The original Khmer are dark skinned, that doesn’t mean they from Africa. Dark skinned looking asian, Yes! we do have nappy and curly hair. Yes! we use to braid our hair too back in the days. People in Cambodia now is all mix. Especially with Chinese due to a lot of them Migrating in. That’s why a lot of them are light skinned now. South East Asian people are naturally dark skinned. Just because he said Black doesn’t mean Africa. It’s just mean he’s dark. Don’t get it twisted. Am Cambodian and am dark skinned, as a kid I’ve always have nappy curly hair, as I grew up it went away. I do not know why.. LOL
Let the world know bro. Even todays Cambodians don’t want to recognize Khmers origins. Dark skin, well built, curly, wavy or nappy afro looking hair. Especially the light skin sino-khmers. They will deny anything that you just mentioned. Even tell people that Khmers are dark because they work outside 😂. Ain’t this sad? Cambodia is becoming pro Sino. Deleting any evidence of a true Khmer. Just watch their TV and Music VDOs. No signs of dark skin folks.
You act like... just because your dark skinned your black... just because you have wooly hair your black...I’ve seen dark skinned Chinese before ...does that mean there black? just because some one Describe him as black. I,ve seen a lot of dark skinned people in India with wooly hair.. does that mean they black ? Every culture Practice voodoo even India. Does that mean they black? Come on man.... ! Really ...! You need to learn more about other cultures. We are all similar in many ways... just because we use the term black as dark skinned doesn’t mean it automatically that kind of black. So if the guy say they are light skinned, does that mean they are white? 😂
Yeah Sure! 😂.... tell that to the whole world. Let see who believe you. If you say India are black... I guess black people are India. How do you know it ani’t the other way around?
Mon mean "first or before" They were Austronesian. They migrated from south of China just slightly before the Khmer over 2,000 years ago. Khmer migrated from east of Asia. Maybe as far as western India. Note the term "Kambuja", a tribe of western Indian descents. Khmer and Mon intermixed, thus Mon-Khmer or Khmer-Mon were the race that dominated mainland southeast Asia. Mon people mostly settled at south and southeast Myanmar and small population northeastern Thailand.
It's very normal for south East Asians to have dark skin, most us do. And this guy must be describing the South Indians also, the South Indians are dark, have curly hair and south east Asia were influenced by Hinduism. And look at the script on these part of South East Asia, it's similar to South Indian scripts. Africans aren't the only ones who have dark skin , likewise Europeans aren't the only ones who have pale skin . Proud Asian here ...proud that we have different types of nose structure, can be hairy or almost hairless, different shades of skin colour etc. And anyway, I think all human race are all related to each other.
Keyword; curly hair not nappy or African-textured. My dad is fairly dark and has naturally curly hair. I am not sure they’re actually African. There are many dark skin Asians. Maybe this is due to the theory that humans originated from Africa. But it’s hard to say, the dark skin may be just an evolution for Asians that live in hotter jungle climates; such as Cambodia. Overall, there is no empirical evidence that says dark skin asians have any correlation to Africa, besides the fact that there’s a specific tribe in Africa that have asiatic eyes, that is the only correlation I can think of.
6OLD No bro, if you live in a wet jungle environment, you will develop a straighter hair hence why most Cambodians start to lose the kinks and develop tight curls or wavy hair back in the days. But if you take it further into the past. They may just have kinky nappy afros but mixing with straight haired people will accelerate the process. If you’re Khmer you don’t need to explain what Khmers look like. But you do know that Khmers are a mixture of many different looking people for thousands of years now. Put it this way, if you stick a dark skin Khmer in a group with a bunch of Chin, it wouldn’t be hard to pick him out. He would stick out like an eye sore. You want to know what Khmers used to look like? Look up Papua.
There's a saying that Cambodians are the Blacks of Asia and the Blacks of Asians in USA. The non mix Cambodians are very dark skin, but due to ethnic mixing we became lighter and lighter through generations.
Not just mix with another race, very popular now, people skin bleaching. Chinese is not always light skin either. They have dark skin as well but not as the Cambodian (Cambodian has detailed features such nice lips, chest and butt). Chinese work hard to eliminate dark skin.
@Neicha Reich bro knock it off . 😂 anything that is black comes from Africa , know you’re history dirty man. The khoa San are the original Asians who migrated to Asia to populate the country thousand of years ago everyone is from Africa and this is something proven over thousands of years aswell so Knock it off love! yourself . 🤝🏾✨✊🏿. cuz rn Yu actin like a clown 🤡
@Neicha Reich nope s lot of African Americans are actually Asian, a lot of them come from the Cham kingdom Nation of Islam like Mohammed Ali and Mike Tyson.
@Neicha Reich I'm Khmer, and I assume you are Khmer also. Do you even know Preah Sangh, who is our patriarch portrayed as a black man in royal ballets? You wanna act like you know everything, we were black before being Sinized. Go ask your parents if you have a black ancestor because I confirmed it with mine. Black doesn't mean African you ignorant fool. If you don't have a black ancestor then it is clear to me who you are (fake Khmer) .
The Mon Khmer were Asians with dark skin tones in Cambodia, similar to Hindus and Tamils (but not Africans). A former name for Khmer was Khmao (black). The majority of authentic Khmers have Indian, Tamil, or Hindu ancestry. Although some Indians have black skin and curly hair, you can tell they are not from Africa when you look at their faces. The guide is not even Khmer, but either Chinese or Vietnamese. I've seen that a large percentage of devout African Americans hold the view that all prehistoric societies with dark complexion appearances were originally from Africa. There are even black Chinese. SMH
Human migration started from Africa, they still were Asian but that doesn’t mean non black as you even said. Not sure what the issue is, furthermore I’ve seen Tamils with flat (negroid) noses.
I think the bigger question is why across the world is dark skin looked down upon and yet funny enough the further back in history you go the darker the people get in many areas. Why has dark skin been virtually erased from history ?
In Cambodia, dark skin means your skin is dark from working in the fields, that you are a poor laborer. White skin means you are rich, and pure. Skin bleaching, and races intermarry. Not that there's anything wrong with intermarriage.
@Sovereign45 yeah sorry I typed in irritation. I meant the theory that all hominids ventured out of Africa is constantly debated. However I think people tend to like to ascribe to the theory's opposition because they don't like the idea of origin being dark and not because of the debate and genuine curiosity. It's a big assumption to make but I notice people actively try to find proof against it whether they're academics or not, and ignore anything that supports the idea. It's confirmation bias.
I think yous where your own race bro i am Indigenous Australian but like I think we are sought of similar like Papua new Guinea Torres Strait isl Solomon isl and Vanuatu
@Neicha Reich Khmer mons are the original aborigine check that word out my dad is a villager and we don't have jet black hairs and eyes that look like Chinese people speaking cuz I'm a Cambodian my dad won't lie
I’m 97% Khmer and I was born in the USA, so with the better diet I am more taller and bigger than my relatives in Cambodia. According to my ancestors, ancient Khmer was a magical place where people did not lie and things borrowed were always returned so everything people wanted they would just asked for and was received. They were darker and much taller and bigger than the Khmers now.
@Neicha Reich cambodia was 400 year under Thailand colonial rule by international history. Nowadays people cambodian had pronunciation number in Thai word.
@@airiarisaka5699 shut the fk up chhke siem, this false history news has been spread by siem dir ty mouth to degrade the Khmer, only nearly 99 years to under control of siem after the Khmer empire has fallen, no official documents or historic article to support your claim. But there are tons of article to state the siem thai has absorbed, copi ed from ancient Khmer almost everything, even your siem script has also derived from ancient Khmer scripts./
Oh shut up, black or not how do you know? Can you trace back thousands of years of diaspora + intermingling + evolution. Likeee?? You don't want to be related to the African subcontintent because u don't want to be related to melanin. And that's a race issue - it's 2019. Edit: I bet if y'all saw a light skin person and someone said they were black you'd be shocked. Because y'all think a white person is always super fair and a Black person is dark and being dark is negatively connoted.
Meghan Great post. I also believe that everyone takes the word “black” in a negative tone. That’s because the lack of Truth and most are taught within the POV of a “European”...This would be silly but if I describe a person with brown skin, deep almond eyes, tight curl or wavy hair, thick lips and a muscular built body structure and the person is a rice farmer from Southeast Asia, how can one simply say he is a yellow “mongoloid” working in the sun and thats why he’s dark. This is the ignorance that most people is spewing out of their minds. Are you Khmer by the way?
Similar to south indian Tamils ,veddoids ,Irulas - Melanesian - Australian aboriginals 😯,,,,, Ofcourse not all South indians have curly hair , ... they r mostly straight hair & brown skinned .
The ancient Khmer were Negrito. They had the physical appearance of Black people but were 100% Asian. And I'm a light-skinned Cambodian-American that's saying all this.
Bách Việt [VIỆT NAM] And what did the Austroasiatic people look like? Modern-day Southeast Asians? No, they didn't. Yes, the Mon-Khmer were Austroasiatic but they were dark and looked Blackish. More so, Negrito features. Mongoloids came later and intermixed with the native dark-skinned people of Southeast Asia. If you could go back in time 1,000 years and were to expect seeing present-day S.E. Asian features or maybe slightly different than today's, you'd be surprised in finding dark-ass people. "Black-looking" Asians.
Bách Việt [VIỆT NAM] You're the uneducated one, you dumb fool. There are pictures of Khmer people back in the early 1900s and they were very dark. Imagine how they looked a thousand years ago. Shows how much you know if you really believe that they looked like Chinese people with a tan.
+Henry Lim I looked at some old photos and video footage of Cambodian people during the early twentieth century, and I have to disagree with your belief that they somehow "looked more black" back then. Perhaps you see them that way, but when I look at them, I see a people with unmistakable Asiatic features, facial structures, and an overall Asiatic appearance. The only real factor that might make them "look black" is their dark skin, but even then, this perception only happens at first glance and disappears within a second or two. For me, their dark complexion alone simply isn't enough to give them an overall "black" appearance. I still perceive them to be what I would consider "Asian" or "Mongoloid" in appearance. I hold the same perception with regard to the ancient Cambodian people of Angkor. When I look at ancient Apsara carvings depicted on temple walls, I see "Oriental-looking" women, not "African-looking" women. Perhaps Cambodians had darker skin tones back then, but in terms of facial shape and structure, the Apsara carvings look EXACTLY the same as the Apsara dancers you see in Cambodia today -- thin monolid eyes, small nose, round face, slender body, and beautiful smile. I see the same "Asian look" for the men of Angkor, as well. When I look at the crouching statues of Angkor Thom, for example, I cannot help but liken their faces to those of the Terracotta statues in China or to the Samurai from traditional paintings in Japan. In fact, I've actually CONFUSED the Angkor Thom statues for those of the Terracotta army, having once believed they were one and the same!
Too much misinformation. Mon Khmer are a mongoloid people that migrated into Southeast Asia from the Yunnan/northern Laos area and were part of the bai culture.They actually displaced the negrito/Austronesian/Australoid peoples that were there before them hence the argument of Khmer Chenla replacing Funan around 600ad. Khmers seem to misunderstand or purposefully embrace the identity of original Khmer as being dark skinned and curly as a legitimizing device to the land, similar to how white Americans claim to be native Americans.
Yea except there is no shred of African culture in Asia… meanwhile there’s plenty of evidence that Asians made it to America/ Alaska/ etc… before Whites/ Blacks This Africa was “eVeRyWhErE” aka we’re all black, is getting ridiculous. Y’all trying/ reaching too hard…
@@gold-toponym The Malay migrated to their archipelago from Philippines, and to the Philippines from Taiwan Btw 我是華人。福建話是我兮母語，毋過我嘛會講Tagalog佮我老爸兮方言。我真無明白 汝無佮意南島人或泰人敢哪？ Gua si huajin. Hokkienwe si gua-e bungi, mkue gua ma e kong Tagalog kap gua laupa e hongngien. Gua cin bo biengpek, di bo kha-i lamtonang hek thainang kanna?
Dude you really need to do more research. And never go in with a European mindset that our oppressors set In us. My wife is Cambodian and it's pronounced. KUM-EYE. SMH you sound like the white man. 'Un-educated' about cultures.
As long as you are speaking the White Man's language and appropriating HIS culture, you may wanna take that attitude down a notch. SMH, you sound like you wanna be a White Man.
I'm no historian but Khmer people I say were the orginal people of Mekong delta. You know how like Africa got their own Nile river delta it's not South Africa but Egypt area. Africa top bottom and Khmer top bottom differ
@Richi RIch Not really. He was a commie that wanted purity. It was a pure genocide, trying to restore Cambodia to its "rightful" place as the ruler of SEA. He did so by genociding anyone who wasn't ethnically Khmer to restore the power.
@@poopsanchez6449 The Khmer Rouge and books in the west say he was trying to maintain Cambodian culture without Western influence. However, Pol Pot didn’t seek purity, he abolished traditional weddings and religious ceremonies.
Do you know that there is a place called Mon in Nagaland India and their skins are darker then the rest? Btw we are Naga's of Nagaland in India and we believe that we migrated from China to present India thousands of years ago but we don't have much proof of our history since most of our history got lost with time all we have is our languages which we still speak our culture and our traditions which is very different from the rest of India..
Please don't try to connect black African to the Mon Khmer, we are not related to you. Mon Khmers were Originated in South East Asia for at least 3-5thusand years then the Chinese came along started mangled with the local Mon. Yes the Original Khmers Mon, they were big build and has a dark skin tune with curlies hairs but not black skin. So there were Chinese and Indian were around with the Khmer Mon. MON-KHMER(MON)=KHARM=KHMER=KHMAMARAK=CHAMPUCHEA: NOW KHMER(CAMBODIAN) there were no siam no Vietnam no Laos. Only Champa and Burma are neighbor to Khmer. So siam were from China and were chased out by the Mongols so the Anam/ Vietnam were chased out by the Chinese to one of the Island and they stated to invaded the Champa nation. The main enemies to Khmers were Vietnam and Thailand until today. Khmer was a nation full of joy and trustworthy also a very respectful-friendly nation with lots of smiles. If you ask Thai and Vietnam were are they came from, they're not going to tell the trust where they came from, ONLY KHMERS KNEW the answers.
Minh Nguyen that’s what I’ve come To realise ever since I went to Thailand, but I am khmer ... the thais are Chinese looking but look mixed with Khmers...
Dude. To tell you the truth. Not everyone came from Africa. Or did they? Exactly, we don't know. Books and documents are not proof or facts. They're just opinions or imaginations. "Seeing is believing". For example. We never seen Jesus walk on water, but many believe it. And I'm positive that nobody would buy anything they have never seen. So therefore we can't prove that all people come from Africa. Or history books are correct. It's time the people stop living blindly.
You're misinterpreting what the Asian man is saying. The man is Chinese, not Khmer. The Khmer language derived from Sanskrit which is a Hindu language of India. He said the Khmer are dark skin doesn't mean they are black. Khmer are known as the dark-skinned Asians. Don't you dare try to misconstrue his words he never said they look African! This highly offensive. If Khmer were African, how come no one in Africa speaks Khmer?! I did my 23 and me DNA testing and it says I am Khmer and I have no African and no European in me! If DNA testing states that Khmer do not have any DNA of Africans, then that means alot! Black nationalism needs to stop claiming every culture as theres. Khmer people originated from India, and Indians are considered dark skin too (very dark tan) they are dark(dark tan) bc of the climate, and I have wavy/curly hair too but have no African in me. This video is a joke! There are no ancient temples that look like ours in Africa. Stop claiming lies. Only India and Cambodia have similar language and culture. Africa culture is nowhere related to the Khmer or India culture.
Shahid Vega lmao that's our culture. There is no culture in Africa that's like Khmer. India and Africa not the same. Stop being delusional loser. Can you even read and speak Khmer?! I guess not now go away loser
Shahid Vega your imagination isn't truth. I am Khmer and proud of my culture. Keep claiming loser; no one is going to credit your delusional people. Hindu Khmer culture is the best! So all the crazies want to claim lmao. I speak and write in Khmer and follow khner culture that our ancestors been practicing for 1000 of years. You wouldn't know because you aren't Khmer lmao
Shahid Vega Khmer culture isn't black. Khmer culture is southeast asian and derived from India. African culture and language nothing like Khmer culture. You're crazy go take some medications you're making a fool out of yourself.
Lmao, you ain't pure Khmer. I seen pure blood Khmer. They are Negrito looking. You cut yourself by admitting the Khmer was dark skin like East Indians. They are very dark.
@@somah6375 The Khmer were their own thing before they allied with South India and became the Angkor Empire. Jayavarman II freed Khmer from being Java's vassal state and the Khmer then became the Angkor Empire. (The Khmer Kings: and The History of Cambodia Book I, 1st century to 1595, Funan, Chenla, Angkor and Longvek Periods, by Kenneth T. So)
Mon-Khmer is not a term to describe a race but a linguistic family. Under the Mon-Khmer branch of Austro-Asiatic languages, Khmer language is included. Mon is spoken in Burma by a people group known as the Mon. Mon-Khmer languages are found in Vietnam, Thailand, Yunnan Province (China), Myanmar, other Southeast Asian countries and Meghalaya state in Northeast India. My language, Khasi, spoken by our ethnic community, the Khasis, living in Meghalaya, is part of the Mon-Khmer group of languages.
Mon Khmer is also a prototype though to describe the first “person” of that region. The crazy thing about mon Khmer is the literal translation , before Khmer or first before Khmer people . A lot of people don’t know, Angkorian Khmer’s wasn’t one ethnic group but rather a nation. Lots of information we don’t know and won’t find in white man history book.
@Sovereign45 Actually he's speaking the truth, man. Mon Khmer language did make its way over there to Bangladesh. The Khasis do speak a Mon Khmer language, meaning there is a link somewhere there.
I believe the ancient khasi were part of the Khmer empire and lived in what is now present day Thailand. The Tai and Lao people migrated into the empire and displaced the khasi, forcing them to migrate to meghalaya. There are relief carvings on the walls of Angkor wat that depicts Khasi mercenary warriors. They were called Syam Kuk. But thai people believe it was their ancestors, which is false.
All peoples came from Africa originally you can deny it if you want to but actually those who have forsaken their melanin won't be long for the planet anyway with the advent of higher UV and climate change sperm rates will continue to fall and TFR drop for non melanated populations. In the future we (meaning the children of the diaspora) will remember you.
you are just in denial....I have Khmer blood in me....why do people all around the world run away from anything dealing with Africa...just ridicoulous.
Cambodian is a mixture of East, south Asian and Pacific Islander and possibly some middle eastern thru Indian blood too. So we come in all shade and hair texture
I am of mon background. My dad looks a bit East Asian but he has more noticeable features of dark skin, south asian look like and my mum looks very East Asian and has light skin.
Yep we were never African, Buakaw Thai boxer, born on Khmer/ Thai border, looks very Mon Khmer. I know plenty of Khmer and Thais who are dark like him.
You know that in Indonesia, which has the pronunciation "EU" there are only 2 tribes, 1, the Acehnese tribe at the northern tip of the island of Sumatra (because their ancestors came from the Cham country, & 2. The Sundanese tribe in the western part of the island of Java (I don't know why) we have king name olso jayasingavarman & purnavarman , old sunda nese king dom
Australoid and African are not the same thing, us dark skinned South Asians and Southeast Asians refer to ourselves as black but we have nothing to do with Africa, other than the fact that all mankind, including Nordics and Chinese originated there.
As a mon I would say yes but apart from curly hair I have brown complexion and my language is very similar to Cambodian and we share some same words with Thai too like "Manao" lemon.
Not all of Khmer people have curly hair .That guide has to research more history or story and Find out the truth. I‘m a real Khmer who lives in Cambodia.
@@JK-ky1ce He said he can't pronounced a hmong name, and said that name was his mom's name. There are Hmong people who are a bit dark too, but from what I heard there are different tribes of Hmong.
Do understand that Negritos were the earliest people to arrive in southeast Asia. Some argued that Austronesian were the first. I think these 2 groups came at different times at different point of entry. Negritos were African descents. They mostly live as hunters and gather in the basic primitive lifestyle, while the later arrival such as Khmer(Kambuja) and Mon built civilizations. Mon and Khmer became one race, which are Mon-Khmer. During the Khmer Empire and earlier, many Negritos, especially from the Sayam tribe were hired do heavy labor works, such as building roads, dikes, temples and as fighters or warriors. After a few generations, they assimilated and became Khmer. This may explains why Khmer or Cambodian have dark complexion and of course, curly hair as well.
For anyone who is confused… “real” Cambodians are dark like Indians, look up “Buakaw” he’s a Thai boxer who was born on the Cambodian/ Thai border. He’s built like a warrior and very dark. He was born on the Thai side, but remember Cambodia used to be an empire that ruled over Thailand and other south East Asian nations. So Thailand and Laos are just poor copies of Cambodia Also remember China mixed/ influenced almost every Asian nation both South East and East… That’s mostly where the original Thais came from southern China. They mixed with mon Khmer… Remember Thailand used to be called Siam, but they copied Cambodia/ Khmer - pronunciation = “Khmai” but whites people wrote it as “Khmer” But to clarify, original Cambodians are dark and more muscular than your typical East Asian. Just like Buakaw… No they weren’t “Black/ African” I know this because I am Cambodian, my father was dark af, my mother has Chinese blood. This is the norm in Cambodia, lots of mixing with China… But no we were NEVER black. Possibly Indian, because they influenced our religion tremendously, but that’s about it. It makes the most sense why Khmer/ Cambodians can be so dark.
Khmer people are not mixed with “Indians”. Ancestors of the Khmer migrated out of South Asia and settled in Southeast Asia between 40-60 thousand years ago. DNA traced this. These people would’ve looked very similar to Islanders of the Pacific. Dark skinned, tight curls, blonde streaks also. Then come the Ancestors of “Austronesian” who migrated out of China, who were lighter in appearance. They mix culturally, linguistically and so forth. Khmer people need to stop comparing themselves to them “Mongloid” of the north. Just because the “White” man called everyone Asian. Just like how they name the continent of Africa and so forth. These are geopolitical terms and have nothing to do with how a person look. Everyone in this World are all brainwashed by Colonialism. Except for the Andaman people 😂
@hassan ishaque they migrated from south-east Asia into the eastern part of India. So they are descendants of the ancient Khmer people. And not the Chinese-looking ones who are the majority in those lands today.
I happen to be from who are known as the Mundas, one of Indian Adivasi Tribes. It's a fact that we have our origin in south east Asia and also share linguistic similarity with the Khmer people.
adivasis tribes are the mother of khmer langages and austronesian languages they spread it to south china where the austronesians and khmers come from a black dravidian Kambu meet a Chenla princess Mera and create Khmer Kingdom adivasis and tamils were harappa people the same people Elam and Sumer and Aratta which in their turn come from Ethiopia , Egypt,kOUSH (Sudan ) 50000 years ago remind hero Memnon ( an elamite) which come from ethiopia through egypt www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiWucvvufTvAhUdhP0HHR5GBfIQFjAAegQIBBAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffr.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FColosses_de_Memnon&usg=AOvVaw0VU24fvCTLnCBtXvKcB5k2 to south Iran,his tribe was from the same stock egyptians, koushites and ethiopians but they were long haired: ancient greeks identify two kind of ethiopians short haired ones ( egyptians, koushites and ethiopians) and long haired ones( sumerians , elamites,meluhhans harappeans,dravidians, Mundas) langages of those second blacks were proto dravidian and proto austric and is father of dravidian, sumerian, elamite and harappean and Munda and modern austric langage proto dravidian and proto austric come from a common nostratic family spoke from Sumer to Burma roots of word to shine in eurasiatic family which include sumerian, dravidian, altaic, austric starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fdata%2fnostr%2fnostret&text_number=+284&root=config is mulu which give mul in sumerian ( to shine), mulan( star in sumerian, mel in dravidian ,malka(...) malu , melak, ma li in uralian( sumerian is ancestor of uralic and al taic langages starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fdata%2furalic%2furalet&text_number=1824&root=config,miali in altaic starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fdata%2falt%2faltet&text_number=1303&root=config
The Khmer were an Australo-Melanesian people, similar to those living in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands etc. People from South Asia (from Eastern India or Southern India) later established trade in southeast which went on for centuries which is seen in their clothing, religious practices, language and culture even ancestry! There would obviously have been migration and intermarriage between the two. So the empire was actually and Indo-Melanesian empire. Then later, the Chinese arrived from southern China and Taiwan and they got absorbed into the Indo-Melanesian population and then they the ‘mongoloids’, would become the majority in Khmer lands like it is today. Even dna confirms that most of all southeast Asians whether Austro-asiatic or austronesian descend from haplogroups O1/02/03 etc which is from China- haplogroup O. However, M haplogroup of south Asians are common also only in current Austro-Asiatic speaking people in Southeast Asia and some tribal indigenous people like Papua, negritos even aboriginal Australians. The indigenous people of Southeast Asia are Papua-looking Melanesian people and then Indic people arrived. So Mongoloids from China arrived last but are now the majority in Southeast Asia.
@Fulani pride of Africa no they were not Mongoloid. They look nothing like them😂 they were however replaced by Mongoloids if that’s what you mean. The ancient people that inhabited that region are not the same as the current people. Yes they are all Mongoloids today, but that’s not how it started off. The Chinese intermarried with the Indians and Melanesians that inhabited that area. Which is confirmed in dna and the ancient Sanskrit writing and culture which is all Indian. If you look at some Cambodians, they look the most distinct from others around them, some of them anyway. And that’s because some of them get Indian and Papua in their dna unlike the others who are just full Mongoloid. Again this reflects how Mongoloids replaced them so you’re right about that. But it did not start or as Mongoloid, is what I’m saying. And ‘austro-asiatic’ is a language. This modern day language is currently highly influenced by Chinese, but it was previously a distinct language which had more Dravidian/ Sanskrit in it which many Melanesian/ Papua people have in their language from this day. There is a lot of evidence to prove this but you’re just going by the more recent artefacts of Khmer. Would you say that ancient Egypt was white/cacausian or Arabian in origin? Or was it these people that arrived from outside Egypt who ruled over and replaced the indigenous Egyptians?
This is so stupid... so any people that are large and curlyhair and are dark must be black? Do you people fail to realize that cambodians religion was Hinduism for 2 centuries... we was considered part of a indian kingdom... india the country.. hence dark skin and curly hair.. but we are asian nothing close to black people..
All Asians came from black people the San of Africa also called Khoisan...Africans are the only people 100% homo sapiens sapiens....The other part of asian lineage is ancient Denisovan and Neandertal. Just facts.
John Kim Khmers were never Hindus. Sanatan Dharma stays in South Asia. Nobody in the past used the terms “Hindu” or “India”. Khmers made contact with the Kalingas of South Asia. Khmer did not get the dark skin tone and tight curly hair from them. The Khmers already got some nappy ass hair in the first place. The Khmers received a unique form of Buddhism with the emphasis of the God-King. Royal linage of Sun and Moon Mahaksatraya. But they really believe in the Naga-Goddess within all that additional religious/royal aspect. The base culture is Matriarchal and linage. This is why Kings must trace the bloodline to the Queen. Kings still speak as if they are Queens in the Royal language. You guys must study your own culture to understand this. It’s in every day aspect of Khmer life.
Bro being black doesn't mean your African that's where u racist get mixed up black just means dark skinned you will realise this when a white person calls you the n word I guarantee
The people who are living there now are the khmers and mons are now living in part of burma and thailand. Two groups of peoples, the khmers and mons, came first to this part of world. Thus, the term mon-khmer or khmer-mon was used.
Thanks! Khmer people still look the same, they have brown skin and big lips. So many migrants from China have intermixed with the native majority but the native majority still call themselves Khmer-even thought their looks vary now.
At Least we have Khmer Blood that why we called ourselves Khmer Some People Goes to others and get a citizenship and called themselves ex(French, American, Canadian) Like my aunt have big lips dark skin same for her husband but their daughter have lighter skin and smaller lips! Explain
@@simon_reacts1236 people forget how old and influential India really is. We worship their Hindu gods and Buddha so yeah Indians mix is probably why we’re so dark
@Shahid Vega... he could choose to be whatever he like. FOOL! NOT LIKE YOU !. just because you mix with a little Black... you drop all your other mix Identity just for one...A fraud to your other bloodline. I see all your other post. Am not stupid. I know which side you pick.. 😂
@Shahid Vega Uh. So it's actually separated like this, right? Just for your future reference. Ethnicity, race, nationality. For example. My ethnicity is Khmer, my race is Asian, and my nationality is American. So thus I am an Asian American. See how that works? Same thing.
I am Cambodian. This is true what he said. My dad said this too. Told me to always remember where we come from. Khmer history, dark skin, curly/wavey hair, and big lips. Now Khmer is mixed with other races.
All that is true, but they weren’t African. They look like Buakaw, famous Thai boxer, born on Khmer/ Thai border. Cambodians and Thais only look light brown because we mixed with Southern Chinese… Real Khmer/ Cambodians, look like Buakaw, We were influenced by India, so it makes sense that we would share some DNA. Remember South East Asians are influenced/ mixed with Polynesians/ Chinese/ Indians/ Samoans/ etc. Africans aren’t the only ones with big lips/ muscular frames/ curly hair
@@Hi-Five-Ghostno real tai people look like bukaw real Cambodians look like the angkor carvings all khmers have Royal blood bc we are descendants of kambu
I think khasi people are from the Mon khmer family and I believe they were part of the ancient Khmer empire before the Tai and Lao people migrated in and displaced the Khasi
what t hell siem are trying to prove? Prasat phimai, Prasat Muang sing, and tons of other ancient Khmer temples nowadays in thailand was a part of Khmer empire long time ago. Britannica Dictionary can dig your brain a bit truth.
But most of your tribe are mixed raced now. Mixed with punjabis, Assamese, bengalis, nepali ,British and Chinese...... How will I know those who are not mixed?
Lawin Kharmujai Interesting I was looking up the Khasi to find any trace of connections with the Khmers. If you don’t mind can you share some similarities in custom/culture/food etc. I’m very interested in such. By the way, are you a Khasi yourself. You don’t have to answer that one if you feel it’s irrelevant. Thanks.
@@jadeemp 🤣 damn true but 😂 ig u can Identify a pure khasi if he doesn't have the name khar* but sadly many people have intermixed ! But i would say khasi from East khasi hills looks more Khasi and people from Sohra too and others areas but khasi from SHILLONG 🗿 they have mixed with different race
Dark and black is different they are dark does mean they black , culry hair i have them too now , not confuse ! Mon Khmer a group of peoples and tai lao Thai is another group of peoples ! We not mind about race but do not confuse , if u think that relate to black okay check DNA how much ?
@@jefferythompsonGRYTman Tony I completely agree with you on the topic of God. Yes We Khmer long ago used to have a relationship with Maa. Our ancestor say the real form of god is actually a female not male. Look at all so called Indian gods nowadays, they are all black like Krishna and Vishnu.
Oh yea true my father's have curly hair an he dark skin an he's a big men this face when I went too Cambodian every one was lighter then me an gave straight hair it alil weird but when got too my country side I see more dark ppl I guess because they workout in the song I see why they wear long sleeves shirts ok something new I learn thank you.
There are plenty of Mon and Khmer and other ancient statues throughout SE Asia that definitely have tightly curled hair and thick lips, many of the Buddha as well. To modern eyes, yes, they look African in some respects, but the people at the time, we are talking as early as 500 AD or earlier, were trying to portray an IDEAL image and such features were considered very much like the most honored INDIAN people of the time, geographic people from South Asia at the time, not necessarily like South Asians of TODAY. The Buddha also almost always has LONG EARS which is hardly African or any other race, in South Asian and SE Asian culture, long ears are highly prized and a sign of longevity. One could say they look even like Samoa or other South Pacific peoples and that would make sense because genetic studies show MANY of the peoples of even China and Taiwan and SE Asia and the more southern islands all the way to Easter Island share genetic history. The Mon were in what is TODAY Thailand and are STILL in Burma but were subsumed by Thai by the 1400's. The Khmer dominated geographic Thailand to some extent and were in conflict with the Mon but the Thai at that time were still in Southern China, we're talking 800 AD or so. Much new information is coming out from genetic and linguistic analysis, absolutely fascinating. It is worth noting that Sanskrit, a language from geographic India, had a HUGE influence on Latin and Greek and all European languages, long before Christ.
Apparently I’m the only sibling in my family who’s picked up my dad traits of the mon khmer people. Everyone mistakens me as black or Samoan and to tell them I’m fully Khmer and have to explain. It’s still hard for them to believe I’m full because you don’t see much of them anymore. I’m 6’0 ft, have tight curls, and I’m pretty big for what’s so called now an “average Asian”
That's right. Ancient India was black they were driven south from the arrival of the indo Aryans. Likewise, the ancient Indochina land was black, they were driven southeast by the arrival of the Chinese people from the north. Indonesia is proof that the eastern part was inhabited by people with dark skin, and the central and western parts were inhabited by white people, brown and brown.
Elongation of the ears is a very popular fashion sense in East Africa… Its just something that clearly continued as humans migrated towards Asia. Lets not ignore how diverse African cultures are, you can find oneness but diversity also.
@@amumoore1304 it doesn’t matter Cambodians aren’t black, Egyptians aren’t black, Israeli aren’t black, Native Americans aren’t black… Ethiopians are barely even black, they’re heavily mixed with Arabs and Indians. So sit TF down son, you’re embarrassing yourself
Africans:- Kemmet or “Kimmant, people Written as “ቅማንት" In Ethiopian writings- they are a tribe called Kemet/ ቅማንት from the ancient Egypt/ Ethiopian civilization. Look at Kemet. Their symbol is like a Cross but circular at its top. You find this “symbol “ in ancient Egypt’s obelisk and art on stones. Try to also find calendar they used because they use same calendar in Ethiopia today. 🙏🙏🙏from Ethiopia
Khmer alphabet comes from Sanskrit, India… Khmer is up their in ancient civilization, with China, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt… Angkor Wat is still a huge mystery…
Khmer people say the word black is the best way to describe the colour, but it doesnt necessary mean that they are have african decendants. most people from south east asia are dark skin. you could even include australia as part of the asia continent, but you wouldnt agree that the aboriginal people as asians. You do have to take in account also of the climate of south east asia, the hotter the climate the likely the skin would be darker.
having a button nose, and austronesian features doesnt make you subsaharan. stop spreading this bs, and yes, "his'" words are flawed like his english. He means dark skin, not black.
ព្រលឹងផ្កាយ how do you know what skin color they have? Are you 2 thousand years old? Skin color is irrelevant in this part of the world because of mass amount of mixing. But the native core population of the area cannot be of light skinned origin because of the location close to the hottest part of the world. Next to equator. Can you tell me that their isn’t any dark skinned Khmers living today?
@@theherionfather8274 Yes of course brother. There’s these Chinese people that think Khmers are light skinned and look like them. That’s the problem. I’ve seen these Chin/Khmer every where on the Internet and TH-cam talking that shit like there’s no such thing as a Dark skin Khmer. 😂
@@lovelyone1712 youre too stupid and make no sense. In Asia if you’re tanned skin it’s considered dark skin. Khmer are Tanned skinned Asian. Crazy lunatic if you really believe all blacks have special powers why is it that White and Asians are one of the most successful people in the world on average majority of White and Asians are educated and wealthy
As a commentator mentioned below African peoples are not the only Humans have dark skin just Europeans are not the only ones ho have pale skin. There is various degrees of skin tones, hair textures, facial features among the Human species.
Nonsense, just travel to South India. These are one of the darkest people with thick matted hair. They are the Dravidians. I don’t think they came from Africa at all.
@@khloksakhoeun5156 We Not Burmese, We lost Our Mon land(HongSarWaToi) Fallen in the hand of Burma(Myanmar) colonists in 1757A.D, We Mon stay live in Burma and Thailand.
Khmer(khmai not khm-air) Khmer people are NOT black. Black=subsaharan african descent. Mainland Southeast Asia was once called “IndoChina” due to the obvious mixture of Chinese and Indian people. The Indian and Chinese mixture is very evident in this area by culture, food, people etc. the Mon Khmer language is spoken not just in Cambodia but in nepal and even eastern India. It’s obvious there’s connection. the Indians who were in the Khmer empire were South Indians called Tamil or just Dravidian ones and they can have dark, basically black skin. Angkor Wat was originally a Hindu temple before Buddha, who was also from the Indian region came along, but they are still genetically different from subsaharan Africans. Also factor in that climate can effect skin color. The more close to the equator the darker the skin, normally. The curly hair is a South Indian trait as well. Flat/wise noses are a Chinese trait in the area
Mohammed Azeme not necessarily. The first humans were from Africa but Africa doesn’t automatically mean black/subsaharan. Similar to how Asia isn’t only Chinese. Asia is just a continent and it includes Indians, Arabs, etc other types of people. Africa has subsaharan and North Africans. North Africans are genetically closer to west Asians/Arabs. The old remains were from Ethiopia which made people think we were all black but were we? Recently they found the oldest remains are actuall from Morocco. Moroccans are part of North Africa and aren’t really subsaharan so it’s likely that the whole “black” skin or subsaharan was also just an adaption of environment that took years and years but not everyone was black per se. black means, of sub Saharan african descent. By today’s standards that’s what African meant. Now that the oldest remains are from Morocco, it may not be true that we were all black skinned because it’s actually possible black skin was an adaptation not the starting point of humans. Similar to how white skin was an adaptation andnot the starting point
6A2P4H no, Indochina= Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam and there are maps that labeled the whole area as Indochina. LATER ON, the French went that way and colonized the area which is why you hear the “French Indochina” which is the countries of Indochina that France had territories in which would only be vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. They’re “Indochina” and “French Indochina” are different.
@@queenshad1161 then there was Cochin China. This was all of the land south of present day Cambodia. Or ancient times lower Chenla. These are all geography terms mostly
6A2P4H Cochinchina is another way of saying “Indochina” Kochi also known as Cochin is a state and once called “kingdom of Cochin” and was the first place in India Europeans colonized. So, CochinChina was the name of the French colony that was once part of the Khmer empire until they added “CochinChina” to Vietnam
Hello Author. I have great suggest to you to make a video about " what Buddha may real look like ?" my opinion is that real Buddha may look like statue on Temple of "ankowatt" for the two reason. 1 image of Jesus has been modified from dark skin Jewish to white skin Westerner. 2 Arian has invaded India around after Buddha time. This may change image of Buddha into Arian race with a questionable of African race hair. Thank You
The original Khmer are dark skinned, that doesn’t mean they from Africa. Dark skinned looking asian, Yes! we do have nappy and curly hair. Yes! we use to braid our hair too back in the days. People in Cambodia now is all mix. Especially with Chinese due to a lot of them Migrating in. That’s why a lot of them are light skinned now. South East Asian people are naturally dark skinned. Just because he said Black doesn’t mean Africa. It’s just mean he’s dark. Don’t get it twisted. Am Cambodian and am dark skinned, as a kid I’ve always have nappy curly hair, as I grew up it went away. I do not know why.. LOL
Let the world know bro. Even todays Cambodians don’t want to recognize Khmers origins. Dark skin, well built, curly, wavy or nappy afro looking hair. Especially the light skin sino-khmers. They will deny anything that you just mentioned. Even tell people that Khmers are dark because they work outside 😂. Ain’t this sad? Cambodia is becoming pro Sino. Deleting any evidence of a true Khmer. Just watch their TV and Music VDOs. No signs of dark skin folks.
You act like... just because your dark skinned your black... just because you have wooly hair your black...I’ve seen dark skinned Chinese before ...does that mean there black? just because some one Describe him as black. I,ve seen a lot of dark skinned people in India with wooly hair.. does that mean they black ? Every culture Practice voodoo even India. Does that mean they black? Come on man.... ! Really ...! You need to learn more about other cultures. We are all similar in many ways... just because we use the term black as dark skinned doesn’t mean it automatically that kind of black. So if the guy say they are light skinned, does that mean they are white? 😂
Yeah Sure! 😂.... tell that to the whole world. Let see who believe you. If you say India are black... I guess black people are India. How do you know it ani’t the other way around?
Yeah... always trying to take credit for everything...don’t worry I understand your type of people.
Shahid Vega why not tell your people to stop practicing “White culture” 😂 what language you speak smart guy?
In Khmer words we only use Black and White to call people skin colors , so black doesnt mean African black but that means dark and brown.
This☝☝☝☝ I'm cambodian and i can confirm that we only use them to describe skin color
Facts!
They are Africans case closed
Same wit us khasi
@@trepskmKhasi people are distance relatives of Mon Khmer peoples too right?
Mon mean "first or before" They were Austronesian. They migrated from south of China just slightly before the Khmer over 2,000 years ago. Khmer migrated from east of Asia. Maybe as far as western India. Note the term "Kambuja", a tribe of western Indian descents. Khmer and Mon intermixed, thus Mon-Khmer or Khmer-Mon were the race that dominated mainland southeast Asia. Mon people mostly settled at south and southeast Myanmar and small population northeastern Thailand.
You’re mistaking austronesian for austroasiatic in this case. The austronesians are the Filipinos, Malaysians and Indonesians.
You lost all credibility after saying "kum-ere"
Even ofter they clearly refer to themselves with the proper pronunication, he still choose to say "Kum-ere" instead as if he was "correcting" them
Lol
Dude. Don't trip. They'd be upset if you called them Nigger instead of nigga. Lol. Forgive my people. They mentally follow their oppressors blindly.
@@creativeculture6474 clown it don't matter how you pronounce it no one cares
Wow, good thing that all Cambodian immigrants to the US speak Oxford English, huh?
Nice explanation 👍🏻
It's very normal for south East Asians to have dark skin, most us do. And this guy must be describing the South Indians also, the South Indians are dark, have curly hair and south east Asia were influenced by Hinduism. And look at the script on these part of South East Asia, it's similar to South Indian scripts. Africans aren't the only ones who have dark skin , likewise Europeans aren't the only ones who have pale skin . Proud Asian here ...proud that we have different types of nose structure, can be hairy or almost hairless, different shades of skin colour etc.
And anyway, I think all human race are all related to each other.
Mon khemer have O1b1 Y DNA.
Keyword; curly hair not nappy or African-textured. My dad is fairly dark and has naturally curly hair. I am not sure they’re actually African. There are many dark skin Asians. Maybe this is due to the theory that humans originated from Africa. But it’s hard to say, the dark skin may be just an evolution for Asians that live in hotter jungle climates; such as Cambodia. Overall, there is no empirical evidence that says dark skin asians have any correlation to Africa, besides the fact that there’s a specific tribe in Africa that have asiatic eyes, that is the only correlation I can think of.
6OLD No bro, if you live in a wet jungle environment, you will develop a straighter hair hence why most Cambodians start to lose the kinks and develop tight curls or wavy hair back in the days. But if you take it further into the past. They may just have kinky nappy afros but mixing with straight haired people will accelerate the process. If you’re Khmer you don’t need to explain what Khmers look like. But you do know that Khmers are a mixture of many different looking people for thousands of years now. Put it this way, if you stick a dark skin Khmer in a group with a bunch of Chin, it wouldn’t be hard to pick him out. He would stick out like an eye sore. You want to know what Khmers used to look like? Look up Papua.
khoisan is the name of the tribe you are referring to. coincidentally, the isan are an ethnic group of lao in northeast thailand.
There's a saying that Cambodians are the Blacks of Asia and the Blacks of Asians in USA. The non mix Cambodians are very dark skin, but due to ethnic mixing we became lighter and lighter through generations.
Not just mix with another race, very popular now, people skin bleaching. Chinese is not always light skin either. They have dark skin as well but not as the Cambodian (Cambodian has detailed features such nice lips, chest and butt). Chinese work hard to eliminate dark skin.
The Chineses came thru
@Neicha Reich bro knock it off . 😂 anything that is black comes from Africa , know you’re history dirty man. The khoa San are the original Asians who migrated to Asia to populate the country thousand of years ago everyone is from Africa and this is something proven over thousands of years aswell so Knock it off love! yourself . 🤝🏾✨✊🏿. cuz rn Yu actin like a clown 🤡
@Neicha Reich nope s lot of African Americans are actually Asian, a lot of them come from the Cham kingdom Nation of Islam like Mohammed Ali and Mike Tyson.
@Neicha Reich I'm Khmer, and I assume you are Khmer also. Do you even know Preah Sangh, who is our patriarch portrayed as a black man in royal ballets? You wanna act like you know everything, we were black before being Sinized. Go ask your parents if you have a black ancestor because I confirmed it with mine. Black doesn't mean African you ignorant fool. If you don't have a black ancestor then it is clear to me who you are (fake Khmer) .
The Mon Khmer were Asians with dark skin tones in Cambodia, similar to Hindus and Tamils (but not Africans). A former name for Khmer was Khmao (black). The majority of authentic Khmers have Indian, Tamil, or Hindu ancestry. Although some Indians have black skin and curly hair, you can tell they are not from Africa when you look at their faces.
The guide is not even Khmer, but either Chinese or Vietnamese. I've seen that a large percentage of devout African Americans hold the view that all prehistoric societies with dark complexion appearances were originally from Africa. There are even black Chinese. SMH
Human migration started from Africa, they still were Asian but that doesn’t mean non black as you even said. Not sure what the issue is, furthermore I’ve seen Tamils with flat (negroid) noses.
Kampu and Mera we are khmer Mon khmer is a different branch of people
We are descendants of kambu 🌞🇰🇭🐍
when did a religion start become a race..
I think the bigger question is why across the world is dark skin looked down upon and yet funny enough the further back in history you go the darker the people get in many areas. Why has dark skin been virtually erased from history ?
In Cambodia, dark skin means your skin is dark from working in the fields, that you are a poor laborer. White skin means you are rich, and pure. Skin bleaching, and races intermarry. Not that there's anything wrong with intermarriage.
@@shirleyhouston3735 Please calm down, I was just trying to offer an explanation to his question. I can assure you that I do not follow those beliefs.
@@shirleyhouston3735 butthurt
What's up brother? Fellow Khmer from Tacoma. What are the odds that we find reach other on a video on TH-cam?
@Sovereign45 yeah sorry I typed in irritation. I meant the theory that all hominids ventured out of Africa is constantly debated. However I think people tend to like to ascribe to the theory's opposition because they don't like the idea of origin being dark and not because of the debate and genuine curiosity. It's a big assumption to make but I notice people actively try to find proof against it whether they're academics or not, and ignore anything that supports the idea. It's confirmation bias.
Khmer Mon is the aboriginals with curl hair and black skin. My dad is Khmer Mon with no mix of Chinese and northern Asian blood line
I think yous where your own race bro i am Indigenous Australian but like I think we are sought of similar like Papua new Guinea Torres Strait isl Solomon isl and Vanuatu
And your people are also highly impressive imo to make them structures like that damn bro special people
Genetically Mon khemer and east Asian are all same...they all originate from O haplogroup.
Not to disrespect Chinese people cuz we all mixed now
@Neicha Reich Khmer mons are the original aborigine check that word out my dad is a villager and we don't have jet black hairs and eyes that look like Chinese people speaking cuz I'm a Cambodian my dad won't lie
I’m 97% Khmer and I was born in the USA, so with the better diet I am more taller and bigger than my relatives in Cambodia. According to my ancestors, ancient Khmer was a magical place where people did not lie and things borrowed were always returned so everything people wanted they would just asked for and was received. They were darker and much taller and bigger than the Khmers now.
@Neicha Reich cambodia was 400 year under Thailand colonial rule by international history. Nowadays people cambodian had pronunciation number in Thai word.
After the fall of the Khmer Empire, ruled by the Montagnards, these ethnic groups were smaller than the ancient Khmers.
@@airiarisaka5699 shut the fk up chhke siem, this false history news has been spread by siem dir ty mouth to degrade the Khmer, only nearly 99 years to under control of siem after the Khmer empire has fallen, no official documents or historic article to support your claim. But there are tons of article to state the siem thai has absorbed, copi ed from ancient Khmer almost everything, even your siem script has also derived from ancient Khmer scripts./
Bro the khmer are not black 😂 just characteristics are similar their skin is complete different in so many different ways.... 😂
keaton fuller we stay in the sun lol
keaton fuller you what funny they have buddha hair cut 😆
Characteristics are the same because Black people had the land 1st. White people took it, like been doing to everybody not just blacks.
Oh shut up, black or not how do you know? Can you trace back thousands of years of diaspora + intermingling + evolution. Likeee?? You don't want to be related to the African subcontintent because u don't want to be related to melanin. And that's a race issue - it's 2019.
Edit: I bet if y'all saw a light skin person and someone said they were black you'd be shocked. Because y'all think a white person is always super fair and a Black person is dark and being dark is negatively connoted.
Meghan Great post. I also believe that everyone takes the word “black” in a negative tone. That’s because the lack of Truth and most are taught within the POV of a “European”...This would be silly but if I describe a person with brown skin, deep almond eyes, tight curl or wavy hair, thick lips and a muscular built body structure and the person is a rice farmer from Southeast Asia, how can one simply say he is a yellow “mongoloid” working in the sun and thats why he’s dark. This is the ignorance that most people is spewing out of their minds. Are you Khmer by the way?
Similar to
south indian Tamils ,veddoids ,Irulas - Melanesian - Australian aboriginals 😯,,,,,
Ofcourse not all South indians have curly hair , ... they r mostly straight hair & brown skinned .
The ancient Khmer were Negrito. They had the physical appearance of Black people but were 100% Asian. And I'm a light-skinned Cambodian-American that's saying all this.
Bách Việt [VIỆT NAM] And what did the Austroasiatic people look like? Modern-day Southeast Asians? No, they didn't. Yes, the Mon-Khmer were Austroasiatic but they were dark and looked Blackish. More so, Negrito features. Mongoloids came later and intermixed with the native dark-skinned people of Southeast Asia. If you could go back in time 1,000 years and were to expect seeing present-day S.E. Asian features or maybe slightly different than today's, you'd be surprised in finding dark-ass people. "Black-looking" Asians.
bullshit, austroasiatic originated in southern china, they looked same as today...
since 3000 years they look how they look you uneducated person
Bách Việt [VIỆT NAM] You're the uneducated one, you dumb fool. There are pictures of Khmer people back in the early 1900s and they were very dark. Imagine how they looked a thousand years ago. Shows how much you know if you really believe that they looked like Chinese people with a tan.
+Henry Lim I looked at some old photos and video footage of Cambodian people during the early twentieth century, and I have to disagree with your belief that they somehow "looked more black" back then. Perhaps you see them that way, but when I look at them, I see a people with unmistakable Asiatic features, facial structures, and an overall Asiatic appearance. The only real factor that might make them "look black" is their dark skin, but even then, this perception only happens at first glance and disappears within a second or two. For me, their dark complexion alone simply isn't enough to give them an overall "black" appearance. I still perceive them to be what I would consider "Asian" or "Mongoloid" in appearance.
I hold the same perception with regard to the ancient Cambodian people of Angkor. When I look at ancient Apsara carvings depicted on temple walls, I see "Oriental-looking" women, not "African-looking" women. Perhaps Cambodians had darker skin tones back then, but in terms of facial shape and structure, the Apsara carvings look EXACTLY the same as the Apsara dancers you see in Cambodia today -- thin monolid eyes, small nose, round face, slender body, and beautiful smile.
I see the same "Asian look" for the men of Angkor, as well. When I look at the crouching statues of Angkor Thom, for example, I cannot help but liken their faces to those of the Terracotta statues in China or to the Samurai from traditional paintings in Japan. In fact, I've actually CONFUSED the Angkor Thom statues for those of the Terracotta army, having once believed they were one and the same!
If Austroasiatics are pure Negrito then why do they have Mongoloid O2a? Someone explain to me?
They look like Indian and Mexican
lol yes I been told that I look like mexican.
Bro Indians came from Asia lol this guy and Mexicans are just indigenous natives 😂
Too much misinformation. Mon Khmer are a mongoloid people that migrated into Southeast Asia from the Yunnan/northern Laos area and were part of the bai culture.They actually displaced the negrito/Austronesian/Australoid peoples that were there before them hence the argument of Khmer Chenla replacing Funan around 600ad. Khmers seem to misunderstand or purposefully embrace the identity of original Khmer as being dark skinned and curly as a legitimizing device to the land, similar to how white Americans claim to be native Americans.
God counter points. Any reference materials to learn more. Thank you for sharing.
Yea except there is no shred of African culture in Asia… meanwhile there’s plenty of evidence that Asians made it to America/ Alaska/ etc… before Whites/ Blacks
This Africa was “eVeRyWhErE” aka we’re all black, is getting ridiculous. Y’all trying/ reaching too hard…
@@gold-toponym wdym Malay aren’t Austronesian 💀
@@gold-toponym The Malay migrated to their archipelago from Philippines, and to the Philippines from Taiwan
Btw 我是華人。福建話是我兮母語，毋過我嘛會講Tagalog佮我老爸兮方言。我真無明白 汝無佮意南島人或泰人敢哪？
Gua si huajin. Hokkienwe si gua-e bungi, mkue gua ma e kong Tagalog kap gua laupa e hongngien. Gua cin bo biengpek, di bo kha-i lamtonang hek thainang kanna?
@@gachi1297 peninsular are a mix between both austroasiatic firstly. then austronesian+indian+ch+arab+etc
Dude you really need to do more research. And never go in with a European mindset that our oppressors set In us. My wife is Cambodian and it's pronounced. KUM-EYE. SMH you sound like the white man. 'Un-educated' about cultures.
much love
As long as you are speaking the White Man's language and appropriating HIS culture, you may wanna take that attitude down a notch. SMH, you sound like you wanna be a White Man.
I'm no historian but Khmer people I say were the orginal people of Mekong delta. You know how like Africa got their own Nile river delta it's not South Africa but Egypt area. Africa top bottom and Khmer top bottom differ
Pol Pot tried to get rid of ethnic Asians for a reason. Be careful truth is dangerous. Its safer to follow than to lead.
Mekong Delta was man made because of the stupid communism. Don't be an idiot
@Richi RIch
Not really. He was a commie that wanted purity. It was a pure genocide, trying to restore Cambodia to its "rightful" place as the ruler of SEA. He did so by genociding anyone who wasn't ethnically Khmer to restore the power.
@@poopsanchez6449 The Khmer Rouge and books in the west say he was trying to maintain Cambodian culture without Western influence. However, Pol Pot didn’t seek purity, he abolished traditional weddings and religious ceremonies.
Stay in school kids. Don’t drink the koolaid.
Since I am Mon, does that mean I can say the n word?
lol
Can I?
💀
@Sovereign45 what I don’t get it, why will my ears be touching? Can you explain to me? Is that an American slang?
Do you know that there is a place called Mon in Nagaland India and their skins are darker then the rest? Btw we are Naga's of Nagaland in India and we believe that we migrated from China to present India thousands of years ago but we don't have much proof of our history since most of our history got lost with time all we have is our languages which we still speak our culture and our traditions which is very different from the rest of India..
Please don't try to connect black African to the Mon Khmer, we are not related to you. Mon Khmers were Originated in South East Asia for at least 3-5thusand years then the Chinese came along started mangled with the local Mon. Yes the Original Khmers Mon, they were big build and has a dark skin tune with curlies hairs but not black skin. So there were Chinese and Indian were around with the Khmer Mon.
MON-KHMER(MON)=KHARM=KHMER=KHMAMARAK=CHAMPUCHEA: NOW KHMER(CAMBODIAN)
there were no siam no Vietnam no Laos. Only Champa and Burma are neighbor to Khmer. So siam were from China and were chased out by the Mongols so the Anam/ Vietnam were chased out by the Chinese to one of the Island and they stated to invaded the Champa nation. The main enemies to Khmers were Vietnam and Thailand until today. Khmer was a nation full of joy and trustworthy also a very respectful-friendly nation with lots of smiles. If you ask Thai and Vietnam were are they came from, they're not going to tell the trust where they came from, ONLY KHMERS KNEW the answers.
If you are the "Moon Khemites", then you are related to the African Sun Khemites that built Egypt.
Minh Nguyen that’s what I’ve come
To realise ever since I went to Thailand, but I am khmer ... the thais are Chinese looking but look mixed with Khmers...
We Malays also know that Thai and Viet are not from your region too..
Sophorn Phat, you are related to us. Study the haplo group. Africa was once called Asia.
Human specie ( Homo sapiens ) originated from Africa. so Technically every single human on planet earth biologically connected to African
Every dark looking people necessarily don't have to be African black..
I am a dark Khmer and I’m proud to be part Afro thank you for sharing my ancestors 👍🏾
Egypt & Samoa + Indian = Khmer 🥷🏾
Thanks for decoding this hidden history!!
@KMY_YUDAH KING #GTFOH HISTORY HATING BITCHES!!
Dude. To tell you the truth. Not everyone came from Africa. Or did they? Exactly, we don't know. Books and documents are not proof or facts. They're just opinions or imaginations. "Seeing is believing". For example. We never seen Jesus walk on water, but many believe it. And I'm positive that nobody would buy anything they have never seen. So therefore we can't prove that all people come from Africa. Or history books are correct. It's time the people stop living blindly.
@@creativeculture6474 i don't think we all came out of Africa either
@@ComaToast1 out of africa prehumans 200 k year ago, ok but there other prehumans came from ?
@@ComaToast1 we populated the whole world thousands of years ago long before mankind existed so we were already here
You're misinterpreting what the Asian man is saying. The man is Chinese, not Khmer. The Khmer language derived from Sanskrit which is a Hindu language of India. He said the Khmer are dark skin doesn't mean they are black. Khmer are known as the dark-skinned Asians. Don't you dare try to misconstrue his words he never said they look African! This highly offensive. If Khmer were African, how come no one in Africa speaks Khmer?! I did my 23 and me DNA testing and it says I am Khmer and I have no African and no European in me! If DNA testing states that Khmer do not have any DNA of Africans, then that means alot! Black nationalism needs to stop claiming every culture as theres. Khmer people originated from India, and Indians are considered dark skin too (very dark tan) they are dark(dark tan) bc of the climate, and I have wavy/curly hair too but have no African in me. This video is a joke! There are no ancient temples that look like ours in Africa. Stop claiming lies. Only India and Cambodia have similar language and culture. Africa culture is nowhere related to the Khmer or India culture.
Shahid Vega lmao that's our culture. There is no culture in Africa that's like Khmer. India and Africa not the same. Stop being delusional loser. Can you even read and speak Khmer?! I guess not now go away loser
Shahid Vega your imagination isn't truth. I am Khmer and proud of my culture. Keep claiming loser; no one is going to credit your delusional people. Hindu Khmer culture is the best! So all the crazies want to claim lmao. I speak and write in Khmer and follow khner culture that our ancestors been practicing for 1000 of years. You wouldn't know because you aren't Khmer lmao
Shahid Vega Khmer culture isn't black. Khmer culture is southeast asian and derived from India. African culture and language nothing like Khmer culture. You're crazy go take some medications you're making a fool out of yourself.
Lmao, you ain't pure Khmer. I seen pure blood Khmer. They are Negrito looking. You cut yourself by admitting the Khmer was dark skin like East Indians. They are very dark.
@@somah6375 The Khmer were their own thing before they allied with South India and became the Angkor Empire. Jayavarman II freed Khmer from being Java's vassal state and the Khmer then became the Angkor Empire. (The Khmer Kings: and The History of Cambodia Book I, 1st century to 1595, Funan, Chenla, Angkor and Longvek Periods, by Kenneth T. So)
Mon-Khmer is not a term to describe a race but a linguistic family. Under the Mon-Khmer branch of Austro-Asiatic languages, Khmer language is included. Mon is spoken in Burma by a people group known as the Mon. Mon-Khmer languages are found in Vietnam, Thailand, Yunnan Province (China), Myanmar, other Southeast Asian countries and Meghalaya state in Northeast India. My language, Khasi, spoken by our ethnic community, the Khasis, living in Meghalaya, is part of the Mon-Khmer group of languages.
Mon Khmer is also a prototype though to describe the first “person” of that region. The crazy thing about mon Khmer is the literal translation , before Khmer or first before Khmer people .
A lot of people don’t know, Angkorian Khmer’s wasn’t one ethnic group but rather a nation. Lots of information we don’t know and won’t find in white man history book.
@Neicha Reich You must be white everybody know black people are gods!!
Mon are people, Khmer are people. Mon-Khmer are people of Mon and Khmer ancestry, therefore their language intermixed to form Mon-Khmer language root.
I am Cambodian and I look black af
Mon Khmer Migrated to Meghalaya,
and i'm Mon khmer Descendants .
And we are called Khasis.
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 ?
@Sovereign45
Actually he's speaking the truth, man. Mon Khmer language did make its way over there to Bangladesh. The Khasis do speak a Mon Khmer language, meaning there is a link somewhere there.
I believe the ancient khasi were part of the Khmer empire and lived in what is now present day Thailand. The Tai and Lao people migrated into the empire and displaced the khasi, forcing them to migrate to meghalaya. There are relief carvings on the walls of Angkor wat that depicts Khasi mercenary warriors. They were called Syam Kuk. But thai people believe it was their ancestors, which is false.
I'm Khmer and have been told as pretty hung for an Asian... so maybe got Black roots :-D
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Chkuot na yay mean kdor thom 😂😂😂🤭😂😂
I'm of Khmer decent as well...lol
OMG they were not African Black LOL
All peoples came from Africa originally you can deny it if you want to but actually those who have forsaken their melanin won't be long for the planet anyway with the advent of higher UV and climate change sperm rates will continue to fall and TFR drop for non melanated populations. In the future we (meaning the children of the diaspora) will remember you.
you are just in denial....I have Khmer blood in me....why do people all around the world run away from anything dealing with Africa...just ridicoulous.
He didn't say African black. He said dark skinned which we are different from Vietnamese that came from the north from China..
Not all African black lols.
@@Cave_Monkeys CHINESE PEOPLE AREN'T OLDER THAN THOSE OF THE MOTHERLAND. #ScientificFacts
no, this video was NOT “enlightening” lol. it just made me laugh of the ridiculousness of ur lies.
Cambodian is a mixture of East, south Asian and Pacific Islander and possibly some middle eastern thru Indian blood too. So we come in all shade and hair texture
Not originally
I am of mon background. My dad looks a bit East Asian but he has more noticeable features of dark skin, south asian look like and my mum looks very East Asian and has light skin.
Yep we were never African, Buakaw Thai boxer, born on Khmer/ Thai border, looks very Mon Khmer.
I know plenty of Khmer and Thais who are dark like him.
You know that in Indonesia, which has the pronunciation "EU" there are only 2 tribes, 1, the Acehnese tribe at the northern tip of the island of Sumatra (because their ancestors came from the Cham country, & 2. The Sundanese tribe in the western part of the island of Java (I don't know why) we have king name olso jayasingavarman & purnavarman , old sunda nese king dom
Australoid and African are not the same thing, us dark skinned South Asians and Southeast Asians refer to ourselves as black but we have nothing to do with Africa, other than the fact that all mankind, including Nordics and Chinese originated there.
@Shahid Vega Do you even understand what you just wrote? No use arguing with an ignorant degenerate.
Who cares if y’all are African 😭💀 black is black
As a mon I would say yes but apart from curly hair I have brown complexion and my language is very similar to Cambodian and we share some same words with Thai too like "Manao" lemon.
Not all of Khmer people have curly hair .That guide has to research more history or story and Find out the truth.
I‘m a real Khmer who lives in Cambodia.
All my familly father side (kampong cham) and mon side (Battambang) has curly hair all of them
Ancient khmer people has curly hair, but not due to chinese, and all the other ethnicity came, our hairs became straight.
I’m Khmer and somebody told me if I was black lol
Some Cambodian people be looking like black tho. Example, Khmer rapper name tee cambo, and other people.
JK96 Bruh I know Tee Cambo lol. He does look black though.
@@JK-ky1ce ain't he half hmong?
@@Israeli_Prince , who told u that. I think he’s 100% Cambodian. That’s y he’s dark as fk.
@@JK-ky1ce He said he can't pronounced a hmong name, and said that name was his mom's name. There are Hmong people who are a bit dark too, but from what I heard there are different tribes of Hmong.
Do understand that Negritos were the earliest people to arrive in southeast Asia. Some argued that Austronesian were the first. I think these 2 groups came at different times at different point of entry. Negritos were African descents. They mostly live as hunters and gather in the basic primitive lifestyle, while the later arrival such as Khmer(Kambuja) and Mon built civilizations. Mon and Khmer became one race, which are Mon-Khmer. During the Khmer Empire and earlier, many Negritos, especially from the Sayam tribe were hired do heavy labor works, such as building roads, dikes, temples and as fighters or warriors. After a few generations, they assimilated and became Khmer. This may explains why Khmer or Cambodian have dark complexion and of course, curly hair as well.
For anyone who is confused… “real” Cambodians are dark like Indians, look up “Buakaw” he’s a Thai boxer who was born on the Cambodian/ Thai border. He’s built like a warrior and very dark. He was born on the Thai side, but remember Cambodia used to be an empire that ruled over Thailand and other south East Asian nations.
So Thailand and Laos are just poor copies of Cambodia
Also remember China mixed/ influenced almost every Asian nation both South East and East…
That’s mostly where the original Thais came from southern China. They mixed with mon Khmer…
Remember Thailand used to be called Siam, but they copied Cambodia/ Khmer - pronunciation = “Khmai” but whites people wrote it as “Khmer”
But to clarify, original Cambodians are dark and more muscular than your typical East Asian. Just like Buakaw…
No they weren’t “Black/ African” I know this because I am Cambodian, my father was dark af, my mother has Chinese blood. This is the norm in Cambodia, lots of mixing with China…
But no we were NEVER black. Possibly Indian, because they influenced our religion tremendously, but that’s about it. It makes the most sense why Khmer/ Cambodians can be so dark.
Khmer people are not mixed with “Indians”. Ancestors of the Khmer migrated out of South Asia and settled in Southeast Asia between 40-60 thousand years ago. DNA traced this. These people would’ve looked very similar to Islanders of the Pacific. Dark skinned, tight curls, blonde streaks also. Then come the Ancestors of “Austronesian” who migrated out of China, who were lighter in appearance. They mix culturally, linguistically and so forth. Khmer people need to stop comparing themselves to them “Mongloid” of the north. Just because the “White” man called everyone Asian. Just like how they name the continent of Africa and so forth. These are geopolitical terms and have nothing to do with how a person look. Everyone in this World are all brainwashed by Colonialism. Except for the Andaman people 😂
Indian adivasi aboriginal tribes speak the same Austro-Asiatic languages as Khmer people and they don't look east Asian at all
@hassan ishaque they migrated from south-east Asia into the eastern part of India. So they are descendants of the ancient Khmer people. And not the Chinese-looking ones who are the majority in those lands today.
I happen to be from who are known as the Mundas, one of Indian Adivasi Tribes. It's a fact that we have our origin in south east Asia and also share linguistic similarity with the Khmer people.
@@luishaind5026 yesssir
adivasis tribes are the mother of khmer langages and austronesian languages they spread it to south china where the austronesians and khmers come from
a black dravidian Kambu meet a Chenla princess Mera and create Khmer Kingdom
adivasis and tamils were harappa people the same people Elam and Sumer and Aratta which in their turn come from Ethiopia , Egypt,kOUSH (Sudan ) 50000 years ago remind hero Memnon ( an elamite) which come from ethiopia through egypt www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiWucvvufTvAhUdhP0HHR5GBfIQFjAAegQIBBAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffr.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FColosses_de_Memnon&usg=AOvVaw0VU24fvCTLnCBtXvKcB5k2 to south Iran,his tribe was from the same stock egyptians, koushites and ethiopians but they were long haired: ancient greeks identify two kind of ethiopians short haired ones ( egyptians, koushites and ethiopians) and long haired ones( sumerians , elamites,meluhhans harappeans,dravidians, Mundas)
langages of those second blacks were proto dravidian and proto austric and is father of dravidian, sumerian, elamite and harappean and Munda and modern austric langage
proto dravidian and proto austric come from a common nostratic family spoke from Sumer to Burma roots of word to shine in eurasiatic family which include sumerian, dravidian, altaic, austric starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fdata%2fnostr%2fnostret&text_number=+284&root=config is mulu which give mul in sumerian ( to shine), mulan( star in sumerian, mel in dravidian ,malka(...) malu , melak, ma li in uralian( sumerian is ancestor of uralic and al taic langages starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fdata%2furalic%2furalet&text_number=1824&root=config,miali in altaic starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fdata%2falt%2faltet&text_number=1303&root=config
Khmer are South East asians not east asians big difference
The Khmer were an Australo-Melanesian people, similar to those living in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands etc. People from South Asia (from Eastern India or Southern India) later established trade in southeast which went on for centuries which is seen in their clothing, religious practices, language and culture even ancestry! There would obviously have been migration and intermarriage between the two. So the empire was actually and Indo-Melanesian empire. Then later, the Chinese arrived from southern China and Taiwan and they got absorbed into the Indo-Melanesian population and then they the ‘mongoloids’, would become the majority in Khmer lands like it is today. Even dna confirms that most of all southeast Asians whether Austro-asiatic or austronesian descend from haplogroups O1/02/03 etc which is from China- haplogroup O. However, M haplogroup of south Asians are common also only in current Austro-Asiatic speaking people in Southeast Asia and some tribal indigenous people like Papua, negritos even aboriginal Australians. The indigenous people of Southeast Asia are Papua-looking Melanesian people and then Indic people arrived. So Mongoloids from China arrived last but are now the majority in Southeast Asia.
@Fulani pride of Africa no they were not Mongoloid. They look nothing like them😂 they were however replaced by Mongoloids if that’s what you mean. The ancient people that inhabited that region are not the same as the current people. Yes they are all Mongoloids today, but that’s not how it started off. The Chinese intermarried with the Indians and Melanesians that inhabited that area. Which is confirmed in dna and the ancient Sanskrit writing and culture which is all Indian. If you look at some Cambodians, they look the most distinct from others around them, some of them anyway. And that’s because some of them get Indian and Papua in their dna unlike the others who are just full Mongoloid. Again this reflects how Mongoloids replaced them so you’re right about that. But it did not start or as Mongoloid, is what I’m saying. And ‘austro-asiatic’ is a language. This modern day language is currently highly influenced by Chinese, but it was previously a distinct language which had more Dravidian/ Sanskrit in it which many Melanesian/ Papua people have in their language from this day. There is a lot of evidence to prove this but you’re just going by the more recent artefacts of Khmer. Would you say that ancient Egypt was white/cacausian or Arabian in origin? Or was it these people that arrived from outside Egypt who ruled over and replaced the indigenous Egyptians?
What you're thinking of are the Mon, which were there a bit longer than the Khmer who descended down from China.
@Poop Sanchez yes you’re correct.
Interesting. Do you know where I can read more about this?
@@Midnight-og3rkyessir
We khasi people(meghalaya)believe that've come from Mon khmer tribe
This is so stupid... so any people that are large and curlyhair and are dark must be black? Do you people fail to realize that cambodians religion was Hinduism for 2 centuries... we was considered part of a indian kingdom... india the country.. hence dark skin and curly hair.. but we are asian nothing close to black people..
All Asians came from black people the San of Africa also called Khoisan...Africans are the only people 100% homo sapiens sapiens....The other part of asian lineage is ancient Denisovan and Neandertal. Just facts.
John Kim Khmers were never Hindus. Sanatan Dharma stays in South Asia. Nobody in the past used the terms “Hindu” or “India”. Khmers made contact with the Kalingas of South Asia. Khmer did not get the dark skin tone and tight curly hair from them. The Khmers already got some nappy ass hair in the first place. The Khmers received a unique form of Buddhism with the emphasis of the God-King. Royal linage of Sun and Moon Mahaksatraya. But they really believe in the Naga-Goddess within all that additional religious/royal aspect. The base culture is Matriarchal and linage. This is why Kings must trace the bloodline to the Queen. Kings still speak as if they are Queens in the Royal language. You guys must study your own culture to understand this. It’s in every day aspect of Khmer life.
Mic Theory false Khmer DNA is not the same as African DNA
Bro being black doesn't mean your African that's where u racist get mixed up black just means dark skinned you will realise this when a white person calls you the n word I guarantee
The people who are living there now are the khmers and mons are now living in part of burma and thailand. Two groups of peoples, the khmers and mons, came first to this part of world. Thus, the term mon-khmer or khmer-mon was used.
im cambodian and my brother dark skin with curly hair so he's african
ALL OF YOU COME OUTTA BLACK PEOPLE. #DamnIfYouLikeIt
No I don't think khmer are from Africa.
KMY_YUDAH KING how do you know 🤧
Your opinion means nothing to the truth. You "think" who cares what you think we're dealing with the truth.
KMY_YUDAH KING Khmer and Kemet are not the same
and Bushmen from asia ?
Thanks! Khmer people still look the same, they have brown skin and big lips. So many migrants from China have intermixed with the native majority but the native majority still call themselves Khmer-even thought their looks vary now.
At Least we have Khmer Blood that why we called ourselves Khmer Some People Goes to others and get a citizenship and called themselves ex(French, American, Canadian) Like my aunt have big lips dark skin same for her husband but their daughter have lighter skin and smaller lips! Explain
@@hangchanvichet432 Yes, that’s why I said the native majority still call themselves Khmer. Khmer people still exist today.
I think Indians also intermixed with the native Khmer. I come from mon background.and my dad looks very south asian with dark skin
@@simon_reacts1236 people forget how old and influential India really is. We worship their Hindu gods and Buddha so yeah Indians mix is probably why we’re so dark
They're look like Malay polinesian...with Flower Nose , Curly Hair and brown skin. They are Austronesian like me😊😊
Theyre black.
Polynesian people are a mixture of melenisan and east Asian
@@deepminds777 khmer is not ack
Ignorance what’s wrong with being black it’s not a bad thing lol
@@yuaribreeze1552 because like other people and cultures, we’re Cambodians, we are our own people
Mon Khmer people are red skin tanned not black
love the video but it’s killing me as a cambodian how you keep saying “khmer” wrong 😭
Oh hell yeah THANK you for this I was wondering why I became so tall and dark
😭😭😭
As a half cambodian half African American I love how its conneted in a way
zero xpr i truthly believe that ths Egypt and people of the ancient mon people where connected because my experiences i had
I have Cambodian..African and Khmer descent.
@Shahid Vega... he could choose to be whatever he like. FOOL! NOT LIKE YOU !. just because you mix with a little Black... you drop all your other mix Identity just for one...A fraud to your other bloodline. I see all your other post. Am not stupid. I know which side you pick.. 😂
@Shahid Vega
Uh. So it's actually separated like this, right? Just for your future reference.
Ethnicity, race, nationality.
For example.
My ethnicity is Khmer, my race is Asian, and my nationality is American.
So thus I am an Asian American.
See how that works? Same thing.
I am Cambodian. This is true what he said. My dad said this too. Told me to always remember where we come from. Khmer history, dark skin, curly/wavey hair, and big lips. Now Khmer is mixed with other races.
I think literally nearly 60% or more than that, are Chinese mixed or other mixed.
All that is true, but they weren’t African.
They look like Buakaw, famous Thai boxer, born on Khmer/ Thai border.
Cambodians and Thais only look light brown because we mixed with Southern Chinese…
Real Khmer/ Cambodians, look like Buakaw,
We were influenced by India, so it makes sense that we would share some DNA.
Remember South East Asians are influenced/ mixed with Polynesians/ Chinese/ Indians/ Samoans/ etc.
Africans aren’t the only ones with big lips/ muscular frames/ curly hair
@@Hi-Five-Ghost 👏🏼
@@Hi-Five-Ghostno real tai people look like bukaw real Cambodians look like the angkor carvings all khmers have Royal blood bc we are descendants of kambu
Melanated People,
If they were Black they were of the Melanesian branch not Sub Saharan African
Richi RIch they were never black idiot! Look up Khmer ppl in Cambodia look nothing like African! Khmer related to India!
They say khasi people are from the mon khmer family
I think khasi people are from the Mon khmer family and I believe they were part of the ancient Khmer empire before the Tai and Lao people migrated in and displaced the Khasi
This is embarrassing lmfao claiming everything but their own 🤣
what t hell siem are trying to prove? Prasat phimai, Prasat Muang sing, and tons of other ancient Khmer temples nowadays in thailand was a part of Khmer empire long time ago. Britannica Dictionary can dig your brain a bit truth.
All credibility lost after the comparison of black > khmer. No relation what so ever.
Come to Meghalaya to about the khasi you will know how monkhmer look like because they speak khmer language
But most of your tribe are mixed raced now. Mixed with punjabis, Assamese, bengalis, nepali ,British and Chinese...... How will I know those who are not mixed?
@@jadeemp go to country side where people are isolated
Lawin Kharmujai Interesting I was looking up the Khasi to find any trace of connections with the Khmers. If you don’t mind can you share some similarities in custom/culture/food etc. I’m very interested in such. By the way, are you a Khasi yourself. You don’t have to answer that one if you feel it’s irrelevant. Thanks.
@@jadeemp 🤣 damn true but 😂 ig u can Identify a pure khasi if he doesn't have the name khar* but sadly many people have intermixed ! But i would say khasi from East khasi hills looks more Khasi and people from Sohra too and others areas but khasi from SHILLONG 🗿 they have mixed with different race
Sorry i mean West khasi hills
HA! Mon Khmer skin like mine. Oof
I am mon people from myanmar i love cambodia🥰
Hello i want know now Do you speak mon or Burma? i still love you so much actually at cambodia we study about national Mon
Yup, I was always told that original Khmers are dark with curly hair. My dad's side is full Khmer and they Akon dark lol
Dark and black is different they are dark does mean they black , culry hair i have them too now , not confuse ! Mon Khmer a group of peoples and tai lao Thai is another group of peoples ! We not mind about race but do not confuse , if u think that relate to black okay check DNA how much ?
China did a documentary on the DNA you should research it....could be very enlightening for you... although you may not like the answers you find....
anything dark started in AFrica you can deny all you want..this is evolution and science......Black woman is God!
@@jefferythompsonGRYTman Tony I completely agree with you on the topic of God. Yes We Khmer long ago used to have a relationship with Maa. Our ancestor say the real form of god is actually a female not male. Look at all so called Indian gods nowadays, they are all black like Krishna and Vishnu.
This is too funny lol
Video good 💕💕
Black - they looked like the Mani people of Thailand.
They were all of the Negrito population who mixed with the Chinese population
where can I find out more information on mon khmer? thanks. im Cambodian who look black my friends tell me and I get mistaken all the time. lol
Are you a Mon khmer?
That's bc they never seen no dark asians before they think asian is just chinese and hmong looking ppl lol
India culture.
Kambujudesa
I am Khmer and took DNA test and have some African in me. So yes Mon Khmer were Black
Oh yea true my father's have curly hair an he dark skin an he's a big men this face when I went too Cambodian every one was lighter then me an gave straight hair it alil weird but when got too my country side I see more dark ppl I guess because they workout in the song I see why they wear long sleeves shirts ok something new I learn thank you.
There are plenty of Mon and Khmer and other ancient statues throughout SE Asia that definitely have tightly curled hair and thick lips, many of the Buddha as well. To modern eyes, yes, they look African in some respects, but the people at the time, we are talking as early as 500 AD or earlier, were trying to portray an IDEAL image and such features were considered very much like the most honored INDIAN people of the time, geographic people from South Asia at the time, not necessarily like South Asians of TODAY. The Buddha also almost always has LONG EARS which is hardly African or any other race, in South Asian and SE Asian culture, long ears are highly prized and a sign of longevity. One could say they look even like Samoa or other South Pacific peoples and that would make sense because genetic studies show MANY of the peoples of even China and Taiwan and SE Asia and the more southern islands all the way to Easter Island share genetic history. The Mon were in what is TODAY Thailand and are STILL in Burma but were subsumed by Thai by the 1400's. The Khmer dominated geographic Thailand to some extent and were in conflict with the Mon but the Thai at that time were still in Southern China, we're talking 800 AD or so. Much new information is coming out from genetic and linguistic analysis, absolutely fascinating. It is worth noting that Sanskrit, a language from geographic India, had a HUGE influence on Latin and Greek and all European languages, long before Christ.
Could the ears be elongated from wearing some kind of body modification similar to what we can see in some African tribes?
Apparently I’m the only sibling in my family who’s picked up my dad traits of the mon khmer people. Everyone mistakens me as black or Samoan and to tell them I’m fully Khmer and have to explain. It’s still hard for them to believe I’m full because you don’t see much of them anymore. I’m 6’0 ft, have tight curls, and I’m pretty big for what’s so called now an “average Asian”
That's right. Ancient India was black they were driven south from the arrival of the indo Aryans.
Likewise, the ancient Indochina land was black, they were driven southeast by the arrival of the Chinese people from the north. Indonesia is proof that the eastern part was inhabited by people with dark skin, and the central and western parts were inhabited by white people, brown and brown.
Elongation of the ears is a very popular fashion sense in East Africa… Its just something that clearly continued as humans migrated towards Asia. Lets not ignore how diverse African cultures are, you can find oneness but diversity also.
So misinforned😂😂😂
But yet u can't inform him, not type of information with ya statement. Hey Dumbass, Respect your Forefathers
@@amumoore1304 are you black???? I'm khmer so do i get the n word pass???
@@amumoore1304 I see you like to take things out of context
@@amumoore1304 it doesn’t matter Cambodians aren’t black, Egyptians aren’t black, Israeli aren’t black, Native Americans aren’t black…
Ethiopians are barely even black, they’re heavily mixed with Arabs and Indians.
So sit TF down son, you’re embarrassing yourself
Is it just me or do these guys look like the aliens on the movie Communion Whitney Strieber ?
Africans:- Kemmet or “Kimmant, people Written as “ቅማንት" In Ethiopian writings- they are a tribe called Kemet/ ቅማንት from the ancient Egypt/ Ethiopian civilization. Look at Kemet. Their symbol is like a Cross but circular at its top. You find this “symbol “ in ancient Egypt’s obelisk and art on stones. Try to also find calendar they used because they use same calendar in Ethiopia today.
🙏🙏🙏from Ethiopia
ethiopian writing is old arabic sabean
Khmer alphabet comes from Sanskrit, India…
Khmer is up their in ancient civilization, with China, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt… Angkor Wat is still a huge mystery…
Khmer people say the word black is the best way to describe the colour, but it doesnt necessary mean that they are have african decendants. most people from south east asia are dark skin. you could even include australia as part of the asia continent, but you wouldnt agree that the aboriginal people as asians. You do have to take in account also of the climate of south east asia, the hotter the climate the likely the skin would be darker.
Curly hair doesn't mean they were black, many Europeans have curly hair
khmer people just the same with javanese
having a button nose, and austronesian features doesnt make you subsaharan. stop spreading this bs, and yes, "his'" words are flawed like his english. He means dark skin, not black.
They look like Buakaw Por Pramuk, and Tony Jaa. End of story!!
lol correct
Na man you never met a real khmer before
@@theherionfather8274 Think I know pretty well what my peoples look like.
We r from Kolhan, (Jharkhand, Odisha), India..Our Language is associated with Mon-Khamer. Our language is grouped in Austro-Asiatic language.
Khu-man/khu-mul/kha-pa clan of Meitei of Manipur (northeast India) were also black with curly hair once upon a time.
No Meitei are all from Mongolian stock not from Dravidian.
Why is a Chinese guy explaining about Khemer? Or is it chemer?
I’m part of the old Khmer full blood because I have dark skin and have very curly hair
Mic Theory are u khmer ?
The Chams are our long lost brother.. Greetings from MALAYsia.. 😊
ព្រលឹងផ្កាយ how do you know what skin color they have? Are you 2 thousand years old? Skin color is irrelevant in this part of the world because of mass amount of mixing. But the native core population of the area cannot be of light skinned origin because of the location close to the hottest part of the world. Next to equator. Can you tell me that their isn’t any dark skinned Khmers living today?
@@Handle_Edit bro there so much of us 😂🇰🇭👌
@@theherionfather8274 Yes of course brother. There’s these Chinese people that think Khmers are light skinned and look like them. That’s the problem. I’ve seen these Chin/Khmer every where on the Internet and TH-cam talking that shit like there’s no such thing as a Dark skin Khmer. 😂
KMT=Kemet meaning Land of the Black, dark.( KHM)=Black (ER) suffix meaning a person or thing belonging to or associated with.
Khmer and Kemet not the same dummy
Khmer = Kampu + Mera
Learned about Khmer queen married India prince in Funan era.
@@lovelyone1712 youre too stupid and make no sense. In Asia if you’re tanned skin it’s considered dark skin. Khmer are Tanned skinned Asian. Crazy lunatic if you really believe all blacks have special powers why is it that White and Asians are one of the most successful people in the world on average majority of White and Asians are educated and wealthy
As a commentator mentioned below African peoples are not the only Humans have dark skin just Europeans are not the only ones ho have pale skin. There is various degrees of skin tones, hair textures, facial features among the Human species.
I'm a khasi. Descending from mon khmer. We are a tribe called khasi tribe. We live in Meghalaya. A state in Northeast India
@Neicha Reich I'm accepting my roots. Love yourself too. 👍
Nonsense, just travel to South India. These are one of the darkest people with thick matted hair. They are the Dravidians. I don’t think they came from Africa at all.
i am Mon Khmer from(burma,Myanmar)
The Burmese and Cambodian look same same but the language is quite different
@@khloksakhoeun5156 We Not Burmese, We lost Our Mon land(HongSarWaToi) Fallen in the hand of Burma(Myanmar) colonists in 1757A.D, We Mon stay live in Burma and Thailand.
nai hongsar I’m Khmer in Cambodia
@@khloksakhoeun5156 Nice To meet you...
nai hongsar nice to meet you too
Thank who are interesting Cambodia history please read world history books good explaining who empire and invaders.
Did really Khasi people from Meghalaya in North east India are related to those Monkhmer in Cambodia
Thanks for this brother helps activate latent memory/records in our DNA. Which is needed especially now.
Thank you for watching. I truly appreciate it.
You wouldn't believe but the first Chinese is black from east Africa.
The people of ancient Indochina were dark skinned. Those who are now white are immigrants from China.
All people is tribe from Africa 😹😹
because the africa is first place that have people live since 60 million years ago.
did they all have wide mouths like in the statues? Or were their artists not good at realistic art?
Have you seen Khmer people?
Look at the earrings they have same styles with the Borneo tribes man.
But very different ppl
@@theherionfather8274 yup, It's a culture in that time since the currency is gold. Yeah can be found around in others region as well in Asia
Khmer(khmai not khm-air)
Khmer people are NOT black.
Black=subsaharan african descent.
Mainland Southeast Asia was once called “IndoChina” due to the obvious mixture of Chinese and Indian people. The Indian and Chinese mixture is very evident in this area by culture, food, people etc. the Mon Khmer language is spoken not just in Cambodia but in nepal and even eastern India. It’s obvious there’s connection. the Indians who were in the Khmer empire were South Indians called Tamil or just Dravidian ones and they can have dark, basically black skin. Angkor Wat was originally a Hindu temple before Buddha, who was also from the Indian region came along, but they are still genetically different from subsaharan Africans.
Also factor in that climate can effect skin color. The more close to the equator the darker the skin, normally.
The curly hair is a South Indian trait as well.
Flat/wise noses are a Chinese trait in the area
Mohammed Azeme not necessarily. The first humans were from Africa but Africa doesn’t automatically mean black/subsaharan.
Similar to how Asia isn’t only Chinese.
Asia is just a continent and it includes Indians, Arabs, etc other types of people.
Africa has subsaharan and North Africans. North Africans are genetically closer to west Asians/Arabs.
The old remains were from Ethiopia which made people think we were all black but were we?
Recently they found the oldest remains are actuall from Morocco.
Moroccans are part of North Africa and aren’t really subsaharan so it’s likely that the whole “black” skin or subsaharan was also just an adaption of environment that took years and years but not everyone was black per se. black means, of sub Saharan african descent. By today’s standards that’s what African meant. Now that the oldest remains are from Morocco, it may not be true that we were all black skinned because it’s actually possible black skin was an adaptation not the starting point of humans. Similar to how white skin was an adaptation andnot the starting point
No. French called the place indochina. France Laos and Cambodia was one colony
6A2P4H no, Indochina= Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam and there are maps that labeled the whole area as Indochina.
LATER ON, the French went that way and colonized the area which is why you hear the “French Indochina” which is the countries of Indochina that France had territories in which would only be vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
They’re “Indochina” and “French Indochina” are different.
@@queenshad1161 then there was Cochin China. This was all of the land south of present day Cambodia. Or ancient times lower Chenla. These are all geography terms mostly
6A2P4H Cochinchina is another way of saying “Indochina”
Kochi also known as Cochin is a state and once called “kingdom of Cochin” and was the first place in India Europeans colonized.
So, CochinChina was the name of the French colony that was once part of the Khmer empire until they added “CochinChina” to Vietnam
No your not saying it right,it’s kh-Mai
Hello Author.
I have great suggest to you to make a video about " what Buddha may real look like ?"
my opinion is that real Buddha may look like statue on Temple of "ankowatt" for the two reason.
1 image of Jesus has been modified from dark skin Jewish to white skin Westerner.
2 Arian has invaded India around after Buddha time. This may change image of Buddha into Arian race with a questionable of African race hair.
Thank You
why got deleted
TH-cam block comment.
I did not say so.
Check this guy. Robert Sepehr. Tartaria.