When do feelings of superiority arise to make us happy? When we are conscious of differences between what we believe is "ours" and what we believe is "theirs". But seriously I feel instead of the Nazis harboring the feeling of being superior it is we Indians who must have felt that. We are far more superior as a race intellectually and physically than any of our counterparts in the world. I clearly agree we are not the best when each point is taken individually but we are the best blend – concoctions that are available in nature. The recipe for success!Now why am I talking of this. Few days back I was trying to correlate two things, worldwide lust to Hollywood actress Angelina Joile and Indian population attraction to the dusky actress Bipasha Basu. The only similarity both have is both have brown skin and not the fair complexion of the other popular kittens in the world.
The word Aryan which is used to describe the superior race is again an Indian word by origin. Its history starts with the ancient Indo-Iranians, Indo-European people who inhabited parts of what are now Iran, Afghanistan, and India. Their tribal self-designation was a word reconstructed as *arya– or *ārya–. It’s a Sanskrit derivation (For that matter it’s a well know fact that Sanskrit is the most superior language) *ārya which refers to the upper crust of ancient Indian society.
Now let me give my cent to the debate on superiority :-
Physically superiority: Indians have all the traits of the most superior physical traits. It’s a well know fact that it is always the superior trait – gene that gets percolated from our ancestors. We have black eyes, black hair, darker skin (used to be Black but that has evolved into brown over the ages – I am talking more about the Dravidian Indian).
Intellectual superiority: Indians have proved beyond doubt that we have the most brilliant people in all walks of life. I am not rejecting the fact that there are intellectually brighter populations like the Israeli, Russian. But given the fact that Indian population is huge it can eat up on any competition. The recent developments of Indians taking over the silicon valley, getting the best research jobs all over the world, taking over crucial and big companies (Mittal-Arcelor) is just a pre-cursor to things if we start digging on this topic.
It’s the basic Darwin theory -survival of the fittest. The inevitable outcome would be Indians or at least a variant becoming the largest population in the world (with the amount of Indians migrating all over the world). Knowing the great appetite of Indians to procreate it is not a very far sighted goal.
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