Why do Northeast Indian people have narrow eyes?

The main characteristic of Northeast Indians is narrow eyes. But why are they narrow? The main reason for this is the environmental evolutionary process of their race being related to the Mongoloids.

There is racial diversity in India. People of Caucasian, Mongoloid, and Negro races are found here, and people of mixed races are also present, but the eyes of Indians living in North-East India are narrower than those of North and South India.

The main reason for this is that the people of the North-East belong to the Mongoloid race.

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Mongoloids are basically people living in large areas of Asia who belong to India, China, Japan, the Korea Peninsula, etc.

But it so happened that the representatives of the Mongol race, who emerged from a relatively small population in Central Asia, succeeded in gaining a foothold in this vast part of the world, including to America too.

Genetically, the eyes of Mongoloid people appear narrow.

It is believed that the narrow eyes of the Mongoloids are an evolutionary response to the harsh conditions of the Central Asian deserts and steppes that developed about 15-20 thousand years ago.

That is, the scorching sun in summer, constant dust storms, and winds with sand. As well as frequent snowfalls in winter, which blinds the eyes and reflects dangerous ultraviolet rays directly into the eyes. And severe frosts, from which the eyes were protected by the same layer of fat.

Is it true that North-eastern Indians have small eyes?

In reality, Mongoloids or North East Indians do not have small eyes. It appears so because of the structure of their eyes. Which shows their genetic evolutionary process. And all this because the eyes of the Mongoloids are located at a kind of angle—the inner part of the eye is lower than the upper one.

In addition, the eyes of the Asian race seem even smaller due to the epicanthus (from the Greek “corner of the eye”)—a”special fold that closes the tear duct-tubercle, which is open in the same European-African peoples.

By the way, Epicanthus is often found in children of American Indians—a human race that originated from the Mongoloid race and is its closest relative.

Mongoloids have an extra fat layer under the skin of the eyelids, which makes the eyes even narrower. An additional point is the low position of the bridge of the nose, which also makes the eyes of the Asian race look narrower.

It was precisely these narrow eyes with epicanthus that could give a person at least some protection from the above-mentioned harmful natural factors.