How come you can find in parts such as northern india, afghanistan, pakistan, people that look like germans?

I noticed that in some parts in the middle east such as india, afghanistan and pakistan you can find people who look swiss, german, polish and russian. Is there a history behind this because they look white and european to me?|||Your wrong -_- people from Afghanistan, Central Asia, Middle East would look like Russians, German, Swiss, Polish simply because of Geography not because of mix race...look at the world map Central Asia was a part of, and is connected to Russia. Afghanistan is connected to Central Asia (the former soviet union) and had Russia in it for long time not long ago and all of these nations are then connected to Middle East...simple as that !|||many of the people there are not fully "mid-eastern"


they are mixed so that is why some of them look white


http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;鈥?/a>|||umm..yeh, you can get people from those areas that don't look typically middle eatern..probably is history behind it (immigration from other areas). There's history behing everything|||You can find some people who live in the mountain regions of these countries, who have fair skin, blonde/light brown hair, and blue/green eyes, although they are in the minority if you consider the entire country as a whole.





One of these groups of people is the Kalash tribe in northern Pakistan.





http://images.google.com/images?q=kalash鈥?/a>





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalash





There are different theories as to their origins. Some believe they are descendants of Alexander the Great, some say they are some lost Jewish tribe, some say they are descendants of British Outcasts from colonial times and others say that they are native of the region and that these people actually immigrated to Europe over time.








The Kalash are a very small group of people, and they are probably the only ones who look similar enough to Europeans so that you'd easily mistake them for someone from Northern Europe.





Among the larger ethnic groups of that region, there are some ethic groups that are lighter skinned and some that are darker skinned, and even within each ethnic group, there are people who may look completely different.





Many Pashtuns, Eastern Persians, Kashmiris, as well as some Punjabis and Biharis are fair skinned although they usually have dark hair and eyes, so they usually look more similar to Mediterranean people rather than Northern Europeans.





I am a Pakistani of Iraqi, Persian, and Bihari origins, and I have light tan skin, and dark hair.