The Fascinatingly Mysterious Origins of the Ainu
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- Hello! This is my first video on Human Diversity and evolution. In this video, I discuss quite a bit about ancient and prehistoric human migration and evolution into East Asian, specifically Japan. I examine the strange and somewhat mysterious case of the Ainu tribe and other members of Y-Haplogroup D, and in doing so break down what exactly happened in Asia during our prehistory. Hope you enjoy!
Sorry for the popping audio, its a new microphone and I'm still trying to figure things out.
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Hello TH-cam community, I am an Ainu from Russia, Sakhalin. We are the native population of northern Japan and southeastern Siberia. We are descedants of the Northeast Asian Okhotsk and a paleolithic population from Central Asia which migrated to Japan more than 30,000 years ago. The Northeast Asian Okhotsk people were related to other Northeast Asians and Native Americans, while the paleolithic Central Asians are not closely related to any modern group. The paleolithic Central Asians contributed the "European-like look" as they share some genes with Europeans and Middle Easterners, but not all Ainu had such "European-like look". The majority always looked Northeast Asian or a mix of the two looks. The Ainu language and culture originated largely from the Northeast Asian Okhotsk people, thus we have many similarities to other Northeast Asians, Siberians and Native Americans. It is a misconception that all Ainu are hairy or look European. We do not. The majority of historical Ainu and of modern Ainu is similar to other people around the Sea of Okhotsk. Europeans exaggarated the "European" look among Ainu.
To sum up: We Ainu people came from the combination of the Northeast Asian Okhotsk culture and a paleolithic population which arrived from Central Asia. I am happy that other people are interested in the Ainu history, culture and people. Thank you. :)
So do you have the D DNA?
y'all got an N-word pass?
Andaman islanders have D haplogroup like Ainu
snapfizz I'm guessing he just got the information from word of mouth and didn't question his relatives/neighbors evidences. Most people have no idea where they actually came from because before DNA tracing it was just based off legends and appearance.
@@radioactivebirdj.1845 Word of mouth or not, what Alexei said is proven by mtDNA as well. Remarkable number of Haplogroup-Y can only be found in East Siberian Ulchi, Sakhalin Island Nivkh, Hokkaido Ainu etc. Also do not believe that they are not mixed. They are all mixed, but less mixed than other ethnicities. Therefore they hold HG D1a2 (D2-M55) as well as a other genes. The WordPress blog reference above is just a misleading and non-scientific blog post. And don't forget we are all origin from Cameroon. Peace.
The female tattooing of the chin and lower lip seems almost ubiquitous among Polynesian cultures all the way from New Zealand to the Inuit, that's fascinating to me
Isn't that interesting? I wonder why (as in why just the lower part of the face and chin)? Parallel customs that evolve separately like that are rarely a coincidence.
@@Sarah.Riedel Hi! I also find it very interesting and not a coincidence; the same tradition is widespread among Berber women populations of North Sahara.. What is interesting for me, is the wisdom that lies beneath this traditions: the lower part of the mouth and the chin area happen to be related to the reproductive system in the Chinese acupuncture face mapping! Have you ever noticed some boils on your chin area during the pre-menstrual period? That is due to ormonal change; if you have cronic boils there, it might be a sign of ovarian cysts; so tattoing it might have been a sort of preventive medicine, to keep the reproductive system healthy? I like the idea of this beautiful ancestors people knowing very well how to keep the body harmonius and healthy..
Tattoo or piercing as preventive medicine was a real thing;
For example pirates hearings was not for beauty, the hole was made in a point of the ear that it's connected to the eyes, and it seems it was made to achieve better sight... Also Altai mummies and our Otzi man of the Alps, had tattoed points on the back, in correspondence of acupressure points
@@Sarah.Riedel
Well, the Inuit as Sarah pointed out, have a similar culture. The Inuits also came from Kamchatka. Which is the big protruding landmass that's near Hokkaido and the Kuril Islands. There are also small Ainu populations on Kamchatka that came from Hokkaido. It's very likely that the Plynesians, Inuits, and Ainu; maybe even possibly the Jomon or further back, had contact with the Ainu. Furthermore, the matrilineal X Chromozone for the Ainu comes from the Okhotsk People of Siberia. This means these Siberian people could have passed through Inuit populations on their way to Hokkaido, and intermingled with the Jomon and Ainu Ancestors. This would carry the similar tradition found in the Inuits down to Hokkaido. I Don't know much about the Polynesians, so I don't know if there's a direct relation there, or if it's just convergent cultural evolution.
Or, they could have gotten these cultural similarities from the Cs, assuming that the Cs were in China, Korea, and Japan; where they would go to get to Japan.
Idk bout the other Polynesian cultures, but the Japanese Ainu were treated really badly because of the tattoos. It’s v hard for Ainu women of today’s generation to get those traditional designs tattooed because “yakuza scary (we are actually racist don’t believe our anime)”
Clearly the annunaki had Predator mandibles and in honor of them bringing the technobucket, all the chicks got tattoos like they had mandibles too.
Obviously.
I read a manga called Golden Kamuy that is centered around Ainu culture in the time period shortly after the Russo-Japanese war. The writers take a great amount of care into making the Ainu accurate, and at the end of each chapter there’s detailed explanations to any Ainu foods/clothes/tattoos/objects that were shown in that chapter. I learned a lot of little details along the way that I otherwise wouldn’t have ever learned about!
I started out with manga and anime
Golden kamuy was just one of thousands of others I had gotten through several years back
Same as many other people
Then I moved towards more niche genre like lightnovels for a while
But it was during lockdown when I started getting into alternate history which set me off on this deep dive into this geopolitical, geographical and historical rabbithole
@@maddogbasil to me, Pocahontas (Disney version) is like Golden Kamuy, Ranma 1/2 and Saint Seiya all at once
I don’t a thing about mangas but I found your comment very interesting. Would recommend the manga you read on the Ainu peolple?
@@rafaelraad555 I wouldn’t recommend it for anyone just trying to learn about Ainu culture, as that’s not the main focus. I’d also only recommend it to someone who enjoys dark/crude humor and is ok with seeing gore/violent drawings. There is a lot of disturbing content mixed in with amazing historical accuracy and storytelling. Also: manga is essentially comics/graphic novels, with the only difference being they read right to left, instead of left to right. You can buy physical copies at pretty much any bookstore or read it online!
I had no idea about the Ainu until this anime. I always knew in all countries there are indigenous communities but I just never really thought about the Japanese indigenous until I saw the show.
"The Ainu people are meek, modest, good - natured, trusting, polite,
sociable, respectful of property, and brave when hunting.
Faith in friendship and generosity, unselfishness, frankness - their usual qualities.
They are truthful and do not tolerate deception "
(Anton Pavlovich Chekhov).
fantasizing is always a cult
This could be anyone-
@Felipe Carvalho lol TH-cam is full of third world smart-ass moron who actually knows nothing.
@Felipe Carvalho if we all would be judged based on our ancestor's behavior...
I think @ぽんぽこ is just tying to not idealize an entire ethnic group
It is true that, historically, hunter-gatherer societies tend to be more humane and equal. Actually some brain scientists believe individuals back then were more capable and intelligent than today's standardized serfs. (Brain size has been shrinking since the advent of agriculture.)
I am Ainu and my uncle looks exactly like the old man you showed in the beginning and near the end but with his beard shaved off
gothic lemons then he is not Ainu since he has discarded his beard which is part of the Ainu culture.............
@@nopulau8628 it's just weird to have a giant beard in modern Japanese society, jeez. That's like saying you're not black if you straighten your hair.
Wait your actually Ainu?
What about these Greek patterns on your traditional clothing?Also some words are similar to Greek language.One of our old names was Ionians
cutting beard === cutting off ur haplogroups duh
This is really cool, my grandfather on my mother's side was ainu. and its crazy to see something about something this obscure.
I know this is pretty awesome.
I think it is cool too. But I think I speak for the ethnically conscious third of Americans when I say that we're super interested in obscure groups. Part of it is just curiosity about somebody who is different, but most of it is we want to learn things that our own peoples have lost over time that are still preserved in isolated groups.
There's a section of the Quallah Boundary Land Trust that is kind of remote. They maintain a lot of old traditions there and I plan to go there alone once I'm able to afford a horse in order to learn the traditional way of living. (Horses are more practical in the back country and cheaper than a jeep.) My ancestors are on the tribal rolls and I still have the same family name passed down. So even though I don't look Indian, I can prove my kinship.
It's probably similar for you. A Great Grandparent is not enough to look like the people that they came from. And you'd have to go to an out of the way place to learn the old ways too. Japan's a bit better about roads though so you probably don't need a horse.
@Gogu Pãduche That's all a load of bullshit. If you believe that I've got a bridge I'd like to sell. It's red, it's in California, and it's famous. I just need a few million $ and it's yours.
@Gogu Pãduche Uhh, san francisco is in california?
@Gogu Pãduche I see you must be speaking from experience.
The Jomon are well known in art history because of the unique ceramics they left behind. That culture made some really cool art works.
Like most extinct ancient peoples. It sucks because that’s all that remains of their cultures and customs, that’s all the information that we’ll ever get about them, their way of life, lost to time.
New magical light brown skinned people for me to worship and save! I’m excited and I can’t hide it.
They invented ceramic when the rest of the world only knew stone!
@@Mynipplesmychoice didn't get enough attention the first 2 times you commented this?
@@schlagie no I want more!
My grandmother was full blooded Ainu. But my grandfather was modern Japanese. I never had the chance to meet my grandmother, but I did meet my grandfather. I know that once a year they have a big meeting of the Ainu people in Hawaii on the big island. And even the Inuet show up. They believe that they are from the same lineage.
With a Name like John Rathbun? Suppose it could be your Maternal side.
@@HailWoden18 yes, my mother was Japanese.
my thoughts too!
Nope. Inuit savages have nothing to do with Ainu. Ainu are closer to Polynesians and south East Asians
@@ganggang2537 as an Inuit person what in the racist fuck is wrong with you
Human evolution is so interesting. It's a shame how often people bring ideology into it.
I agree! It's always a shame that people often get distracted from the facts and try to make things political
Its tribalism. "You look like me you good you don't look like me you not so good"
Skin color in general seems to be misleading. It appears it doesn't really tell us much about ancestry of a person or genetic similarities. Just read an article a few days ago that many of the original inhabitants in Britain were dark skinned. Skin color seems to change a lot over the generations
on the subject of human prehistory, I hope you eventually make a video on the known and speculated interbreeding on early humans and other sapiens species.
RipOffProductionsLLC omg yes I hope he does a video on that 😀
So im half Ainu and its funny people always ask me if I'm mixed Japanese. But interestingly my girlfriend from Okinawa thought I were from Okinawa as well when she saw me at first time.
Ryukyuans have a higher frequency of aboriginal "Jomon-like" DNA, so that may be why you look similar. Best regards!
I second what Eduardo said. The amount of Jomon DNA increases on both ends of the country. I believe that I've read that Korean ancestry is thickest in Kansai. This would make sense considering the history of their interactions. It's amazing how much history can be seen in our genetic make up!
When my dad and I went to Hokkaido, he thought that some of the Ainu there looked like they were Okinawan (his side of the family is from the Ryukyus). I thought some of them did kind of look Okinawan, but not all. Ainu and Ryukyuans have a higher percentage of Jomon DNA than Japanese, so perhaps it wasn't so surprising.
You ARE Japanese.
@Gogu Pãduche the ainu. Subject of the video? Follow along will you?
about your "anime mentioning" part there, theres an anime called The Golden Kamuy where the Ainu is a huge part of the anime
i just realized that, i forgot about that anime.
Horo-horo in Shaman King is also an Ainu, I remember reading it in the manga.
Came here to search what do ainu's look like im reading the manga now hehe
That's how I got here...
@@TheUnknownDozo what a throwback lmao
I'm Ainu ,Yayoi and Welsh mixed. I've been absolutely Fascinated by the information about the Ainu people that is being discovered and I'm Grateful for those who are putting in the work .
Thank you for the video!
no such race as "mixed", you are who your father is. js
Both the Ainu and the Celtic traditions are very Animistic. They were once considered primitive, but in the age of environmentalism and metahumanism, the non-modern perspectives are being re-evaluated.
Strangely, JRR Tolkien used the word "Ainu" to describe angelic beings in his legends.
@ꨓꨕ་ꨚꨝ་ꨆꨈ ꪒꪲꪐꪬ singular: Ainu
@@melodkeyelash huh, did not know that was the singular.
It occurs to me that "aina," in Hawaiian means the land. Hawaiians were from polynesia. Hmmm.
@@hermeticxhaote4723 the r signifies plural in Quenya and Sindarin. Ainur, valar, maiar, eldar, noldor etc. are all plural
Well, he was a huge nerd when it came to linguistics.
"japanese native americans", so they're... native japanese?
Made me laugh
I'm mexican and am like WTF
couldve just said First Nations lol
Yes!
Japanese people originated on the Japanese archipelago so the Japanese are native to Japan as well. The only difference is that the Ainu lived on the islands before the ancestors of the Japanese came. So it would be correct to call them "first inhabitants".
Interesting Historical Fact for anyone interested: One of the most contributing person to the study of the Ainu was Bronislaw Pilsudski, who also happened to be the older brother of Jozef Pilsudski, who won Polands independence. Bronislaw was actually involved in an Assassination Plot on Tsar Alexander III, alongside Lenin's brother of all people, and was found guilty and was exiled to Sakhalin, where he would spend a decade.
There he grew fascinated by their unique culture, and studied them for several years. In 1903 he recorded the Ainu language for the first time on audio. From these original recordings an Ainu dictionary of over a thousand words was made, which was translated into over ten languages. Pilsudski also wrote down the myths, culture, music and customs of the Ainu. He also married an Ainu woman, and had a son and daughter with her. Eventually he returned to Europe after the Russo-Japanese war started, and died in Paris in 1918. A funny result of this adventure was that since Jozef Pilsudski himself only had daughters, the only male member of the family was Bronislaws son, who moved to Japan, and so the last Pilsudski's are Japanese, not Polish.
This just shows how interesting the history of a single family can be 1 person changed the entire future of his family
Not sure if you're into anime at all, but there's a show called Golden Kamuy that heavily, HEAVILY features the Ainu (including lots of spoken Ainu language and traditional hunting techniques, recipes, cultural bits, etc). It even has a sort-of pilsudski-ish character that plays an enormously crucial role in the story! And it's like a western too, because it largely takes place in frontier Hokkaido.
Wow, Mononoke Hime is one of my favorite films ever, and I never understood that aspect of its story. It was an amazing moment when you said that, I paused the video and immediately so many details and themes of the film all fit into place, all had context and made more sense than they ever had before, despite having believed I understood it entirely already. Tears came to my eyes... it was really beautiful to "see" a work I have loved for so long, completely anew in that way.
Very cool moment. I remember realizing that, seeing how they lived, their homes, and how they dressed, etc. and going online to find conformation on reddit.
I'm going to have to watch it again. None of this crossed my mind while watching it before. Good thing I have a copy, maybe I'll watch it tonight.
to be fair is not the princess whois emishi but the boy and is very clearly put in the movie, they even call themselves like that. If you notice the emishi are in a reunion at th start talking about a menace that could destroy them (modern japanese culture). Most movies of miyasaki are about this conflict
the xonflict is betwen SAN (jomon, the mask it was done to represent old jomon ceramics) ASHITAKA (he is an emishi) Eboshi (yamato). And for me whats beautiful is there are nobads in the conflict every point of view is valid
In eraly 1920s Bronislaw Pilsudski, a Poliish ethnographer, has recorded the language, songs, and customs of the Ainus. Incidentally, the guy's brother is better known. He was general Jozef Pilsudski who was instrumental in regaining independence for Poland (in 1918).
Cool!
There is something poetic of a guy to document and photograph many of these people's appearance and customs being himself a Pole, a culture that also was occupied and oppressed.
This is informative, thank you for sharing this.
Pretty sure its Ainu NOT Ainus......
For obvious reasons maybe...
He also took an Ainu women as a wife and had several Children with her, who remained in Japan and had descendants of their own. In fact, the only surviving men of the Pilsudski family are Japanese
Golden Kamuy, a manga and anime, is about yearly 20th century japan and features the Ainu culture heavily
literally teaches you about them, bless Noda-sensei
lol i was hoping someone else in the comments would have mentioned this
i came here because of the anime
yesss i was thinking about that lol
unfortunately its shit
You're the first man on youtube who did a detailed research video on Ainu people. Thank you for doing this.
Silvia of newearth (not a man I get it)
Robert Sepehr however is a man and has details on youtube about Ainu.
When I was looking for Roberts last name I accidently came across many
other videos about the Ainu on youtube, surprised me.
Patrick Lee no is not the first. Monotone hime and all te Japanese culture is like a Greek myth.
His video isn't detailed, it's ignorant. He implies that modern Japanese people are the "new migrants". Yet this is false, Japanese people of today are all mixed with Jomon, no pure Yayoi people exist anymore and haven't existed in Japan for at least 2000+ years. DNA tests show that all Japanese people are a mixture of Jomon and Yayoi, just to different degrees.
The modern Japanese didn't come over, they are literally the mixed result of the people who came over with the Jomon people.
Secondly he claims that Jomon culture is nothing like "Japanese" culture, against he is trying to imply the groups are totally different and never mixed.
This is false, the mixed Japanese people (all Japanese people) have a religion called Shinto, a large part of Shinto is based on Jomon animalism. Parts of the Japanese language and culture are also Jomon Japanese in origin.
This wasn't a case of Yayoi coming in and just wiping out people (like European imagine), it was a result of being superior likely on a cultural level, though the Jomon were still very resilient and not mere primitives and a lot of mixing and breeding resulted and that's why the Japanese DNA is so mixed with Jomon to this very day.
@@lordofthebeltsthereturnoft1127 Did you even watch the video?
ToyoAki looks beautiful in your pfp
The man in the thumbnail looks like an Indigenous Australian to a degree.
It makes sense Ainu would share some facial similarities to Indigenous Australians as according to scientific studies they share common ancestors before diverging approximately 50,000 years going in different directions across land bridges to their respective land masses.
I always wondered if the Ainu were the Emishi described in Princess Mononoke. And it makes sense they were the original Jomon before the Yayoi rice culture emigrated into Japan.
Ainu, Emishi, and Jomon are definitely not the same, but they do overlap to some extent.
@@deadby15
Thanks for the info.
Have you ever realized that the wars and violence in the scene where Ashitaka is caught up in the pillaging all occur on rice paddies? The details.
I knew the name ‘emishi’ sounded familiar, it’s the tribe that Ashitaka is from in Princess Mononoke!
woah, that’s really cool!
If you want to read about the Yamato-Emishi Wars, (and why the Yamato only won because of a zurg rush, but then some hybrid Emishi-Yamato people rebelled and temporarily made their own kingdom) you will need to read the Court Histories of the Japanese Royal Family which are widely available in the form of carefully crafted books (which mostly leave stuff out that makes them look bad, of course). One of them is the Nihon Shoki for the first few wars, and then after that is another book I have completely forgotten the name of that talks about the civil war that led to the Kamakura Period. The Kamakura Shoggunate was founded and the Samurai class established because of that war which was the final large scale conflict pitting the Emishi against the Yamato. This war also started the ghost stories about the youkai Gassho Dokoro with the Fujiwara* princess allegedly creating the youkai from the hungry ghosts of those civilians wrongfully killed by the Kamakura soldiers in order to get revenge on the Kamakura leaders.
*not the same Fujiwara that are related to the royal family of Japan, different Fujiwara family that was from Emishi heritage with a few Yamato nobles thrown in who were also not from the Fujiwara. It's complicated.
Im trying to learn more about the Emishi and specifically Iji no Kimi Azamaro and the name Iji. I'm so happy to have found you all!!!
Modern Japanese are very touchy on this topic. The Japanese government would very much like the Ainu to just go away.
So I've heard. The situation seems pretty tense. In fact, my video got demonetized by TH-cam for what I'm guessing is just for saying "Ainu". It seems the Ainu have been largely neglected for millennia and the situation between Ainu and other Japanese people is worse than Native Americans and other Americans.
For context those who don't know anything about the Ainu, during the Meiji Restoration the Japanese began to colonize the area where the Ainu lived and began to violently suppress their native culture to the point that in less than 40 years their cultural group had virtually ceased to exist and weren't even recognized as an indigenous group till 2008.
More likely are some trigger words of race and genetics. I guess during your research you noticed what groups are most interested in the topic ...
You need to be veeeeery careful about terms and wording now that Susan is in charge.
it is fuck up the things that have been seen in japanese olitics. I really hope it Changes soon.
My dad is half Japanese and our Haplo group is D. Our Japanese family came from the coast near Osaka in the south of Japan. Interesting!
Which is a break off from E, I’m E via male line my family is also very wild lol my Japans granny fled to a Jewish community in Cuba in 1924 married my grandpa a black Jew, the women from her line are D+E which is very rare. Read more about it and also Learn the story of Joktan. These are ppl from his line. Semitic ppl just like u! D brother.
This series is interesting. More videos on human diversity please.
Thanks man! I'm happy you enjoyed it :)
please no
The_Aliens Y tho?
Jew Space Ranger It’s an alien, it feels offended when the spotlight is put on us
Jew Space Ranger clearly he wants more extraterrestrial content.
While living in northern Japan many years ago I first learned of the Ainu when I visited a "recreated" Ainu village. It was fascinating, but sad: there was so little information about their culture and history. I asked a Japanese friend about them and she said that Ainu culture had been suppressed in Japan until very recently and that almost nothing was taught about them in school. Even the best resources I've seen are mostly anecdotal and speculative. If anyone can recommend a good resource on them I'd greatly appreciate it.
This started in the Meiji Era. Now it had a bit changed because they are good for tourism but still their culture is basically gone.
Must reading is Joseph Campbell's The Masks of God. It's four volumes and only a small part deal with the Ainu, but has a good index. Besides, it's fascinating throughout, especially if comparative mythologies interest you.
Ron Carpenter - Thanks, I'll check it out. I read The Power of Myth years ago, a good read as well.
Tokyo CHOP, Not exactly. I believe they're lighter skinned (some say they're related to Russians from long, long ago) and they're socially isolated from other Japanese. Their's is an ancient culture, one of the oldest surviving ones in the world. I guess you could say they are animists, at least they worship bears especially (see image of bear in video). They should be left alone because they are so unique and "civilization" would probably destroy what they have to show the rest of us. I don't think their situation is "sad"; it's the rest of us who are sad.
Ron Carpenter have they always been lighter skinned? Usually the farther you go back the darker.
(Warning this probably isn't going to make any sense to anyone who hasn't seen JoJo)
What do you guys think my stand's abilities should be?
I've been playing around with the idea of a stand that "reverses" the evolutionary process of an organism by having the ability to make a target start to possess the more primitive traits of its ancestors or "de-evolve" something the longer the stand is active.
Ps: I know "Walk the Dinosaur" would have been a better name XD but I just love Queen.
Trey search atatata vs oraoraora
TREY the Explainer You would have the abillity of Scary Monsters but with owls and sharks instead of dinosaurs
TREY the Explainer
With B in potential.
Does that mean you can devolve someone into Amoeba?
Sorry my guy but there is already a Dinosaur stand
TREY the Explainer the power to reverse time, a reverse King crimson
Man, after reading Golden Kamuy, I've been reading a lot about Ainu.
Golden Kamuya is amazing, quite weird, but an amazing story.
@@blackgoat2992 how do you think it’s not weird, there’s beastiality and pissing on each other. it’s weird for comedy’s sake. very educational though
@@cherrybuds pffffffff Im on chapter 13 and wtf is going to happen here xD
Golden kamuy is one of most popular anime in japan.
I'm going to argue that the Ainu and the Emishi are the same people - just given different names.
The Emishi are likely genetic predecessors of the Ainu, but hunter gatherer culture on the Japanese archipelago changed over time. They merged with the Okhotsk culture which has now vanished. Some Ainu practices only date to the medieval period. Patriarchal family structure among Ainu emerged in the Tokugawa period as they interacted with Yamato Japanese.
different tribes I guess. Even Ainu, there were like 4 or 8 different languages. Now they're all mixed up.... They didn't have any letters and didn't try to use Japanese letters during Edo era when the Ainu and Japanese had been trading goods.
No they aren't. The Emishi are shown in pics as wight and hairy. The Ainu are depicted as black in afros.
@@trillgods5 no Ainu looks black
The Ainu are the Jomon people. The Emishi are the Jomon mixed with Yayoi people, who later completely assimilated by the 12th century. The Japanese are pure Yayoi.
yes hello I am a half Yakut woman haplogroup C4a1. That half of my family looks pretty East Asian, and I've heard we descend from "proto Siberians" and much much later Steppe people fleeing the tumult of the Golden Horde. I've also heard we're more closely related to Ainu and Tibetan people than any other groups in Asia, though that doesn't make sense because Mongolians and Kazakhs also look like us, though I find our faces tend to be more narrow, hair is often bushier (especially with age), and skin is often darker (though nowadays people tend to make an effort to be pale).
Wonderful video, I always get excited about well researched content on North East Asian peoples, and new Explainer videos, of course!
Yakut are the early relatives of the Turks, perhaps even the original Turks, correct me if I miss something
ryukenb2k The "African" groups that are at the root of Human ancestry are from Ethiopia, with the Bantus being just one branch. Basically those ancestral groups had genetic adaptations similar to what one would find among today's Amharic, Tigre and Somali peoples, and their descendants evolved in minor ways to local environments. Fun fact: Bantus and Australian aboriginal peoples are the branches farthest apart in genetic relation, but both groups evolved similar physiological adaptations to their environment
Hi Maya thanks for the comment!
I'll have to look into the Yakut and their heritage because it sounds really interesting.
No problem! I'm happy you enjoyed my video and I definitely plan on talking more about humans ;)
I agree with someone who said your family are probably the original turks as when genghis khan army invaded eurasian steppe, they rape most of those turks thus mixing east asian genes into them. you're probably more similar to original turks than most modern turks these days.
ryukenb2k because Africa is just a Continent. Look at the bush people in Africa. They are the father of east Asians.
Ainu the origins of these people.
But no one believed me!
Vijay Nair actually made me lol hahah thanks 😊
Clever bastard !
*ba dum chik
Hey can you not-
Excellent joke.
Funnily, when I lived in London with my family, some workers in the supermarket whom we suspected as Japanese turned out to be Nepali--where, based on the map in the video, people of haplo D gene exist. I was born to a fully Japanese family (and we are not related to Ainu either) where relatives share Jomon kind of features. I always get asked if I am from Okinawa (or if I am even fully Japanese), the southern island also known for the strongly remaining Jomon appearance.
I thought the Okinawans are something else again
@caitlyncarvalho7637 what do you mean by regulated? You are aware that haplpgroup usually refers to only one segment such as Y chromosome, right?
631 japanese people didn't want to hear their heritage is mixed
The Japanese are what I would call unintended racist's it's not with malice they just seem very interested and sometimes too curious about other races which by Western standards we would call racist
Japanazis
6:31
gotchu
These bastard already know
I am Japanese, and I can tell you that in the past, the Ainu was seen as "Not real Japanese" but they where "granted" omission by the samurai lords to live out their lifes in Hokkaido the North Island of Japan. My mother is from Hokkaido, and her father had a very close relationship with the Ainu, and learned their language and culture. The Ainu culture is very much a part of the Japanese culture today, and most educated Japanese are aware of this fact. Most of what the Japanese have build up as being Japanese culture today, comes from Bushido, the way of the samurai, and that's why there was so much focus on only this period of time in the Japanese history. But today the Ainu is accepted, just as the thought of the modern Japanese are a mix of a lot of different races and cultures. If you ever visit Hokkaido Japan, you will find Ainu culture and relicts everywhere.
Saw it pop up and clicked immediately
The Mystic Silverfish same
The Ainu are truly unique and look very extraordinary. Never would have guessed judging by the photograph that said person to be from Japan. The world is brimming with fascinating and unusual minority ethnic groups in countries with another majority e.g. Basque people, The Sami, Aztec, Maya etc.
Great new video Trey!!
Promethean Knight There is more info on when "Africans " first came into what is now named Asia. Going to PINTEREST will help you receive current information , especially about all Aboringinal ppl. across the world, who were viciously murdered, by descendants of, likely the later evolved species of Homo Sapiens-ish.. As of the 1870's , and beyond, Australian Aboringinals and other Native Aboringinal , Hawaiians; some directly, some were destroyed by the diseases brought in by invaders, for example, when Captain Cook invaded Hawaii, he brought std's , leprosy , they quickly killed off islanders whose bodies had not experienced such horrors on their safe , " isolated" formerly healthy Island. If you look at pictures from the 1870's Hawaii's people, their Kings and Queens, etc. before Cook, were nearly JET BLACK.
Bonita Hobbs Don't know where you read that, or what pictures have you seen, but Native Hawaiians have never been nowhere near being jet black
Robert Smith. VERY DARK- SKINNED, THE QUEEN AND KING IN THE 1800'S, NOT LITERALLY JET BLACK.
Bonita Hobbs I wouldn't call them "very" any day of the week but if overemphasising their skin colour serves some purpose, who am I to care?
We wuz kangs and shiet in Hawaii, nigga. Until Captain Cook ruined everything. We are the best race on the planet but somehow keep getting conquered by literally everyone who tries to do so. :S
I realize it's four, nearly five years late, but I found it very interesting. I don't know why human origins fascinate me, but it does, and the vast amount of new evidence which we have as a result on decoding the human genome just ads to the fascination. The migration and cultural differences in our species are, in my opinion, one of the greatest stories ever forged from scientific evidence, and as it unfolds before us, one can hardly help but be amazed.
The more I learn about ancestry the more I realize so called 'pure race' are no different than dog breeds
How come dog breeds?
We are all mongrels. And all the better for it. Hybrid vigour.
@@jiyanmehta7250 because all dogs are the same species. A tiny designer tea cup dog and massive great dane can technically breed. Humans where the driving force for looks. Our ancestors the driving factor was environment and maybe sexual selection. The point being just because with think purticular traits belong to nationalities and some like to claim superiority just like dog breeds. If all ppl would look at genetics and see how connected we are hatred hatred and racism would be much harder.
Way, way less difference than dog breeds, obviously.
Pure breed it's in the name.
Considering what happened to the Ainu in the late 19th and early 20th centuries the genocide theory for why group D lacks the numbers of other groups unfortunately has some merit.
Unlikely that hunter gatherers could coordinate such a large scale genocide.
I suppose so
Another possibility is that they were few in numbers and when a much larger population group came and absorbed them into their own ranks, they more or less disappeared.
@ChaosManticore That is very likely especially if the new groups were better at agriculture hence able to support much larger populations which would have swallowed up the genetics of the less populous hunter-gatherers.
@@kalvincastro9042 That is heard every day in major cities.
The composer who created a lot of the distinctive music for the Godzilla movies claimed he got the themes from his Ainu ancestors. Primitive, almost dream like. When I was a kid in the 60's I thought that was just the way Japanese music sounded. Only later did I discover it was just as strange to them as it was to me. It was, more or less, Ainu music.
that's very interesting! I never heard that. It's cool to see the influence these people have had without most people recognizing it
Matthew Davies that sounds cool, do you have the source for that ? I'd love to check it out
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Ifukube Google lists several interviews and more.
Matthew Davies thanks a bunch
I'm assuming you mean the *original* Godzilla.
This is a great example of the complete ridiculousness of racism..we are all interconnected..
I have a friend who one of these old japanese cultures,super curly hair,dark and has Yellow eyes..he suffered alot of racism in Japan so left ...it's crazy to deny a countries cultural heritage to support a doctrine of superiority ..support indigenous cultures and learn from our history...
Thank you for this very interesting doco
This is incredibly fascinating! Thank you for the great explanation of Haplogroups.
That intro tho, and Barn Owls can explain everything
And Basking Sharks.
Finally, a jojo reference in my favorite youtuber
Do you want a basket shark for your shopping? I'm sorry....
The Toho Society basking owls
The barn shark is all knowing and seeing.
I first heard about the Ainu in the 1990s. I was teaching Medieval World History to 7th graders in Fremont, California. Kids amd teachers are smart! History is so worth studying
We diverse humans learn we have more in common with eachother than not. This is inspiring. Thank you for posting this.
7th graders are very special. Congratulations ! 4323
I knew you gonna mention princess mononoke after introducing the Emishi. What a masterpiece
Very interesting video, but I‘m sad to see that many people in the comments fall into pseudoscientific classifications that go by the looks of people.
Human evolution is fascinating, but the obsession some people have with using it to distinguish beyond our genetic differences is saddening
The AR/Liberalist Exchange Population-theories and genetics are proven by science, classifying people simply by their looks is unscientific and can easily lead to wrong assumptions or made up classifications that put people of one colour above others. (Like we can see in white supremacy and similar colour-related beliefs of ones superiority)
Simple colour-related classifications completely ignore actual facts and closeness‘ between different populations.
The AR/Liberalist Exchange I didn’t say that its white supremacy when someone thinks of black people as black or african. I said that many people will link the skin colour of people to other unrelated factors like their intelligence. This easily leads to people linking many unrelated traits to a certain skin colour, which can lead to concepts like white supremacy.
And thats the problem. Seeing people as the colour they are is not a problem, but linking unrelated traits to peoples looks is the problem, which is what I meant in my original comment. (Also I think, some people tried to make assumptions about the ainus original heritage by judging their looks and thereby ignoring genetics and other factors.)
@@yourlocaltoad5102
You are correct. You see what you're taking about taking place in North Africa, as people with LIGHT SKIN are automatically classified as WHITE/CAUCASOID/CAUCASIAN. However, those same LIGHT SKINNED PEOPLE North Africans would easily be classified as Black in America.
GOOGLE: Vanessa Williams, Lena Horne, Clay Thompson, Stephen Curry, or Vin Diesel. Just like former U.S. President Barrack Obama, all of these people have one parent that's a GENETICALLY DOMINANT BLACK PERSON.
And since a GENETICALLY DOMINANT GENE will always be expressed in the presence of a GENETICALLY RECESSIVE GENE, they are classified racially as BLACK.
However, EUROCENTRIC MINDED RACISTS go out of their way to avoid dealing with that GENETIC PRINCIPLE in North Africa. Now there's another twist to this BS. In East Africa, specifically Ethiopia, they do just the opposite.
They claim that the GENETICALLY DOMINANT INDIGENOUS BLACK AFRICAN ETHIOPIANS are members of the most COLD WEATHER ADAPTED, GENETICALLY RECESSIVE & MELANIN DEFICIENT of all humans, the WHITE/CAUCASOID/CAUCASIAN RACE.
How in hell can Ethiopians be WHITE/CAUCASOID/CAUCASIAN when Ethiopians have GENETICALLY DOMINANT PHENOTYPE/FEATURES(WOOLLY/TIGHTLY CURLED HAIR/BROWN/DARK/BLACK SKIN) that EXTREMELY COLD WEATHER ADAPTED, GENETICALLY RECESSIVE & MELANIN DEFICIENT WHITES/CAUCASOID'S/CAUCASIANS can't even produce?
I've already encountered one EUROCENTRIC MINDED IDIOT on this site that claimed WHITES/CAUCASOID'S/CAUCASIANS migrated into Africa & they all turned BLACK. In his DELUSIONAL MIND, that's how BLACKS came to dominant the African continent.
Skin colours are also genetic traits, same with eye colour, hair colour, skull shape and other muscular skeletal factors. Whoever said one trait, one gene determined ones race it is multiple factors. Somewhat like breeds of dogs.
@Herbal Shaman That's just henna in the kids hair. It's like vagina bleaching; I will not be fooled.
I’ve heard of the Ainu before, but never got such an intricate explanation or their origins. This was awesome! Thanks.
Never heard of them before, this is fascinating! Btw "children of the sun" is some high fantasy shit
B_Potassio most people outside of Japan haven't so I'm happy you found it interesting! And you're totally right Children of the Sun sounds like something straight out of an anime
if you search name origins you will find a lot of peoples names, both individual and ethnic, have thiw almost mythological flare, if I remember correctly Semites means people of the sun for example
it would be interesting if you make a video on sardinians and basques
I've probably only heard of them b/c my mother is Japanese.
the japanees love there sun rice symbolisme.
even thou they came from the wes to sunset invasion to the sunrise kingdom
Video:*about Ainu*
Me who’ve read Golden Kamui:The Expert
He returns
Lovely name you got there.
sir, you are a scholar and a gentleman.
Who knew two words can be one of the greatest comments of all time
Mr. DinoButt I know, our Lord JESUS CHRIST HAS RETURNED!
Mr. DinoButt he is gone again
Trey, Yayoi is pronounced yah-yoh-ee. You're saying yaoi.....which is um very different. 😅
Edit: Do NOT Google it.
Thanks man, my pronunciation sounds a bit like doodlebob XD
*Googles it* What the heck man! Haha.
For those wondering- it's like furries but with animals in human costumes
Ja-Ja-Japanese pronunciation guide!
five vowels:
A - "ah"
I - "ee"
U - "oo"
E - "eh"
O - "oh"
and that's pretty much it.
If it's any help too, the alphabet goes "a" "i" "u" "e" "o," "ka" "ki" "ku" "ke" "ko," "sa" "shi" "su" "se" "so" etc. so any consonant you see would be pronounced mostly the same as in English.
Fuck off weeb
I love this! I've been very interested in the Ainu, as they're not widely known, and their language and culture are poorly documented relative to the other ethnocultural groups in northeastern Asia.
Thanks man! I do too, I find them super interesting as they seem like on of the more neglected human cultures as far as scientific study, some of these research papers are relatively recent and often suggest further study in the future
NitrogenFume I'd never even heard of them until today...I'm ashamed
I was entirely unprepared for Trey to drop "we wuz kangz" in here in a completely calm manner lol
My grandmother and her father look a lot like these and are from northern japan. What I've been told from my japanese side is that they were known to be good warriors, japanese culture originators, and prosecuted pretty heavily. Those statues from the Jomon in the video are of the gods they worshipped called Dogu. They came from flying boats and passed to the Jomon technology, cultural traits and civilization in general. No matter what it is, the actual things our ancestors were saying about where they are from should be taken into account.
Q flying boats, scary. Ancient astronaut theorists believe.
They where the first barbarians ;]
Gods in a flying boat? I'm sure I saw that in the videogame Pocky & Rocky.
could "flying boats" be some sort of catamaran?
Q 3 m = in Rusian video they told bad things about future Japanese who stole the culture from Ainu and put them into a miserable state.
but Russians are also liars.
Loved it and thanks for sharing it. I’ve always known about the Ainu because I had an aunt by marriage who was a war bride and told my mother about the Ainu who told me. Since the advent of the internet I’ve done lots of research on them and developed quit a few theories! Ha.
Anyway, keep it up! I took many Anthropology courses in college in the 1970s but much that I learned has been overturnemd by new discoveries, and so I am still fascinated by by the origins of humans and their migrations. A lot of my personal theories about different populations that I’ve had for a lifetime have only recently become pretty darn accurate and I pat myself on the back. 😁
Thanks again!!!
Interestingly, the differences between the japanese and the ainu seem to be mirrored by Japan's now extinct wolf populations. The small wolves of Honshu were a genetically unique subspecies while the large wolves of Hokkaido were of the same lineage of the North American subspecies.
Canines are mans best friends as they say.
Best Ainu video I have seen. I loved the haplotype information, as well as the charts. Very good work.
This was fascinating! I can't wait to watch others in the series. Thanks, Trey!
you should do a series on specialized humans like the Sherpas dominating the Himalayas or the Bajau with their affinity in water etcetc
RETROFUTURISM I’ve read a paper that speculates the peoples living in the high Himalayas have denisovan ancestry, which is why they’re more suited for high altitude living
Can you do a video where you debunk points some people say that "Proves" that dinosaurs are a hoax?
EDIT: 304 likes?! Thanks for the Support 😁
THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN yeah but they seem to be everywhere
It'd be pretty funny tho
The people who say that get schooled even by other YECs. It's kind of weird watching it.
double digit? that's a very generous estimate.
COUGH COUGH CHRISTIANS AGAINST DINOSAURS COUGH COUGH
one of my best friends is half japanese and i wonder if the japanese side of his family is part ainu. years ago, his dad mentioned that the reason his side of the family is so (relatively) tall and has curly hair is because they trace their ancestry to “japanese people who also lived in eastern russia,” which kind of seems like how you might describe ainu ancestry to a child in the 2000s, no? the japanese side of his family were also big hippies and the pictures of his grandpa, dad, and uncles during their “i’m gonna let my hair and beard grow untamed” phases look very very similar to the pictures of the ainu men.
his parents always joked that most of the stereotypically “asian” traits their kids have (they aren’t as tall as their dad, they can’t grow super full beards, one has straight hair) all came from their (white) mom, so it would honestly explain a lot
Michael Cretu, basically the one guy behind the music group Enigma (everyone else comes and goes), recorded some Ainu singing for their second album. It sounds awesome and was a clever shift away from the Gregorian chants on the first album, while keeping things in the same basic theme of world-electronica. However he recorded the gentlemen without their permission; they later sued and I believe things were settled out of court (but I can’t remember and am too lazy to look it up right now). I guess the lesson is: don’t try to steal someone’s creative work, even if you believe they are primitive and won’t know any better. They’ll lawyer up in a New York second and sue your ass!
There should be a channel dedicated to these type of anthropology videos. Basically analyzing as much ethnicity origins as possible!
This was fascinating! Thank you, Trey. Would love to hear your spin on the similarities between Basque, and Ainu languages.
Good idea - that's something I've never heard of.
WHAT?!? That’s so cool. I’m basque and a bit of a language nerd so that would be such an interesting topic!
@@CatBarefield Yes. What adds to my fascination regarding this topic - is twofold . Even after many centuries , there is still no definitive explanation regarding the origins of the Basque people, the oldest group in Europe. Point number two: I am interested in culinary history. The traditional gastronomy of the Basque people is exquisitely plain, emphasizing the quality of the foods. Ainu cooking is also starkly simple - I began studying natural foods cooking when I lived in NYC at the macrobiotic Centre, in Soho, and met interesting people there, who were deep into cultural cooking. We exchanged ideas and recipes, etc. In addition, some time later, I spent time in the Basque country of northern Spain , and southern France. So I learned first hand of the traditional cooking there. I was a regular at a macrobiotic restaurant in Soho in Manhattan, where I knew the owner who was a fascinating. Yama owened Souen. The cooking there was similar to Basque country cooking, but it lacked meat of course. Plus the land masses have changed dramatically over the course of time - whose to say that the Basques did not migrate eon ago from Japan to Europe? I love the mystery of humankind. .
@@robinkeuneke6780 Just because they are both Language Isolates, does not mean sht. So is Armenian, it's closer to Japan than Basque country. So would it be OK, to claim the Ainu are of Armenia? No. Lmfao. Zero relation. Especially when you look at they Y and MtDNA. Basques are DEFINITIVE Western Europeans of Western Hunter Gatherer (Indigenous European) and Neolithic Farmer blood. They are the EXAMPLE of a PURE West European population. R1b Y DNA and U5 is common amongst their MtDNA. I am U5b1. Oldest Maternal Haplogroup in Europe. The original.
@@HailWoden18 You might want t simply google the subject - then you will see that you are missing out on information compiled by (or example) University of California, Riverside and Reddit, that genetically the Basques and the Ainu are related.
There seems to be quite a variation of DNA types within the Ainu. Many look very similar to Indigenous Australians but others look Turkic. There's definitely a blending of ethnic groups based on different peoples arriving in Paleolithic Japan.
I know you prolly didn't mean it but just so you are aware: "aborigine" is considered an offensive term by many Aboriginal Australians. Better just to say: Aboriginal and Torres strait islanders.
I know you prolly didn't mean it but just so you are aware: "aborigine" is considered an offensive term by many Aboriginal Australians. Better just to say: Aboriginal and Torres strait islanders.
@@charlietheron8947 Fixed
@@edwardfletcher7790 👍
Yes, Jomon are likely close relatives to the Australoid race, which includes Aborigines but also Melanesians and Andaman islanders. Those were the first to colonise Asia mostly around the coastal areas.
Is that why some Japanese people can grow full beards unlike some other Asian groups?
kevin pillar That’s an interesting theory.
kevin pillar Could be.
Maybe. I doubt I have much if any Ainu since I can only grow a half assed goatee
simhopp Native Americans and East Asians can grow beards, they're just not very thick.
simhopp Native here that is true thicker fuller blooded Natives can’t grow beards, many elders I see walking around don’t have any facial hair. Me and many younger generation natives have at least some nonnative blood mixed in, thus we got facial hair.
Thank you for clearing it up for us. I was raised in a house where anyone in Asia that looked European were descendants of Alexander the Greats soldiers such as the Ainu of Japan and the Kalash of North Pakistan and Afghanistan.
im living in japan and recently went to a museum about the ainu people. i could find really little about them, and this really helped.
South east Asia is a good example of what could have happened. The waves of migration pushed the original inhabitants in more and more secluded parts. In south east Asia you can literally see the waves of migration the more you climb in altitude. The group C probably inhabited a much bigger part of the territory then was pushed into some corners by the other migration waves.
Thankyou I’ve wondered about them
No problem ;)
>Trey makes a video touching on human race at all
So, how long do y'all give it until the comment section becomes absolute garbage?
Doesn't actually look like it'll be that way though :/ just dudes appreciating quality content.
Well Diego Quesada pretty much ruined the comments with his dead "LOL TRIGGERED LIBTARD" joke
Usually only those actually interested in the raw info will watch these videos, while most drama queens will gravitate
more to political and debate videos.
Ainu and their ancestors, the Jōmon, came from Central Asia about 40,000 years ago to Japan. They carry haplogroup D-M55, which is distinct from other D branches since more than 56,000 years. According to Sakitani, a Japanese geneticist, they are not related to any modern ethnic group. Another Japanese anthropologic and evolutionary geneticist, Noriko Seguchi, says that most Jōmon (and thus Ainu) originated somewhere in Siberia (or Central Asia itself, and were closer to the many Caucasoid groups than to Mongoloid groups. He suggests the possibility of a basal lineage that splitted from early Caucasoids.
Other studies support a link to the Cro-Magnon people of ancient Europe and the Middle East during the Paleolithic.
Kenji TH-cam1
Quite intriguing, thanks for the information share fellow commentator.
The ainu are so interesting...
"Splitted" isn't a word; it's just "split".
KENJI TH-cam1
40,000 yrs ago there were NO WHITES/CAUCASOID'S/CAUCASIANS in existence. So how can any of these groups you mentioned have split from a CAUCASOID GROUP that DID NOT EXIST? Also, 40,000 yrs ago only INDIGENOUS BLACK AFRICANS existed on the Asian continent, including the European Region of the Asian continent(Europe IS NOT a continent).
Those Japanese scientists are going out of their way to make sure their Ancestors didn't originate in Africa. For a very long time the Chinese also went out of their way to avoid admitting their Ancestors came out of Africa. They claimed to be descended from Peking Man.
But a recent team of Chinese scientists explored their Ancestry & ended up admitting that their Ancestors were indeed Black Africans.
@Herbal Shaman
INDIGENOUS BLACK AFRICANS were the very 1st Modern Humans, & they migrated out of Africa tens of thousands of yrs ago before any other Modern Humans existed. Those migrating Africans ended up populating 5 of the 6 continents, with the exception being Antarctica. Yet people that now dominate those 5 continents refuse to believe the original/indigenous inhabitants of their land, &/or their Ancestors, were INDIGENOUS BLACK AFRICANS.
What is now classified as Mongoloid, & Mongoloid Phenotype, originated among INDIGENOUS BLACK AFRICANS thousands of yrs before present day Mongoloids came into existence. If you Google AFRICANS WITH MONGOLOID FEATURES, you'll see those features among current INDIGENOUS BLACK AFRICANS.
I can’t even explain to you how interesting this video was. I think I just discovered what I want to study for the rest of my life.
This was absolutely fascinating. Keep up the good content, and thanks for including citations for those who would like to study this further.
0:58 Who can't tell he's Asian? He looks like an old homeless Samurai Jack
Nah, but for real he clearly seems Asian.
My first guess was Japanese. I didn't expect to be right, lol.
I thought he was one of them funny lookin Finnish fellas that have Asian eyes and white skin and all that, you know what I’m talking about?
@@schnoz2372 Yeah, I think you're talking about the Sami people or Lapplanders
R B J huh? he's literally japanese
@@schnoz2372 Turkic people of Asia look like him.
I don’t know how your channel ended up in my feed, but very interesting information. Thanks.
not "WE WERE KINGS"🤣🤣🤣 im made that you even know about that saying.i luv your videos
I'm ainu and loved this video. Thankyou.
You’ve ingested so many essential oils fumes that you’ve transcended the material limitations of this dimension and simply willed an archaic race back into existence -seemingly to use as a personal avatar.
You look white
@@Kanal7Indonesia because the ainu people closer related to the Europeans😑
@@mayankkumar4161 I thought they are Austronesian malayo-polynesian pacific islanders 😂
@@Kanal7Indonesia She's probably mixed
The Ainu people lived *in East Russia too.* There are old videos about their hunting practices from the Russian expeditions.
yes :)
Whenever I read about the disputes between Russia and Japan over the 4 islands next to Hokkaido, I always think, it wouldn’t hurt to give the islands back to Ainu and Gilyak people.
@@deadby15 Haha, that's funny Russians and Japanese giving a shit aboit anyone else. One is a former communist state and the other are anal retentive historical revisionists.
@@amiciprocul8501 There is one small difference. In Russia more then 200 distinct groups of native people live and their culture preserved and supported. In Japan Ainu were genocsized and what left were complitly assimilated.
@@RustedCroaker Totally agree, Stalin so much supported native people, he even helped them discover unknown parts of Siberia in concentration camps (Gulaks) as free holiday support present, and made them shatter across North Asia to settle down in parts of North Asia unknown to their people. Today Moscow still gives a fk about distinct cultural groups.
All of Asia that is today called Russia is stolen Land, like USA and Canada. Russia is an expansionistic european country that claims to have a right to call all this stolen Land their own.
hello, i am half ainu and proud, mistakes exist in this video. ainu are paleo-mongoloid. pure ainu had lighter skin. but we are not caucasoid. our next relatives are native americans and northeast siberians. origin is siberia or central asia
autosomal DNA show ainu are related to modern japanese, siberians and native americans
アィヌ [JP] Sorry but DNA don’t lie
what? as i said DNA say ainu are north-east siberian origin...
also the latest DNA and archeological research say the oldest human was found in southern china, not africa. the out-of-asia theory is now stronger than any time before. this also support the multi-origin theory.
None of those cultures have facial hair. I love the arguement that race does not exit, and that as humans move, when they stay in an area, the people there look alike because they have just a few common ancestors.. The book " The Great Human Diaspora", talked about how the Ainu had trates of every race..and I agree. Body and facial hair is more common among Europeans, people from the Middle East and India..
Lord of the belts: The return of the KING I think it's trying to say something, but it's completely incoherent. Probably just being racist.
In Japan there used to be two regions called kouzuke and shimotsuke (上野 下野.) they were called Ke no kuni, which means the land of hair, because in those areas Emishi people lived and they were known to be hairy compared with yayoi people. My father was born in 上野, which is modern-day Gunma, and he looks a little Italian or something and is quite hairy for a Japanese. A lot of Japanese do have Ainu genes, I think.
Japanese male DNA (up to 60% depending on the area. Typically 30 to 40% Jomon, Haplo D2) data shows that all Japanese men are decendants of Jomon, and Ainu people are considered a branch of Jomon who have a lot higher Jomon DNA. This means that both groups were intermixed from the start of Yayoi emmigration and they weren’t so divided in the earlier time. In ancient time before 300CE, Japan was divided in many countries.
use BC and AD next time, nerd.
All Japanese men? Where did you get this silly idea from?
@@napoleonfeanor And women too. All modern Japanese have varying degrees of Jomon DNA.
@@yo2trader539 One would be right saying that the overwhelming majority of Japanese people have some Jomon ancestry but not much of it. It is likely that due to the long isolation, the same thing happened with the Jomon as it did to Amerindians when Eurasians arrived (in regard of pathogens, Asians and Europeans are the same) . Ainu/Emishi are the result of first Yayoi (who were also not homogenous having both NEA and SEA origins) settlers and Jomon with remote areas on Hokkaido preserving most of their genes. The OP however makes key mistakes when speaking about DNA in general. The haplogroup he's talking about is just the Y-Chromosome.
@@yo2trader539 Not all, but many have varying degrees, some have none at all.
WAS THAT A JOJO'S REFERENCE!!?
^^ possibly
TREY the Explainer you sir. Have high culture taste.
TREY the Explainer TO GO FURTHER BEYOND!! AHHHAHAHHHHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Also, are you going to cover the saurian demo, Trey?
What the fuck is a jojo now?
+Vinay Seth Jojo's bizarre adventure, it's an anime with an overly zealous fanbase, but it is still really really damn good
This was a really interesting video, it would be awesome if you continued to make other videos on Humans and human evolution
Thanks man! and great!
I actually think the ainu/jomon look somewhat indian/south asian in some of the examples. They have been classified as ”australoid” by some anthropologists who also tend to classify south asians as australoid or mixed with australoid.
Have you ever seen Shogen? He sometimes resembles an Indian actor.
Indians are related to europeans. There shared language and ancient religion is called indo-european for a reason, when ainu look like europeans ofc they look like indians as well cuz indians and europeans share the same genetic and cultural background.
@@georgemurdock7670 i'm sure most indians dna are barely european for milennia at this point, i'm sure the ppl they conquered were in far greater numbers than the indo european conquerors
This is fascinating. I love learning about this and thinking about how we all come from thousands and thousands of ancestors, and we are all mixed, broken off, concentrated and mixed again in a million different ways. This is just a beautiful concept to me.
Hello, my family is from Iwate prefecture Japan. We decend from Ainu and Emishi tribes. I believe I will find Haplogroup D1a in my genome. Thanks for making this video
That's cool, my ancestry is a bit hazy on my mother's side and I'd find it very interesting to see which groupings I belong to. and no problem I'm happy you enjoyed it!
False. They were created by Eru Iluvatar in the time before time, as recounted in the Ainulindale.
It’s a Tolkien joke, ya philistine
Thank you for this. I'm a hafū that's a huge Tolkien nerd.
Hirmu another Finn failing social code
Thanks for putting effort into this. I’ve spent some time with Ainu. Interesting folks. Like so many indigenous groups, many of them see themselves being subsumed or extinguished by the broader population, and, well... I reckon they are, intentionally or not.
I’d like to hear you talk about the Ket people of central Siberia, although it’s more of a fascinating linguistic story.
I have lately been wondering if my grandma was Ainu. She is Japanese, but she has very curly hair. Not just wavy; really puffy, tight curls, really curly, which is very rare in Japan. It seems obvious she has some other kind of ethnic background that no one has ever talked about. My family is very conservative so if she was Ainu I think my Japanese father would deny it, because there is a lot of racism towards the Ainu.
the chances that you are increase if you live north, like Hokkaido
The video states that the Yayoi absorbed the Jomon population and today the modern Japanese has a 20% Jomon ancestry in their DNA (caveat that the text says that it is actually less than 20%, but not the actual percentage). 20% is quite significant, and it follows that the right combination of genes could cause Jomon features to surface, even if the last Jomon/Ainu in her ancestry is from the Iron Age. It is probably quite common. Now, she could still have an Ainu as a close ancestor, my point is simply that it isn't necessarily so.
sadly yea...heavy and cruel diacrimination towards them
@@maiarg2483 why? I dont understand? What are the justifications the japanese use to make it okay?
I did a bit of Google for pictures of homeless people in Tokyo and I noticed that many of them, more than half, have curly or wavy hair. Which seems too many just to be a coincidence.. it reminds me of here in Australia, where so many of the homeless and unemployed people are indigenous.
The Ainu are largely descendants of the Jōmon populations mixed with Okhotsk tribes from the Amur region. The Jōmon are already a mix of proto/paleo-Mongoloid groups and a Caucasoid-related group. The proto/paleo-Mongoloid group is the primary stock. But as many know, some Ainu (and modern Japanese) still have “Eurasian” (mixed) features. This is because of the Caucasoid-related group, which were related to Cro-Magnon tribes in Europe and West Asia. A recent DNa analysis of a 3,800 year old Ainu women found 14% European genome. This is in agreement with previous studies of Jōmon peoples genome. According to a recent study, multiple migration happened into Japan during the Jōmon period. Thus some have retained the “European like look”.
Kobayashi69 you’re east asians. Deal with. Not indo-european. Why the self-hate?
This is one of the most interesting videos I've ever seen. Great job!
BTW, Ainu ppl are the Japanese. If you want to specifically refer to the east Asian looking Japanese, call them Yamato ppl. Within Japanese, there are many categories. Ainu, Emishi, Yamato (majority from Honshu), Hayato, Kumaso, Ryukyuan, etc. Other than Yamato(east Asian looking ), all looked like European, south-east Asian, Austronesian, Polynesian etc. But now they are all kind of mixed up more or less. So it's nearly impossible to segregate and categorize completely from each other. So within the relatives, some look more non-east Asian but some more east-Asian.
Wrong, the Yamato people are mixes as well. You have to understand that all Japanese people have Jomon DNA, no such thing as a pure Yayoi group exist anymore. Yayoi were long faced rice farmers that entered Japan 4000 years ago. They interbred and also took over somewhat on Honshu, you see all of Japan had Jomon people. The Jomon in Honshu were the first to breed in with the Yayoi people. After not too long there exists no such thing as Yayoi people and all people are mixed to a degree, but they still see themselves as different than the northern and far southern Jomon who have not been mixed yet. The term Yamato was made by the Japanese at the time to distinguish themselves, but in no way were they Yayoi people anymore. Later on under Meiji, all people would be included in Japan as equal and Japanese. And DNA on Jomon remains with Yayoi remains compared to the modern Japanese population show that all Japanese are a mix of the two. Just to varying degrees, some Japanese may be 50/50 mix, some may be 80/20 mix etc. But no one is 100% Jomon or Yayoi anymore.
Japanese people refer to the current inhabitants.
The modern Japanese are mostly descended from the Chinese people who invaded Japan and dominated an inferior culture. Similar to how English people invaded Australia.
People are confused. Jomon = Emishi = Ainu. Jomon name came from archeological pottery. Emishi name is written in history. Ainu are presently alive. Genetics has tied all three as the same. The Jomon came to Japan and lift remains of their culture. When the Yayoi came, Jomon culture such as pottery change do to influence by the more advanced Yayoi culture. But the people still existed and were called the Emishi in written records and the Yayoi were now called Yamato. Records show the Emishi to exist in the northern half of Japan while the Yamato existed in the southern half. Later, most of the Emishi had integrated into Yamato society but a few in the northern Island of Hokkaido did not integrate. This tribe of Emishi were the Ainu. long ago, here were many tribes of Emishi just like their are many tribes of Native Americans - Navajo, Cherokee, Pueblo etc... So modern Japanese are decended of 2/3 Yayoi and 1/3 Jomon. Modern Ainu are mostly Jomon but they are not pure. they have interbreed with Yamato for centuries. The modern Issue that Ainu are pushing is government funding to promote Ainu culture. That's what's really going on in Japan. It's not about rights - they have all the rights a Japanese person has. It's not about Genetics - Japanese share a lot of Ainu DNA and most Ainu are very mixed with Japanese DNA. It's all about money. They want funding for Ainu cultural centers to keep their culture alive. I see no problem with a cultural center but I don't think the Japanese government needs to pay for it. No one in Japan is impeding them from passing their culture to their kids. Okinawans are full Japanese citizens yet they have no problems keeping alive their unique ethnic culture and being integrated into Japanese society at the same time. Do Cajuns feel their French culture is suppressed by American society? No. Is it the American governments obligation to fund Cajun culture to keep it alive? No.
Please do a video like this about the genetic evolution and divergence of modern Africans into distinct groups (Bantu, Ethiopians, etc)
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Not gonna lie, I first learned about the Ainu through Samurai Champloo. But I became quite interested in learning more. Thanks for the video.
this juice, I got you beat, I first learned of the aboriginal people of Japan from watching the 1961 movie Mothra in the early 1970's. After, seeing the natives in the movie, it got me curious and with further research learned of the Ainu. You can tell this video was made prior to the release of the Golden Kamuy, or it would have been included when he mentions other prominent anime with Ainu. On a side note though I watched Samurai Champloo about 10 years ago (great anime), I don't remember the Ainu being in it. I thought the 3 main characters stayed primarily on Honshu, trekking to Nagasaki, I don't recall any side trips to Hokkaido. Could you please tell me where in the story arc the Ainu are mentioned or was it your further research (as in my case) that caused you to learn of the Ainu?
@@richardcramer1604 It was only passingly where a friend of Mugen let himself burn in a village due to the attack of occupants
They look like the Australian Aboriginals
Some do, yeah. Some look Eastern European.
Yup my dad is tibetan and has y haplogroup D like Ainu and Andamanese Onge and jarawa people! Our ancestor DE came from africa and they found some in tibet and guine bissau west Africa! I thoroughly reasearched this topic because i wanted to know where i came from! Thank you for showing it in a video!
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Well, if we go back far enough, we're all related
Your theories are unfounded, BTW. Ainus has YDNA D, but they look C (Australia aboriginals). C and D's are always found together in northern and east Asia (both are found in Ainu too). And, their light skin came from mixing with Siberians.
And, they don't look a single bit European, they look in between Australian aboriginals, East Asian, and Siberians. They have the signature Asian/Siberian cheekbones. Their sunken eyes are easily found amongst southeast Asian as well as east Asian peoples.
I only know about Ainu because of golden kamuyi, who knew anime could be a history lesson
Who Knew? Ainu. lol
His outro sounds like how I hang up the phone after already saying goodbye twice
Adorably awkward, sudden shift from the rest of the video 😅
3:02 He’s talking about African people who were around at the time but they didn’t know that until they showed up. This is all so fascinating! This is my new favorite TH-cam channel. It’s a shame I’m just now finding it. Been a fan of this type of history since l was a kid. Keep up the great work.❤