Reading; https://www.pc-tablet.co.in/fabl...
When the continents start the movement since millions of years and get scattered across the globe every life and non life forms are affected with the existing climate conditions in the particular area resulting in various skin color formations etc.
Accordingly, Science has categorized certain groups as Africoid, Melanasians, Oceanic Negroids, Negritos, Australoids etc.
Afrid and Bambutids (Africoid)
Further Reading Afroid phenotypes REVISED
Afrid with minor Khoisanid, Paleo-Afrid and/or Ithiopid influence
Further Reading Afroid phenotypes REVISED
Pan-African Yanadi Girl South India
Further Reading The Blacks of East Bengal
Dalit Africoid Children India
Further Reading Black Educator
Melanesian Girl - Pacific Islanders
Further Reading Pacific islanders got a double whammy of Stone Age DNA
Australoid Negrito - Veddah woman of Sri Lanka
Author - Joseph Deniker
Source - The races of man: an outline of anthropology and ethnography (1906)
Further Reading File:Veddah woman of Sri Lanka Australoid Negrito.png
With all above images and facts it is clear that the scientific terms on categorization is based on physical appearances in the current nation these individuals live; apart from the fact of the nation or land of origin which is another fact of concern in historical studies on ancient origins which is off the topic and the question.
Initially for the historical ancient origins of the Sinhalese whom are ancient islanders known as the “Siv Hela” do refer the link below;
The Story of the Land of the Sinhalese “Helese” By Arisen Ahubudu https://www.ahubudu.lk/pdf/TheStoryOfTheLandOftheSinhalese(Helese).pd
or my answer given for “Who are the Sinhalese” Who are the Sinhalese?
In conclusion as seen above in the GONDWANALAND and the present day location one cannot simply judge or categorize a certain race based on the skin color or the location (located near this or that country likewise) since nature has already implemented the variety and uniqueness for each and every individual.
My personal opinion about the person who asked this question is that he/she simply points on to an individual with an angle related to skin color or a certain nations reference to a particular community such as “African American” etc. and seek facts with a lack of understanding the nature’s segregation of millions or billions of years.
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First of all, I have to say that I'm a fan of booker-t and a huge fan of Michael Jackson thus I like African Americans. But however people from South Asia are usually a mixture of Black or Dark Indigenous Asians known as ASI and west Eurasians or in your words caucasoids. So We are Definitely Related to those So-called Negrito Peoples of South East Asia - Particularly Andamanese Islanders, but not very closely related to the people of African Continent. (Genetically)
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