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COMPARING ASIAN NATIONALITIES
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paul, I believe I have a similar bump. However, I seriously doubt this indicates my ancestry to Turkey. Kevin Garnett, basketball player from the Minnesota Timberwolves, is clearly close to being full nubian. Yet, it seems he possesses a similar bump to the one that you speak of. Is he also of partial Turkish ancestry? once again, doubt comes to mind.
chinatown Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 21:45:15 (PDT)

The Yuehs (vietnamese) mainly live in the yangtze river area till what is currently known as the northenmost areas of Vietnam.

In fact, only SOME of people in SE asia have ancestry from southern china. Before the yuehs take over THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AREAS OF Vietnam, it wAS WHERE the cham and khmer live and they are in no way related to chinese. Most people in Se asia are probably more related to indians than to chinese. They practice Muslim or Indian Buddhism. That's why you see the monks dress in indian style. the buddhist architecture look more indian than chinese.
kimheeseon Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 20:13:49 (PDT)

Southern Chinese,

Any of you know one of the leader of the 1989 student protest in Beijing was an ethnic Uigur (Wuer Kaixi). I know many Cantonese who looks like this guy. As a matter of fact, one of my uncles look exactly like him.

Isn't funny that people from faraway Xinjiang and Guangdong have some semblance to each other?

There is still debate whether the erhu (Chinese fiddle) and yangqin (dulcimer) came via Xinjiang or through Guangdong as Middle Eastern people have long settled these areas even before Han Chinese migrants took over.

In Fujian, many Persians settled there as merchants and shipbuilders. During the Song Dynasty, the Persian shipbuilders helped the emperors build ships durable enough to prevent the Mongols from crossing the Yangtze. There still exists a large Huimin (Muslim) community in Fujian. But, there were many more who assimilated and adopted all facets of Han Chinese culture. The only reminder was the old graveyards containing Persian script that reminded the locals that some of their ancestors came from faraway lands from the west. I have once met a Chinese professor here in the US from Fujian. He and the next class's Armenian student had almost the same identical facial structure.

In Guangdong, there too is a small Huimin community. The mosque in Guangzhou is one of China's oldest as well as one of the oldest in the Islamic world. In the late 9th cent. the city's prosperous Persian and Arab community fell prey to the rebel General Wong (Huang) Chao's forces and were mercilessly slaughtered along with the local Yueh. Over 200,000 people perished in this massacre. But, as in all wars, the Arab, Persian and Yueh women were spared and probably given over to his soldiers (who were largely ex-convicts from northwest China). They probably started the nucleus of modern Guangdong Han Chinese. I ain't ashamed to admit it however bad it might sound.
Harry Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 19:58:33 (PDT)

The only Chinese I know with perfect straight eyebrows are the late Premier Zhou Enlai. Straight and low eyebrows are the traits of Caucasoid peoples. If they are close to being connected, that is the trait of Middle Eastern Caucasoids.

Arch and thin eyebrows are the trait of both northern and southern Mongoloids (except Han Chinese).

But, the forearm test that Ji mentioned is well known to be determinants of Han Chinese traits. I have seen many other Asians occasionally have it too (Koreans, Japanese and Vietnamese). It shows that the Chinese did not only settle in the Middle Kingdom but have ventured far and wide to other lands in the past.
Han Chinese genes Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 19:47:02 (PDT)

Hm... Filippinos look like chinese. that's because they are part chinese. but they look different.
chinese Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 19:44:57 (PDT)

the finest filipinas are in the philippines not in the u.s.,

True, I've seen beautiful Filipinas back in the native country, something which is almost non-existent in the US.

Wondering what Filipinos think of Karen Loren Agustin for Miss Philippines 2002 in the Miss Universe pageant?

In my opinion she looks very different in different pictures. In a close up picture, you see a Chinese or Japanese face. From a distance, she looks more Filipina.

By the way, I wonder if the Philippines link beauty with racial hierarchy like any Mestizo society of Latin America? Usually the more attractive Filipinas are the lighter ones with more East Asian or Chinese traits. The darker ones with more dominant Malay traits are regarded as less attractive.
Observer Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 19:41:24 (PDT)

olmy,

This goes true for white people as well. There is a misconception that Scandinavians are the only purest whites left in this world.

I am sure they have some Lapp in them too.
Finno-Ugric Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 19:34:53 (PDT)

paul,

Don't be surprised as this world is small. Even in Turkey, they have found strains of a Thalassemia disease that is more common in China than it is in the Middle East. Mixing between East Asians and West Asians have occured since the start of time and it goes both ways.

Now, I have heard that a Turkish ship once got shipwrecked trying to land near Fukuoka in the early 19th cent. They came via Indonesia under the Ottomans as ambassadors. Maybe they got stranded in Japan and settled there, who knows?

But, there is also the possibility of Turkic strains arriving to Japan via China. It is long known that many Central Asian nomads (of Turkic origins) have always assimilated into the Han Chinese ethnos and culture. During the Tang Dynasty, many Turkic origin people found service under the Tang emperors (who themselves have Turkic blood maternally). And, it was at this time, that Japan had the most diplomatic and cultural intercourse in any other given times of its history. Japanese wrestling and horse riding came via China at this time. Possibly it was Sinicized Turks who introduced it to Japan under Tang emperors. Many Chinese of all arts and professions found their way to Japan at that time. Even now, all Japanese musicians of the imperial court and household all claim Han Chinese origins.
don't be surprised Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 19:33:10 (PDT)

Viva Melayyu:

hm..dude i never said malays have slanted eyes!!!

From my experience, they DO tend to have higher cheekbones, larger mouth, and different eyebrows. But it doesn't make them less attractive. I never said that.

Another history Freak: the origins of vietnamese is also what i have read. But I believe some of the original inhabitants were not yuehs, they're thais and laos.

"In fact, most of the peoples that inhabit S.E Asia today (inc. Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippinese, Indonesia) originated in southern China. "

I don't think so.Cambodians came from East India from what I have heard. Burmese, Malays, filippinos are not from Southern China. They are true aborigines living in these islands for thousands year.If all of them come from southern china, who has lived in these islands before? Malay polynesians has been living in Vietnam for a very long time, before the yuehs (or kinhs) migrated there. You can say Vietnam is their original homeland. The Vietnam you see today originallt belong to those ppeople, but not the yuehs.If you visit Vietnamese highlands, you could see those people. They still live in Vietnam but they maintain their own culture, clothing style, customs. They are relatively different from chinese and vietnamese. They have darker skin and kinda look different.

Barry Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 19:22:03 (PDT)

another history freak:
Most S.E asians did not originate from southern China, a lot of their culture [apart from the Vietnamese] orignated in India [i.e Buddhism] hence the name "INDOchina" so get your facts straight before you rant stupidly! Because MOST of them have indian origins [cambodians, thais..etc.]
NdNgurl! Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 16:13:42 (PDT)

The other way around,

I agree with you one point, that it was the Mongols who may have helped introduced these foods from Asia to the West (via the Middle East and Russia).

But, they had intermediate agents who did it for them. It is well known that the Golden Horde (Mongols in Russia) and Ilkhan (Mongols in Iran) contained many communities of Chinese and Uigur (a highly Sinicized Turkic group). These were the administrators and merchants who brought over Chinese culture as well as food to the western world.

Mongols themselves were too barbaric to know how to make cakes with dates and sesame!
Asian Marco Polos Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 15:20:59 (PDT)

who the heck cares about Jessica Alba? Its all about ANGELA PEREZ BARAQUIO!
and another thing filipino paella is better than the spanish one!
nas Sunday, May 19, 2002 at 12:03:04 (PDT)

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