Fun fact ! Before the Europeans came in we we never saw ourselves as Melanisans or Polynesians or micronesians we only considered ourselves as pacific islanders. We were aware of each other and were even trading between the different islands in the pacific before the Europeans discovered the pacific islands. Our pacific island ancestors already mapped the pacifc especially the routes to and from other pacific islands before the Europeans. Our ancestors were some of the finest sailors even before the mordern humans explored out to the sea.
Im Micronesian but my ancestors came from Fiji during the European era when they were colonizing the Pacific. My lastname is Polish/German & my blood is Melanesian(Fijian) & Micronesian(Chuukese/Pohnpeian/Marshallese & European)
I had a lot of Papuan friends during my college days in the Philippines! Some of the most friendly and fun people I had the pleasure of hanging out with!
Bula vinaka from Suva! For a brief summary, that was really good :) Fun fact - Rotuma is made up of people whose ancestors were exiled from the Kingdom of Tonga.
In 1964 I served on a ship based out of Guam. Our routine voyages, patrolled Micronesia. One of our voyages took us to Rabaul, New Britain, giving me my first exposure to Melanesia and its people. My dad had been exposed to Melanesians in Fiji during WWII.
You must tell about your experiences in Rabaul! It was romanticized as the Pearl of the Pacific back in those days, I always wish I was born in that town
@@ambo9569 Thanks for your comment. My ship arrived in Rabaul, New Britain one morning in the spring of 1964. I had an opportunity to go ashore and was happy to do so. Most of the people were Melanesian. While most had dark black hair, there were some that had reddish-blonde hair. I met an Aussie who invited me to hop into his jeep. I did so while he gave me a trip around the island. This made for an enjoyable day. That evening we enjoyed meeting islanders as that came to observe a ship. I have an exotic wood carving that I purchased from one of the islanders.
We Melenesians, Polynesians and Micronesians , are one, they cannot separate us. Our Ancestors where first sea nevigators in the entire world, they traveled the entire Pacific ocean about 90 to 100 000 years ago
Love to papua new guineans, bougainvilleans, solomon islander and more melanesian peoples! ♥️ one of the most beautiful colorful and diverse people of all time. They dont deserve those racial stereotypes of just being uncivilised islanders, considering all those islanders did was to defend their homeland. Love from turkey 🇹🇷
Thank you for sharing this informative summary of the region's geography and cultural traditions! This video is excellent for introducing students and anyone who wants to learn about the region.
@@Remarema-we9qj And it shouldnt have been out of ignorance!East Timor is a whole new nation and also a part of Melanesia just like West Papua and Maluku in Eastern Indonesia!
Thank you so much for taking the time to curate this video and break down the historial, geographic and cultural aspects of the different regions in Oceania. This video is very informative and very important. We need more media that focuses on the other regions, especially Melanesia, because for far too long mainstream media has only focused on Polynesian culture. I really want to see media that focuses on Melanesian culture!
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
You're right on addressing the problem of the term from the start. Nowadays, there are many outside the 'traditional' boundaries of melanesia who identified as Melanesian. From the one that should've been recognized as Melanesian from the start, like Aru Islanders to a more or less recent development like the Flores and eastern Sumbawan. If I ask friends and families, yes part of the reasons are colorism, religion, language, geographic vicinity, cultural, etc. But the unspoken one, the cassowary in the room, is the feeling of underrepresented. Specially in Indonesian politics.
The Torres Strait is such a unique area of Melanesia, essentially bridging the gap between Papuans and Aboriginal Australians while also having strong Austronesian influences
The Natives of Papua New Guinea and the Aboriginals of Australia, r from the same place and ppl, all from ASIA, Eurasia Oceana to be exact! They have common ASIAN DNA!
@@teresafernandez9849there not from Asia they came out of Africa if I move to somewhere and then another place I'm me saying I'm from the place that left after I moved away from my original homeland does not make me from rhere
@@bobjacksom9776 Take ur argument to science and genealogists, they disagree with you! The ancient DNA studies have been done and verified, they are from ASIA!
@@WoBuXihuan they are totally different,the indigenous people of Australia mainland,is similar with polynesian ,not melanesian,and in the northern territory,the indigenous people is very similar to negrito people of Philippines.actually,cross the great barrier reef,maybe fraser island people have some appearance of melanesian.
Proud Melanesian from PNG here! We are custodians of some of the world's most stunning tropical islands, rich in natural beauty, culture, and abundant resources.
As a native Papuan I want to say that white and yellow skinned people have destroyed us black people on the island of New Guinea by dividing us into two different countries. making us forget where our ancestors actually came from and losing our identity as indigenous people. .Most young people on the island of New Guinea today do not know and do not want to know where their ancestors came from
A COLONIAL STYLED TACTICS, STRATEGIES AND TRICKS USED AGAINST MELANATED PEOPLE GLOBALLY DEFINITELY IN AMERICA PRESENT DAY WITH THE HELP FROM THE COMPROMISED AMONGST OUR OWN.
I'm Polish but some of my ancestors were from French colony of the Reunion Island🇫🇷🇷🇪 They were enslaved Papuans sold to the French by the Indonesians..
I am from North Wales and was surprised when my My Heritage DNA results showed trace Oceanic DNA, while my two cousins showed trace Melanesian DNA. My mother's brother and sister did/have facial features which hinted at a heritage outside Wales, and this has been confirmed by the family of the siblings my grandmother never knew. Her family were Master Mariners from Pembrokeshire called Gronow/Gronwy/Grono. They were from the same village as John Grono but I have no evidence to link us to him. I would love to understand if and how I might have Melanesian ancestry and whether one of my ancestors came from Melanesia to Wales.
I'm half Hawaiian and half white. My relatives are tough dealing with saltwater and crocodiles and sharks. I could do it I grew very modern. Lots of respect to them.
Melanesia is a broad term of darker Pacific Islands. However, within Melanesia, there are distinct ethnic differences in terms of culture and physical appearance.
9:35 there are nearly 830+ languages spoken here (Papua New Guinea alone) if you were to combine that to Western New Guinea which has over 300 languages, there would be a stagering 1, 100 plus languages!
We make up nearly 80% of the Pacific & contain most of its languages & cultures. Not forgetting our cousins the Aboriginal Australians, that makes our number even higher as black ppl of Oceania. I admire all of us❤ Much love to Poly & Micronesians who joined our Pacific family over a thousand years ago
Mapia is part of Micronesia. It was an outlier until many of its inhabitants were already speaking the Indonesian language of Bahasa. The last speaker died in 1990.
We often here it said in Polynesia , the great ocean of Kiwa does not divide us it brings us together. The great navigator Papa Mau Pialug of Satawal in Micronesia is testament to that who said, we are all of the ocean we are the same people. The lay lines, the boundaries are western concepts. However, we can use it as is shown here to be markers for geographical reason and more. Much like my Maori People of Aotearoa New Zealand. We identify first and foremost with our tribal identities. Maori is an identity which was introduce by European. Geneology is important to Maori, we can trace ourselves back to Polynesia and thus further back to the Indonesian areas. As I mentioned Te moananui a kwia does not seperate us but joins us together. Noho ora mai aku iwi o te moananui a Kiwa (be well my peoples of the great ocean of Kiwa).
what are you talking about ratomuans and tongans back then were quite racists in terms of keeping the polynesian blood strong// and why they only desire to marry samoan woman
Saya bangga dan senang kalau saya disebut mekanesian... walaupun secara fisik 90% sya tdk terlihat seperti Melanesian asli..rambut saya tdk bisa berbohong kalau saya pasti campuran Melanesian 😂 saya orang Flores Manggarai..
Proud fijian and proud Melanesian..Fiji is the Heart of Melanesia.. together with our Melanesian Brothers and Sisters we are one Family ❤. We believed that the Original Lapita Pottery people were the Fijians themselves Only...from there it went all Through out the Regions.. to Asia..png..to Polynesia and Micronesia...
@@ardi08there is no such thing as Indonesian Papua, that’s a colonial construct only 60 years old. Imagine me saying “Free Russian Ukraine from arms companies” 🤦🏽♀️ Calling a country by its occupier makes no sense
Alot of us in Papua New Guinea use "Wan solwara" to address other Pacific Islanders which is so wholesome. It translates to "One sea", meaning we are united through the Pacific Ocean.
That was a highly unnecessary and honestly just racist comment about Africa. Africa did not need to be mentioned, and you need to evelaute what you were even trying to do by brining Africa up, because it is clear you are trying to belittle Africans, even if you yourself didn’t realize that’s what you were doing.
@@vmlksm9 thank you, from one blk person to another.. @virginia9820 It wasn't racist because I didn't say anything negative about them as a people. I spoke on their DEFENSE towards the Europeans. I chose to bring them up as a comparison to make people THINK. But some people are already aware of some of the truth that Africans were sold by Africans. Take it how you want
Instead of placing blame on Africans, instead place blame on the European settlers that *didn't need* to colonize and enslave millions of Africans just because of their superiority complex. 🙄 And let's not forget that Africa had royals and warriors that fought back fiercely to protect their land. Africans didn't just let it happen, but history seldom ever wants to talk about the Africans that fought back.
Melanesian in Indonesia,is people of Ntt provincy(Timor island),Maluku provincy,and Papua Indonesia provincy.all this is Melanesian from Indonesian.you now
If Fijians are African, why does the average Fijian genome register as half Polynesian and half Papuan/Melanesian? I guess your ancestors must be Aquaman, totally skipped New Guinea and came on a submarine direct flight from Africa 😂😂
@@baemon_haya You good but let me rephrase it. Do you have any idea how you would have 35% melanesian in you?. Do you know of one of your ancestors who was melanesian?. Also, were you born and raised in Ethiopia?.
Many Fijians in Fiji didn't recognise other Melanesian brothers and did not understand the characteristics of identifying who were Melanesians. Every time when you go by taxi from elsewhere in Fiji most taxi drivers refer us Ni Vanuatu as New Guineans or Solomon Islanders. This is quietly funny and I am appealing to our Melanesian Brothers in Fiji that we are Melanesians, why are you people confused about this race?😊😊
Maybe because Fiji is closer to Tonga culturally/historically. Fijian genetics is usually 60% Polynesian and 40% Papuan/Melanesian. Their identity leans more to culture than skin color, and their culture is more Polynesian. But there are exceptions! My best friend is from Lau, the one place in Fiji with direct links to Tonga, and yet she refers to herself as Melanesian proudly. So it is a matter of personal preference, but the truth is they are BOTH Melanesian and Polynesian ❤
You forget the moluccan islands. Like our brothers and sisters from papua our islands are politically a region of indonesia. That part of melanesia is now Indonesia. Its Indonesia because that used to be a dutch colony. And after the independence of the dutch indonesia was its own state. But culturally the moluccan islands are like the melanesians. Maluku & papua merdeka ✊🏾💙🤍💚❤️❤️❤️✊🏾
Every map I’ve seen of Melanesia only go far west as Papua New Guinea, but Maluku and NTT count themselves as Melanesian. Where does it end and where does it begin?
We are literally in the Melanesian Spearhead Group and it's well known in the Genetic circles. My old Moluccan Ancestry DNA results heavy with Melanesian and even Polynesian ancestry.Take in mind that I'm also only HALF Moluccan with still this much Melanesian and even Polynesian ancestry. th-cam.com/video/CWnkmq8MTbg/w-d-xo.html
It is a divide with the Australasia plate and basically ends left of the Wallacea line. So Maluku, Timor Leste, NTT are all part of West Melanesia and have also the first true polynesian genome - which is paternal Melanesian and maternal Malayo-Polynesian. Moluccas is basically the missing link between Melanesia and Polynesia (including Madagascar).
Im part Indigineous Moluccan,my Mothers Family is from the Maluku Islands in Eastern Indonesia just off of the coast of West Papua. In her Family I have my Grandmother who has an Afro and looks Tongan or Samoan but to many people they may mistake her for "African American".I have an Auntie who looks straight up Australian Aboriginal and was mistaken for such in Australia.I have another Auntie who looks Filipina,and Family members with skintones from White as snow to skin as dark as Morris Chestnut the Actor.In our native Moluccan Islands,no one makes any big deal about our huge Phenotypical Variations and we see each other all us just Moluccans.Like Masaman said,in our Islands,West Papua,East Timor,and even Polynesia and Micronesia are a great example of how "Race" especially in the American/Western sense of Phenotype is inherently flawed.Our natural Diversity both phenotypically and linguistically is mind blowing to Outsiders especially Melanesia including Eastern Indonesia (West Papua,Maluku,NTT)and East Timor which are all Indigenous Melanesian and some Polynesian influence.There was even a now extinct Truukic East Micronesia language in Eastern Indonesia northwest of West Papua.
The American Democratic Mercantilist Empire formed another grouping, based in the Bikini Atoll, called “Amnesia” because they would rather the world forget what they did there.
Black people for the most part are found all over planet. Even the original tribes in the Americas where black and some of us are still here and some of us are indigenous and don't know. Shouts out to the Saponi Nation in NC, Cherokees of NC/Alabama and the Coharie people of NC and lastly the Fula people of Senegal. It's in my blood.
I don’t understand this trend of claiming indigeneity to turtle island when most African Americans don’t even have 10% Native American DNA. Ancestry companies have a high volume of samples of common populations in Western nations (Whites, Black & Latino people) so calling them false would be a lie. Us Melanesians don’t need to force our indigeneity, y’all should be proud of being African
@@ambo9569 Yes they will...And how will the current inhabitants of bigger landmasses react in the current climate of hitting on and hating all refugees? It hurts me just to think about it.
My mom is and grew up in Papua Indonesia, her story is similar but a bit different from what she heard from other local stories. She had told me that where she came from, Papua Indonesia, the “white man” provided jobs and was at peace, but when they left “black” islanders started getting enslaved ect by the more Asian looking Indonesiens. From what I’ve hear and seen, even to this day the separation between the two looks still provides many problems. 😢
The slave trade took place in all of Indo China. Keep in mind Black means multiracials of colour hence the word Sorte. They originated in New Zealand and Papua New Guinea and known in the Amerikas as the Amerindians.👍 Kanaks, Southerners, Canadians, Oregonians, Seminoles, Maroons, Dark Reds, ,,,
800 + language are of Papua New Guinea not the whole Islandof New Guinea. If you add the language of West New Guinea or West Papua it would go up to 1000 + languages on the Island of New Guinea.
Timor, East Nusa Tenggara, Flobamora, Maluku are all considered South East Asia today but were originally populated by Papuans first. Then later the oncoming Austronesian settlement led to them being mixed. The sad thing is AFTER Indonesian colonization, the govt purposely sent Javanese migrants to these islands to basically reproduce with them and make them less black and more Indonesian.
Not all Asian are the same white brown native African. Why can’t we just say Al Melanesian came from motherland aborigines Australia. Melanesian are black but different black from Africa.
I agree they can’t seem to get away from skin complexion but if you say all races with straight are the same they will feel mad so I understand what you mean we all not the same because I share melanin skin but I know these aren’t my people at all
Melanesians and Aborigines are the most genetically distant peoples from Africans because their ancestors were the first to leave Africa about 70000 years ago. That means that Europeans are more closely related to Africans because their ancestors left Africa only about 40000 years ago. Skin colour only indicates the different latitudes where people have adapted to different solar intensities, so has nothing to do with how much different peoples are related to each other.
@Nagin-zt6sc Didn't I say that in one of my previous comments, Papuan + Austronesian (Asian) = Melanesian, Polynesian, Micronesian? The first inhabitants of South East Asia were Papuans. You can still find a small group of Melanesians in Malaysia, Philippines and apart from West Papuans in Indonesia, there are other groups of Melanesians in Indonesia. East Timor is part Melanesia also.
Different DNA and they also came earlier than Melanesians. They have higher traces of other human species than us but also more Dravidian DNA. We are considered genetic cousins. They are the first people of this continent ❤
Fun fact ! Before the Europeans came in we we never saw ourselves as Melanisans or Polynesians or micronesians we only considered ourselves as pacific islanders. We were aware of each other and were even trading between the different islands in the pacific before the Europeans discovered the pacific islands. Our pacific island ancestors already mapped the pacifc especially the routes to and from other pacific islands before the Europeans. Our ancestors were some of the finest sailors even before the mordern humans explored out to the sea.
Im Micronesian but my ancestors came from Fiji during the European era when they were colonizing the Pacific. My lastname is Polish/German & my blood is Melanesian(Fijian) & Micronesian(Chuukese/Pohnpeian/Marshallese & European)
Today i have NZ, Samoan & Australian families ❤️
Bulaa
on our applications we once referred to Pacific Islanders not Melanesians or Polynesians
Rotuman Polynesian from 🇫🇯 Fiji. Love all my Melanesian Brothers and Sisters. ❤❤💯💯
#PASIFIKAUNITE
I had a lot of Papuan friends during my college days in the Philippines! Some of the most friendly and fun people I had the pleasure of hanging out with!
God bless you ❤
Bula vinaka from Suva! For a brief summary, that was really good :) Fun fact - Rotuma is made up of people whose ancestors were exiled from the Kingdom of Tonga.
I love my Melanesia. ❤🇵🇬❤
In 1964 I served on a ship based out of Guam. Our routine voyages, patrolled Micronesia. One of our voyages took us to Rabaul, New Britain, giving me my first exposure to Melanesia and its people. My dad had been exposed to Melanesians in Fiji during WWII.
Was your father in Fiji during WW2 ?
@@waterboy.6001 Yes he was in Fiji while serving aboard the USS Raleigh CL-7.
@@Me2Lancer thank you ! 🇫🇯🇫🇯🇫🇯
You must tell about your experiences in Rabaul! It was romanticized as the Pearl of the Pacific back in those days, I always wish I was born in that town
@@ambo9569 Thanks for your comment. My ship arrived in Rabaul, New Britain one morning in the spring of 1964. I had an opportunity to go ashore and was happy to do so. Most of the people were Melanesian. While most had dark black hair, there were some that had reddish-blonde hair.
I met an Aussie who invited me to hop into his jeep. I did so while he gave me a trip around the island. This made for an enjoyable day. That evening we enjoyed meeting islanders as that came to observe a ship. I have an exotic wood carving that I purchased from one of the islanders.
One people one ocean. !! God bless our brothers and sisters from the Pacific ❤
The people of the islands of molocas are also Melanesians. We are West Melanesians
100%
Maluku West Melanesia !!!!
We Melenesians, Polynesians and Micronesians , are one, they cannot separate us. Our Ancestors where first sea nevigators in the entire world, they traveled the entire Pacific ocean about 90 to 100 000 years ago
AGREED 💯%👍👍🇻🇺🇻🇺
Agreed we are not separated by the ocean it is whats connects us ❤❤
No there’s a clear racial difference between Melanesian and Polynesian
@@deemed-supplier STOP THAT DISCRIMINATION.
@@hekalkal8111 its fact not discrimination
Love to papua new guineans, bougainvilleans, solomon islander and more melanesian peoples! ♥️ one of the most beautiful colorful and diverse people of all time. They dont deserve those racial stereotypes of just being uncivilised islanders, considering all those islanders did was to defend their homeland. Love from turkey 🇹🇷
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What a fantastic and clear breakdown! I can't wait to share this with my geography students.
Thank you very much! I hope it proves useful to your students!
I love my Melanesian people.
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Yes, I love you too from fiji 🇫🇯.
🫡✌️❣️🇵🇬🇬🇧
Thank God I’m Melanesian 😌🙌🏽
Thank you for sharing this informative summary of the region's geography and cultural traditions! This video is excellent for introducing students and anyone who wants to learn about the region.
Thank you so much as always! Hope this video may contribute to to helping students learn more about the Pacific.
Don't forget about us Maluku Islanders,East Timorese and East Nusa Tengarrans such as Flores Islanders and Sumba Islanders.
Wasn't it covered/shaded along in the map?
@@Remarema-we9qj No,it WASNT!🥲
@@Remarema-we9qj And it shouldnt have been out of ignorance!East Timor is a whole new nation and also a part of Melanesia just like West Papua and Maluku in Eastern Indonesia!
@@gpl992are you like a country on it's own ? Politically speaking
Are all 2 thousand islands habitable ??
Love the video.. proud Melanesian Solomon Islands 🇸🇧 ❤❤
Thank you so much for taking the time to curate this video and break down the historial, geographic and cultural aspects of the different regions in Oceania. This video is very informative and very important. We need more media that focuses on the other regions, especially Melanesia, because for far too long mainstream media has only focused on Polynesian culture. I really want to see media that focuses on Melanesian culture!
Hello from fiji bless maluku from fijian
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Very interesting and thank you for the videos. Regards from Vanuatu 🇻🇺 😊
Thank you PulanSpeaks for creating this... love From Melanesia
Si Yu'os ma'åse'! (Thank you!)
I’m so thankful I found your channel-this is such accessible and great public work. Vinaka from a diasporic Fijian.
You're right on addressing the problem of the term from the start. Nowadays, there are many outside the 'traditional' boundaries of melanesia who identified as Melanesian. From the one that should've been recognized as Melanesian from the start, like Aru Islanders to a more or less recent development like the Flores and eastern Sumbawan.
If I ask friends and families, yes part of the reasons are colorism, religion, language, geographic vicinity, cultural, etc. But the unspoken one, the cassowary in the room, is the feeling of underrepresented. Specially in Indonesian politics.
Proud Fijian 🇫🇯❤️
The Torres Strait is such a unique area of Melanesia, essentially bridging the gap between Papuans and Aboriginal Australians while also having strong Austronesian influences
The Natives of Papua New Guinea and the Aboriginals of Australia, r from the same place and ppl, all from ASIA, Eurasia Oceana to be exact! They have common ASIAN DNA!
@@teresafernandez9849there not from Asia they came out of Africa if I move to somewhere and then another place I'm me saying I'm from the place that left after I moved away from my original homeland does not make me from rhere
@@bobjacksom9776 Take ur argument to science and genealogists, they disagree with you! The ancient DNA studies have been done and verified, they are from ASIA!
@@bobjacksom9776 racist view lol have you been to that country? Have you seen the differences in the ethnic groups?
LOVE MY MELANESIAN BLOODS 100% WEST PAPUAN
Our identity is non- negotiable
.proud islander 🇫🇯 ..
Flores
Sumba
West Timor
East Timor 🇹🇱
North maluku
South malauku
West paupa
Png
Fiji 🇫🇯
Solomona island
Vanuatu 🇻🇺
New Caledonia 🇳🇨
True hebrews israelites, the lost tribes
How about the Aborigines in Australia? Their appearance is the same as Melanesian
List completed
@@WoBuXihuan they are totally different,the indigenous people of Australia mainland,is similar with polynesian ,not melanesian,and in the northern territory,the indigenous people is very similar to negrito people of Philippines.actually,cross the great barrier reef,maybe fraser island people have some appearance of melanesian.
@@xcusemefrench171.. Fiji is not a Lost Tribe.. sorry for that. Leave Fiji out
Proud Melanesian from PNG here! We are custodians of some of the world's most stunning tropical islands, rich in natural beauty, culture, and abundant resources.
I can see a lot of work went into making this, very concise and informative. Thank you for sharring , loved it.
As a native Papuan I want to say that white and yellow skinned people have destroyed us black people on the island of New Guinea by dividing us into two different countries. making us forget where our ancestors actually came from and losing our identity as indigenous people. .Most young people on the island of New Guinea today do not know and do not want to know where their ancestors came from
I've always thought you're from Africa....
A COLONIAL STYLED TACTICS, STRATEGIES AND TRICKS USED AGAINST MELANATED PEOPLE GLOBALLY DEFINITELY IN AMERICA PRESENT DAY WITH THE HELP FROM THE COMPROMISED AMONGST OUR OWN.
I'm Polish but some of my ancestors were from French colony of the Reunion Island🇫🇷🇷🇪 They were enslaved Papuans sold to the French by the Indonesians..
@@debathor9346 Wow such an interesting mix
are you that dumb.. lol you saying you no longer look melanesians lol
I am from North Wales and was surprised when my My Heritage DNA results showed trace Oceanic DNA, while my two cousins showed trace Melanesian DNA. My mother's brother and sister did/have facial features which hinted at a heritage outside Wales, and this has been confirmed by the family of the siblings my grandmother never knew. Her family were Master Mariners from Pembrokeshire called Gronow/Gronwy/Grono. They were from the same village as John Grono but I have no evidence to link us to him. I would love to understand if and how I might have Melanesian ancestry and whether one of my ancestors came from Melanesia to Wales.
welsh ppl have afro hair’ it makes sense
Bore da/Bula 🏴 🇫🇯
As a Fijian,we love the welsh.They are our favorite brits except for Rugby.You welcome to the part of melanesian family😂
@@sonnyboytaukamo399not all welsh people but this person in particular has melanesian dna
My dad 🇬🇧 Married Mum 🇵🇬 and here I am... 🫡✌️❣️🏳️🌈🇬🇧
I'm half Hawaiian and half white. My relatives are tough dealing with saltwater and crocodiles and sharks. I could do it I grew very modern. Lots of respect to them.
🫡✌️❣️🇬🇧🇵🇬
Bula from fiji 🇫🇯 🌴
Melanesia is a broad term of darker Pacific Islands. However, within Melanesia, there are distinct ethnic differences in terms of culture and physical appearance.
But that’s the beauty of being Melanesian, we ourselves know that there is no standard look, we come in all skin tones and hair types
Polynesia , Melanesia , Micronesia stand together 💯
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huh and what excatly would melanesia bring to the mix.. it only better melanesians dont itg@@hekalkal8111
@11 onme808 , with you Pacific fam🔥🇵🇬💯
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9:35 there are nearly 830+ languages spoken here (Papua New Guinea alone) if you were to combine that to Western New Guinea which has over 300 languages, there would be a stagering 1, 100 plus languages!
We make up nearly 80% of the Pacific & contain most of its languages & cultures. Not forgetting our cousins the Aboriginal Australians, that makes our number even higher as black ppl of Oceania. I admire all of us❤
Much love to Poly & Micronesians who joined our Pacific family over a thousand years ago
New boundary line shoud be drawn to include other melanesian islands that are currently not in the region.
Yes!Like the West Melanesians of Maluku,East Nusa Tengarra,and East Timor!
Yes!Like the West Melanesians of Maluku,Timor Leste,and East Nusa Tengarra!
Yes!Like the West Melanesians of Maluku,Timor Leste,and East Nusa Tengarra!
Mapia is part of Micronesia. It was an outlier until many of its inhabitants were already speaking the Indonesian language of Bahasa. The last speaker died in 1990.
100% melanesian
We often here it said in Polynesia , the great ocean of Kiwa does not divide us it brings us together. The great navigator Papa Mau Pialug of Satawal in Micronesia is testament to that who said, we are all of the ocean we are the same people. The lay lines, the boundaries are western concepts.
However, we can use it as is shown here to be markers for geographical reason and more.
Much like my Maori People of Aotearoa New Zealand. We identify first and foremost with our tribal identities. Maori is an identity which was introduce by European. Geneology is important to Maori, we can trace ourselves back to Polynesia and thus further back to the Indonesian areas.
As I mentioned Te moananui a kwia does not seperate us but joins us together. Noho ora mai aku iwi o te moananui a Kiwa (be well my peoples of the great ocean of Kiwa).
what are you talking about ratomuans and tongans back then were quite racists in terms of keeping the polynesian blood strong// and why they only desire to marry samoan woman
long distant cuzin from phillippines ❤
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Saya bangga dan senang kalau saya disebut mekanesian... walaupun secara fisik 90% sya tdk terlihat seperti Melanesian asli..rambut saya tdk bisa berbohong kalau saya pasti campuran Melanesian 😂 saya orang Flores Manggarai..
Proud fijian and proud Melanesian..Fiji is the Heart of Melanesia.. together with our Melanesian Brothers and Sisters we are one Family ❤. We believed that the Original Lapita Pottery people were the Fijians themselves Only...from there it went all Through out the Regions.. to Asia..png..to Polynesia and Micronesia...
Uhm excuse u,u need to go back to school for Christ sake
Saya dari west papua, tapi sekarang saya hidup di Marshall island
FREE WEST PAPUA
Free Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire, lol.
Free Indonesian Papua from US company like Freeport.
@@ardi08there is no such thing as Indonesian Papua, that’s a colonial construct only 60 years old.
Imagine me saying “Free Russian Ukraine from arms companies” 🤦🏽♀️ Calling a country by its occupier makes no sense
Free west papua @@ardi08
Informative and very well researched. Blessings from the Torres Strait Islands.
Alot of us in Papua New Guinea use "Wan solwara" to address other Pacific Islanders which is so wholesome.
It translates to "One sea", meaning we are united through the Pacific Ocean.
God bless to all my black brother's and sister's 👍
For some context. The dark skinned characters who appeared at the end of Moana 2 are Melanesians, specifically Solomon Islands.
Shout-out to Melanesia for not allowing the Europeans to come and conquer. Much respect. Something Africa couldn't even do.
That was a highly unnecessary and honestly just racist comment about Africa. Africa did not need to be mentioned, and you need to evelaute what you were even trying to do by brining Africa up, because it is clear you are trying to belittle Africans, even if you yourself didn’t realize that’s what you were doing.
@@virginia9820I’m black & they told the truth
@@vmlksm9 thank you, from one blk person to another.. @virginia9820 It wasn't racist because I didn't say anything negative about them as a people. I spoke on their DEFENSE towards the Europeans. I chose to bring them up as a comparison to make people THINK. But some people are already aware of some of the truth that Africans were sold by Africans. Take it how you want
Not really lots of blackbirding slaves taken to aust and samoa@@vmlksm9
Instead of placing blame on Africans, instead place blame on the European settlers that *didn't need* to colonize and enslave millions of Africans just because of their superiority complex. 🙄 And let's not forget that Africa had royals and warriors that fought back fiercely to protect their land. Africans didn't just let it happen, but history seldom ever wants to talk about the Africans that fought back.
Love the video. Papua Love. ❤
Melanesian in Indonesia,is people of Ntt provincy(Timor island),Maluku provincy,and Papua Indonesia provincy.all this is Melanesian from Indonesian.you now
our ancestors tell us of our life coming from lake tangayika’
Good to hear , welcome back Africa, Tanzania-Tanganyika
If Fijians are African, why does the average Fijian genome register as half Polynesian and half Papuan/Melanesian?
I guess your ancestors must be Aquaman, totally skipped New Guinea and came on a submarine direct flight from Africa 😂😂
Genetic evidence disproves this theory, it was BS made up in the 1800s.
I found out I was Melanesian. I test 50% Ethiopian Jew, 15% Yemenite Jew. Never would have guessed.
Me too!! 😮
That's crazy. I'm trying to wrap my brain on how that would have come about?. Although, very interesting to learn that.
@@mmiller8373 I didn't understand what you mean?
@@baemon_haya You good but let me rephrase it. Do you have any idea how you would have 35% melanesian in you?. Do you know of one of your ancestors who was melanesian?. Also, were you born and raised in Ethiopia?.
@@mmiller8373
I only have 0.8% Melanesian.. I think I have Ethiopian roots because my father is black
Beautifully done! Thank you!
Thank you very much!
God bless your people in peace beyond understanding.
Many Fijians in Fiji didn't recognise other Melanesian brothers and did not understand the characteristics of identifying who were Melanesians. Every time when you go by taxi from elsewhere in Fiji most taxi drivers refer us Ni Vanuatu as New Guineans or Solomon Islanders. This is quietly funny and I am appealing to our Melanesian Brothers in Fiji that we are Melanesians, why are you people confused about this race?😊😊
Maybe because Fiji is closer to Tonga culturally/historically. Fijian genetics is usually 60% Polynesian and 40% Papuan/Melanesian. Their identity leans more to culture than skin color, and their culture is more Polynesian.
But there are exceptions! My best friend is from Lau, the one place in Fiji with direct links to Tonga, and yet she refers to herself as Melanesian proudly. So it is a matter of personal preference, but the truth is they are BOTH Melanesian and Polynesian ❤
NANAMU.@@ambo9569
You forget the moluccan islands. Like our brothers and sisters from papua our islands are politically a region of indonesia. That part of melanesia is now Indonesia. Its Indonesia because that used to be a dutch colony. And after the independence of the dutch indonesia was its own state. But culturally the moluccan islands are like the melanesians. Maluku & papua merdeka ✊🏾💙🤍💚❤️❤️❤️✊🏾
Every map I’ve seen of Melanesia only go far west as Papua New Guinea, but Maluku and NTT count themselves as Melanesian. Where does it end and where does it begin?
Maluku and East Timor is Melanesian too.
@@gpl992 melanesian primitive person 🤣
We are literally in the Melanesian Spearhead Group and it's well known in the Genetic circles.
My old Moluccan Ancestry DNA results heavy with Melanesian and even Polynesian ancestry.Take in mind that I'm also only HALF Moluccan with still this much Melanesian and even Polynesian ancestry.
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It is a divide with the Australasia plate and basically ends left of the Wallacea line. So Maluku, Timor Leste, NTT are all part of West Melanesia and have also the first true polynesian genome - which is paternal Melanesian and maternal Malayo-Polynesian. Moluccas is basically the missing link between Melanesia and Polynesia (including Madagascar).
Im part Indigineous Moluccan,my Mothers Family is from the Maluku Islands in Eastern Indonesia just off of the coast of West Papua. In her Family I have my Grandmother who has an Afro and looks Tongan or Samoan but to many people they may mistake her for "African American".I have an Auntie who looks straight up Australian Aboriginal and was mistaken for such in Australia.I have another Auntie who looks Filipina,and Family members with skintones from White as snow to skin as dark as Morris Chestnut the Actor.In our native Moluccan Islands,no one makes any big deal about our huge Phenotypical Variations and we see each other all us just Moluccans.Like Masaman said,in our Islands,West Papua,East Timor,and even Polynesia and Micronesia are a great example of how "Race" especially in the American/Western sense of Phenotype is inherently flawed.Our natural Diversity both phenotypically and linguistically is mind blowing to Outsiders especially Melanesia including Eastern Indonesia (West Papua,Maluku,NTT)and East Timor which are all Indigenous Melanesian and some Polynesian influence.There was even a now extinct Truukic East Micronesia language in Eastern Indonesia northwest of West Papua.
the originals!
Beautiful people
Thank you
This information was really interesting & helpful for me
Outstanding work!
Great video. Very informative 👍
Thanks!
THANK YOU. for. EDUCATING me about my. ANCESTORS.....OBRIGADO..
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Great work brother
East Nusa and Maluku and Timor and some bits of west Nusa and Sulawesi are also Melanesian
MALUKU MELANESIA BARAT ❤
I am the Phoenix of the South Seas, the home of the Golden Bird. I am from the Land of the Unexpected... Born Kumul, Die Kumul...
🇵🇬 Manus Island was originally Tawi Island in the Bismark Archipelago and Keakalo Aroma Coast 🇵🇬
I'm a melaneasian and I'm proud..we the original native people from that region.
Free West Papua ❤
Definitely. No questions about it
Our identity is your languages and spiritual beliefs
I love Melanesia ❤
Came to me i will explain all about it. Many people still not understand until now
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Fiji Pride
The American Democratic Mercantilist Empire formed another grouping, based in the Bikini Atoll, called “Amnesia” because they would rather the world forget what they did there.
Black people for the most part are found all over planet. Even the original tribes in the Americas where black and some of us are still here and some of us are indigenous and don't know. Shouts out to the Saponi Nation in NC, Cherokees of NC/Alabama and the Coharie people of NC and lastly the Fula people of Senegal. It's in my blood.
Yes. "Indigenous and don't even know "
I don’t understand this trend of claiming indigeneity to turtle island when most African Americans don’t even have 10% Native American DNA. Ancestry companies have a high volume of samples of common populations in Western nations (Whites, Black & Latino people) so calling them false would be a lie.
Us Melanesians don’t need to force our indigeneity, y’all should be proud of being African
❤❤ PNG ..
MELANATED ISLANDS✊🏿💎
What do the names of the islands mean?
Free West Papua 🇵🇬 and Kanaky 🇳🇨
Håfa adai!
What will happen to all of them as sea levels rise? What is organised to help them? How do they organise themselves?
Simple, they’ll just move to bigger landmasses, like New Zealand, Australia.
@@ambo9569 Yes they will...And how will the current inhabitants of bigger landmasses react in the current climate of hitting on and hating all refugees? It hurts me just to think about it.
My mom is and grew up in Papua Indonesia, her story is similar but a bit different from what she heard from other local stories. She had told me that where she came from, Papua Indonesia, the “white man” provided jobs and was at peace, but when they left “black” islanders started getting enslaved ect by the more Asian looking Indonesiens. From what I’ve hear and seen, even to this day the separation between the two looks still provides many problems. 😢
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Same thing actually happened to us Ambonese and South Maluku.They literally called us "Black Dutch".
✊🏿 wan solowora nmo🇻🇺🇻🇺🇻🇺 678
The slave trade took place in all of Indo China.
Keep in mind Black means multiracials of colour hence the word Sorte.
They originated in New Zealand and Papua New Guinea and known in the Amerikas as the Amerindians.👍
Kanaks, Southerners, Canadians, Oregonians, Seminoles, Maroons, Dark Reds, ,,,
LOVE YOU ALL MELE AND POLY WE ARE ONE PACIFIC
800 + language are of Papua New Guinea not the whole Islandof New Guinea. If you add the language of West New Guinea or West Papua it would go up to 1000 + languages on the Island of New Guinea.
See, if I was religious, I’d say the Garden of Eden was lost in New Guinea ❤ No island more blessed.
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They're Beautiful
Nice 👍
05:55 what the flag at Tores Strait ?
Melanesia is area west of 180 degrees long and south of the equator.
Is timors malanesian?
What about timor? I thouht the natives were closer to the papuans. If it werent occupied by indonesians would it be considered part of melanesia?
Timor, East Nusa Tenggara, Flobamora, Maluku are all considered South East Asia today but were originally populated by Papuans first. Then later the oncoming Austronesian settlement led to them being mixed. The sad thing is AFTER Indonesian colonization, the govt purposely sent Javanese migrants to these islands to basically reproduce with them and make them less black and more Indonesian.
Timorese are just like Pacific Islanders, same genetic ancestry (Papuan/Austronesian) in varying degrees.
Not all Asian are the same white brown native African. Why can’t we just say Al Melanesian came from motherland aborigines Australia. Melanesian are black but different black from Africa.
I agree they can’t seem to get away from skin complexion but if you say all races with straight are the same they will feel mad so I understand what you mean we all not the same because I share melanin skin but I know these aren’t my people at all
Melanesians and Aborigines are the most genetically distant peoples from Africans because their ancestors were the first to leave Africa about 70000 years ago.
That means that Europeans are more closely related to Africans because their ancestors left Africa only about 40000 years ago.
Skin colour only indicates the different latitudes where people have adapted to different solar intensities, so has nothing to do with how much different peoples are related to each other.
We Melanesians aren't Asian, Asians came after us, we were here first.
You right bro
@Nagin-zt6sc Didn't I say that in one of my previous comments, Papuan + Austronesian (Asian) = Melanesian, Polynesian, Micronesian? The first inhabitants of South East Asia were Papuans. You can still find a small group of Melanesians in Malaysia, Philippines and apart from West Papuans in Indonesia, there are other groups of Melanesians in Indonesia. East Timor is part Melanesia also.
And what about the aborigines of Australia?
Different DNA and they also came earlier than Melanesians. They have higher traces of other human species than us but also more Dravidian DNA.
We are considered genetic cousins. They are the first people of this continent ❤