Tuesday, November 06, 2007

When we were Malays and Negroids

The Austronesians:

“These first settlers landed in northern Luzon in the Philippines. Over the next thousand years up until 1500 B.C., their descendants started to spread south to the rest of the Philippine islands, Celebes (modern-day Sulawesi), northern Borneo, Molucas (modern-day Maluku), and Java.

The settlers in Moluccas sailed eastward and began to spread to the islands of Melanesia and Micronesia between 1200 B.C. and 500 B.C. repectively. Those that spread westward reached Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula and southern Vietnam by 500 B.C.


The oceanic Austronesians reached Polynesai in 0 A.D. and spread to its three furthest points Hawaii in 500 A.D. New Zealand by 1300 A.D. and Easter Island between 300 AD and 1200 AD. In the Indian Ocean they reached Madagascar. Wikipedia on Austronesian People


The concept of a Malay race (Malay: Bangsa Melayu) was proposed by the German scientist Johann Friedrich M Blumenbach (1752-1840). Since Blumenbach, many anthropologists have rejected his theory of five races, citing the enormous complexity of classifying races. However, the term Malay is still often used in this context, and it is the basis for Malay identity within the Malaysian nation.

By 1795, Blumenbach added another race called 'Malay' which he considered to be a subcategory of both the Ethiopian and Mongoloid races. The Malay race were those of a "brown color, from olive and a clear mahogany to the darkest clove or chestnut brown." Blumenbach expanded the term "Malay" to include the inhabitants of the Marianas, the Philippines, the Malukus, Sundas, as well as Pacific Islands such as Tahitians. He considered a Tahitian skull he had received to be the missing link; showing the transition between the "primary" race, the Caucasians, and the "degenerate" race, the Negroids. - A Racial expert being Racist!!

Philippine context

“In the Philippines, many Filipinos consider the term "Malay" to refer to the indigenous population of the country as well as the population of neighboring countries like Indonesia and Malaysia. This misconception is due in part to American anthropologists
H. Otley Beyer who proposed that the Filipinos were actually Malays who migrated from Malaysia and Indonesia. This idea was in turn propagated by Filipino historians and is still taught in schools. However, the prevalent consensus among contemporary anthropologists, archaeologists, and linguists actually proposes the reverse; namely that the Ausronesain people of Malaysia and Indonesia originally migrated south from the Philippines during the prehistoric period.” Wikipedia on Malay Race

Degraded, misled and misinformed through the colonial educational system unto the very essence of ones' true heritage. Punyemas naman oh, all this time and what have the Philippine intellectual-smart-ass "scholars" been doing? Balik nyo tuition koooo!!


Monday, November 05, 2007

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