Many of us get less "AASI"/south eurasian than that. I myself at max get 10%(9,75% to my calculations) and down to perhaps 8%(7,80% to my calculations)That is not much different fromt what I wrote. Once again I used the type D as example. 5% was just an example. it could be 3% for all I care. But the fact of the matter is even if 1 in 20 Kurds has this look this automatically means Pashtuns who resemble that 1 guy can pass as Kurds. Even if as very atypical. Otherwise you would claim that Kurds who look like that but are 100% genetic Kurdish are not real Kurds. And this would be a delusional, paradox and very contradictionary statement.
I have seen Kurds from Ilam, Lorestan all the way into Dersim who resemble the examples 3,4,5, 7. Very atypical for Kurds but they do exist even if only 1 in 100. This would be a type for example which is relevant among Pashtuns (like 15%) but only found in the 1% scale among Kurds. Don't let yourself be confused by the skin color which is clearly sun burned but the facial features. Ironically some of these examples look more pseudo Arabian than South Asian. The exception being Nr.1
Also as I pointed out. These people are very rural the comparison is not fair and this is quite frankly how especially Turks try to portray Kurds by comparing their people in shiny western clothes with people from the farm.
You seem to have a little hard time understanding what I mean with the concept of "passing" and "looking around average or typical". Maybe I am not good in explaining it. If you put a Kurdish and a Pashtun group next by each others you will easily tell apart the two. You will also be able to tell which individual is more likely to be Kurd or Pashtun. This is a no brainer. But this does not disprove the concept of passing. Because passing only works on a individual to individual basis. What you are describing is the concept of typical/average look. Even if a type, let's call it "G" exist only 1% ofKurds while at the same time in 20% of the Pashtun population. This still would make these Pashtuns pass as a Kurd. But you could not claim the 20% of Pashtuns of type G look Kurdish. Because this G type is not typical Kurdish to begin with. Passing =/= looking like
It's not just some. It's a whole lot of more than that. I am not sure if it is 60, 70 or 90%. The 90% was just an extreme example. it's probably more around ~67% (2/3). But from my own two eyes it is more than just "some". Passing =/= Looking typical or average.
If we are going to make comparisons we should make fair comparisons. Any of the countries Kurds live in are richer and allot more "westernized" in the way they act and dress.
Pashtun people in the diaspora is how I know they look from face to face.
Tajiks have even more often features that can pass as Kurdish
I am not saying they look like us Kurds (passing =/= looking like) but you guys here almost sound like we are talking about a completely different species of humans.
Instead of feeling attacked we should feel proud of it. Them trying to link themselfs to us is a sign of affection. And it is also because they dislike most of their neighbours which we Kurds should understand 100%. When they say, they are "Northern West Asians" they don't do this to hurt your or anyone elses feelings, they do this to distance themselfs from Pakistanis who are literally one of the major reasons why Afghanistan is so f.ed up right now. They don't claim closeness to us by making shit up like saying we are South Asians, if there are some of them claiming things like this, then your response is a understandable response to these individuals. But from my experience they claim closeness to us by saying they are an extension of Northern West Asians which is not a wrong statement to begin with. Most of the ancestry from West-Central Asia did basically originate in Northern West Asia. It is that 15-25% AASI which isn't, but still 75-85% of their ancestry is from Northern West Asia/Steppes which makes them some sort of extension of us.
I do not consider them as Northern West Asians, but as an extension of us (West-Central Asians). Somehow a thing of their own
Also, regardless i think youre from TA. The calculation you made with the phenotype thing, i only remember seeing it on TA once.
Who are you on TA though? If im not wrong?






