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I found this website. Their traditional tatoos are very Polynesian. I did not know Filipinos had African blood too. Though I've seen Flipinons that look Japanese, light skinned and some look spanish. Don't deny it, all these people denying African roots like Puerto Ricans.

http://www.apat-na-alon-tribe.com/history.html

 

Arab and Indian influence during those times were limited to merchants and Imams who settled the country. There was never a significant migration like you would have seen from the Fukien areas in China.

Heck even the Spanish settlement was mostly composed of the clergy and the military. It was a lot harder to settle the Philippines compared to their colonies in Mexico, the Caribbean and South America.

 

I have been talking sense all the way through, without being biased, if you check my posts and corroborate them with the new data posted later. I am good with evolutionary theory and genetics and geography :hey

Things don't remain the same in two centuries and Indian accounts of their history is highly exxagerated. And one or two wrestlers don't give the full picture of the genetic make up of the South Asians.

As for the Gurkhas, centuries of hard work in the mountains made them tough. Not the Rajput roots. Actually the ruling class had Rajput roots, not the locals who later adopted hinduism in the influence of the rulers. Hence the Gurkhas look like the Mongols/Tibetans. There are Mongols in India too. They may have spilled from up North and mixed up with the Aryans hundreds of years ago.

 

Strange is it not? :think

Apparently the human beings who are most genetically distinct from each other are native Africans and Aborigines in Australia and Papua New Guinea.

I think the first wave of homo sapiens to step out of the African continent,were the ancestors of these people.

 

Yeah but I've seen alot of mongolodish looking Filipinos as well.

 

Its to be expected when there were a lot of Chinese migrations to the Philippines.

Its not black and white and a lot of Filipinos have more cultural and genetic ties to other Asians while some are more closely connected to their more distant Polynesian relatives.

Heck if you put me right next to two of my friends, you would never suspect we came from the same island. One keeps getting called Chinese, the other Latino and I keep getting called Afro-American or Arab for some odd reason (since those two resemble each other so much:huh)

 

I have this filipino friend who shaves his head and this black guy called him brotha and people always mistake him as a black guy his immediate response was to say he is not black. I tell him it aint a bad thing.

 

"Chinese mestizos are persons of mixed Chinese and either indigenous Malay or Spanish (or both) ancestry. They make up between 10-20% of the country's total population (those who are ethnic Chinese make up 1.5% of the population).........

During the Spanish colonial period, the Spanish authorities encouraged the Chinese male immigrants to convert to Catholicism. Those who converted got baptized and their names Hispanized, and were allowed to intermarry with indigenous Malay women..........


Today, most of the mestizos in the Philippines trace their ancestry to these Chinese immigrants and not Spanish settlers despite their Spanish-sounding names. This was due to Spanish policies imposing racial segregation on the residents of the colony. There are also a number of Filipinos in today's society who often claim themselves to be a mestizo rather than tracing back their ancestry......"

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

Thankyou wiki.

There was large Chinese immigration to the Philippines during the 19th century during the Spanish colonial period,apparently.

So,is Manny ethnically a mix of native-Philippine and Chinese? :think

 

UK residents might want to watch this BBC 2 series - The incredible human journey. Here's the link for the first episode.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00kfqps/The_Incredible_Human_Journey_Out_of_Africa/

 

Since we are on the subject I got this of google on images of Mestizo Philippinos. These ones look spanish/Chinese.

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Definitely not. I just find it hilarious that people can mistake me for being Cambodian one second and then African-American the next even though the two look nothing like each other.

 

a bbc documentary...?? for what? your taking the content of it as truth?

 

Man its for the less informed ones, like the thread starter. Factual docus have some truth though. I guess its made by the Open University, so not like all those BS docus.

 

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

Colonial caste system

The history of racial mixture in the Philippines occurred mostly during the Spanish colonial period from the 16th to 19th century.
The same Spanish racial caste system enforced in Latin America existed in the Philippines, with a few differences.

The indigenous Filipino population of the Philippines were referred to as Indios.
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Term Definition

Indio person of pure Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) ancestry

Negrito person of pure Aeta ancestry

Sangley person of pure Chinese ancestry

Mestizo de Sangley person of mixed Chinese, and Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) ancestry; also called chino mestizo

Mestizo de Español person of mixed Spanish, and Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) ancestry

Tornatrás person of mixed Spanish, Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian), and Chinese ancestry

Filipino person of pure Spanish descent born in the Philippines ("from Las Filipinas"); also called Insulares ("from the islands") or Criollos (Creoles)

Américano person of Criollo (pure Spanish blood),

Castizo, or Mestizo descent born in Spanish America ("from the Americas")

Peninsulares person of pure Spanish descent born in Spain ("from the peninsula")





It's quite a bit to know.....

 

These are the Aeta.They are a native tribe of the Philippines.

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