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@@paresracerramenrider8933 the Philippines, like other countries, shouldn't let USA "experts" do anything with ur history of ancient ppl. They manipulate it to enhance their false story, and show distain for certain people. Their job is to demean others and shove Africa up our ass! Get them out of ur country! Call on Native archiologists from ur own ppl, it's their story too, they are more caring about it!
If Melanesians wanted to they would wipe out the Polynesians. So when you say the Polynesians pushed the Melanesians into the mainlands is a bunch of bullshiit
Micronesia is the area with very little written up online. Yet it has these fascinating traces of advanced ancient civilization like Nan madol. Wish there was more written on this area. Polynesia because of its remoteness and beauty gets a lot of publicity and as a result seems less remote to me ironically.
To sum everything up, Papua New Guinea is a mini South Pacific. We have Polynesia, Micronesia and us Melanesians in one country. Proud to be a Pacific Islander.
@@KWBPTV What do you mean we seem to accept the effects of colonisation more than black Americans? Please elaborate and be specific. We don't accept the effects of colonisation, we are a proud people proud of our culture that we still have. You black Americans (No offence) don't even know what part of Africa you come from so pls tell me what you mean by we accept the effects of colonisation more?
One Love from Aboriginal Australia we been down here for a long time and witnessed the changes over thousands of years, a lot of culture is lost due to colonisation but it is still practiced in a lot of areas. We are all Cousins
L'aborigène d'Australie est le Premier, l'aîné de nous tous, dans le Pasifik...J'estime que, c'est le plus grand Pays de la Mélanésie...Les européens ont décidé de le classer autrement, mais peu importe, nous sommes Frères, pas Cousins !...
@turangatohiariki3042 New sophisticated genetic studies have given up lots of shocking surprises with more to come. The Aboriginals of Australia have ancient genetics that link them more to the ppl of the Pacific. The Aboriginals of Australia, like the Natives of the Americas, don't have the big genetic mix that the African from Africa has. The Natives of the Americas have the least mixed DNA in the world bc we were isolated for centuries by the ice age. The discovery of the Denivesons in Asia is very significant. There is no or next to none Deniveson DNA in Africa. No Deniveson DNA in the supposedly cradle of humans? However the Aboriginals of Australia along with the Natives of the Americas, Papua New Guinea, the Nnegritos of the Philippines, the Natives of New Zealand, Oceania, Asia all carry Deniveson DNA. You can't go by looks anymore. The migration of the ppl of the Pacific was magnificent, majestic and prolific. They hit almost every continent.
They mean from the POV of their civilisation. It’s like ancient Chinese explorers saying they first discovered India or the Middle East, they’re not wrong.. from their POV.
Thanks for sharing this! We are all Pacific Islanders, regardless of a few cultural differences. The colonizers are the ones who try to divide us, as usual. Keep spreading the knowledge man! Adios
@@pulanspeaks should we not make a movement that reflects the new age of knowledge and factually backed information? I think this is of the utmost importance. We can on one hand recognize a truth and that is all or we can recognize and take steps to wards uniting our people in a bigger way than ever thought possible. I would definitely participate in a movement towards uniting all Pacific Islanders under one name and have the maps and all people reflect and recognize it as such.
As a proud descendant of colonizers, I can tell you, with complete confidence, that my people have never had any interest in dividing you. If something we did happened to cause you to become divided, somehow, then, I can assure you, that wasn't why it was done. I'm not saying that our actions didn't cause you to become divided. I don't doubt that that's what happened. I'm just saying that wasn't the reason for our actions. It's not so much that we like you, or we dislike you, or anything like that. It's just that no one gives a rat's ass about you, or about what happens to you. Pacific Islanders just aren't important, honestly. They never have been. Anyway, I hope this helps. Good luck, my Polynigga 👍🏿 God bless.
İ would even include Malagasy in Madagascar as belonging to the same group. Whether you'd still want to call it Pacific İslanders is another question. İ find it interesting how a huge contiguous area with people sharing similar languages, cultures, and even physical characteristics stretching from Rapa Nui to Madagascar gets divided into three different "continent" by outsiders, a.k.a. Europeans. And it's sad to see how some Philippines arguing about them being Asian or Pacific İslanders. Arguing based on the division imposed by outsiders.
I'm Samoan with a large percentage of European blood and a 4% Melanesian. I'm proud of my Pacific DNA and no matter what these white people say about us and divided us by the color of our skin, our blood is thicker than water. We are one and as I learnt more about my Samoan history I came to find out that my Fijian forefathers settled and populated the island of Savaii. Anyone and everyone who has ties to Savaii shared the same DNA and link to Fiji.
@@sallykemp1427 Samoans and Polynesians in general are a hybrid race between SE Asians (Austronesians) and Papuan (Melanesian) people. Basically they're Black (not African) from their forefathers and Asian from their mothers genetically. This happened about 1500-2000 years ago in the Pacific. They're like Tiger Woods. However in the 1800s the Chinese went to many South Pacific Islands such as Samoa and mixed with the people making them even more Asian. However there are Samoans that still have the pure appearance and genetics like Tua Tagovailoa, Ardie Savea, Wild Samoans, etc. They look like Black people.
I am a Maluku Islander of West Melanesia,now known as Ambon!!Even though we are part of Eastern Indonesia, DNA and languages consider us to be part of Melanesia!My mother is Ambonese and AncestryDNA shows her to be part 50 percent Melanesian and the rest Austronesian!And this includes now I ndependent Timor Leste 🇹🇱And of course you know about West Papua.West Papua,Timor Leste,and Maluku are the often forgotten West Melanesians.
@@jeweettoch1454 Just like many other Melanesians like Timorese, Fijians,Motuans(PNG),Mekeo(PNG),Trobriand Islanders,Mortlock Islanders (PNG),Solomon Islanders (Renell and Bellona).Us Moluccans aren't that special,being mixed Melanesian+Austronesian is normal and common in the Pacific!
@@jeweettoch1454 North Moluccans also actually speak Papuan languages too.They still have Melanesian blood whether they like it or not.Are you even Moluccan yourself?I noticed it's somehow controversial for us Moluccans to have our own unique identity,and that Non Moluccans especially Javanese/West Indonesians always speak FOR us.That is just very,very disrespectful and pretentious.If you aren't Moluccan,you have no right to speak for us.Simple as that,end of story.
@@gpl992 This is a very dangerous chauvinistic take. Yes, the Javanese specially elites from Jakarta overly dominate the conversation, but what is exactly a Moluccan? I'm 1/4 Moluccan (Hatusuppy clan) from my Oma. But also Batak Toba, Minahasan, and Dutch. Do you consider me to be Moluccan?
Hey buddy, i dont know your name and this is my first time watching one of your vids, i just want to say i found it a fascinating subject and very well put together. I love people watching and learning more about my fellow earthlings who share this beautiful planet with me. Thanks for sharing Sir.
I am a polynesian, you see different skin colour, depent where is the location of the island. The people from Tuamotu is darker than the people from Austral island, may be because the wheather is more cold. You find people more White where the climat is colder, darker where is hoter.
You are mostly fijian in origin from my lineage of tawhiri an hina your ancestors came from me an my lineage im from tribal lands of vanalevu an tavunie your our children
We conquered tamotu an society islands you belong to our lineage an tribal lines the people of marquees later was enslaved by us fijiantahitian of hotumatua.
Polynesian is a joke . French polynesia an fiji 🇫🇯 are the same people an hawaiians an etc was conquered an enslaved by us. Hina an tawahiri an tawaki and etc hotumatua created the true maori. Not this babies in new Zealand an etc mix European
Ignorance fosters arrogance. There are no "primitive" humans, but there are humans that live in "primitive" circumstances. Humans make the situations work.. All humans have moral values, stories, and adaptability.
No. If that were the case then all humans would have the same limits. We would all run just as fast if given enough training. That's simply not the case and neither is the rest of our body. Unfortunately, for you, you are wrong
@@ClintOrris There are different potentials,, different abilities, different proclivities, but we all must strive for understanding and acting responsibly with others. Ignorance (either "don't know" or "don't care") litters history with tragedies.
Thank you for sharing another informative video! You make a good point to remind us that the three-part geography came from colonialist perspectives, preoccupied with racial divisions of humanity. I like how you presented the facts and noted the source references, all within just a few minutes. Congratulations on the Patreon and keep up the good work!
@@pulanspeaks Hey, this presentation is racist. You should get a lot of flak from BLM, SPLC, NAACP, Wokers . . . but they won't since they don't want to be associated with Melanesians and Australoids.
Love this as I already knew much of this. One thing I think should be added is that the Philippines was part of oceania - Polynesia until Dumont. When he got to the Philippines there was Dark tones and yellow tones . He basically didn't know which to put them with so he recatergorized them to Asia
@@zeros-gy7blas another indigenous Filipino myself. I would say Philippines is obviously south East Asian especially our cultural and political ties to the rest of Asian and that also includes our language which is really similar to Indonesia and Malaysia.
All i can say is, everything named is just a convenient categorization for the White explorers. It is not the people themselves or their neighbors who gave themselves or the other the name; Polynesia, Melanesia etc. White man named it. Native people most likely have a native name for their own homeland.
Did they though? They obviously had names for individual islands or island groups, but for the Oceanic islands as a whole? Or for larger divisions, like Polynesia, Melanesia, etc? People don't tend to name regions like that except when they're dealing with other regions.
That's how they made sense of what they were seeing. It was European people writing for a European audience. If you have a different way of seeing it that's fine. But I seriously doubt that there was any kind of pan-oceania or pan-austronesian identity the way some of you are trying to claim.
I will never trade my Melanesia for polynesia or micronesia. I'm blessed by my ancestors for the biggest land mass in whole of Oceania. God bless Melanesia 🇸🇧🇵🇬🇻🇺🇫🇯🇳🇨 💪👑😎
We are proud Pacific Islanders until some western racist popped up and start categorizing the islands based on what they believe... which is absolutely BS. Now they really make us come together to celebrate world's largest indigenous cultural unity ever. Great job PulanSpeaks, keep it coming Dangkulu na Si Yu'us Ma'asi.
Are you really claiming that there was unity between all Austronesian speakers from Madagascar to Rapa Nui and from New Zealand to Hawaii before Europeans came? That's some serious revisionist history. There was no such unity. There was fighting even between neighboring islands or on the same island. Moreover, there was almost certainly no knowledge of a shared Austronesian heritage. You have European linguists, archeologists and geneticists to largely thank for that understanding. I know that much of this comment section is all about hating on white people, but at least don't make up nonsense to support your hate. Stick to your "colonizer" narrative, as that is at least based in reality. (Even though you ignore the fact that the Austronesian people themselves were colonizers of lands held by Papuan and Negrito type people.)
Melanesia is the mother land of all pasifika.. that's where we first left our homes long ago for the open sky above the horizon! There's no 3 region but pasifika wave sailors that let home for the stars
Literally all of our ancestor groups left the mainland through Papua. It’s the true motherland of Pacific Islanders. It’s also where our ancestors the “lapita” people evolved and migrated from
I am Filipino (my DNA results says Southeast Asian), but my DNA says I'm also Oceanian (again, not specific). It only goes to show we are all related, all from the Pacific Islands. I send all my love to my Pacific Island families. Mabuhay!
I was researching and I seen that for Micronesia and Polynesia, they divided us by geography and not by race and when they did divide the pacific islands by race, it was a yellow race (known today as Micronesians & Polynesians) and a black race (known today as Melanesians & aboriginal Australians). And what’s fxcked up about it is, these Europeans say “an admired yellow race” and “a vilified black race”. This what this book says: “He adjudged Melanesians to be 'hideous' inappearance, limited' in languages and institutions, and generally very inferior to the copper-coloured race in dispositions and intelligence, except where they had been improved by frequent communications and racial intermixture with Polynesians, as in Fiji. But he saved his most persistent obloquv for the Australians and Tasmanians who were 'probably the most limited, the most stupid of all beings and those essentially closest to the unreasoning brute'”
LOL, he was describing what he saw and for them that was fact, as the polynesians were and are better looking then the melanesians, was he wrong? as to the other descriptions, I'd say anyone that was not them would be described in some negative manner
@@alcapone8193 lol Thinking Polynesians look better than Melanesians is not a fact. It’s an opinion. That’s how you feel. That’s what you believe. Facts are not based on your feelings or beliefs. Someone might like Melanesians more than Polynesians and that would be their opinion. None of these are facts.
@@uts4448 LOL yes maybe your right on the subject some might prefer melanesians but in the modern era we live in but in their era, no your wrong. and on the subject of wether the polynesians are better looking then melanesians , are you blind ? LOL please, there is no contest
Let keep it simple. Melanesian’s came from Australia Aborigenis Micronesian and Polynesia are from South East Asian and we are mixed with Melanesian and exist with harmony among each other cause we are not racist.
This is so interesting and educational! We humans literally can't detach ourselves from something as simple a skin color. It's obviously a very faulty way of looking at geography but it looks like we're stuck with it for now. Gotta learn from our mistakes and apply said knowledge in the future.
nope, it was an accurate description for the day as that's what explorers did, they described what they saw and their interaction with the various peoples.
But recent genetics studies have confirmed much of what they were seeing in terms of phenotypic differences. It wasn't just based on nothing. Polynesians have more Austronesian ancestry than Papuan type ancestry, for example. Which explains the phenotypic differences they were noticing.
Welcome Home, Lemuria. 💯🌈🌺🦜 The Pacific Ocean Portal is Now Open to All... 22 2 22. Our ancestors were Giants..si TÅ... Ågan si TÅ.. #TagaTribes ..Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia, WE ARE ONE. 💜
fair skinned ? nah fam u aint seen my granparents n aunts n unlces, they jus got there after the outsiders were fuccin on my peoples. a proud hawaiian tongan fijian filipino man here.
It is a shame this placed on you guys all three race divisions. I'm Black American (trust me we know) and it sucks you guys have got knocked down from culture and tradition to savage to non-savage ranking. Y'all are all amazing.
In Papua New Guinea, there is a mix of all pacific looking Islanders in the country. In the New Guinea Island region, they have Polynesian people in all their islands too. The cultural dances of people in manus island are similar to the Polynesian rather then the mainland New guinea,
thats true. Many polynesian islands with polynesian-speaking natives are part of Niu Gini which is interesting but not surprising at all. This isn't news to natives of PNG but is shocking to ppl who aren't or never visited. Again, the colonist mentality is strong is so strong in others how coudl this possible be??
Exactly, same as Columbus discovered America while there were already people living over there. Looking like Polynesian / Malenesian so they been there already 100’s of years before
@@kr431 That's what some white European man came up with for the Malay Peninsula Archipelago Region that's why I put it so anybody can research it. I'm down with it. If u really look at it, the map the name, the group of islands like I did recently it didn't make sense in a lot of ways how white people chopped that part of the world up & especially with the international date timeline. So u really got the Malay Peninsula & Archipelago, Australia, Micronesia, & Polynesia. Go look at it I'm like huh? So look at all the island groups/archipelagos the groupings don't make since lol. I looked at it and followed the island chains with my finger like okay Malay Peninsula & Archipelago from Tanintharyi/Kanchanaburi Malay Peninsula to Solomon Islands, then Australia Continent, then New Caledonia & Vanuatu to New Zealand to Easter Island to Hawaii is a continuous groups of islands next to each other, then the Micronesia Islands together. Plus the term Melanesia was a racist skin color term more than a region u can look that up to.
@@kr431 Oh I'm so sorry I did not explain it right 😂 lol. I know that ain't a part of the Pasifika Region lol. I was just saying culturally/racially it is a part of Oceania Culturally like Southern North America is Culturally apart of South America or tha Chagos Islands is a part of Asia but Culturally/Racially is a part of Africa or Egypt is a part of Africa but it is Culturally a part of Asia lol
@@kr431 Yes well it's all connected first of all the Portuguese conquered Malacca in 1511 with a slave/free/runaway Latin army from Latin Europe of Muslims, Jews, Gypsies with Christian slave masters, then with that they colonized the whole Malay Peninsula through enslaved/free/runaway Black Malaccans & White/Middle Eastern Latins with plantations & slave raids. Then in 1527 they gathered a slave/free/runaway army of Malays & Latins and stormed Jakarta and took over and through Malacca by way of Jakarta they took over the entire Malay Archipelago except the Philippines. Then in 1519 a slave/free/runaway army of Blacks, Middle Easterners, Whites, Native Americans from Havana stormed Veracruz and took over there then conquered the Aztec Empire in Ciudad Mexico in 1521 then in 1550 they captured Acapulco. Then in 1565 they sailed to Cebu with that mixed race status army to conquer them then in 1570 stormed Manila and took over there. The Spanish & Portuguese was all ready in the Moluccas with the Sultanate of Ternate in Ternate being captured in 1512 by the Portuguese then in 1521 the Sultanate of Tidore was captured by they Spanish. So everythang between Sulawesi and New Guinea was captured and partitioned between the Spanish the Sultanate of Tidore & the Portuguese controlling the Sultanate of Ternate. Then in 1565 the expedition from Manila teamed up with the Sultanate of Tidore in Tidore to form a alliance for tha Spanish Empire. Then in 1513 the Portuguese established Portuguese Tamão in current day Hong Kong spreaded to Macau & Canton current day Guangzhou and got Chinese slaves from there to Malay Peninsula & Archipelago. Then in Spanish took over Netherlands from the Holy Roman Empire when the Charles V Habsburg took over most of the world from inheritances of Northern Europe from his father & Southern Europe from his mother the omen, perfect child, the best of both worlds into the Habsburg Empire the biggest empire in history & the most powerful wealthiest king in history & did not do any better with storming the Portugal & the Portuguese Empire into the Habsburg Empire the most powerful biggest empire in history. Then he commissioned the Manila Galleon Trade from Macau, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, to Manila, Philippines to Borneo, Sulawesi, Ternate/Tidore Moluccas, New Guinea back n fort between each other to Palau, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae, Marianas, Marshall Islands, Hawaii, Alta California, Baja California, Nuevo Navarre, Mexico, Nuevo Mexico, Tejas, to Havana then from Havana to Louisiana, Florida, Cuba, Bahamas, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru then also visa versa from Manila to Lima, Peru to Guayaquil, Ecuador to Buenaventura, Colombia to Cartagena, Colombia to Havana to either Louisiana or Saint Augustine, Florida to Praia, Cabo Verde to Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canaries to Funchal, Madeira to Ponta Delgada, Azores aka Macaronesia to Lisbon, Portugal to Seville, Spain and they would supply Muslim, Gypsy, Jewish slaves from Europe and Muslim, Gypsy, Jewish, Voodoo Practitioners from Africa to Macaronesia to the Galleons and New World Slaves, Freemen, Runaways Peyotism, Cargo Cult, Tapu, Inafa'maolek, Anito, Aliran Kepercayaan Practitioners, Jews, Gypsies, Muslims from Oceania & Latin America to Macaronesia visa versa so it's all interconnected.......
Hafa Adai! Regarding the description of "Taboo" or "Tabu" as practiced by the Micronesians, how is "Taboo" defined according to European cartographers and how is it different from Polynesians or any other cultures? Just wondering.
This concept of Taboo, or Tabu, or in Maori, Tapu, varies between all cultures, all over the Pacific, because a practice that is perfectly fine in one culture or more, is not acceptable in another, and even within the same culture, like Maori, this is a topic with various differences, and various practices as a result. Europeans, either derisively oppose, or totally ignore, the cultures that have these practices, and it is these two forms of resistance and suppression that causes the most harm. On top of that, there is the growing view from Europeans, that these can be exploited for profit in the nations the Europeans have colonised in the past, but for the profit of Europeans only, not the profit of the culture that it comes from.
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Excellent video. So many ethnic/racial/cultural labels are imposed by outsiders (generally Europeans) and do not reflect how people on the ground understood themselves and their relationships to other groups at the time.
Wow I loved this video, that was a question I have always had and where the origins of the split began and now I got my answer. I am going to do further research of Colonial Oceania, I love channels like yours.
In wikipedia said that dumont also add the 4th label malisia/ malaysia which area include malay archipelago today. Is it true ? This also how modern day country malaysia got it name.
very informative regarding the nefarious origins of those terms, ultimately we are all children of te moana nui and the respective islands we live with.
@@Miss_Hannahno humans continue to live on islands, their descendants must live on the mainland first... starting in Africa to Arabia to Persia to India to Burma then to Southeast Asia such as Malaysia and Indonesia then to Papua, Australia and finally to Oceania... the faces of Polynesian, Micronesian people are almost the same as Austronesians... only they have bigger bodies, due to mixing with Melanesians... not only language, dna studies also say that... Oceania people are descendants of Austronesians
The people who originated the Polynesians are our Arafura people from the Wallacea line. Contrary to popular belief, we are NOT Austronesian, we are Melanesian paternally and only gradually have Austronesian influx from the maternal side. The Arafuru / Alifuru people invented outrigger canoe technology and traded heavily with the Papuan neighbors, and the later people who would inhabit Borneo and Manado and Philippines.
So I’m confuse. Sorry I’m still learning the history. Found out I have trace of Melanesian. I have no clue on which island, tribe etc. I’m trying to piece my family ancestors history. All I know I have Italian, Greek, Caucuses, North Africa (did not specified), Senegal, and Samaritan Cohanim (descended from Menasseh, Ephraim and Levi). I can’t figure out how they found traces of Melanesian when that’s no where close to the Mediterranean.
Thank you for pointing this out. Filipinos and Malays in general want to stronghold Polynesians as if they're theirs yet ignore the Melanesian input. Long story short, Austronesian females mated with Melanesian males to create Polynesians.
@@heerarodriguez9563 True, that is the most basic explanation where polys came from. They are the result of intermixing between Austronesians and Australo-Melanesian.
Hahaha nice one! I'm Asian, melanesian, Polynesian and Aboriginal...that's the Pacific in one!!! The white man has always been racist because they consider themselves as the most superior race...that's why they create divisions to make us feel inferior and less human. We in the Pacific are blind to colour but the white man makes an issue out of nothing!
You are a delight to learn from. Thanks. I did an anth degree about 20yrs ago, and learnt the cannon. Been learning to decolonise my thinking ever since. Far more nuance than clunky Victorian models.
So why is it that these outdated classficstion hold true today ? Modern genetic testings show that the ploynesians can be traced back to modern day Taiwan and the darker melannesians to southern africa
Wether you are melanesian, micronesian or polynesian. We all are one ❤ the people of the pacific. We originate from the motherland, ethiopia, africa 👌 all our coloured people are one 💯
💯 wrong !!. He described a wrong name for the Melanesians, or west Pacific Islands people. Where none of the region are black. We are reddish brown, mid brown, light brown or some tan brown. None is pitch dark like Ethiopian..Sorry for that, but He did caption us very wrong!!. We ain't come from Africa!!. But we are from the pre-flooded kingdom of Fijii !!..So we are not Africans at all !!..🎉🎉..We had the highest % of living archaic human genes on earth today..I.e. Neanderthals, Denosovans and an Unknown gene. So we were there from the beginning, you had a wrong information. That's only for modern human migrations. We never came from anywhere, we always live in the Pacific islands.
This is the Ultimate!! Polynesians were from Korea and Japan looking for Alaska 😢 Melanesians are the leading group going Coastal from East Africa. The 2 coalesced into Micronesia. This is along the line of Einstein's Relativity Theory 😊 100 yrs from now it'll be proven
dear pacific islanders. i would like to say that be proud and stand for your community. dont let filipino american to appropriate and erase your community. filipinos are asians not pacific islanders
I am Filipino, and my DNA says I am also Oceanian ( not half Filipino or half Oceanian but both) because geographically, the Philippines is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. We are all related. Many years ago, our ancestors traded with one another, and intermarriages happened. Spread love...we are all family.
@@marialuisafarol3609 lies. there is no such thing as ocenian DNA. the philippines is not even in the middle of pacific ocean it is only in the edge. we share the same ancestors but in modern times we are different. filipino ameriacns should stop spreading lies just say you are inorant of your heritage
White people are so funny. How can they say that about us Melanesians being unstructured and barbaric when our ancient Fijian societies had hierarchy chiefly and tribal system. It wasn’t a free for all system it was more like everyone and their lineage has their own job or tasks to do or fulfil (in a village) as opposed to the current western lifestyle where there might be more people in a certain profession and less in other fields. We had clans, sub clans and tribes. When war could be avoided certain Chiefs had their sons or daughters marry into other tribes as to forge alliances (A practice we also see in Old European civilisation). How are we barbaric even if we fought killed and ate our enemies as opposed to the white civilisations who were known to torture their enemies in intricate, creative and cruel ways. Now that’s barbaric if you asked me.
You are engaging in presentisim, put yourself in their shoes, with the techinlogy and evidence they have and tell me if it is possible to reach your modern conclusions, the fact of the matter that these mistakes were what made the field of anthropology advance
Can u make a weaponry video? I have two arrowheads from coral ocean beach in Saipan. My neighbor was a math professor at the local college and he explored beaches on his off time. He found many artifacts and gave me two arrowheads. Id love to learn about these
“Pacific Islanders”, “Austranesians”, “People of Oceania”, “Nesians” (extracted from MelaNESIA, MicroNESIA, and PolyNESIA). Those are possible names we can pick one from.
God bless the pacific peoples, uniquely diverse in their cultures and languages compared to other regions of the world. The known earliest evidence of agricultural stone tools back dating 50,000 years ago and the birth of modern architectural home designs studied from the coastal villages of west Papua to New Guinea. Proud to be an islander. ❤
You claim that the divisions "do not reflect how Pacific people view their islands." Okay. Fair enough. But i would think that a more important question is whether or not these three divisions represent anything meaningful about the culture and history of Pacific peoples. After all, all kinds of peoples hold all kinds of inaccurate views about themselves - mostly harmless beliefs in most cases, but not always, but inaccurate regardless. You need only look at various countries with written language traditions going back 3-4 millenia to see how research can often correct long-held identity beliefs. Surely you wouldn't want to deny Pacific peoples this same opportunity. Of course we should dispense with constructs built on obsolete racial theories. That just strikes me as an interesting historical side-note.
Hafa adai! I agree with you and I actually already have a separate video discussing that very topic to be released at the end of March! Be on the look out! And consider supporting me on Patreon, you're support will be a great help so that I may release more videos!
@@pulanspeaks Ah, okay. Excellent. I'm a starving academic (on the miserable job market) so no Patreon funds for me to spend right now. But I'll continue watching your videos in my spare time. It is always nice to learn what scholars in other fields have to say.
It wasn't just based on a racial theory, it was also based on the large scale depopulation of certain islands in the Eastern Pacific and the subsequent arrival of large numbers of Europeans and importation of Asian labor to create "new races". You can see this best in Hawaii where there are almost no pure blood Hawaiians left and most Hawaiians are part of what is called the "neo-Hawaiian" race that was created directly by Europeans. One only need to look at the photos of the early Eastern Pacific islanders to see how this division is fake. The original Samoans, Hawaiians, Tahitians, New Zealanders and so forth were all dark populations. Note that Tonga is also part of Polynesia and the ancestral homeland of Polynesian culture, but somehow those dark skinned folks never get mentioned in all this fake history. Just take a look at photos of king Tāufaʻāhau (Tupou I) from the late 1800s and compare that to King Tupou VI. And Tonga isn't far from Fiji to of course they would look similar.
But having Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia makes sense, as they are different yet share some similarities. Melanesian's and Polynesians even battled one another in ancient times.
I'm from Aotearoa, descend from the chief navigators. It wasn't a racial division, it was an ancestral division. We all came from y dna ancestor cm130, all indigenous outside of Africa descend from him. These were the first navigators, some of our sibling lines merged with the pre hominid species, and that is what set us apart, this was called breaking the tapu. Polynesian original ancestor was given the right to occupy the new world when we first came out, that's what every other tribe has seem to forgotten
This is bullshit Tahiti & rapanui is the father of all Polynesian Takitumu tribe in tahiti is the legendary tribe of South Pacific & Eastern Pacific too
Exact Bro !.... Je suis mélanésien...j'ai effectivement vu, connu et côtoyé des polynésiens de parents polynésiens, à la peau allant de cuivrée, à foncée...
Ummm, you are somewhat correct. Negerji Tabahan was one region and one race of Nwords Therefore indo-china were multiracials of color "Blacks" yet the Nword king of Mohren lived in Bali kr Java. This royal family of Negroes also ruled over the entire Mohrlandt (East Indies, West Indies, indien Oceanic, as well as Abyssinia, Egypt, and Eastern Afrika. Nwords come in all colors including Albinos "Whites". Thats why there was once Indo-China, Indo-Europe, Indo-Afrika, and Indo-Amerikas. There was no race until King Race demanded people be split up by colour. Prior to that whites were called Witte Nword
There only ONE race in the World *THE HUMAN RACE* & we all go back to One Woman & One Man !!!!! 🙏 E Te Atua Homai Kia Matou Tou Maramatanga Tou Rangimarie Tou Kaha me Tou Aroha Mo Tenei Ra 🙏 *A M E N E* 🙏
The history of immigration of Pacific Islanders has more to do with where the immigrants came from originally. For example Fiji snd Papuan New Guinea are Melanesian or dark skinned Pacific Islands. Whereas Places like Tahiti have oriental or Polynesian skinned peoples. Their traditions are similar from the Cook Islands to Tuvalu and even Hawaii. Some dialects have similar words. We’ve traveled extensively in Fiji over the last 2 decades. It’s rich traditions and intact village way of life is dramatically different than say Hawaii. The Ratu or Chiefs still head each village and represent their villages in parliament. Vastly different than the disgusting way Queen Liliuokalani was deposed jailed and every possession sold at auction. It was savage. A very sad history indeed. 😔
The Frenchman's idea of refering to all races of the specific, as Polynesians would have worked well . " people of Many Islands " NO tribes or races , which may insinuate that one is maybe more advance than the other ... As it is , Polynesians carry both Micronesian and Melanesian genes... and vice versa..,👺🌏🐢🐬🌴..
Its crazy how Europeans think they discovered the pacific islands and decided to categorize us. Lmafo our ancestors already mapped out the pacifc island routes and were trading between themselves before before the mordern European decided to first set sail and explore the seas. They were the first sailors that mastered the star maps and created routes around the pacifc islands. Our ancestors never considered themselves Melanisans Polynesian or micronesians, all they knew was they were all pacific islanders.
Theres more to the pavific than those 3. Philippines is next to Palau Micronesia and influenced it with migration and trade. Indinesia and malay and even japan are part of the Pacific.
Just to share that I now have a Patreon set up! Feel free to take a look! Any support goes right back to producing better Pacific Studies content for you all! www.patreon.com/pulanspeaks
I'm so happy you are doing this research. Finally, we can learn more about our islands!
Filipinos is a product of mixed Asians . You Asians need to relax 😂@Pares Racer & Ramen Rider
@@paresracerramenrider8933 the Philippines, like other countries, shouldn't let USA "experts" do anything with ur history of ancient ppl. They manipulate it to enhance their false story, and show distain for certain people. Their job is to demean others and shove Africa up our ass! Get them out of ur country! Call on Native archiologists from ur own ppl, it's their story too, they are more caring about it!
If Melanesians wanted to they would wipe out the Polynesians. So when you say the Polynesians pushed the Melanesians into the mainlands is a bunch of bullshiit
Micronesia is the area with very little written up online. Yet it has these fascinating traces of advanced ancient civilization like Nan madol. Wish there was more written on this area. Polynesia because of its remoteness and beauty gets a lot of publicity and as a result seems less remote to me ironically.
Origin story from polynesian scientists
-lost tribe Israel
-egyptian
-south America
-antartica
-the moon
To sum everything up, Papua New Guinea is a mini South Pacific. We have Polynesia, Micronesia and us Melanesians in one country. Proud to be a Pacific Islander.
And you forgot Papuan, now it's all in one.
I would say Fiji is more like a mini south pacific since we have polnyesian blood in the Lau islands, and micronesian settlement in Rabi.
The motherland
@@Nagin-zt6sc what do you mean by 4 types of indigenous?
@@KWBPTV What do you mean we seem to accept the effects of colonisation more than black Americans? Please elaborate and be specific. We don't accept the effects of colonisation, we are a proud people proud of our culture that we still have. You black Americans (No offence) don't even know what part of Africa you come from so pls tell me what you mean by we accept the effects of colonisation more?
One Love from Aboriginal Australia we been down here for a long time and witnessed the changes over thousands of years, a lot of culture is lost due to colonisation but it is still practiced in a lot of areas. We are all Cousins
Love your comment
L'aborigène d'Australie est le Premier, l'aîné de nous tous, dans le Pasifik...J'estime que, c'est le plus grand Pays de la Mélanésie...Les européens ont décidé de le classer autrement, mais peu importe, nous sommes Frères, pas Cousins !...
Hey, quick question. How would you feel if you didn't have breakfast today?
First nation people of Australia aboriginal did they walk across the continent to get there
@turangatohiariki3042 New sophisticated genetic studies have given up lots of shocking surprises with more to come. The Aboriginals of Australia have ancient genetics that link them more to the ppl of the Pacific. The Aboriginals of Australia, like the Natives of the Americas, don't have the big genetic mix that the African from Africa has. The Natives of the Americas have the least mixed DNA in the world bc we were isolated for centuries by the ice age. The discovery of the Denivesons in Asia is very significant. There is no or next to none Deniveson DNA in Africa. No Deniveson DNA in the supposedly cradle of humans? However the Aboriginals of Australia along with the Natives of the Americas, Papua New Guinea, the Nnegritos of the Philippines, the Natives of New Zealand, Oceania, Asia all carry Deniveson DNA. You can't go by looks anymore. The migration of the ppl of the Pacific was magnificent, majestic and prolific. They hit almost every continent.
It's crazy when they said they first discovered the islands but islanders are already on the islands😂 😂😅
Same breath as how they say they have 26 letters so they're the first ones to see the light 😂😂😂
They mean from the POV of their civilisation. It’s like ancient Chinese explorers saying they first discovered India or the Middle East, they’re not wrong.. from their POV.
Ignorons les !...
@@user-nv5ve9ld7tthen it should be prefaced as such instead of implying that their view is the only view
@lineialquantum these people only wrote in european languages, meaning their works were intended for Europeans
Thanks for sharing this! We are all Pacific Islanders, regardless of a few cultural differences. The colonizers are the ones who try to divide us, as usual. Keep spreading the knowledge man!
Adios
Well said! I appreciate it che'lu! We are one.
They didn't 'try'. They did.
@@pulanspeaks should we not make a movement that reflects the new age of knowledge and factually backed information? I think this is of the utmost importance. We can on one hand recognize a truth and that is all or we can recognize and take steps to wards uniting our people in a bigger way than ever thought possible. I would definitely participate in a movement towards uniting all Pacific Islanders under one name and have the maps and all people reflect and recognize it as such.
As a proud descendant of colonizers, I can tell you, with complete confidence, that my people have never had any interest in dividing you. If something we did happened to cause you to become divided, somehow, then, I can assure you, that wasn't why it was done.
I'm not saying that our actions didn't cause you to become divided. I don't doubt that that's what happened. I'm just saying that wasn't the reason for our actions. It's not so much that we like you, or we dislike you, or anything like that. It's just that no one gives a rat's ass about you, or about what happens to you. Pacific Islanders just aren't important, honestly. They never have been.
Anyway, I hope this helps. Good luck, my Polynigga 👍🏿 God bless.
İ would even include Malagasy in Madagascar as belonging to the same group. Whether you'd still want to call it Pacific İslanders is another question.
İ find it interesting how a huge contiguous area with people sharing similar languages, cultures, and even physical characteristics stretching from Rapa Nui to Madagascar gets divided into three different "continent" by outsiders, a.k.a. Europeans.
And it's sad to see how some Philippines arguing about them being Asian or Pacific İslanders.
Arguing based on the division imposed by outsiders.
Bula all brothers and sisters all over the Pacific islanders. Love you all.❤❤❤
Bula my brother. 💯 PASIFIKA
I'm Samoan with a large percentage of European blood and a 4% Melanesian. I'm proud of my Pacific DNA and no matter what these white people say about us and divided us by the color of our skin, our blood is thicker than water. We are one and as I learnt more about my Samoan history I came to find out that my Fijian forefathers settled and populated the island of Savaii. Anyone and everyone who has ties to Savaii shared the same DNA and link to Fiji.
No they didn't
@Jeff Iefata they didn't settle savaii though? That's quite a leap you're making
@@ChrisEAdlay dude Polynesians are created from male Melanesians.
On the other video it says Samoa civilians come from China. I’m trying to figure how my great grand daughter has Eyes like the Chinese
@@sallykemp1427 Samoans and Polynesians in general are a hybrid race between SE Asians (Austronesians) and Papuan (Melanesian) people. Basically they're Black (not African) from their forefathers and Asian from their mothers genetically. This happened about 1500-2000 years ago in the Pacific. They're like Tiger Woods.
However in the 1800s the Chinese went to many South Pacific Islands such as Samoa and mixed with the people making them even more Asian. However there are Samoans that still have the pure appearance and genetics like Tua Tagovailoa, Ardie Savea, Wild Samoans, etc. They look like Black people.
I am a Maluku Islander of West Melanesia,now known as Ambon!!Even though we are part of Eastern Indonesia, DNA and languages consider us to be part of Melanesia!My mother is Ambonese and AncestryDNA shows her to be part 50 percent Melanesian and the rest Austronesian!And this includes now I ndependent Timor Leste 🇹🇱And of course you know about West Papua.West Papua,Timor Leste,and Maluku are the often forgotten West Melanesians.
People from maluku utara are mostly austronesian
And the most ambonese people are mixed with austranesian and melanesian
@@jeweettoch1454 Just like many other Melanesians like Timorese, Fijians,Motuans(PNG),Mekeo(PNG),Trobriand Islanders,Mortlock Islanders (PNG),Solomon Islanders (Renell and Bellona).Us Moluccans aren't that special,being mixed Melanesian+Austronesian is normal and common in the Pacific!
@@jeweettoch1454 North Moluccans also actually speak Papuan languages too.They still have Melanesian blood whether they like it or not.Are you even Moluccan yourself?I noticed it's somehow controversial for us Moluccans to have our own unique identity,and that Non Moluccans especially Javanese/West Indonesians always speak FOR us.That is just very,very disrespectful and pretentious.If you aren't Moluccan,you have no right to speak for us.Simple as that,end of story.
@@gpl992 This is a very dangerous chauvinistic take. Yes, the Javanese specially elites from Jakarta overly dominate the conversation, but what is exactly a Moluccan? I'm 1/4 Moluccan (Hatusuppy clan) from my Oma. But also Batak Toba, Minahasan, and Dutch. Do you consider me to be Moluccan?
You are Asian
Hey buddy, i dont know your name and this is my first time watching one of your vids, i just want to say i found it a fascinating subject and very well put together. I love people watching and learning more about my fellow earthlings who share this beautiful planet with me. Thanks for sharing Sir.
I am a polynesian, you see different skin colour, depent where is the location of the island.
The people from Tuamotu is darker than the people from Austral island, may be because the wheather is more cold.
You find people more White where the climat is colder, darker where is hoter.
You are mostly fijian in origin from my lineage of tawhiri an hina your ancestors came from me an my lineage im from tribal lands of vanalevu an tavunie your our children
We conquered tamotu an society islands you belong to our lineage an tribal lines the people of marquees later was enslaved by us fijiantahitian of hotumatua.
Polynesian is a joke . French polynesia an fiji 🇫🇯 are the same people an hawaiians an etc was conquered an enslaved by us. Hina an tawahiri an tawaki and etc hotumatua created the true maori. Not this babies in new Zealand an etc mix European
Ignorance fosters arrogance. There are no "primitive" humans, but there are humans that live in "primitive" circumstances. Humans make the situations work.. All humans have moral values, stories, and adaptability.
No. If that were the case then all humans would have the same limits. We would all run just as fast if given enough training. That's simply not the case and neither is the rest of our body. Unfortunately, for you, you are wrong
@@ClintOrris There are different potentials,, different abilities, different proclivities, but we all must strive for understanding and acting responsibly with others. Ignorance (either "don't know" or "don't care") litters history with tragedies.
@@ClintOrris There different physical limiits, but moral responsibity is on us all.
Thank you for sharing another informative video! You make a good point to remind us that the three-part geography came from colonialist perspectives, preoccupied with racial divisions of humanity. I like how you presented the facts and noted the source references, all within just a few minutes. Congratulations on the Patreon and keep up the good work!
Thank you very much! I am deeply grateful for you continued support!
@@pulanspeaks Hey, this presentation is racist. You should get a lot of flak from BLM, SPLC, NAACP, Wokers . . . but they won't since they don't want to be associated with Melanesians and Australoids.
Love this as I already knew much of this. One thing I think should be added is that the Philippines was part of oceania - Polynesia until Dumont. When he got to the Philippines there was Dark tones and yellow tones . He basically didn't know which to put them with so he recatergorized them to Asia
Filipinos are SE Asians. Get over it. Accept your heritage
Makes sense, philippines has far more in common in South East Asia than Polynesia.
@@loolfactorie Philippines and Taiwan should be categorize as Micronesia based on geographical proximity.. lol
@@loolfactorie I'm indigenous Filipino and no we don't, they just came and colonized against our will (the 1st china town was built where?).
@@zeros-gy7blas another indigenous Filipino myself. I would say Philippines is obviously south East Asian especially our cultural and political ties to the rest of Asian and that also includes our language which is really similar to Indonesia and Malaysia.
The festival of the Pacific Arts reminds us there are no boundaries boundaries in the Pacific Ocean, Kia Orana from the Islands
All i can say is, everything named is just a convenient categorization for the White explorers. It is not the people themselves or their neighbors who gave themselves or the other the name; Polynesia, Melanesia etc. White man named it. Native people most likely have a native name for their own homeland.
Did they though? They obviously had names for individual islands or island groups, but for the Oceanic islands as a whole? Or for larger divisions, like Polynesia, Melanesia, etc?
People don't tend to name regions like that except when they're dealing with other regions.
That's how they made sense of what they were seeing. It was European people writing for a European audience. If you have a different way of seeing it that's fine. But I seriously doubt that there was any kind of pan-oceania or pan-austronesian identity the way some of you are trying to claim.
We are Pacific Islanders and that matters more to us.
I will never trade my Melanesia for polynesia or micronesia. I'm blessed by my ancestors for the biggest land mass in whole of Oceania. God bless Melanesia 🇸🇧🇵🇬🇻🇺🇫🇯🇳🇨 💪👑😎
I prefer samoa. No venomous snakes or spiders
You follow white ways
We are people of the pacific
@@ChrisEAdlay sea snakes & trousers snakes in Samoa 😂
@@paulagonebeci5296 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Polynesian power we don’t want to be you either
We are proud Pacific Islanders until some western racist popped up and start categorizing the islands based on what they believe... which is absolutely BS. Now they really make us come together to celebrate world's largest indigenous cultural unity ever. Great job PulanSpeaks, keep it coming Dangkulu na Si Yu'us Ma'asi.
You’re raging against people who lived hundreds of years ago?
@@eeeatenyou must be white. The mentality in this part of the world is still there. Maybe be quite.
Are you really claiming that there was unity between all Austronesian speakers from Madagascar to Rapa Nui and from New Zealand to Hawaii before Europeans came? That's some serious revisionist history. There was no such unity. There was fighting even between neighboring islands or on the same island. Moreover, there was almost certainly no knowledge of a shared Austronesian heritage. You have European linguists, archeologists and geneticists to largely thank for that understanding.
I know that much of this comment section is all about hating on white people, but at least don't make up nonsense to support your hate. Stick to your "colonizer" narrative, as that is at least based in reality. (Even though you ignore the fact that the Austronesian people themselves were colonizers of lands held by Papuan and Negrito type people.)
Melanesia is the mother land of all pasifika.. that's where we first left our homes long ago for the open sky above the horizon! There's no 3 region but pasifika wave sailors that let home for the stars
Its the gateway to the Pacific
Literally all of our ancestor groups left the mainland through Papua. It’s the true motherland of Pacific Islanders. It’s also where our ancestors the “lapita” people evolved and migrated from
Taiwan is where the Austronesian people first came from. They later mixed with Papuan people and spread out from there.
@@cyberedge881 LIMA GANG.... 🖐😎
@@cyberedge881 Yes, the Lapita Civilisation was born from the hybrid of Austronesian and Papuan.
I am Filipino (my DNA results says Southeast Asian), but my DNA says I'm also Oceanian (again, not specific). It only goes to show we are all related, all from the Pacific Islands. I send all my love to my Pacific Island families. Mabuhay!
I was researching and I seen that for Micronesia and Polynesia, they divided us by geography and not by race and when they did divide the pacific islands by race, it was a yellow race (known today as Micronesians & Polynesians) and a black race (known today as Melanesians & aboriginal Australians). And what’s fxcked up about it is, these Europeans say “an admired yellow race” and “a vilified black race”. This what this book says:
“He adjudged Melanesians to be 'hideous' inappearance, limited' in languages and institutions, and generally very inferior
to the copper-coloured race in dispositions and intelligence, except where they had been improved by frequent communications and racial intermixture with Polynesians, as in Fiji. But he saved his most persistent obloquv for the Australians and Tasmanians who were 'probably the most limited, the most stupid of all beings and those essentially closest to the unreasoning brute'”
Disgusting right...I hope attitudes about race may change.
It's clear they really didn't know how to classify us pacific islanders
LOL, he was describing what he saw and for them that was fact, as the polynesians were and are better looking then the melanesians, was he wrong?
as to the other descriptions, I'd say anyone that was not them would be described in some negative manner
@@alcapone8193 lol Thinking Polynesians look better than Melanesians is not a fact. It’s an opinion. That’s how you feel. That’s what you believe. Facts are not based on your feelings or beliefs. Someone might like Melanesians more than Polynesians and that would be their opinion. None of these are facts.
@@uts4448 LOL yes maybe your right on the subject some might prefer melanesians but in the modern era we live in but in their era, no your wrong.
and on the subject of wether the polynesians are better looking then melanesians , are you blind ?
LOL please, there is no contest
3:55 “The DARKER skin..” that emphasis was felt
Papua New Guinean here. Proud Melanesian. 🙌🏾
Let keep it simple. Melanesian’s came from Australia Aborigenis Micronesian and Polynesia are from South East Asian and we are mixed with Melanesian and exist with harmony among each other cause we are not racist.
This is so interesting and educational! We humans literally can't detach ourselves from something as simple a skin color. It's obviously a very faulty way of looking at geography but it looks like we're stuck with it for now. Gotta learn from our mistakes and apply said knowledge in the future.
nope, it was an accurate description for the day as that's what explorers did, they described what they saw and their interaction with the various peoples.
But recent genetics studies have confirmed much of what they were seeing in terms of phenotypic differences. It wasn't just based on nothing. Polynesians have more Austronesian ancestry than Papuan type ancestry, for example. Which explains the phenotypic differences they were noticing.
Welcome Home, Lemuria. 💯🌈🌺🦜 The Pacific Ocean Portal is Now Open to All... 22 2 22. Our ancestors were Giants..si TÅ... Ågan si TÅ.. #TagaTribes ..Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia, WE ARE ONE. 💜
You do realise lemuria is a conspiracy theory dreamed up by nazi.
fair skinned ? nah fam u aint seen my granparents n aunts n unlces, they jus got there after the outsiders were fuccin on my peoples. a proud hawaiian tongan fijian filipino man here.
good for you. just to say filipinos are not pacific islanders but you have tongan fijian blood so you are
Proud to be part Melanesian❤
Melanesians are beautiful 💯
💚💙💛🩵💜❤🧡💛🩷💚💚💚
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Most are ugly to me, but it’s ok to have a preference.
@@EdibleFlipFlops Aww..someone needs love.
@@EdibleFlipFlops Define beauty?
Excellent video
PULAN, YOU SPEAK THE TRUTH!
It is a shame this placed on you guys all three race divisions. I'm Black American (trust me we know) and it sucks you guys have got knocked down from culture and tradition to savage to non-savage ranking. Y'all are all amazing.
In Papua New Guinea, there is a mix of all pacific looking Islanders in the country. In the New Guinea Island region, they have Polynesian people in all their islands too. The cultural dances of people in manus island are similar to the Polynesian rather then the mainland New guinea,
The section of the population being of Polynesian among the Melanesian majorly in all the island province in PNG and also in the Solomon islands..
They aren't Polynesians if they are Melanesian natives.
thats true. Many polynesian islands with polynesian-speaking natives are part of Niu Gini which is interesting but not surprising at all. This isn't news to natives of PNG but is shocking to ppl who aren't or never visited. Again, the colonist mentality is strong is so strong in others how coudl this possible be??
That's a blunt statement , a Polynesian person is not Melanesian native, and we have islands occupied by them. @@Rhea123
@@rogersassah258 PNGans are Melanesians. Not Polynesians
How does one discover something when someone else has already discovered it?
Whenever you hear Europeans tell the histories of the pacific islands, don’t take it serious.
Exactly, same as Columbus discovered America while there were already people living over there. Looking like Polynesian / Malenesian so they been there already 100’s of years before
Lol salty
@@charleswall7748Nobody is salty but you. It’s just the many facts of history whyte boi.
This guy ain’t a European.
@@Marlontje.I laugh my ass off when I see y’all thinking native Americans are Polynesian 🤣🤣🤣
Its cool how you are part of the evolution of knowledge that these dudes started centuries ago!
From Taiwan to New Zealand.. from Madagascar to Easter Island..
Taiwan to Melanesia not New Zealand
@@ryankanton yes taiwan to new zealand. indigenous taiwanese like the atayal are austronesian like polynesians (including maori) are.
@@eeeaten Wrong
@@ryankanton what’s wrong? What do you think the truth is?
@@eeeaten that bullshit
Well the term for the Malay Islands is called Malayanesia it was Coined in 1871 by Edward Balfour as a further divide
Wasn't it called Hesperonesia?
@@kr431 That's what some white European man came up with for the Malay Peninsula Archipelago Region that's why I put it so anybody can research it. I'm down with it. If u really look at it, the map the name, the group of islands like I did recently it didn't make sense in a lot of ways how white people chopped that part of the world up & especially with the international date timeline. So u really got the Malay Peninsula & Archipelago, Australia, Micronesia, & Polynesia. Go look at it I'm like huh? So look at all the island groups/archipelagos the groupings don't make since lol. I looked at it and followed the island chains with my finger like okay Malay Peninsula & Archipelago from Tanintharyi/Kanchanaburi Malay Peninsula to Solomon Islands, then Australia Continent, then New Caledonia & Vanuatu to New Zealand to Easter Island to Hawaii is a continuous groups of islands next to each other, then the Micronesia Islands together. Plus the term Melanesia was a racist skin color term more than a region u can look that up to.
@@kr431 Oh I'm so sorry I did not explain it right 😂 lol. I know that ain't a part of the Pasifika Region lol. I was just saying culturally/racially it is a part of Oceania Culturally like Southern North America is Culturally apart of South America or tha Chagos Islands is a part of Asia but Culturally/Racially is a part of Africa or Egypt is a part of Africa but it is Culturally a part of Asia lol
@@kr431 Yes well it's all connected first of all the Portuguese conquered Malacca in 1511 with a slave/free/runaway Latin army from Latin Europe of Muslims, Jews, Gypsies with Christian slave masters, then with that they colonized the whole Malay Peninsula through enslaved/free/runaway Black Malaccans & White/Middle Eastern Latins with plantations & slave raids. Then in 1527 they gathered a slave/free/runaway army of Malays & Latins and stormed Jakarta and took over and through Malacca by way of Jakarta they took over the entire Malay Archipelago except the Philippines. Then in 1519 a slave/free/runaway army of Blacks, Middle Easterners, Whites, Native Americans from Havana stormed Veracruz and took over there then conquered the Aztec Empire in Ciudad Mexico in 1521 then in 1550 they captured Acapulco. Then in 1565 they sailed to Cebu with that mixed race status army to conquer them then in 1570 stormed Manila and took over there. The Spanish & Portuguese was all ready in the Moluccas with the Sultanate of Ternate in Ternate being captured in 1512 by the Portuguese then in 1521 the Sultanate of Tidore was captured by they Spanish. So everythang between Sulawesi and New Guinea was captured and partitioned between the Spanish the Sultanate of Tidore & the Portuguese controlling the Sultanate of Ternate. Then in 1565 the expedition from Manila teamed up with the Sultanate of Tidore in Tidore to form a alliance for tha Spanish Empire. Then in 1513 the Portuguese established Portuguese Tamão in current day Hong Kong spreaded to Macau & Canton current day Guangzhou and got Chinese slaves from there to Malay Peninsula & Archipelago. Then in Spanish took over Netherlands from the Holy Roman Empire when the Charles V Habsburg took over most of the world from inheritances of Northern Europe from his father & Southern Europe from his mother the omen, perfect child, the best of both worlds into the Habsburg Empire the biggest empire in history & the most powerful wealthiest king in history & did not do any better with storming the Portugal & the Portuguese Empire into the Habsburg Empire the most powerful biggest empire in history. Then he commissioned the Manila Galleon Trade from Macau, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, to Manila, Philippines to Borneo, Sulawesi, Ternate/Tidore Moluccas, New Guinea back n fort between each other to Palau, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae, Marianas, Marshall Islands, Hawaii, Alta California, Baja California, Nuevo Navarre, Mexico, Nuevo Mexico, Tejas, to Havana then from Havana to Louisiana, Florida, Cuba, Bahamas, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru then also visa versa from Manila to Lima, Peru to Guayaquil, Ecuador to Buenaventura, Colombia to Cartagena, Colombia to Havana to either Louisiana or Saint Augustine, Florida to Praia, Cabo Verde to Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canaries to Funchal, Madeira to Ponta Delgada, Azores aka Macaronesia to Lisbon, Portugal to Seville, Spain and they would supply Muslim, Gypsy, Jewish slaves from Europe and Muslim, Gypsy, Jewish, Voodoo Practitioners from Africa to Macaronesia to the Galleons and New World Slaves, Freemen, Runaways Peyotism, Cargo Cult, Tapu, Inafa'maolek, Anito, Aliran Kepercayaan Practitioners, Jews, Gypsies, Muslims from Oceania & Latin America to Macaronesia visa versa so it's all interconnected.......
Kanaka Pacifica we stand
Thanks for your video, very understanding facts,all divisions in Pacific Oceans.
Uso can you do a video on taboo practices in Polynesia and the transition to Christianity.
Hafa Adai! Regarding the description of "Taboo" or "Tabu" as practiced by the Micronesians, how is "Taboo" defined according to European cartographers and how is it different from Polynesians or any other cultures? Just wondering.
This concept of Taboo, or Tabu, or in Maori, Tapu, varies between all cultures, all over the Pacific, because a practice that is perfectly fine in one culture or more, is not acceptable in another, and even within the same culture, like Maori, this is a topic with various differences, and various practices as a result.
Europeans, either derisively oppose, or totally ignore, the cultures that have these practices, and it is these two forms of resistance and suppression that causes the most harm.
On top of that, there is the growing view from Europeans, that these can be exploited for profit in the nations the Europeans have colonised in the past, but for the profit of Europeans only, not the profit of the culture that it comes from.
Thanks for these videos - really interesting.
I appreciate it!
We are connected by sea. We are the Sea People. One love to all my Islanders! ❤️
Thanks for the divisional breakdown of the Pacific islands . Makes sense now. 👍✌️
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
This is great info 🙏🏽
Excellent video. So many ethnic/racial/cultural labels are imposed by outsiders (generally Europeans) and do not reflect how people on the ground understood themselves and their relationships to other groups at the time.
Wow I loved this video, that was a question I have always had and where the origins of the split began and now I got my answer. I am going to do further research of Colonial Oceania, I love channels like yours.
In wikipedia said that dumont also add the 4th label malisia/ malaysia which area include malay archipelago today. Is it true ? This also how modern day country malaysia got it name.
very informative regarding the nefarious origins of those terms, ultimately we are all children of te moana nui and the respective islands we live with.
AUSTRONESIA
⬇️ Descendants:
Micronesia
Melanesia
Polynesia
They are only mixed Austronesian adapted Austronesian Languages
Austronesia is not a place. Are you a Filipanyo? Bet you are
@@Miss_Hannahno humans continue to live on islands, their descendants must live on the mainland first... starting in Africa to Arabia to Persia to India to Burma then to Southeast Asia such as Malaysia and Indonesia then to Papua, Australia and finally to Oceania... the faces of Polynesian, Micronesian people are almost the same as Austronesians... only they have bigger bodies, due to mixing with Melanesians... not only language, dna studies also say that... Oceania people are descendants of Austronesians
The people who originated the Polynesians are our Arafura people from the Wallacea line. Contrary to popular belief, we are NOT Austronesian, we are Melanesian paternally and only gradually have Austronesian influx from the maternal side. The Arafuru / Alifuru people invented outrigger canoe technology and traded heavily with the Papuan neighbors, and the later people who would inhabit Borneo and Manado and Philippines.
So I’m confuse. Sorry I’m still learning the history. Found out I have trace of Melanesian. I have no clue on which island, tribe etc. I’m trying to piece my family ancestors history. All I know I have Italian, Greek, Caucuses, North Africa (did not specified), Senegal, and Samaritan Cohanim (descended from Menasseh, Ephraim and Levi). I can’t figure out how they found traces of Melanesian when that’s no where close to the Mediterranean.
Makes sense. Maluku Indonesia area. Mixed slightly with Papuan/Melanesian DNA. And carried on. The native Maori dog originated in Bali
Thank you for pointing this out. Filipinos and Malays in general want to stronghold Polynesians as if they're theirs yet ignore the Melanesian input.
Long story short, Austronesian females mated with Melanesian males to create Polynesians.
@@heerarodriguez9563 True, that is the most basic explanation where polys came from. They are the result of intermixing between Austronesians and Australo-Melanesian.
@Los Dogg maori dog originated from bali? Wow that kintamani dog
As a chuukese Micronesian I’m black asf🫶🏾
Hahaha nice one! I'm Asian, melanesian, Polynesian and
Aboriginal...that's the Pacific in one!!! The white man has always been racist because they consider themselves as the most superior race...that's why they create divisions to make us feel inferior and less human. We in the Pacific are blind to colour but the white man makes an issue out of nothing!
You are a delight to learn from. Thanks. I did an anth degree about 20yrs ago, and learnt the cannon. Been learning to decolonise my thinking ever since. Far more nuance than clunky Victorian models.
So why is it that these outdated classficstion hold true today ? Modern genetic testings show that the ploynesians can be traced back to modern day Taiwan and the darker melannesians to southern africa
Wether you are melanesian, micronesian or polynesian. We all are one ❤ the people of the pacific. We originate from the motherland, ethiopia, africa 👌 all our coloured people are one 💯
💯 wrong !!. He described a wrong name for the Melanesians, or west Pacific Islands people. Where none of the region are black. We are reddish brown, mid brown, light brown or some tan brown. None is pitch dark like Ethiopian..Sorry for that, but He did caption us very wrong!!. We ain't come from Africa!!. But we are from the pre-flooded kingdom of Fijii !!..So we are not Africans at all !!..🎉🎉..We had the highest % of living archaic human genes on earth today..I.e. Neanderthals, Denosovans and an Unknown gene. So we were there from the beginning, you had a wrong information. That's only for modern human migrations. We never came from anywhere, we always live in the Pacific islands.
The first people of Ethiopia are native Arab Asians
This is the Ultimate!! Polynesians were from Korea and Japan looking for Alaska 😢 Melanesians are the leading group going Coastal from East Africa. The 2 coalesced into Micronesia. This is along the line of Einstein's Relativity Theory 😊 100 yrs from now it'll be proven
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GREAT VIDEO, VERY INFORMATIVE.
loved this
Si Yu'os ma'ase'!
Im Micronesian with Melanesian & Polynesian ancestry.
In Solomon Islands, we have the three races: the Melanesian, Polynesian and the Micronesians...
dear pacific islanders. i would like to say that be proud and stand for your community. dont let filipino american to appropriate and erase your community. filipinos are asians not pacific islanders
I am Filipino, and my DNA says I am also Oceanian ( not half Filipino or half Oceanian but both) because geographically, the Philippines is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. We are all related. Many years ago, our ancestors traded with one another, and intermarriages happened. Spread love...we are all family.
@@marialuisafarol3609 lies. there is no such thing as ocenian DNA. the philippines is not even in the middle of pacific ocean it is only in the edge. we share the same ancestors but in modern times we are different.
filipino ameriacns should stop spreading lies just say you are inorant of your heritage
You are lying
I'm happy knowing my people are all close to each other and get along with each other ❤
Don’t let this video fool you. This is how Europeans think. Nesians are really cool with each other
What is the Tabu religion? Where can I find information?
you ran this video twin!
White people are so funny. How can they say that about us Melanesians being unstructured and barbaric when our ancient Fijian societies had hierarchy chiefly and tribal system. It wasn’t a free for all system it was more like everyone and their lineage has their own job or tasks to do or fulfil (in a village) as opposed to the current western lifestyle where there might be more people in a certain profession and less in other fields. We had clans, sub clans and tribes. When war could be avoided certain Chiefs had their sons or daughters marry into other tribes as to forge alliances (A practice we also see in Old European civilisation). How are we barbaric even if we fought killed and ate our enemies as opposed to the white civilisations who were known to torture their enemies in intricate, creative and cruel ways. Now that’s barbaric if you asked me.
You are engaging in presentisim, put yourself in their shoes, with the techinlogy and evidence they have and tell me if it is possible to reach your modern conclusions, the fact of the matter that these mistakes were what made the field of anthropology advance
Can u make a weaponry video? I have two arrowheads from coral ocean beach in Saipan. My neighbor was a math professor at the local college and he explored beaches on his off time. He found many artifacts and gave me two arrowheads. Id love to learn about these
Thank you for this.
What about the Polynesian triangle?
Pre-Wwii French Indochina ethnic maps include the term Indonesian for groups in north-east of Khmer realm. Perhaps distinct from Malay Chams.
Are there more appropriate, less racially charged terms, that we could use to describe the Oceanic regions?
I vote for “people of the sea”
“Pacific Islanders”, “Austranesians”, “People of Oceania”, “Nesians” (extracted from MelaNESIA, MicroNESIA, and PolyNESIA). Those are possible names we can pick one from.
You can call us the Moana people. Not Disney related, but Moana means ocean.
@Nagin-zt6sc Yeahh but people can stick with islander tho 😂 Since that's our main classification.
Uh yeah- there's already a term for us(that includes all of us).... Pacific Islanders 💀
God bless the pacific peoples, uniquely diverse in their cultures and languages compared to other regions of the world. The known earliest evidence of agricultural stone tools back dating 50,000 years ago and the birth of modern architectural home designs studied from the coastal villages of west Papua to New Guinea. Proud to be an islander. ❤
Excellent video !
You claim that the divisions "do not reflect how Pacific people view their islands." Okay. Fair enough.
But i would think that a more important question is whether or not these three divisions represent anything meaningful about the culture and history of Pacific peoples. After all, all kinds of peoples hold all kinds of inaccurate views about themselves - mostly harmless beliefs in most cases, but not always, but inaccurate regardless. You need only look at various countries with written language traditions going back 3-4 millenia to see how research can often correct long-held identity beliefs. Surely you wouldn't want to deny Pacific peoples this same opportunity.
Of course we should dispense with constructs built on obsolete racial theories. That just strikes me as an interesting historical side-note.
Hafa adai! I agree with you and I actually already have a separate video discussing that very topic to be released at the end of March! Be on the look out! And consider supporting me on Patreon, you're support will be a great help so that I may release more videos!
@@pulanspeaks Ah, okay. Excellent. I'm a starving academic (on the miserable job market) so no Patreon funds for me to spend right now. But I'll continue watching your videos in my spare time. It is always nice to learn what scholars in other fields have to say.
For the record🎬......Aboriginal are also Melanesian 🤲🏿, to be specifically correct......that's a real fact🌋.
It wasn't just based on a racial theory, it was also based on the large scale depopulation of certain islands in the Eastern Pacific and the subsequent arrival of large numbers of Europeans and importation of Asian labor to create "new races". You can see this best in Hawaii where there are almost no pure blood Hawaiians left and most Hawaiians are part of what is called the "neo-Hawaiian" race that was created directly by Europeans. One only need to look at the photos of the early Eastern Pacific islanders to see how this division is fake. The original Samoans, Hawaiians, Tahitians, New Zealanders and so forth were all dark populations. Note that Tonga is also part of Polynesia and the ancestral homeland of Polynesian culture, but somehow those dark skinned folks never get mentioned in all this fake history. Just take a look at photos of king Tāufaʻāhau (Tupou I) from the late 1800s and compare that to King Tupou VI. And Tonga isn't far from Fiji to of course they would look similar.
Great vid first TH-cam video to be very accurate and detailed about our Pacific island nations ❤
But having Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia makes sense, as they are different yet share some similarities. Melanesian's and Polynesians even battled one another in ancient times.
Polynesians are dark to brownish color not yellow.
he meant yellow to highlight polynesians asian fathers
@@thvtsydneylyf3th077 ok, but Thor Heyerdahl's story Is more accurate.
asian fathers😆@@thvtsydneylyf3th077
Fantastic video
I'm from Aotearoa, descend from the chief navigators. It wasn't a racial division, it was an ancestral division. We all came from y dna ancestor cm130, all indigenous outside of Africa descend from him. These were the first navigators, some of our sibling lines merged with the pre hominid species, and that is what set us apart, this was called breaking the tapu. Polynesian original ancestor was given the right to occupy the new world when we first came out, that's what every other tribe has seem to forgotten
are there any Maori navigators today?
@@santospaul8103 yes
@@medit8iv_native970 they are called tongans and samoans LOL
@@alcapone8193 yea come back when you have learned dna
This is bullshit
Tahiti & rapanui is the father of all Polynesian
Takitumu tribe in tahiti is the legendary tribe of South Pacific & Eastern Pacific too
Polynesians Are Beautiful 🖤👑🖤👑🖤👑🖤👑🖤👑🖤👑
What is this TABU practice?
Thank you for sharing.
Polynesians were mostly dark skin centuries ago
They navigated them to the last islands🤧😅
Especially Kanaka Maoli pure Hawaiians but white settlers came
Exact Bro !....
Je suis mélanésien...j'ai effectivement vu, connu et côtoyé des polynésiens de parents polynésiens, à la peau allant de cuivrée, à foncée...
Ummm, you are somewhat correct.
Negerji Tabahan was one region and one race of Nwords
Therefore indo-china were multiracials of color "Blacks" yet the Nword king of Mohren lived in Bali kr Java.
This royal family of Negroes also ruled over the entire Mohrlandt (East Indies, West Indies, indien Oceanic, as well as Abyssinia, Egypt, and Eastern Afrika.
Nwords come in all colors including Albinos "Whites".
Thats why there was once Indo-China, Indo-Europe, Indo-Afrika, and Indo-Amerikas.
There was no race until King Race demanded people be split up by colour.
Prior to that whites were called Witte Nword
We are children of Tagaloa
The result of my google search was somewhat surprising to me. I searched: DNA admixture of the Fijians and it said Asian and 30% Melanesian.
There only ONE race in the World *THE HUMAN RACE* & we all go back to One Woman & One Man !!!!!
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Homai Kia Matou
Tou Maramatanga
Tou Rangimarie
Tou Kaha me Tou Aroha
Mo Tenei Ra
🙏 *A M E N E* 🙏
The history of immigration of Pacific Islanders has more to do with where the immigrants came from originally. For example Fiji snd Papuan New Guinea are Melanesian or dark skinned Pacific Islands. Whereas Places like Tahiti have oriental or Polynesian skinned peoples. Their traditions are similar from the Cook Islands to Tuvalu and even Hawaii. Some dialects have similar words. We’ve traveled extensively in Fiji over the last 2 decades. It’s rich traditions and intact village way of life is dramatically different than say Hawaii. The Ratu or Chiefs still head each village and represent their villages in parliament. Vastly different than the disgusting way Queen Liliuokalani was deposed jailed and every possession sold at auction. It was savage. A very sad history indeed. 😔
Is Australian aboriginals Austronesian
I just saw my Island OF (KOSRAE)
In PNG we have Melanesian, Polynesian and Micronesians. All united in one love . Call it the land of the unexpected. ❤❤
What is your ethnic background?
True !!! Pacific Islanders never saw themselves as Polynesia, Melanesia or Micronesia.
The Frenchman's idea of refering to all races of the specific, as Polynesians would have worked well .
" people of Many Islands " NO tribes or races , which may insinuate that one is maybe more advance than the other ... As it is , Polynesians carry both Micronesian and Melanesian genes... and vice versa..,👺🌏🐢🐬🌴..
Its crazy how Europeans think they discovered the pacific islands and decided to categorize us. Lmafo our ancestors already mapped out the pacifc island routes and were trading between themselves before before the mordern European decided to first set sail and explore the seas. They were the first sailors that mastered the star maps and created routes around the pacifc islands. Our ancestors never considered themselves Melanisans Polynesian or micronesians, all they knew was they were all pacific islanders.
Theres more to the pavific than those 3. Philippines is next to Palau Micronesia and influenced it with migration and trade. Indinesia and malay and even japan are part of the Pacific.
@pulan are you chamorro 🇬🇺