Why are East Asian Countries so Ethnically Homogeneous?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ธ.ค. 2019
- Why are the countries of East Asia so seemingly ethnically homogeneous? Most countries of East Asia, including China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Mongolia have a far more homogeneous or uniform national identity when it comes to a cultural, ethnic and linguistic perspective when compared to other countries of Asia, or even Europe, but why is this the case?
Today we will be looking at the genetic and ethnic history of the region stretching back to antiquity, and how and why many of these East Asian groups came to be in the first place, and what happened to all of the ethnic diversity that may or may not have existed in the first place. Thanks for watching!
I think you forgot one of the main reasons that led East Asian countries to be ethnically homogenous. I was waiting for it but never heard it. The reason is geography. The Himalayas to the South, frozen Siberia and the steppes to the North the desserts of China to the West and the vast Pacific ocean to the East. All these circumstances create an isolated area and made immigration difficult especially in the old times. Morever the Eastern parts namely Korea and Japan are mostly harsh mountainous territories and Japan deals with natural disasters like earthquakes and Tsunamis all the time. So if people are cut off for a long time and stay together long enough the will create a common civilisation and ethnicity. It'svery logical
This is true. I believe geography plays a much bigger role than any of the reasons mentioned in this video.
thats also the reason why colder nations tend to be far more ethnically homogenous than warmer nations-few ethnicities are fit for cold climates
@@anonrandom7765 exactly
No, just means all the minorities were either butchered or they all now claim to be "Han" even though it is obvious that Southern "Chinese" look nothing like Northern Chinese.
Even in modern times?
i am a korean. and in an airport in netherland, i was asked in chinese by a chinese woman. i said i don't speak chinese. even east asians themselves can't distinguish each other.
I believe that. It’s POSSIBLE.
Indians themselves can't Discover their Own Country's Language. So you people are much better in that case.
@Fc barca India has Almost 25 Main Languages and 1600 Minor Languages. Some 70% Indians know Atleast 3 Languages out of 25 Main Languages and 1600 Minor Languages. So It's Common Sense that an Indian from South India may not know what a North Indian is Speaking. Same way, an Indian from North India Most Probably won't know what an North-East Indian is Speaking.
@@JESUSISLORDforever888 I mean it is plausible
@@nimishibalnyon8143 What’s plausible?
I'm Mongolian and i can tell you our culture is very distinct from the rest of East Asia, in my opinion we are more closely culturally tied to Turkic, Tungusic and North Asian (Siberic) cultures
That's why when people talking about East Asia they normally mean China, Japan, and Korea.
Yeah Mongols are more Central Asians
yes, you cannot compare yourself with civilized group, great wall is a middle finger to you
China is little different. It actually has north Asian, South Asian and Central parts so...It’s actually not correct to describe China as a East Asian country. But maybe cultural wise.
@@christinem4266 this is fking hilarious, since when east asian is difined by east? it's a cultural thing, and china is homogeneous due to thousands of years of people migration in that region
It is essentially due to the establishment of highly centralized government in past 2000 years which made us politically homogeneous. And Chinese Characters(rather than spoken language) made us culturely homogeneous.
秦始皇书同文车同轨起到了决定性的作用
J U S T I C E Shut your fucking month, son of the bitch.
最主要的原因是东亚核心地区西边有青藏高原和沙漠，古代单独的世界，没有外部势力干预。欧洲北非中东俄罗斯这一大块青藏高原以西的区域是联系在一起的
@@user-wz6py1xl5u 书同文 车同轨 行同伦
Exactly. I was missing this constructivist approach to ethnicity here, which I understand is overused in some contexts but definitely applies to China. It is a quite singular phenomenon in the world to have had a continuous polity as the focal point of cultural identification for two millennia.
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Origin of English is quite interesting to me because it is also reflected in the language (outside of greek and latin lexicon imports)
Ruthenia and the origins of *Ukrainian/Belarusian* nation.
Random Dude That’s bc it’s bs
I love learning about origination of cultures and people. Really appreciate your work
I'd appreciate a bit less open racism in his comment section, but hey, you win some you lose some.
@@GlamStacheessnostalgialounge This channel is full of neo-nazis.
@@s-kazi940 Really? Never would have noticed!
@@GlamStacheessnostalgialounge Yah, anything related to Asia seems to attract them for some reason.
@@s-kazi940 At first I just saw it as a meme, but it really does seem like all the 4chan fascists have a fetish for asians lol.
China isn't as homogeneous as Korea and Japan. There're 56 officially recognized ethnic groups in China. Even the so-called Han Chinese have a lot of variations in terms of languages, phenotypes, traditions, and cuisines.
Definitely
TheXanian Where are their Africans and Arabs?
@@itsokaytobeclownpilled5937 Hui/Uighur and SE Asians. boom.
Wrong, The Han Chinese is very homogenous, regardless of some variations of languages. cuisines, etc. Han Chinese is perhaps the most pure and homogenous nation, even more homogenous than other Asians. In fact, almost all so called "minorities" have some Han Chinese ancestry. And the Koreans , Japanese, other Asian people also have some Han Chinese ancestry as well. You don't really know China and Asia.
@@ointmentaccolades8087 No, China isn't homogeneous at all. Japanese and Koreans are much more homogeneous than Chinese. You don't know China and Asia.
I'm so happy this guy said "East Asia" instead of just "Asia." Like there are quite a few morons out there who think that Asia just means China and Japan. They ignore countries like Thailand, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, etc. This guy is smart.
most Americans take "Asia" and "Asian" to mean North/South East Asians. most europeans take "Asia" and "Asian" to include Indians (from India).
Actually most people Says "Asian" referring only to china, Japan and corea because It came from european's perspective, fist europeans had contact only with middle east and índia, latter with china... The same way people like to refer to "the west" by only referring to the west Europe and USA but not referring to latin America, that because they were colonized by those contries...
maybe When latin America and those contries you mentioned get important enogh maybe then people Will speak About they properly.
@@philipthegreat7230 All those countries I mentioned are important you dumbnut. India is one of the oldest civilizations and has given great things such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Yoga, Chess Meditation, Spices and more. China and India are the 2 main countries of Asia which influenced all of Southeast Asia. All countries are important. And try to fix your grammar you sound like a 10 year old
@@mkgirl2321 tbh non of these things are really important
@@praisethesun.praisedeussol6051 Tbh you're not very smart
East asian countries are able to keep their homogeneity because even if there is any kind of diversity, the han (or majority) genetics are so dominant. They also prefer a homogeneous population as well because of social and political reasons.
Ahkao more like the realization that multiculturalism cant work
@@anonrandom7765 well I'm not Indian so idk
@@Adam-nu9gu no not racism. You didn't read the response.
@@cathode5115 they do have other cultures, it's just that the majority culture is so dominant
Paru Ap yeah but thats not multiculturalism or at least not the definition we see in most western countries nowadays
I am Canadian of European descent. I noticed that Tibetan people looked like inuit people here when I was in Tibet. That land bridge theory seems pretty legit to me
nah they look pretty different by slight details. I can tell.
That is a good pooint, although I think the Inuit have adopted the wider eyes and face more like Mongolians or Northeast Russians than Tibetans.
Maybe it is just a result of convergent evolution of phenotypic conditions under similar conditions
As a korean Inuit resemble korean
Genetic evidence shows that there were at least three waves of migration from Siberia to the Americas and the Arctic: first today's Native Americans, then the Ancient Eskimos, and finally the modern Inuit.
East Asian countries are not immigrant countries, and their cultural roots are similar. The most important point is that East Asia has not been colonized by other civilizations.
Europe did colonize East Asia how they got "Hong Kong" and the french indochina
Colonization is not the source of what’s wrong with today. It’s the decision of western governments conducting the greatest act of treachery the world has ever seen
@@akidnamedryan4758 香港和澳門對整個東亞來說非常小，小到不值得一提，另外印度尼西亞在東南亞，不在東亞。
+@@akidnamedryan4758 :
So by your logic? China already fully colonized Europe, North America, Oceania, and South Africa. With their Chinatown and Chinese food got it.
@@Dylan-fo6mi Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia are also South Eastern countries, not East Asia.
Me in Poland with 99,8% poles (0,2% minorities ) 😮
Lucky :(
BASED
@@joshr24 unlucky
Yeah the reason is literally just “East Asians aren’t being culturally shamed into accepting hordes of migrants”
Many European nations are still above 98% white, and many countries with 75-80% white populations were above 98% white a decade ago. Even America was at that point 40 years ago. There’s nothing more to it than propaganda.
@@wisemankugelmemicus1701 not a decade ago, maybe a little longer than that
Well this comment section is going to be fun.
No Jewish influence
Yeah a bunch of assholes are blaming the lack of diversity in East Asia on the Jews. Well the Jews of Europe were mostly killed and the ones that remained are leaving now. The influx of immigrants from the ME and Africa are partly due to the destabilization of those countries by the colonial powers. And if they were closer to asia, then they would probably go there. One final point, China is homogeneous as this video shows, but it’s full of corruption causing millions of deaths earlier and even now the government restricts their internet and watches them constantly. It’s the Jews fault for that too?
@@ahappyimago Ye loo
@@ahappyimago lol*
how much did the rabbi pay you?
You should make a 1 hour video at least!! I want to learn about each, which languages ,writing systems are close to each other, what is the situation of Christians in these countries, what kind of affiliations are known. Where did you get those fine maps--I would like to learn about genetic and linguistic connections from all around the world !
Very well done. You know your stuff.
👍👍👍👍 thank you very interesting video
Ok is the music giving anyone else the creeps lmao feels like a ghost hunting video esp near the beginning
I just so happened to watch this video with creepy music on Halloween. Lol
East Asia was not colonized by the West at all. Some western countries did have influence over certain parts of some cities in east asia. All countries colonized by the West were exploited to the bone and they were left very poor by the time colonizers left. Japan, Korea, taiwan, china, Singapore etc are doing well today because of their on efforts and not by western magnanimity. Singapore was a stinky slump when the british were there. You are reciting the history the colonizers want people to hear. Time for you to read the real history from the colonized people.
@SwiftKill hello thresh
Because they are stupid
Why is Hong Kong so much richer than mainland China? 🧐
@@ilikevines it's the same reason of Western Germany Vs. East Germany.
Taiwan is a province of China btw
Thanks! Fascinating topic.
1/18/2021: I have no problem with countries being as they are with their different traditions, cultures ate etc. I feel like this, the different traditions, cultures, regulations are what make that country distinct than another. The world with its many ppl make the earth a FANTASTIC place to be. Aloha from Hawaii.
I've been living in Britain for work for the past few years and wow is there a identity crisis here. Britain and it's countries is on it's way out. Scotland will be picked apart by the EU first before the others fail.
@@mop2254
By the end of the century Europe will become african and arab outposts. I feel sorry for Britian, America is already lost.
oh boy i sure do love masaman's great neutral videos about genetics and ethnicity! i hope the discussion in the comments will be just as objective and respectful as the video!
also my 2 cents on the subject is that like what rareearth said, they only seem homogeneous these days because they heavily integrated many foreign concepts into their own cultures, if you want a good example just look at the foods in japan.
The Japanese are not homogeneous, they are a mix of the original Jomon (very close to Austronesian) and East Asian mainlanders.
Koreans are not homogeneous either, they have different ethnic groups such as Mahan, Jinhan and Byeonhan.
@@gunsroses1293 they are homogenous in the sense that the people u mentioned have been there for thousands of years. In any case they are super closely related to each other anyways. And the homogenous part is a relative to the population of non-East Asians such as Europeans, Africans, etc...
@@gunsroses1293Chinese are even more diverse with Turkic, Han, Mongolian, Tungisic, and SE Asiatic tribes within. Honestly, Han shouldnt be considered a ethnicity, just like a term to consider agrarian East Asian Mainlanders in China proper lol.
I’m part Manchurian and Mongolian, i am born and raised in Canada. When I found out through my Ancestry DNA results, I was so surprised but happy 😊
Interesting and novel research to understanding the status quo with an evidenced based approach!
Very interesting, thank you 😊
A video on Mongolia would be great. Saying hi from Ontario, Canada.
Can you do a video like this on North Africa, specifically the Maghreb, except on how not-homogenous the population is?
DUDE. I am always so impressed by your level of accuracy, respect and professionalism in these videos. What lead you to making these kinds of videos? How old are you?? Do you study this stuff at university currently or in the past?
Culturally northeast Asians emphasize on mass-togetherness (conformity) but
western and southern nations emphasize on individualism and distinctiveness.
It could also be because northeast Asia goes through periods of being mostly depopulated whenever the Earth goes through colder climate cycles. When it warms up again, the population grows from a small genetic pool. The warmer regions stay populated consistently throughout the ages, so their genetic diversity remains high.
I agree that Korea, my country is ethnically homogenous but to my knowledge, China consists of 56 different ethnic groups. Isn't it very heterogenous? Also Japan has several different ethnic groups by colonizing Ryukyu kingdom (current Okinawa) and assimilated Ainu living in Hokkaido. So...I guess you mean racial homogeneity rather than ethnic homogeneity of east asian countries.
Paul most of china’s 56 ethnicity still look much alike. Mongols and han Chinese may look different, but the phenotypical differences may not be seen by non asians.
@@matthewtenorioduenas202 In that case, I believe western heterogeneity will look homogenous to asian as well. It seems not right to judge one group's characteristics based on other groups' view rather than objective indicator.
Because demographics
Ethnic Japanese - 98.4%
Chinse - 0.5%
Korean - 0.4%
Other - 1%
I think anyone would call that homogenous
They do exist, but they're a small minority compared to like 90% Han and are concentrated in Tibet and Xinjiang
Based Korean who understands.
Look at Japan. They have 1/26th the landmass of the United States while having a 3rd of its population. It's gotta be jam-packed over there. They're not in any position to accept more people because they barely have any more space left.
Sacrificing natural uninhabited land is not an option because those provide the habitats necessary to have a balanced ecosystem that feeds the populous.
Finally someone got it.
Same thing with Europe. It's densely populated, narrow, crowded. But recently, they have a declining birthrate soooo...lez juz say they are trying solutions.
The Americas is a unique thing bec there's space for everyone. It's the only place I can see racial diversity to work, if people learned to respect each other of course.
This is the only comment thread i have seen so far that is thoughtful about each country’s unique circumstances and situations instead of one shouting “homogeny bad or diversity bad”
Also, Japan is very mountainous.
Finally, a worthy comment.
Can you please do a video for history and Origin of Cambodia. I want to learn more about my country but I can’t really communicate with my parents. Your videos are so educational and I really enjoy them.
Why can't you communicate with your parents?
Watch the Rare Earth video on them
You need to do a video about if Mongolic, Tungusic and Turkic folks are related or are they from different tribes who lived in close proximity with one another.
We have same root. Mongol, Turgic, Tungusic. It is like a Germans, saxons, Austrians and nordic
No, Mongols are not related to Turkics genetically but lived in close proximity. There is even a scientific study that has proven that Mongols are genetically distant from Turkics.
@@borgilbatbaatar4949 I am Mongolian and I can see you are Mongolian, too as your name is Mongolian. Mongols are not related to Turkics. There is even a scientific study that has proven that Mongols are genetically distant from Turkics but lived in close geographic proximity. We have to be careful with falsely claiming that Mongols are ancestors of Turkish people and Mongolia is their ancestral land, because nowadays Turkey tends to play identity politics to Islamisize the people in western Mongolia. It could be part of their current expansionist policy. In modern times, countries can be occupied not through military army but through proselytizing into different religions. When the nations' religion changes, their identity, culture, and worldview change.
@@kts437 lol
@@stonehorse7006 you have more than 30% Turkic DNA. All Mongols have.
I'm Mongol but with Arab, Persian Blood
So is China pursuing a policy of Ethnic Nationalism? Seems like a dumb question but with what I’ve been hearing in the East and Manchuria, I wonder if that is the goal of Beijing.
It's basically just doing what it's done for Millenia, slowly assimilating surrounding cultures into its genetic and cultural sphere. That's why there are so many "Han" people today. Most of them came from assimilated tribes who intermarried into the original Han, which was a tribal confederation in the first place.
These Han for centuries have slowly ethnically and culturally assimilated every group that they come across. It’s why China is overwhelmingly of Han ancestry.
They’re currently in the process of doing the same thing with Tibet, Manchuria, and Xi Xiang. If nothing is done, Tibetans, Uighurs, and Manchurians will all just become Han.
@@preoximerias7366 This is only true for Xinjiang. Tibetans cannot be assimilated while the Manchus already were assimilated but the government decided to declare a group of people with Manchu ancestry (and sometimes without) as Manchu. The Manchus in China today consider themselves that, but the Han of the north and the Manchu had already assimilated into each other, so there is barely any distinction.
That'd be very true. Ethnicity nationalism at its finest.
@@preoximerias7366 I think the hardest is for Uyghur. Uyghurs are genetically diverse and some of them have Caucasian genetic. Which is very different from Han. Even, Tibetans and Manchus are still far closer to Han compared to Uyghur
Fun fact : Taiwan is somewhat multicultural although 95+% of population is Han Chinese beacuse each subgroups of Han Chinese have seperate identity. Mainland immigrants from ROC, Early Han Chinese immigrants, Hakka peoples and Han Chinese from PRC.
Hakka peoples are one branch of Han Chinese
Diverse racial composition of Taiwan
by self-identification :
Hoklo Taiwanese: 67.5%
Hakka Taiwanese: 13.6%
Mainlander (~1949): 7.1%
Aboriginal ( non-Han): 1.4%
“Han” is a broad umbrella term that include a lot of diverse and even politically conflicting ethnic groups .
That's why saying that China and Taiwan are different countries is just pointless.
@@GeigemachenHoklo are also immigrants but call themselves Taiwanese and call 1949 immigrants mainlander as if Hoklo themselves dont come from mainland.
Video covering Mongolia plz! Thank u! :]
/pol/ tier comment section
Lmao this XD
and thats a good thing
@@takod323 it was fun when the average IQ of the board was north of 120. Not anymore lol.
@@takod323 DALEKO OD MORAAAA
@@migkillerphantom yes, nowdays discord and pol are full of siegetards kids that want to be edgy and their stupid "muh blue eyes I hate italians bcs brown"
In Korean, "I" and "we" are sometimes interchangeable. So culturally and ethnically homogenous, that the boundary between the individual and the community became vague.
@@oneviwatara9384 well ethnicity is a cultural based rhetoric so I don't get how korean and Japanese people are both ethnically lao when they have different cultures (although there is a large amount of genetic overlap between the two groups)
@@oneviwatara9384 Nonsense. When you say the Indochina Peninsula, the Korean Peninsula and Japan were connected by land, it becomes anthropology, not history. You may confuse history with anthropology. Korea has its origins in the kingdom of Old Joseon, located in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. This kingdom was later split into several countries, and Some of the powers of these dynasties moved south to the Korean Peninsula, creating the three ancient kingdoms of the Korea.
@@willywilly5220
Seriously, I don't think you have any ideas what you're talking about if you did then you should have known by now everything I said was available online for a decades by now all you have to do is Google search for its.
@@oneviwatara9384 The ethnic identity of the people in a particular region cannot be explained by an anthropological approach. You seem to be confusing anthropology with history. The genetic study that people from the Indochina Peninsula migrated to the Korean Peninsula or Japan is an anthropology that happened about over 20,000 years ago. This is not history. History is the tale of how the people in the area make a country and form a national identity. It is the story of a record remaining as a documentary or historical relic within the last 5000 years. The identity of Korea is originated by the rise and fall of the ancient kingdom located in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. German identity, for example, is determined not by the anthropological genetics but by the history of Germany.
@@willywilly5220
What are you going to say when the whole thing will be reveal on live TV for the whole world to see???
Hey Masaman could u make a video about the chechen people? I still dont understand anything about my ancestor even after reading a lot online in english/german and even chechen.
I’m a descendent of Chinese and Indian. Born in Malaysia. I have tan skin. Whenever I travel I am always mistaken by people as Philipina, Indonesian, or Thai people😅
Wow you must feel in competition with yourself 😜😜😂👍
Chindians are goodlooking people! Love from Singapore 🥰
Oh cool! I’m Indian/Japanese from the US!
@@EasternDreamer615 oh, I live in Japan 😃
@@TheShanty0403 That's wonderful! I love Malaysia, I can't wait to come back. Hopefully, I will visit Japan sometime in the next few years.
I once had a Japanese person say to me that all Irish people look very similar and some look the same as each other. I said our indigenous population has blonde, red, brown and black hair, and different skin tones including some people with freckles. She was like oh yeah good point.
But for me, not only Irish people, all of Europeans look the same, lol!!!
cross-race effect
@Joselene Lu nice joke
@@nicolamutton it's true, you moron. I'm not even Chinese and already know there are Chinese with natural blonde hair, especially in the northern region
@@ashishningthoujam2485 mmm behave yourself
Mason please make a video about the Khmer, Khasi people of North East India.
I’d like to see a vid about Burma, that’d be cool
Amazing content man keep it up
Ethnic Han Chinese comprise 1/3 of the world’s population. Asians are the majority.
Why ethnic European majority are inflicted with systemic “diversity” (efforts to reduce the majority) is downright horrific and tantamount to a soft genocide. Imagine if Beijing had an ethnic minority of Han Chinese? Well, London has had its English population reduce to a minority status (among a growing list of other cities).
People are cheering the systemic reduction of a European majority to a minority status in the USA. This is disgusting.
The ethnic homogeneity of Asian countries promote cultural cohesion and national unity. One can only surmise from these observations that the “diversity” initiatives on the European ethnic majority countries is a deliberate attack to destabilize and weaken them.
I’m not white. I have no allegiance to skin colour but I do respect culture and are aware that there are superior and inferior cultures. These ethnic replacement initiatives are also destroying cultures and that negatively affects us minorities living in them as well.
Asian countries know this.
Shut up
@@riorio745 Were you referring to me with your reply of the person that told me to “shut up?”
If you were speaking to me, I believe you think I’m an American (or agree with or promote that country’s foreign policies).
I actually agree with you sentiment about leaving other countries alone: How is evolution supposed to work if we artificially keep the defectives alive?
You’re also right about England being an ethnically European country (in much the same way China is an ethnically Asian country).
@@riorio745 wow
Hmong Mien has more in common with those ethnic found in China, cultures, linguistically, and traditions.
Not Southeast Asia. The migration there was only 200-300 years ago.
Well, the majority of them still are living in China, only a fraction lives on the northern-most border of SEA
@@arbs3ry
Yes. China still houses the biggest number of Hmong Mien in the world.
well, that famous well-preserved noble lady of Han dynasty tomb, yeah, research shows she's most likely Hmong. Apparently Liu Bang came from Southern provinces, so Han and Hmong might just be different branches of the same line. They also have similar origin legends to Han Chinese, but they do claim to be from a different line.
How obvious is it that ethnonationalists would come to this video?
Very likely, you should see the storm on the future European races video.
Wow nice one, look at how you just attracted all the /pol/tards here like a magnet...
@john smith I'm Hispanic, and the south is more than the north
@Blue Crusader The Israeli government is kicking out christians and Muslims out of their homes, so they try their hardest not to be mutiethnic
@Blue Crusader You're a w3J 100%. Any nation period has the right to do what they want in their own land.
And Is- not- real is not multi ethnic. Some nice hypocrisy on your part.
A certain level of homogenity is required in tightly packed highly densed communities.
See the dress and mannerism code in Japan cities and understand why there is little room for individualism in city state Japan. Human traffic flow seemlessly and peaceful coexistence is possible with little violation in people limited private space.
Japanese dress in so many crazy diff ways. Have u ever been?
Interesting. The US is interested in the kind of diversity that can be judged in a photograph; in Japan, the concern is more for a diversity of ideas and viewpoints. Many non-Japanese have protested that there is an enforcement of similar thought, but that is AFTER the decision has been made. In the early discussion phases, a wide range of people are sounded out, before the final official decision is announced. And if you watch their live legislature hearings, that difference of opinions is much more visible.
And healthy too. Intelligent. They have a very practical approach to living. Level headed. Culturally rich with a proud history of warfare and genuine zest for life.
02:30 in the late 19th century and the early 20th, there was a massive wave of Chinese migration into Manchuria (Northeast China), and Japanese migration into Ezo (Hokkaido), both regions being sparsely populated, so the immigrants quickly became majority.
When you mentioned about Chinese diaspora, I wonder if you include the Xiongnu tribe who intermarried with Chinese princess during the Han period peace arrangement with the Xiongnu.
The Manchu never imposed their cultural identity? Sorry, what do you xsll the Queue then, or the banning of traditional Hanfu? I'd say that's quite imposing.
he is just another fuck against Han Chinese
In all fairness it was also under the qing dynasty that the manchu became han, so the promotion of a lot of han culture is probably what he's talking about
@WithAStick AngryWhiteMan Han Chinese in many areas did have hate against Manchurians because of historical reasons but actual act of violence never actually took place except a little during like the first week of Xinhai Revolution when there were some Han Chinese servants stabbed their Manchurian employer. By the way, Koreans also hated Manchurians.
@WithAStick AngryWhiteMan And there are plenty of famous Chinese influencer that are ethnically Manchurians. The only notable point of your link is that Guan Zhilin is a Southerner in Hongkong. Most influencing Manchurians are from Beijing who inherited their Beijing properties from Qing dynasty and the resulting good education and social privilege.
@WithAStick AngryWhiteMan There are cases of Revolutionaries went slaughter Manchurians in heavily manchurian district of cities. But, like I said, it didn't last long and didn't pose huge fears to the whole manchurian population, they were still having fun playing crickets in Beijing, it is nowhere near the genocide level. Manchurian did change to Han Chinese names to avoid harassment of revolutionaries, but as you can see, the fact that people stopped seeking them as soon as they changed their hated names shows that most people hated Qing Dynasty instead of the Manchu population(In many cases, they could just chase these manchurian till the end but that didn't happen).
I love your videos. Im aware you've done one on AfroAmericans but can you do a nother with the different admixtures by location, the development of the culture(s) and its influences around the world? maybe talk about the features of AAVE. I see more and more ppl incorpating AAVE into their everyday speach.
Out of Africa theory are fake hence Africans are very diverse populations not only that none of theirs Y-chromosome does not match anyone outside of Africa.
Most of the Eurasians and biracial groups have tended to migrate to more socially progressive western nations along with many full-blooded homogeneous types. But times are changing, on my last trip to China, southeast Asia and India I came across multiple enclaves of African people living in Asia.
Thats sad.
They may not be african they mag be aboriginal or melanesians or negrito which are indigenous to southeast asia and islands
Get rid of them. China should stay without all this weird diversity. America is fine but not China
Back in the 80s, many average Americans would charactize many Northeast Asians as "are you Chinese". But nowadays, Americans (especially ones living in liberal states) are more atuned to differenent ethnicities of Eastern Asians, some even manage to guess the ethnicity right by looking at popular Asian surnames (eg, Lee, Kim, Park, Nguyen, Wang, Zhang, etc).
Me, I'm my ethnicty is "northern Vietnam", and I could pass as a Chinese or northern Thai. But the southern part of Vietnam has many people looking similar to Cambodian and Laos people (because these regions of Vietnam were once belonged to Khmers and other ethnics that the Northern Vietnamese conquered through conquest). I can go from North Vietnam to South Vietnam and would encounters dialects I would have trouble discerning. And people would have a wide range of phenotypes, from light skin, fine hair, to darker skin and darker hair; eye-shapes also vary quite a bit from north to south.
Same here. My mom looks japanese but her ancestry shows she is probably north vietnamese ancestry. My dad from north vietnam but I'm not 100% sure if he's 100% north vietnamese.
I live in Canada and people assume I'm either chinese, japanese or korean.
During the Qing dynasty of china, the ruling manchurian clan 'aisin gioro' was wary of the eastward expansion of the Russian empire as soon as the russian conquered the sibir khanate in what is now Siberia hence the name. After the conquest many subject ethnic groups eastward including daurs, and yenitsei became vassals to the Qing as they shared similar nomadic culture with the Manchus. As soon as the Russian empire and Qing empire borders meet there were border skirmishes/fights the Qing in fear of losing their manchurian homeland as that would mean the 'Aisin Gioro' clan would lose both legitimacies as defender and head of a manchu state, as well as Chinese emperor, encouraged Han and Korean migration with policies such as zero taxes and generous pension schemes in order to populate their homeland with defenders against the Russians. Which is why you have the Korea autonomous prefecture in Yanbian and intermarriage of Han and Manchus in Manchuria.
eldarmario presario google manchuria under the Qing empire and check out the Wikipedia page.
eldarmario presario and also the wikipedia page of chuang Guangdong. Otherwise care to explain what's the other reasons?
the map at 1:48 says ehtiopia and northern africa was colonized when ethiopia for the most part wasn't
7:50 you mean except that fact that they forced every Han Chinese man to cut their hair? Those who refused faced death by beheading.
My guess is the starting seed population was smaller and more homogenous. Maybe a study in population genetics + prehistoric archaeology + ancient human migration will help answer this.
Yep, Pre shang dynasty China was likely the size of one or two Japan.
East Asian nations are based on culture rather than blood. 2000 years ago, the Han Chinese was identified by the words(Chinese text instead of languages), clothing, values, etc. Any other nation could become Han Chinese if they have the same culture. The Han Chinese also absorbed the cultures, costumes and lineages from other nationalities.
Yes, this is especially true for Turkic people who are a perfect example of it. They originated in East Asia and migrated further west up to Anatolia. They absorbed a large portion of different ethnicities but they never gave up their culture and language. Thats why you can see the Turkish language today in Turkey, while the people all look very different from eachother.
Culture and Language is what defines Asian nations and not blood.
They are Han Chinese because Qin Shi Huang destroyed all kingdoms kill all ethnicities , destroy all culture , books , histories before him , what is left after him was a people with no past , no history , no cultures that eventually develop into the Han cultures .
@@tomviktorsson5052 I am afraid your comment is very well untrue, Qin Shi Huang did not destroy all the books or culture or history before him, there were tons of the Chinese classic literature and historic documents that survived through the Qin dynasty due to its very short life, and the Han people though called ourselves Han, but it is actually a very mixed up ethnic group since there were many nomad invaders in the long history of China, we had 五胡乱华 five groups of barbarians screwed up China, South-North Sui Tang Dynastic, they were Xianbei or Siberian ppl ruling over China, then Yuan the Mongolian and Qing the Jurchen people occupied China, they all largely mixed up with the local Han people except for the Mongolians since Mongolian didn't embrace Han's culture or the political system like the other nomads did, they eventually being pushed back to their land of origin.
the 'Han peoples' really started as a slur in the Northern Dynasty. Otherwise where did you think the term “一条汉子” comes from? Does that sound like language used to describe a human? It was gradually adopted to be a name for Chinese people of the Confucian influence during Song dynasty. During Tang dynasty everybody called themselves Tang peoples.
It would be interesting if Masaman would have a conversation with Survive The Jive about demographics
Quick correction. Vietnam and its surrounding counties was indeed colonised as what was called French Indochina. Vietnamese is written in Latin based script, and in the upper class Vietnamese families spoke French.
Yeah...
In Europe you get the splits with Germany being 75% German but Czechia being 95% Czech.
In General I would feel safe to say that the more economically known the country is, the less homogeneous its ethic groups are.
Germany 75%
Britain being about 88% white British
Spain being also in 88%
The problems with Ethnicity is the question as to how much integration does it take for one to become ethnically something. Is it the first generation, second or third (Where only one original was not ethnically native to the region)
I mean. Ethnicity is not just about genetics. It is about the language, traditions and social customs. (The fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition.)
A foreigner can come into a place and fully embrace the culture, customs and language but they wouldn't change the genetic factor. That only begs the question of how much integration does it take to become a part of ethnic group.
I am from one European country but live in a different one and the difference is big. Not only do the people look different but the social customs, general knowledge of things and overall culture is different too. I am from a background where the importance of cultural heritage was heavily embraced and was something very important so looking into ethical differences is somewhat fascinating to me. My native country had festivals, traditions, parades ext that were tied to the cultural heritage but the country where I live now doesn't have anything like it. There is no cultural heritage being embraced besides politics which is very dry and sad.
If anyone is wondering, I live in England now. The closest event to an event closely tied to English heritage wound be Guy Fawkes Night.
Years of multiculturalism and leftist telling english people they got no roots or native heritage cause that, england has so many folklore castles both anglosaxon and celtic heritage and even some viking in the north, but nope celebrating that isnt inclusive enought for the minorities. 🙄🙄🙄 they could talk about britons anglosaxons, you know english people???
My milk is homogenized and pasteurized 👍
It's not milk.
Homogenization is bad for milk
@loki katzbalger Ironic that milk isn't very healthy for humans. Unless it's from plants.
@@victuz which plants have titties you idiot
@@johnapple6646 lmao jokes a side I think he means almond
In Taiwan, although Han make up 98% of the population, there are sub division of the ethnic Han and the sub groups actually consider themselves as that particular subgroup. Basically, Han isn't rly one ethnic group
Han Chinese is a culture not a race, we are different from Koreans and Japanese, we should not be put together with them, we are not Koreans and Japanese.
The Han nationality is a culture, not a race. We are different from Koreans and Japanese. While we all have o3 lineage y chromosomes, we shouldn't be put together with them. We are not Korean and Japanese. In ancient times, they were not the same language as us. , they are not full Chinese characters and should not bring Koreans and Japanese to China.
English is not on ethnic group, Londoner consider themselves different from English people from Manchester
当然，你们不是汉族，你们是属于东南亚人
Many reasons
1: Geography restricts long-distance migration before modern periods
2: Imperialist rhetoric accompanied by ethnic cleansing and forced cultural assimilation, which was the norm up until around the WW2 era, and arguably beyond
3: Even postwar, ethnic minorities are still very much discriminated against, and can expect forced assimilation by the state policy and education, and face ostracism or even outright violence from the more crackpot members of the locals. For example, Koreans are still treated by some Japanese as second-class citizens; Japanese still face wanton disdain if not outright hatred from some Koreans. In both cases, the offenders tend to be the more ultranationalist leaning members of society.
4: Lastly, people look similar enough that they could conceivably pass off as part of the local ethnic/national group to avoid hostility and discrimination; read #2 and #3 as for why.
5: Hence, in both Korea and Japan, vast majority of people self-identify in census as Hanminjok and Yamato (in that respective order), essentially, cultural assimilation as imposed by the state and extremism in politics succeeding at its goals. In Mainland China, the situation is even more bleak, for the government assigns people an ethnicity label (tagged on ID cards) as determined by the state by family lineage, so there's no way to assimilate yourself and slip under the radar of the extremists or the state. Discrimination and hostility are hence inescapable so long as you're in PRC jurisdiction.
Lastly, Taiwan after liberalization has done a 180 turn as of the past decade and a half; they want to distance themselves from the increasingly hostile, imperialist, and totalitarian CPC-controlled Sinosphere, and hence has turned towards appreciation and integration of indigenous cultures to establish a distinct Taiwanese identity.
Actually, all human races on Earth have Extraterrestrial genes. The human race in this galaxy all originated from Lyra, and some migrated here. But in terms of past lives, most East Asians were Sirians a long time ago. Sirian culture focuses more on Group Harmony than Individual Freedom, while Pleaidians are the opposite ( Most Pleaidian incarnates goes to the Caucasian race and Native Americans ). The other Asian, Aryan and Semitic races comes from the Nibiruans ( they too have relations to the genetics of people from Sirius, and when they came to Earth in the past, were known as the Annunaki ). The Black/African race comes from the Vegan star system, where the homeworld is inhabited by dark-skinned humans able to resist the strong sunlight from their home star. There are also some feline and bird humanoid ET races in Lyra, so if there are people on Earth who are into Furries, their distant past lives must have relation to them.
Where does Xenu play into this?
I love your channel.
I have had a strong interest in human biological history since i was a child.
Do you ever get called racist? I get called that often because i see differences in people genetically, culturally and geographically. I tend to ignore these name callers because they are usually undereducated.
It's hard to say though. Educated people can still be sensitive about racism. It seems like people have different definitions of racism especially on the passive racism incidents. Every case in different context varies and sometimes it could be very subjective. My siblings and I are educated but we also have different opinions towards racism.
Depends on how you use it.
Saying some realities like genes that increase collectivism?Yes.
Use it to further that "My race is superior"?No.
Still I can dope out 10% of Japanese/Korean and 30% of Mogol just according to their looks. Some of them have typical face or shape of their body. Furthermore, as you put Mongolia(a North Asia Country) in the list, you should include Vietnamese, I cannot sought out over 85% of them in the crowd until they lift up their voice.
I'm sure this channel thinks Thailand is more East Asian and more homogeneous than Vietnam lol.
Perhaps it is because the historical events causing Vietnam's economy to start later than other countries, make people despise or lack knowledge abt it. Anyways VN just joined WTO in 2007, I didn't expect people to know things about Vietnam other than the Vietnam war, Vietcong, ....
Currently, there are still many Koreans with Vietnamese descent living in North and South Korea (some of them have Vietnamese nationality and return to Vietnam to worship ancestors).
on wikipedia said it is 14% Koreans have Vietnamese blood, I'm not sure that, they have immigrated to Korea more than 700 years ago, It is a so long time ago
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The Vietnamese are 90% of the Viet and 90% of the Malays and Khmer people.
It has nothing to do with Korea.
There are few Vietnamese races in Korea.
The South Chinese are the ancestors of Vietnam.
Mongolia is north asian. yakut, buryt, tuva, chukotka in norther Asia. Also japan, korea, norther china is north east Asians
South China, Vietnam, Thailand, Taiwan, Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia is south Asians. And india, Pakistan, tibet, sri Lanka, Nepal are south Asians
Han Chinese isn't homogeneous though. They have northern and southern Han Chinese. Southern Chinese can look more Southeast Asian.
Not all southern Chinese. It's just the southernmost part :Guangdong guangxi hainan fujian (taiwan)…
@@user-gv1jy3id8w Those are the places I was referring to in my comment. We can even include Hong Kong and Macau as the southernmost part of China where some Chinese do look more Southeast Asian. I know some Northern Chinese will consider other parts of China as South of China as Southern Chinese but people who live in Guangdong province, Hong Kong, and Macau don't consider those places as Southern China lol They see those places as Northern China and consider these people as Northern Chinese.
Vietnamese*
that is still East Asian
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@@user-gv1jy3id8w you took our original land
@@michaelbanh4000 Majority of the world view Vietnam as Southeast Asia though. Even in world maps.
I have a request. And a proposal for another study:
The origins of the early Mediterranean peoples. This group of people are the roots of the Greek civilization. And these cultural/political accomplishments have been appropriated by other cultures. Nevertheless, Greek democracy, philosophy, arts, even sports has become foundational for western culture, which is seeing dominance. But what is the origin of these people??
You mean the Phonecians?
@@youtubeshadowbannedme The early peoples of the Mediterranean are more than just one people. The language systems indicate it.
Because they're not stupid
Best comment on here.
Well i would not call Chinese and Korean people i interacted with smart Japanese maybe.
I would way more prefer being in diverse America than in the Asian countries. Our life is just far better here. I've lived over there. No thanks and no disrespect, but yeah.... I'll gladly take diversity.
East Asia is boring af.
Chinese EDM Music it’s because of our internal enemies. Communism, Marxism all come from those one subversive group of people
They’re not homogeneous, they are just well-mixed diversity. 200 years melting pot versus 5000 years melting pot.
@ナノ人 we are east Asian， not mongolid race，mongolid race is a racist word
@ナノ人 The term now preferred by anglophone anthropologists and geneticists is "Mongolic".
"Mongoloid" did not orginally have derogatory implications any more than "Caucasoid" (which from both a geographic and a genetic perspective, is a misnomer as a 'racial' designation) or "Negroid"("Negro" derives from "black"). Racist and derogatory connotations were involved in the use of "Mongoloid" (as in "Mongoloid idiot") and "Mongolism" to refer to Down's Syndrome, where those with this genetically based condition were considered by even early scientific medical practioners to represent retrograde reversions to more primitive, possibly ancestral phenotypes.
Joe Biden's recent usage of ''Neanderthal'' in a derogatory context represents a contemporary version of this ignorant perspective. Ironically, genetic analyses have quite consistently confirmed that East Asians tend to higher percentages of 'Neanderthal genes' than Europeans. Yet when was the last time that you noticed a reference to East Asians in a Western MSM article on a certain now very politically incorrect test? These articles focus almost entirely on AVERAGE differences in scores between 'Whites, 'Blacks, and 'Hispanics! TH-cam now censors virtually any reference to this supposedly racist test (except from their uploaders), so you may not even see this! Yet their comment boards are filled with posts from clowns endlessly claiming that "Asians can't innovate, they can only copy, cheat, and steal".
Yes all the african Chinese and Caucasian chinese together with sprinkles of hindu and arabian chinese have melted into modern China. What a great comparison you came up with.
@ナノ人 The Mongolian race is a manifestation of the prejudice of Western civilization against East Asian civilization. As far as the current evidence is concerned, East Asians did not originate in Mongolia.
@ナノ人 Naming a race should be named after the place where the race first appeared. Westerners named East Asians after the Mongols Race just because the Mongols had brought them terrible memories.
What is this map 3:13? Should we not follow haplogroup research on that rather than very partial archeology?
amazing
The base Japanese culture and / or civilization was formed around 38000 years ago, which is observable from Hokkaido to Okinawa, such as vases. Around from 5 century on Okhotsk people started to move to Hokkaido. Ainu people and culture emerged as a result.
Chinese civilization started from settled farming. They built the great wall to defend against the nomadic raids. It is an inward civilization and did not migrate on horseback or sail by boats or colonize the others. I say settled farming and the Confucious culture is the biggest factor.
Its fascinating that my dad told me his memories when he was a child in the 1950s the first time he saw a whiteman at the church in his hometown in the Philippines. Meaning people usually before tv and books, don't know the outside world have people different from them, I'm fortunate since elementary to have one of every kind in all my shared classroom settings, I was the filipino fat kid everytime, always feeling like the child sumo wrestler compared to people who looked like TV families in sitcoms, but now I see a kid whos like me on that Fresh of the Boat show on ABC now as an adult.
Isn't there Spanish people there? They are white European.
@@Critique808 there are very few Spaniards in the Philippines at that time. The Philippines is very far from Europe to have a significant number of Spanish immigrants. The Philippines is very homogenous like more than 95% of the population are ethnically Filipinos.
Beside of the region identification as East Asia, in which includes China, Korea and Japan only. There comes a Northeast Asia, in which covers Mongolia, Russian Siberia, Korea, Japan and north portion of China. All the geographical sub-regions are classified by the Westerners. What the hell were they doing?
You mentioned one reason as these countries not being colonized, but even more so these countries have also mostly refrained from colonizing other countries in the recent centuries
Uhm... Japan? Also China expanded a lot with every iteration, just look at how much new land the Qing alone subjugated.
真正的原因是，中国一直都处于战乱，那些和自己长得不一样的人，都被杀掉了，
Nitpicking here, but the entire continent of Africa was covered in different European flags but as is popularly known, Ethiopia was never colonized. Yes it was invaded and occupied (1936 by Italy) . No one ever refers to what the Nazis did in western Europe as colonizing, therefore Ethiopia was never colonized.
Thank you
Awesome
Can you make a video about the origins of the Arab people's, there is an interesting folk tradition on their origins.
Imperator are they though?
May be you should study some geography to explain distance decay effect in migration.
East Asia is too remote for any significant migration from rest of the world.
This is not the case with south Asia (connected by land route) and SE asia connected by sea route.
Infact this distance decay was the reason of early colonization of South asia and no colonization of JAPAN.
I would say you dont know much please dont talk as incompleteness is more harmful than void .
Please do a video on the peoples of Bhutan and Nepal.
it's very respectful to mention for people who suffered from colonists, especially by the ones who "didn't" execute any war crime in EAST ASIA!
Great, thanks.
I'd be curious about the Australian Aboriginals.
China has very few internal geographic barriers, which means that when one ethnicity attained a position of strength it was able to impose its will and cleanse competing cultures. There's a reason why the most ethnically diverse places on earth (the Balkans for example) tend to have plenty of internal barriers such as mountains to insulate and allow small ethnic groups to survive through the millennia.
Man another fucking great vid happy holidays y'all ,🌈😘🎄⛄🦌😀🎅🤶
Masaman can you please make a video on What happened to the Huns?
Can't seem to find anything related to that subject here on youtube.
Turkey：our ancestors
I doubt that
@@ChineseMusicBGM Turkish Nationalists: "We are pure Steppe Nomads." "We are the successors to the greek civilization." "We are huns."
*Ethnio Nationists in every Masaman's videos.*
Me: Aww shit, here we go again!
cancerous facebook memes in every youtube comment section
Me: Aww shit, here we go again!
What's wrong with being an ethno-nationalist?!
@@mikespearwood3914 the wrong with this is that ethno nationalism or tribal ideology leads to narrow minded people, creates or exacerbates racism. The result is that we have people who care about "their owns" and the rest of mankind could die. Such people are not inclined to generosity, mercy, justice...This thinking is harmful for humanity and against civilization and universal values embodied by a universal moral, an unconditional sense of justice, universal religions like Buddhism, Christianity, Islam.
This is why Islam is strongly against racism, tribalism, nationalism, sectarian and Islam have through history united many people with different cultures, languages, skin color...
@@bobvoortrekker2429 Islam is horrible like Judaism, and the fact you would criticise ethno-nationalists but praise Islam which destroyed so many cultures and persecuted so many people just shows your absolute ignorance! The Abrahamic religions have done more to destroy and persecute cultures than any ethno-nationalists, who love varieties of human groups and cultures. And being an ethno-nationalist doesn't mean you don't care for other humans, or can't like other humans. It's the same way you'll help your neighbours, but not at the expense of your own family suffering.
@@mikespearwood3914 Thank god people like you lost WW2.
Im interested to hear about the Sanskritation of Asia - yes, Asian SE Asia and NE Asia, as well as the Indonesian archipelago. A little known fact is that Malayo-Polynesian language still carry hallmark features and loan words due to the extended Indic influence over the region prior to their departure into Near and Remote Oceania.
india trade cultural too with southeast asia
You mean Malay Archipelago?
It's indian cultural trade around se asia
Only a few southeast asians have Indian blood due to indian cultural trade a long time ago
india culture arrived as early as 3rd century, mostly by trade. then it got replaced by islam around 12nd century, except mainland SE asia such as thailand, myanmar, cambodia which still retain their buddhism tradition (not hindu).
Can you make a video about phenotype specifically?
Love your program
Keep up the good work!
Alan Sandler Upper MI
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What happened to the East Indies? (Also, the Pacific seems to have shrunken.)
To preserve ethnic identity
Ethnic identity is reactionary nonsense.
That’s...not a thing.
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That Israeli Flag in your profile pic isn't helping you m8
@@JonasGraf00 Uh, no it's called basic tribalism. Racial and ethnic identity are literally what make us unique.
@Seb 96 Might as well kick out non-white folks especially those who were born there.
Generally, Chinese people look at foreigners and feel that they are the same kind of people.The people outside look at the people in East Asia is the same feeling, feel they look the same.
that true for everyone
If anyone asked me what my ethnicity was, I'd say Taiwanese but would point out that my people are Chinese as well. F**k political boundaries--I can proudly say I have Chinese blood in me. Our people can get along seemlessly with each other if they're not debating over what those in power want us to fight over. The same goes for the Japanese; it still pisses me off how they commited atrocities against China in the past (we share many cultural similarities for goodness sake), even though they left the Taiwanese alone after the occupation of their island. Sorry this is a tad off topic, but I hate it when people bear certain sentiments towards others, negative or otherwise, just because they were born in a different place in the world. :-//
But historically Taiwan is a chinese province, Taiwan cannot be recognized as a country if it is not recognized by all nations, Taiwan did not even have an indepence revolution from mainland China, actually mainland china had a revolution against the Koumintang, it's the opposite.
So it's normal the people says that taiwanese are chinese, because they are historically and ethnically the same, although the conflict between the CPC and the KMT.