Courtesy of the border that didn't used to be there...
People from northwest India generally have the same middling skin colour as people (or their descendants) from most of Pakistan 'cos they're from the same latitude. A lot of the Indians who emigrated into the North of England were from Gujarat and Punjab so there's really nothing to distinguish them once the outward cultural signs are removed by 3 generations of being a Brit. It's largely once you get towards the southern half of India that people get darker skinned, there's quite a wide variation in skin colour across that country, not that there hasn't been plenty of migration within India to confuse that.

I dislike the term 'asian' as it feels like it lumps Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis in with Chinese, Thai, Kazakhs, Russians etc. Some Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Indians don't like being lumped together either, partly due to 3 wars.
(squigbobble existed, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 15:34, Reply)