Origins of the Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia Divide | Tripartite Division of Oceania

[@pulanspeaks]

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[@gaslitworldf.melissab2897]

Excellent research. Thank you. You can use *free pronunciation guides* on Google. Simply type the word you wish to say correctly and add the word _pronunciation._ A speaker icon appears with the word. You may speed up and slow down the pace at which to listen. In French _oir_ or _oire_ it's typically pronounced wah. Hence, "histoire" comes out as _"east twa."_ It's not very complicated if you play it a few times and record yourself repeating after the guide.

[@lindacalvo8815]

I'm so happy you are doing this research. Finally, we can learn more about our islands!

[@chewy6487]

Filipinos is a product of mixed Asians . You Asians need to relax 😂​@Pares Racer & Ramen Rider

[@teresafernandez9849]

​@@paresracerramenrider8933 the Philippines, like other countries, shouldn't let USA "experts" do anything with ur history of ancient ppl. They manipulate it to enhance their false story, and show distain for certain people. Their job is to demean others and shove Africa up our ass! Get them out of ur country! Call on Native archiologists from ur own ppl, it's their story too, they are more caring about it!

[@melanatednesians1642]

If Melanesians wanted to they would wipe out the Polynesians. So when you say the Polynesians pushed the Melanesians into the mainlands is a bunch of bullshiit

[@JohnJohn-pq6xi]

It's crazy when they said they first discovered the islands but islanders are already on the islands😂 😂😅

[@Max_Le_Groom]

Same breath as how they say they have 26 letters so they're the first ones to see the light 😂😂😂

[@user-nv5ve9ld7t]

They mean from the POV of their civilisation. It’s like ancient Chinese explorers saying they first discovered India or the Middle East, they’re not wrong.. from their POV.

[@kanuadae1334]

Ignorons les !...

[@lineialquantum]

@@user-nv5ve9ld7tthen it should be prefaced as such instead of implying that their view is the only view

[@magnusallmighty5000]

​@lineialquantum these people only wrote in european languages, meaning their works were intended for Europeans

[@rupmangummedia9638]

To sum everything up, Papua New Guinea is a mini South Pacific. We have Polynesia, Micronesia and us Melanesians in one country. Proud to be a Pacific Islander.

[@trevs9925]

And you forgot Papuan, now it's all in one.

[@francois9747]

I would say Fiji is more like a mini south pacific since we have polnyesian blood in the Lau islands, and micronesian settlement in Rabi.

[@lauma4207]

The motherland

[@francois9747]

@@Nagin-zt6sc what do you mean by 4 types of indigenous?

[@francois9747]

@@KWBPTV What do you mean we seem to accept the effects of colonisation more than black Americans? Please elaborate and be specific. We don't accept the effects of colonisation, we are a proud people proud of our culture that we still have. You black Americans (No offence) don't even know what part of Africa you come from so pls tell me what you mean by we accept the effects of colonisation more?

[@tedn6855]

Micronesia is the area with very little written up online. Yet it has these fascinating traces of advanced ancient civilization like Nan madol. Wish there was more written on this area. Polynesia because of its remoteness and beauty gets a lot of publicity and as a result seems less remote to me ironically.

[@st4r444]

Origin story from polynesian scientists -lost tribe Israel -egyptian -south America -antartica -the moon

[@gpl992]

I am a Maluku Islander of West Melanesia,now known as Ambon!!Even though we are part of Eastern Indonesia, DNA and languages consider us to be part of Melanesia!My mother is Ambonese and AncestryDNA shows her to be part 50 percent Melanesian and the rest Austronesian!And this includes now I ndependent Timor Leste 🇹🇱And of course you know about West Papua.West Papua,Timor Leste,and Maluku are the often forgotten West Melanesians.

[@jeweettoch1454]

People from maluku utara are mostly austronesian And the most ambonese people are mixed with austranesian and melanesian

[@gpl992]

@@jeweettoch1454 Just like many other Melanesians like Timorese, Fijians,Motuans(PNG),Mekeo(PNG),Trobriand Islanders,Mortlock Islanders (PNG),Solomon Islanders (Renell and Bellona).Us Moluccans aren't that special,being mixed Melanesian+Austronesian is normal and common in the Pacific!

[@gpl992]

@@jeweettoch1454 North Moluccans also actually speak Papuan languages too.They still have Melanesian blood whether they like it or not.Are you even Moluccan yourself?I noticed it's somehow controversial for us Moluccans to have our own unique identity,and that Non Moluccans especially Javanese/West Indonesians always speak FOR us.That is just very,very disrespectful and pretentious.If you aren't Moluccan,you have no right to speak for us.Simple as that,end of story.

[@wenderis]

@@gpl992 This is a very dangerous chauvinistic take. Yes, the Javanese specially elites from Jakarta overly dominate the conversation, but what is exactly a Moluccan? I'm 1/4 Moluccan (Hatusuppy clan) from my Oma. But also Batak Toba, Minahasan, and Dutch. Do you consider me to be Moluccan?

[@polynesianmovtgp7439]

Thanks for sharing this! We are all Pacific Islanders, regardless of a few cultural differences. The colonizers are the ones who try to divide us, as usual. Keep spreading the knowledge man! Adios

[@pulanspeaks]

Well said! I appreciate it che'lu! We are one.

[@JColtonart]

They didn't 'try'. They did.

[@ksand6718]

@@pulanspeaks should we not make a movement that reflects the new age of knowledge and factually backed information? I think this is of the utmost importance. We can on one hand recognize a truth and that is all or we can recognize and take steps to wards uniting our people in a bigger way than ever thought possible. I would definitely participate in a movement towards uniting all Pacific Islanders under one name and have the maps and all people reflect and recognize it as such.

[@chriswebster24]

As a proud descendant of colonizers, I can tell you, with complete confidence, that my people have never had any interest in dividing you. If something we did happened to cause you to become divided, somehow, then, I can assure you, that wasn't why it was done. I'm not saying that our actions didn't cause you to become divided. I don't doubt that that's what happened. I'm just saying that wasn't the reason for our actions. It's not so much that we like you, or we dislike you, or anything like that. It's just that no one gives a rat's ass about you, or about what happens to you. Pacific Islanders just aren't important, honestly. They never have been. Anyway, I hope this helps. Good luck, my Polynigga 👍🏿 God bless.

[@xolang]

İ would even include Malagasy in Madagascar as belonging to the same group. Whether you'd still want to call it Pacific İslanders is another question. İ find it interesting how a huge contiguous area with people sharing similar languages, cultures, and even physical characteristics stretching from Rapa Nui to Madagascar gets divided into three different "continent" by outsiders, a.k.a. Europeans. And it's sad to see how some Philippines arguing about them being Asian or Pacific İslanders. Arguing based on the division imposed by outsiders.

[@jaceypatterson1943]

I'm Samoan with a large percentage of European blood and a 4% Melanesian. I'm proud of my Pacific DNA and no matter what these white people say about us and divided us by the color of our skin, our blood is thicker than water. We are one and as I learnt more about my Samoan history I came to find out that my Fijian forefathers settled and populated the island of Savaii. Anyone and everyone who has ties to Savaii shared the same DNA and link to Fiji.

[@ChrisEAdlay]

No they didn't

[@ChrisEAdlay]

@Jeff Iefata they didn't settle savaii though? That's quite a leap you're making

[@heerarodriguez9563]

@@ChrisEAdlay dude Polynesians are created from male Melanesians.

[@sallykemp1427]

On the other video it says Samoa civilians come from China. I’m trying to figure how my great grand daughter has Eyes like the Chinese

[@heerarodriguez9563]

@@sallykemp1427 Samoans and Polynesians in general are a hybrid race between SE Asians (Austronesians) and Papuan (Melanesian) people. Basically they're Black (not African) from their forefathers and Asian from their mothers genetically. This happened about 1500-2000 years ago in the Pacific. They're like Tiger Woods. However in the 1800s the Chinese went to many South Pacific Islands such as Samoa and mixed with the people making them even more Asian. However there are Samoans that still have the pure appearance and genetics like Tua Tagovailoa, Ardie Savea, Wild Samoans, etc. They look like Black people.

[@ngiagee1467]

We are Pacific Islanders and that matters more to us.

[@AliKaks]

Papua New Guinean here. Proud Melanesian. 🙌🏾

[@ArchaeologyStudio]

Thank you for sharing another informative video! You make a good point to remind us that the three-part geography came from colonialist perspectives, preoccupied with racial divisions of humanity. I like how you presented the facts and noted the source references, all within just a few minutes. Congratulations on the Patreon and keep up the good work!

[@pulanspeaks]

Thank you very much! I am deeply grateful for you continued support!

[@user-k4d-e59mo28oc]

@@pulanspeaks Hey, this presentation is racist. You should get a lot of flak from BLM, SPLC, NAACP, Wokers . . . but they won't since they don't want to be associated with Melanesians and Australoids.

[@guaiyaxs8570]

Melanesia is the mother land of all pasifika.. that's where we first left our homes long ago for the open sky above the horizon! There's no 3 region but pasifika wave sailors that let home for the stars

[@thvtsydneylyf3th077]

Its the gateway to the Pacific

[@Daulomani1]

Literally all of our ancestor groups left the mainland through Papua. It’s the true motherland of Pacific Islanders. It’s also where our ancestors the “lapita” people evolved and migrated from

[@cyberedge881]

Taiwan is where the Austronesian people first came from. They later mixed with Papuan people and spread out from there.

[@guaiyaxs8570]

@@cyberedge881 LIMA GANG.... 🖐😎

[@ripley6942]

​@@cyberedge881 Yes, the Lapita Civilisation was born from the hybrid of Austronesian and Papuan.

[@thumbstruck]

Ignorance fosters arrogance. There are no "primitive" humans, but there are humans that live in "primitive" circumstances. Humans make the situations work.. All humans have moral values, stories, and adaptability.

[@G2Bryce]

No. If that were the case then all humans would have the same limits. We would all run just as fast if given enough training. That's simply not the case and neither is the rest of our body. Unfortunately, for you, you are wrong

[@thumbstruck]

@@G2Bryce There are different potentials,, different abilities, different proclivities, but we all must strive for understanding and acting responsibly with others. Ignorance (either "don't know" or "don't care") litters history with tragedies.

[@thumbstruck]

@@G2Bryce There different physical limiits, but moral responsibity is on us all.

[@johnmartin4495]

We are proud Pacific Islanders until some western racist popped up and start categorizing the islands based on what they believe... which is absolutely BS. Now they really make us come together to celebrate world's largest indigenous cultural unity ever. Great job PulanSpeaks, keep it coming Dangkulu na Si Yu'us Ma'asi.

[@eeeaten]

You’re raging against people who lived hundreds of years ago?

[@369ZIR]

@@eeeatenyou must be white. The mentality in this part of the world is still there. Maybe be quite.

[@cyberedge881]

Are you really claiming that there was unity between all Austronesian speakers from Madagascar to Rapa Nui and from New Zealand to Hawaii before Europeans came? That's some serious revisionist history. There was no such unity. There was fighting even between neighboring islands or on the same island. Moreover, there was almost certainly no knowledge of a shared Austronesian heritage. You have European linguists, archeologists and geneticists to largely thank for that understanding. I know that much of this comment section is all about hating on white people, but at least don't make up nonsense to support your hate. Stick to your "colonizer" narrative, as that is at least based in reality. (Even though you ignore the fact that the Austronesian people themselves were colonizers of lands held by Papuan and Negrito type people.)

[@TomyHun]

This is so interesting and educational! We humans literally can't detach ourselves from something as simple a skin color. It's obviously a very faulty way of looking at geography but it looks like we're stuck with it for now. Gotta learn from our mistakes and apply said knowledge in the future.

[@alcapone8193]

nope, it was an accurate description for the day as that's what explorers did, they described what they saw and their interaction with the various peoples.

[@cyberedge881]

But recent genetics studies have confirmed much of what they were seeing in terms of phenotypic differences. It wasn't just based on nothing. Polynesians have more Austronesian ancestry than Papuan type ancestry, for example. Which explains the phenotypic differences they were noticing.

[@DanteIgnacio-c5k]

Let keep it simple. Melanesian’s came from Australia Aborigenis Micronesian and Polynesia are from South East Asian and we are mixed with Melanesian and exist with harmony among each other cause we are not racist.

[@stephaniemartoccio8934]

Proud to be part Melanesian❤

[@Leeviii2024]

One Love from Aboriginal Australia we been down here for a long time and witnessed the changes over thousands of years, a lot of culture is lost due to colonisation but it is still practiced in a lot of areas. We are all Cousins

[@irispihema462]

Love your comment

[@kanuadae1334]

L'aborigène d'Australie est le Premier, l'aîné de nous tous, dans le Pasifik...J'estime que, c'est le plus grand Pays de la Mélanésie...Les européens ont décidé de le classer autrement, mais peu importe, nous sommes Frères, pas Cousins !...

[@nddn1842]

Hey, quick question. How would you feel if you didn't have breakfast today?

[@turangatohiariki3042]

First nation people of Australia aboriginal did they walk across the continent to get there

[@islandboii6917]

Melanesians are beautiful 💯

[@roselee979]

💚💙💛🩵💜❤🧡💛🩷💚💚💚

[@EdibleFlipFlops]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Most are ugly to me, but it’s ok to have a preference.

[@roselee979]

@@EdibleFlipFlops Aww..someone needs love.

[@roselee979]

@@EdibleFlipFlops Define beauty?

[@antoniotorcoli702]

Excellent video

[@NubalanceDNAcDc]

Welcome Home, Lemuria. 💯🌈🌺🦜 The Pacific Ocean Portal is Now Open to All... 22 2 22. Our ancestors were Giants..si TÅ... Ågan si TÅ.. #TagaTribes ..Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia, WE ARE ONE. 💜

[@ANTSEMUT1]

You do realise lemuria is a conspiracy theory dreamed up by nazi.

[@sports671]

As of today on 2/2/23 this is our birth right. As a Chamorro, we built megalithic structures through out the Mariana islands in Micronesia and on my home island of Guam. They do not want the world to know who we are.

[@uts4448]

I was researching and I seen that for Micronesia and Polynesia, they divided us by geography and not by race and when they did divide the pacific islands by race, it was a yellow race (known today as Micronesians & Polynesians) and a black race (known today as Melanesians & aboriginal Australians). And what’s fxcked up about it is, these Europeans say “an admired yellow race” and “a vilified black race”. This what this book says: “He adjudged Melanesians to be 'hideous' inappearance, limited' in languages and institutions, and generally very inferior to the copper-coloured race in dispositions and intelligence, except where they had been improved by frequent communications and racial intermixture with Polynesians, as in Fiji. But he saved his most persistent obloquv for the Australians and Tasmanians who were 'probably the most limited, the most stupid of all beings and those essentially closest to the unreasoning brute'”

[@pulanspeaks]

Disgusting right...I hope attitudes about race may change.

[@Samizouza]

It's clear they really didn't know how to classify us pacific islanders

[@alcapone8193]

LOL, he was describing what he saw and for them that was fact, as the polynesians were and are better looking then the melanesians, was he wrong? as to the other descriptions, I'd say anyone that was not them would be described in some negative manner

[@uts4448]

@@alcapone8193 lol Thinking Polynesians look better than Melanesians is not a fact. It’s an opinion. That’s how you feel. That’s what you believe. Facts are not based on your feelings or beliefs. Someone might like Melanesians more than Polynesians and that would be their opinion. None of these are facts.

[@alcapone8193]

@@uts4448 LOL yes maybe your right on the subject some might prefer melanesians but in the modern era we live in but in their era, no your wrong. and on the subject of wether the polynesians are better looking then melanesians , are you blind ? LOL please, there is no contest

[@rogersassah258]

In Papua New Guinea, there is a mix of all pacific looking Islanders in the country. In the New Guinea Island region, they have Polynesian people in all their islands too. The cultural dances of people in manus island are similar to the Polynesian rather then the mainland New guinea,

[@rogersassah258]

The section of the population being of Polynesian among the Melanesian majorly in all the island province in PNG and also in the Solomon islands..

[@Rhea123]

They aren't Polynesians if they are Melanesian natives.

[@thvtsydneylyf3th077]

thats true. Many polynesian islands with polynesian-speaking natives are part of Niu Gini which is interesting but not surprising at all. This isn't news to natives of PNG but is shocking to ppl who aren't or never visited. Again, the colonist mentality is strong is so strong in others how coudl this possible be??

[@rogersassah258]

That's a blunt statement , a Polynesian person is not Melanesian native, and we have islands occupied by them. @@Rhea123

[@Rhea123]

@@rogersassah258 PNGans are Melanesians. Not Polynesians

[@tomrowe6432]

Excellent video. So many ethnic/racial/cultural labels are imposed by outsiders (generally Europeans) and do not reflect how people on the ground understood themselves and their relationships to other groups at the time.

[@vpalu5956]

Thanks for your video, very understanding facts,all divisions in Pacific Oceans.

[@islandcowboy]

Hafa Adai! Regarding the description of "Taboo" or "Tabu" as practiced by the Micronesians, how is "Taboo" defined according to European cartographers and how is it different from Polynesians or any other cultures? Just wondering.

[@shauntempley9757]

This concept of Taboo, or Tabu, or in Maori, Tapu, varies between all cultures, all over the Pacific, because a practice that is perfectly fine in one culture or more, is not acceptable in another, and even within the same culture, like Maori, this is a topic with various differences, and various practices as a result. Europeans, either derisively oppose, or totally ignore, the cultures that have these practices, and it is these two forms of resistance and suppression that causes the most harm. On top of that, there is the growing view from Europeans, that these can be exploited for profit in the nations the Europeans have colonised in the past, but for the profit of Europeans only, not the profit of the culture that it comes from.

[@paulo1838]

Uso can you do a video on taboo practices in Polynesia and the transition to Christianity.

[@-BROWNMONK-]

Whenever you hear Europeans tell the histories of the pacific islands, don’t take it serious.

[@Marlontje.]

Exactly, same as Columbus discovered America while there were already people living over there. Looking like Polynesian / Malenesian so they been there already 100’s of years before

[@charleswall7748]

Lol salty

[@bubbadoe9618]

@@charleswall7748Nobody is salty but you. It’s just the many facts of history whyte boi.

[@Youdontneedtoknowboy]

This guy ain’t a European.

[@Youdontneedtoknowboy]

@@Marlontje.I laugh my ass off when I see y’all thinking native Americans are Polynesian 🤣🤣🤣

[@lawtonsfinest8622]

Well the term for the Malay Islands is called Malayanesia it was Coined in 1871 by Edward Balfour as a further divide

[@islandvibez]

Wasn't it called Hesperonesia?

[@lawtonsfinest8622]

@@kr431 That's what some white European man came up with for the Malay Peninsula Archipelago Region that's why I put it so anybody can research it. I'm down with it. If u really look at it, the map the name, the group of islands like I did recently it didn't make sense in a lot of ways how white people chopped that part of the world up & especially with the international date timeline. So u really got the Malay Peninsula & Archipelago, Australia, Micronesia, & Polynesia. Go look at it I'm like huh? So look at all the island groups/archipelagos the groupings don't make since lol. I looked at it and followed the island chains with my finger like okay Malay Peninsula & Archipelago from Tanintharyi/Kanchanaburi Malay Peninsula to Solomon Islands, then Australia Continent, then New Caledonia & Vanuatu to New Zealand to Easter Island to Hawaii is a continuous groups of islands next to each other, then the Micronesia Islands together. Plus the term Melanesia was a racist skin color term more than a region u can look that up to.

[@lawtonsfinest8622]

@@kr431 Oh I'm so sorry I did not explain it right 😂 lol. I know that ain't a part of the Pasifika Region lol. I was just saying culturally/racially it is a part of Oceania Culturally like Southern North America is Culturally apart of South America or tha Chagos Islands is a part of Asia but Culturally/Racially is a part of Africa or Egypt is a part of Africa but it is Culturally a part of Asia lol

[@lawtonsfinest8622]

@@kr431 Yes well it's all connected first of all the Portuguese conquered Malacca in 1511 with a slave/free/runaway Latin army from Latin Europe of Muslims, Jews, Gypsies with Christian slave masters, then with that they colonized the whole Malay Peninsula through enslaved/free/runaway Black Malaccans & White/Middle Eastern Latins with plantations & slave raids. Then in 1527 they gathered a slave/free/runaway army of Malays & Latins and stormed Jakarta and took over and through Malacca by way of Jakarta they took over the entire Malay Archipelago except the Philippines. Then in 1519 a slave/free/runaway army of Blacks, Middle Easterners, Whites, Native Americans from Havana stormed Veracruz and took over there then conquered the Aztec Empire in Ciudad Mexico in 1521 then in 1550 they captured Acapulco. Then in 1565 they sailed to Cebu with that mixed race status army to conquer them then in 1570 stormed Manila and took over there. The Spanish & Portuguese was all ready in the Moluccas with the Sultanate of Ternate in Ternate being captured in 1512 by the Portuguese then in 1521 the Sultanate of Tidore was captured by they Spanish. So everythang between Sulawesi and New Guinea was captured and partitioned between the Spanish the Sultanate of Tidore & the Portuguese controlling the Sultanate of Ternate. Then in 1565 the expedition from Manila teamed up with the Sultanate of Tidore in Tidore to form a alliance for tha Spanish Empire. Then in 1513 the Portuguese established Portuguese Tamão in current day Hong Kong spreaded to Macau & Canton current day Guangzhou and got Chinese slaves from there to Malay Peninsula & Archipelago. Then in Spanish took over Netherlands from the Holy Roman Empire when the Charles V Habsburg took over most of the world from inheritances of Northern Europe from his father & Southern Europe from his mother the omen, perfect child, the best of both worlds into the Habsburg Empire the biggest empire in history & the most powerful wealthiest king in history & did not do any better with storming the Portugal & the Portuguese Empire into the Habsburg Empire the most powerful biggest empire in history. Then he commissioned the Manila Galleon Trade from Macau, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, to Manila, Philippines to Borneo, Sulawesi, Ternate/Tidore Moluccas, New Guinea back n fort between each other to Palau, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae, Marianas, Marshall Islands, Hawaii, Alta California, Baja California, Nuevo Navarre, Mexico, Nuevo Mexico, Tejas, to Havana then from Havana to Louisiana, Florida, Cuba, Bahamas, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru then also visa versa from Manila to Lima, Peru to Guayaquil, Ecuador to Buenaventura, Colombia to Cartagena, Colombia to Havana to either Louisiana or Saint Augustine, Florida to Praia, Cabo Verde to Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canaries to Funchal, Madeira to Ponta Delgada, Azores aka Macaronesia to Lisbon, Portugal to Seville, Spain and they would supply Muslim, Gypsy, Jewish slaves from Europe and Muslim, Gypsy, Jewish, Voodoo Practitioners from Africa to Macaronesia to the Galleons and New World Slaves, Freemen, Runaways Peyotism, Cargo Cult, Tapu, Inafa'maolek, Anito, Aliran Kepercayaan Practitioners, Jews, Gypsies, Muslims from Oceania & Latin America to Macaronesia visa versa so it's all interconnected.......

[@khakimmalekov]

From Taiwan to New Zealand.. from Madagascar to Easter Island..

[@ryankanton]

Taiwan to Melanesia not New Zealand

[@eeeaten]

@@ryankanton yes taiwan to new zealand. indigenous taiwanese like the atayal are austronesian like polynesians (including maori) are.

[@ryankanton]

@@eeeaten Wrong

[@eeeaten]

@@ryankanton what’s wrong? What do you think the truth is?

[@user-FUCKYOU18]

@@eeeaten that bullshit

[@lanmarknetworking3034]

Its cool how you are part of the evolution of knowledge that these dudes started centuries ago!

[@IsileliCA]

I'm happy knowing my people are all close to each other and get along with each other ❤

[@benjimadaman5476]

In Solomon Islands, we have the three races: the Melanesian, Polynesian and the Micronesians...

[@Benivakauta]

fair skinned ? nah fam u aint seen my granparents n aunts n unlces, they jus got there after the outsiders were fuccin on my peoples. a proud hawaiian tongan fijian filipino man here.

[@s2oop436]

good for you. just to say filipinos are not pacific islanders but you have tongan fijian blood so you are

[@capedluna]

It is a shame this placed on you guys all three race divisions. I'm Black American (trust me we know) and it sucks you guys have got knocked down from culture and tradition to savage to non-savage ranking. Y'all are all amazing.

[@jap882]

AUSTRONESIA ⬇️ Descendants: Micronesia Melanesia Polynesia

[@Miss_Hannah]

They are only mixed Austronesian adapted Austronesian Languages

[@chewy6487]

Austronesia is not a place. Are you a Filipanyo? Bet you are

[@callmekory9547]

​@@Miss_Hannahno humans continue to live on islands, their descendants must live on the mainland first... starting in Africa to Arabia to Persia to India to Burma then to Southeast Asia such as Malaysia and Indonesia then to Papua, Australia and finally to Oceania... the faces of Polynesian, Micronesian people are almost the same as Austronesians... only they have bigger bodies, due to mixing with Melanesians... not only language, dna studies also say that... Oceania people are descendants of Austronesians

[@johnking6252]

Thanks for the divisional breakdown of the Pacific islands . Makes sense now. 👍✌️

[@philliplyn2692]

Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

[@Martihenry-gm7vt]

Love from micronesia ❤🇫🇲

[@Hearteyes4mimi]

As a chuukese Micronesian I’m black asf🫶🏾

[@joebaia1641]

Hahaha nice one! I'm Asian, melanesian, Polynesian and Aboriginal...that's the Pacific in one!!! The white man has always been racist because they consider themselves as the most superior race...that's why they create divisions to make us feel inferior and less human. We in the Pacific are blind to colour but the white man makes an issue out of nothing!

[@harrylongdick1303]

Whatever the intentions of racial separation lines there is clearly a difference between these groups. I can tell the difference visually between these. Acting like you can’t tell the difference is stupid. Imagine we stopped talking about red heads because it’s a”social construct” it’s not.

[@anthonymckinney2868]

Polynesians Are Beautiful 🖤👑🖤👑🖤👑🖤👑🖤👑🖤👑

[@MotexKayBoyena-ik7lm]

Melanesians,Polynesians and Micronesians we are all brothers. Pacific is where our heart is, we will live and die as Pacific Islanders no matter what.

[@PATU_EWOK]

Wether you are melanesian, micronesian or polynesian. We all are one ❤ the people of the pacific. We originate from the motherland, ethiopia, africa 👌 all our coloured people are one 💯

[@Soqonaavere9774]

💯 wrong !!. He described a wrong name for the Melanesians, or west Pacific Islands people. Where none of the region are black. We are reddish brown, mid brown, light brown or some tan brown. None is pitch dark like Ethiopian..Sorry for that, but He did caption us very wrong!!. We ain't come from Africa!!. But we are from the pre-flooded kingdom of Fijii !!..So we are not Africans at all !!..🎉🎉..We had the highest % of living archaic human genes on earth today..I.e. Neanderthals, Denosovans and an Unknown gene. So we were there from the beginning, you had a wrong information. That's only for modern human migrations. We never came from anywhere, we always live in the Pacific islands.

[@ianison9820]

Pre-Wwii French Indochina ethnic maps include the term Indonesian for groups in north-east of Khmer realm. Perhaps distinct from Malay Chams.

[@CHILLVIBES_STUDIO437]

Its crazy how Europeans think they discovered the pacific islands and decided to categorize us. Lmafo our ancestors already mapped out the pacifc island routes and were trading between themselves before before the mordern European decided to first set sail and explore the seas. They were the first sailors that mastered the star maps and created routes around the pacifc islands. Our ancestors never considered themselves Melanisans Polynesian or micronesians, all they knew was they were all pacific islanders.

[@ems7623]

You claim that the divisions "do not reflect how Pacific people view their islands." Okay. Fair enough. But i would think that a more important question is whether or not these three divisions represent anything meaningful about the culture and history of Pacific peoples. After all, all kinds of peoples hold all kinds of inaccurate views about themselves - mostly harmless beliefs in most cases, but not always, but inaccurate regardless. You need only look at various countries with written language traditions going back 3-4 millenia to see how research can often correct long-held identity beliefs. Surely you wouldn't want to deny Pacific peoples this same opportunity. Of course we should dispense with constructs built on obsolete racial theories. That just strikes me as an interesting historical side-note.

[@pulanspeaks]

Hafa adai! I agree with you and I actually already have a separate video discussing that very topic to be released at the end of March! Be on the look out! And consider supporting me on Patreon, you're support will be a great help so that I may release more videos!

[@ems7623]

@@pulanspeaks Ah, okay. Excellent. I'm a starving academic (on the miserable job market) so no Patreon funds for me to spend right now. But I'll continue watching your videos in my spare time. It is always nice to learn what scholars in other fields have to say.

[@elijahmaoate2534]

Polynesians were mostly dark skin centuries ago

[@lauma4207]

They navigated them to the last islands🤧😅

[@kanoawai]

Especially Kanaka Maoli pure Hawaiians but white settlers came

[@kanuadae1334]

Exact Bro !.... Je suis mélanésien...j'ai effectivement vu, connu et côtoyé des polynésiens de parents polynésiens, à la peau allant de cuivrée, à foncée...

[@ripley6942]

Wow, where do I get a wall map like yours?🤩

[@veronicamaidesil-tafoya1460]

loved this

[@pulanspeaks]

Si Yu'os ma'ase'!

[@jonjon1842]

But having Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia makes sense, as they are different yet share some similarities. Melanesian's and Polynesians even battled one another in ancient times.

[@thirdworld4926]

Thank you for sharing.

[@anthonywest7583]

GREAT VIDEO, VERY INFORMATIVE.

[@irenenena7173]

I just saw my Island OF (KOSRAE)

[@Brando_the_BJJ_master]

Proud MARSHALLESE / POHNPEIAN here with GERMAN DECENT

[@46664Parkst]

Proud Melanesian 🇻🇺🇫🇯🇳🇨🇵🇬🇸🇧❤🌋🌋

[@Instru9873]

I love you Polynesian 🏝️🌺🇵🇫🇼🇫🇼🇸🇨🇰🇹🇴👍🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[@damienhudson8028]

Thanks for these videos - really interesting.

[@pulanspeaks]

I appreciate it!

[@pro-non9887]

Great vid first KZbin video to be very accurate and detailed about our Pacific island nations ❤

[@dinob3atz565]

you ran this video twin!

[@rashidmartialarts9513]

Excellent video !

[@PeterQarau]

The result of my google search was somewhat surprising to me. I searched: DNA admixture of the Fijians and it said Asian and 30% Melanesian.

[@uggali]

Lmao not all Māori are light skin 😭

[@urbnctrl]

The people who originated the Polynesians are our Arafura people from the Wallacea line. Contrary to popular belief, we are NOT Austronesian, we are Melanesian paternally and only gradually have Austronesian influx from the maternal side. The Arafuru / Alifuru people invented outrigger canoe technology and traded heavily with the Papuan neighbors, and the later people who would inhabit Borneo and Manado and Philippines.

[@A.Musa76]

So I’m confuse. Sorry I’m still learning the history. Found out I have trace of Melanesian. I have no clue on which island, tribe etc. I’m trying to piece my family ancestors history. All I know I have Italian, Greek, Caucuses, North Africa (did not specified), Senegal, and Samaritan Cohanim (descended from Menasseh, Ephraim and Levi). I can’t figure out how they found traces of Melanesian when that’s no where close to the Mediterranean.

[@MrSicc274]

Makes sense. Maluku Indonesia area. Mixed slightly with Papuan/Melanesian DNA. And carried on. The native Maori dog originated in Bali

[@heerarodriguez9563]

Thank you for pointing this out. Filipinos and Malays in general want to stronghold Polynesians as if they're theirs yet ignore the Melanesian input. Long story short, Austronesian females mated with Melanesian males to create Polynesians.

[@DaveChuaa]

@@heerarodriguez9563 True, that is the most basic explanation where polys came from. They are the result of intermixing between Austronesians and Australo-Melanesian.

[@pustakarileks7404]

@Los Dogg maori dog originated from bali? Wow that kintamani dog

[@dannyreidy712]

Are there more appropriate, less racially charged terms, that we could use to describe the Oceanic regions?

[@hoodiepele6860]

I vote for “people of the sea”

[@bravotabb3534]

“Pacific Islanders”, “Austranesians”, “People of Oceania”, “Nesians” (extracted from MelaNESIA, MicroNESIA, and PolyNESIA). Those are possible names we can pick one from.

[@francois9747]

You can call us the Moana people. Not Disney related, but Moana means ocean.

[@francois9747]

@Nagin-zt6sc Yeahh but people can stick with islander tho 😂 Since that's our main classification.

[@DesireeA842]

Uh yeah- there's already a term for us(that includes all of us).... Pacific Islanders 💀

[@joanpakoa4922]

For the record🎬......Aboriginal are also Melanesian 🤲🏿, to be specifically correct......that's a real fact🌋.

[@blessings310]

Is Australian aboriginals Austronesian

[@parisan9985]

Meh. Micronesians and Polynesians aren't that "civilize" either compared to their Melanesian neighbours

[@bonkersblock]

Define civilized? 🤣

[@kwazooplayingguardsman5615]

You know that Micronesians and Polynesians have their genetic line connected to the Austronesian tribes of Formosa while Melanesia has a more direct connection with Africa. Probably the people of Melanesian were the oldest settlers of these lands back when the lands were connected via landbridges and therefore traversable by foot. During this time, there were two large landmasses in southeast Asia called Sundaland and Sahul. Sahul (Australia, New Guinea, Solomon Islands and ending with Fiji) was connected to sundaland (the massive land mass that connected Indonesia and Indochina) via a small corridor located in timor leste. Then when the seas rose, this land bridge disappeared and geographically isolated Sahul from the rest of asia creating a unique population that had little genetic deviation from africa. The rest of asia however received further genetic inflows of altiac, indoeuropean, and formosan people. For South east Asia, the most significant group that settled these lands after the waters rose was the people of austronesia coming from Formosa due to their great skill in sailing. This enabled them to also settle areas like micronesia and polynesia and even south America! Mitochondrial and choromosal analysis of the populations between micronesia, melanesia, and polynesia supports this theory that for some reason Melanesia was left alone by the austronesian group and didn't really share their genetic inflow into those islands but did so in micronesia and most heavily in polynesia. There is a growing section of melanesian strain however in the polynesian genome (as indicated by long-unbroken gene strans indicating recent additions) which is probably created due to modern ease of transportation allowing people of melanesian heritage to move into polynesian islands and intermarrying into the population. So Polynesia might look like Melanesia in a few decades.

[@MrSicc274]

Melanesians are a beautiful and ancient people. All Maori have Fijian DNA in them.

[@gpl992]

@@MrSicc274 And so do all us Moluccans ✊🏽✊🏽🌴

[@TheFlyingFish692]

I still ate 🐢 back home and I’m Micronesian. Nothing is “civilized” there, we ain’t no Hawaii haha… maybe Guam, idk

[@JRTIGER07]

There only ONE race in the World *THE HUMAN RACE* & we all go back to One Woman & One Man !!!!! 🙏 E Te Atua Homai Kia Matou Tou Maramatanga Tou Rangimarie Tou Kaha me Tou Aroha Mo Tenei Ra 🙏 *A M E N E* 🙏

[@powerofmotivation6176]

Fantastic video

[@michelleluster9723]

Thank you that is all very interesting I did ancestry match, and I came back to matching up In Asian China and East India and lots of Asian islanders and I matched all three of those areas a little bit too, but thru time perhaps all of us do have bits and pieces. My highest match was in India, and then 2nd was in China and then 3rd was in Africa, and I look white, but I have B positive blood type, so it was all a reality for me plus I matched percentages in lots of other Asian countries!!

[@dnnydevil9539]

💖💖💖💖aliiii 🇵🇼🇵🇼🇵🇼

[@TunaSampaio]

ALOHA

[@lanapapas]

What is your ethnic background?

[@falani675]

The current labels are apples vs oranges, geography (micronesia & polynesia) vs skin complexion, i.e., melanesia. It should have been one, or the other, and not both. If it was skin complexion based, there should have been just two regions, i.e., Yellownesia and Melanesia. If it was geography based, the following should have been the labels, i.e., Megansia, Micronesia and Polynesia. Even though the latter would not accurately and correctly describe the differences, as the other two hold true for Melanesia, with has the highest number of islands in the Pacific, which includes both large and small islands, islets and atolls. Also, Melanesia is not an accurate description of the peoples that inhabit these islands, as even though the majority of the islanders in Melanesia are actually brown skinned, there are many that are either white like Caucasians, who happen to be not albinos, and there other also those whose skin complexion is black, like the Bougainvilleans in PNG, and there is every shade of brown skin complexion in between.

[@ex_orpheus1166]

The 'Polynesian outliers' such as Tikopia, Malaita, and Ouvea and the centuries long connection between Fiji, Tonga, Sāmoa Rotuma and Kiribati going back centuries proves these trichotomies are utterly false. Here in Aotearoa New Zealand, the Moriori were erroneously deemed an "inferior Melanesian pre-Māori race", which was debunked decades ago and goes to show how pervasive this racialization has reached farther parts of Te-Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa.

[@jukieboy2759]

White people are so funny. How can they say that about us Melanesians being unstructured and barbaric when our ancient Fijian societies had hierarchy chiefly and tribal system. It wasn’t a free for all system it was more like everyone and their lineage has their own job or tasks to do or fulfil (in a village) as opposed to the current western lifestyle where there might be more people in a certain profession and less in other fields. We had clans, sub clans and tribes. When war could be avoided certain Chiefs had their sons or daughters marry into other tribes as to forge alliances (A practice we also see in Old European civilisation). How are we barbaric even if we fought killed and ate our enemies as opposed to the white civilisations who were known to torture their enemies in intricate, creative and cruel ways. Now that’s barbaric if you asked me.

[@magnusallmighty5000]

You are engaging in presentisim, put yourself in their shoes, with the techinlogy and evidence they have and tell me if it is possible to reach your modern conclusions, the fact of the matter that these mistakes were what made the field of anthropology advance

[@lettmons]

I'm not saying it was ancient aliens

[@lazaroniakiris723]

Im melanesian, and I dont see the groupings as racism....its just easier to group similar people together. Socially it is easy to relate to my melanesian brothers and sister. You can keep your racist ideology to yourself

[@markmalaka4747]

Interesting

[@roselee979]

That's so racist. Melanesian and Polynesian were both considered savages and uncivilised it was not just Melanesian!!... such a racist narrator

[@eeeaten]

it's not the narrator's point of view, he is explaining the racist origins of the divisions. he is pointing out how racist it was.

[@rashidmartialarts9513]

Subscribed to you

[@ipedro808]

You can also see this as a division of culture not race.

[@loolfactorie]

Mixed Maori, Indian, Chinese and English here - racial/ethnic distinctions are not too incorrect, given modern DNA analysis has cemented the long held theory of Hawaiin's colonising Tonga, Samoa, the Cook Islands and Tahiti and eventually New Zealand (among a few others). I wouldn't say 'we are all the same' because Australian aborigines were isolated for some 40 thousand years almost. This is a very charged video on the evils of European colonisation, but it ignores the modern found science with DNA and archaeological analysis. There is a new way to look at these things, without constant anger and aggression to the past.

[@kanuadae1334]

@jonjon...N'en faîtes pas instinstivement, une généralité...toutes les parties du Monde ont vécu ce genre de conflit...

[@fasiapulekaufusi6632]

I am Polynesian

[@willytfiveo7391]

I have this guys shirt

[@joshtmp6985]

To be honest fk what ever they divide us with their words we are Pacific Islander and mixed of different language and culture😊

[@magnusallmighty5000]

So why a simple genetic test can show a difference between islander groups

[@mikilonimoli3835]

This new age thinking was impeded, there would have been a time where it was a collective even when the ocean moved these land masses. But yeah time. And other influences. Would have obscure that fact. 🤷‍♂️

[@eeeaten]

doesn't make sense. and the ocean did not move these lands.

[@reymarkechano4138]

Filipino AETAS belongs to aborigins..so proud❤️❤️

[@dnifty1]

It wasn't just based on a racial theory, it was also based on the large scale depopulation of certain islands in the Eastern Pacific and the subsequent arrival of large numbers of Europeans and importation of Asian labor to create "new races". You can see this best in Hawaii where there are almost no pure blood Hawaiians left and most Hawaiians are part of what is called the "neo-Hawaiian" race that was created directly by Europeans. One only need to look at the photos of the early Eastern Pacific islanders to see how this division is fake. The original Samoans, Hawaiians, Tahitians, New Zealanders and so forth were all dark populations. Note that Tonga is also part of Polynesia and the ancestral homeland of Polynesian culture, but somehow those dark skinned folks never get mentioned in all this fake history. Just take a look at photos of king Tāufaʻāhau (Tupou I) from the late 1800s and compare that to King Tupou VI. And Tonga isn't far from Fiji to of course they would look similar.

[@369ZIR]

Melanesians are primitive but Papua New Guinea was one of the first places in the world to start farming and agriculture. This was on the other side of the world away from the cradle of civilisation. 😂 Pacific Islanders evolved away from the cradle of civilisation. And we did a bloody good job. We had art, different languages, tribes, politics and our own form of democracy and regularly traded with each other. If colonisation didn’t happen? We were at the door front of the mental age. This is away from the cradle of civilisation. The cradle of civilisation made it easier for Europe to advance because of your trading routes. Where you could trade ideas, construction, tools and most importantly knowledge! Call us savages. Savage Deeznuts lad. At least we didn’t shit where we ate and brought about the black plague. I know my history.

[@s2oop436]

dear pacific islanders. i would like to say that be proud and stand for your community. dont let filipino american to appropriate and erase your community. filipinos are asians not pacific islanders

[@marialuisafarol3609]

I am Filipino, and my DNA says I am also Oceanian ( not half Filipino or half Oceanian but both) because geographically, the Philippines is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. We are all related. Many years ago, our ancestors traded with one another, and intermarriages happened. Spread love...we are all family.

[@s2oop436]

@@marialuisafarol3609 lies. there is no such thing as ocenian DNA. the philippines is not even in the middle of pacific ocean it is only in the edge. we share the same ancestors but in modern times we are different. filipino ameriacns should stop spreading lies just say you are inorant of your heritage

[@takakuuz2794]

You are lying

[@Siosifa]

Now that I've rewatched this video and seriously took the time to listen, I do think the European view of the islands were accurate. Even when you compare the islands from the past to today, you can still see remnants of the disorganized/civilized comparison made then to now. Of course times have drastically changed and that it was and still is a very generalized view of the people, I'd say it was close enough to understand the island peoples as an outsider and accurately categorized them by skin tone as an explorer would. Regardless if you think this causes more tension is irrelevant to the fact that tribes are innate to the human mind, that we will always see a difference with one another whether there is a label or not.

[@thormidthagahast8914]

Sure. The native Hawaiians are basically the same as the aborigines.

[@kanoawai]

Their called Kanaka Maoli and yes they were dark skin

[@kanuadae1334]

J'ai eu l'occasion d'admirer une toile d'époque, représentant le Roi Hawaïen connu sous le nom de "Kamëamëa"...Le tableau le représentait avec un teint de couleur de peau, Noire...il était accompagné de son entourage, également de teint Noir...

[@jmjm1920]

Tonga has the most Lapita sites in all Polynesia through Vanuatu Fisi and Tongatapu even the oldest tatau instrument found in the Ancient fortress village of Pea Tongatapu 2700 years old 700BCE made of human bones Tongan Empire birth place of Polynesia 😊

[@jmjm1920]

@devious1 could be older Aborigines dates back to 50000 years ago 🤔

[@alcapone8193]

@@devious1168 read the message, he is talking about polynesians not who was in the Pacific first

[@alcapone8193]

@@devious1168 polynesians aren't a mix of any race, what are trying to say that polynesians came from melanesians? there would have been Intermarrying and that has been proven already but the melanesians of lighter skin today are a product of marrying with polynesians.

[@alcapone8193]

@@devious1168 in your dreams fool, wake up and stop with your austronesian bullshit as it's another white man theory, if the polynesians specifically the tongans and samoans originated from so called austronesians and as you say melanesians how come the tongans and Samoans averaged over the 6 foot 3 to 5 in height and the tongans averaged 7 foot in size right up to the 1960's which was the last census done by Queen Salote of Tonga, whereas there is no island melanesians, austronesians or bumfucknesians anywhere near in size to the polynesians, the fijians that are tall are from mixing with Tongans and Samoans as the those from the interior are all short just like the rest of melanesia. there is no race in Asia or austronesians anywhere near in size, because a five foot nothing mixing with a five foot nothing will not produce a 6 foot and definitely not a 7 foot, I've hear all the bullshit theories and the so called scientific data but no one can explain that simple fact.

[@alcapone8193]

@@devious1168 bullshit, the photos of islanders in black and white does not mean they were black LOL, the men were burnt dark by the sun but the women especially those of chiefly blood that never stayed in the sun for long were all light skinned, that's why the Europeans said that or are you saying that they couldn't tell the difference between black and brown LOL

[@francois9747]

The inferiority/superiority perception based on skin color was not based on skin color in reality, but by lifestyle. Melanesians seemed "inferior" to the europeans because they lived a free lifestyle where they are not ruled by a sovereign power and instead ruled by chiefs who are appointed by the tribe, and weren't as venturesome as the Polynesians which resulted in them only ever really staying where they are. Polynesians seemed "Superior" because they lived a lifestyle of order. They had hereditary roles rather than appointed roles like the melanesians. Warriors were only warriors by blood, and chiefs were only chiefs by blood. This system kept order in their societies, so they were able to become more organized due to a higher sense of unity. Polynesians are homogenous, and their languages are all very very similar while the melanesians had hundreds of languages where no one sounded like the other, so there was more chaos among melanesians and less unity. One thing melanesians lacked that the Polynesians possessed was a huge sense of pride, which drove them to become absolutely fearless of the ocean and able to navigate confidently through vast distances. Melanesians kept to their land, hence why melanesians dwelled on islands bigger than the polynesians and micronesians. In conclusion, the superiority complex of the islanders were not due to genetics, or skin color, but more on the lifestyle and societal structure of certain islands. We are all human, we all have a brain and it only depends on how we used it.

[@kanoawai]

Well said palala

[@thvtsydneylyf3th077]

[@lanapapas]

Wrong. Race for Europeans has always been an issue for division. If your hypothesis was correct, then why did they not respect the many African kingdoms and empires in the Americas?

[@cyberedge881]

@lanapapas Because there were no African kingdoms and empires in the Americas.

[@markstuber4731]

"imposed"?

[@RuaTheHua]

Kia Ora

[@Gaijin_7]

Kai Viti ! 🇫🇯

[@Vinas1000]

Did Melanesian’s come from Africa?

[@eeeaten]

Everybody came from Africa

[@Masahanate]

Nope we are our own people

[@SaltWaterLife23]

calling us barberians while europeans colonized half of the world