Jatt
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The main reasons the Punjabi men are thought to have chosen women of Mexican ancestry are due to sharing phenotypical and sociocultural similarities. Mexican women were considered brown, as were the Punjabi men; interracial marriage bans in California prevented Punjabis from marrying Black or White women but allowed them to marry Mexican women, who—much like the women of Punjab—covered their heads and bodies to protect themselves from the sun while working in the fields.[3]Traditionally Mexicans and Punjabis shared a rural way of life, with similar types of food and family values, and thus maintained a similar material and social culture. Mexicans and Indians shared an initially lower class status in American society.[1]
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