Genetics of Southeast Asia: Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore and More! 

Southeast Asia is one of my favorite regions in the world to learn about! It's got ethnic, linguistic, and religious diversity not seen elsewhere on the planet, and it's important to learn about!

Philippines Indonesia and Malaysia are same root..... let's love each other not war or who's the best..... let's unite as one root.... love and peace....

Just like people say: "Never call every Latino Mexican" don't be calling every Asian "Chinese"

I'm Thailand. We are Asean. It is sad that ASEAN is often insulted.

Yesterday, we proud in our ethnicity Today, we proud in our nationality Tomorrow, we'll proud as Southeast Asia people One day, We'll proud as one Humanity

I hope westerner watch this .. so they will not give wrong stereotype about Asian people.. and Asia is huge, not only China or Japan, it include from middle east, south Asia, center Asia, and South east Asia.. :)

Filipinos look like other Southeast Asians like Malays, Thais, Indonesians, we are not MIXED with Spanish like some Filipinos are falsely claiming. The Majority of Filipinos are of Austronesian and East Asian ancestry . While only 0.03% have Spanish blood. Almost all of us look like South East Asians or mixed with East Asian. We're not mixed or a melting pot like other Filipinos are exaggerating. The only significant foreign blood is Chinese where 35% of Filipinos have Chinese ancestry. Spanish Filipinos are a very rare minority in the Philippines as the Spanish throughout the colonial period only migrated to the Philippines in very SMALL numbers - they were always a very small minority never numbering more than 8,000 out of 11 million Filipinos which is a micro number! The Philippines was not a settler colony like Latin America but a commercial hub. Consider it like Britain's relationship to India or the Dutch to Indonesia . There are just numerous small minority bubbles of foreign colonisers, resistance, and self-preservation that prevented a complete takeover unlike most of Latin America where they received massive amounts of spanish migration hence why most of them are mestizos (mixed with Spanish) Most of the Philippines was never actually colonized by the Spanish. For example most of the Interior of Mindanao and upper Luzon never saw a colonial effort. Latin American colonies were often "settler" colonies to where spaniards migrated (think USA, Canada, Australia-style colonies, made up mostly of migrants who didn't originate from there) and intermarried with most of the population. Philippines was an "extractive" colony, there for trade. More like the African colonies for the British and India. Spaniards didn't intermarry and migrate there in large numbers,

ive lived around cambodian..vietnamese and filipinos and i love southeast asian cultures and in particular pinoy culture...i spent a month in the philippines and loved it!

I'm Filipino myself and of all the asians i've encountered here in the US, Vietnamese and Thai people have been the friendliest, aside from my own Filipino culture, as a result, I love Southeast Asian people.

I'm Chinese Indonesian. Although all the conflict we are still Indonesia and I love my country

Iam half pilipino half chinese but i choose and love filipino they are the most friendliest nicest, loving people in southeast asian country... im proud to be a filipino

Brilliant video. I am an Aussie with Irish/Chinese ancestory. My wife is a Filipina. Your video shows that our daughter's genes came from around the world. Well done keep up the good work. 😀

That's why we South East Asian have a more open mindset and express much more tolerance compared to monocultural countries, owing thanks to the fact that we are exposed to so much different cultures and languages.

cheers man u did an awesome work here in this video I've been to Malaysia 5 years before and I've seen large diversity of Chinese Indians and Malay people their cultures were fascinating

Your channel is the best - hard to find someone covering people groups with such honesty and precision

I changed this comment so nobody knows what actually happened 👀

*ASEAN = We are one. We are ASEAN!*

I live on Hawaii but I have seen so many diversities in fillipino people all shades from white to dark coco brown

Thank you so much for making this kind of video. As an Arab Indonesian, I'm so passionate knowing more about the ethic backgrounds in SEA in interesting way such as RU-vid. I immediately subscribe after seeing one of your video. Hope to see your channel getting bigger and better!

Well researched. Thanks for such detailed information.

Thank you for making this video so that we can learn we're we came from. Love from The Philippines.

I am Filipino originally from the Philippines but I live in Canada now. Good job, you completely nailed the subject and I agree with everything you said. The Afrocentrists that keeps claiming the Papuans as Africans would have a heart attack upon knowing that Africans and Papuans are very distinct from each other.

Thanks for this video, its cool and i learned more about myself. Greetings from the Philippines!

Im born in the states but Im from Vietnam and been trying to learn more and more about my peoples and other ethnic groups from there and your videos helped me establish a connection. I hope that i get the chance to talk more with you about this.

Wow! I've learned so much than in any of my history classes in high school. Respect to you man! Philippines.

You like details right 'cause it's worth watching. A new subscriber here. :-), Mabuhay!

Hello fellow asians

Singaporean here. I like what ya doing, linguistics and geography? its right up my alley. Subscribed!

great informations thumbs up!

I am mainly considered Malay, but I do have arab, chinese and indian blood! and my great great grandfather was a scottish. He came to Malaysia due to the Brit Colonisation. U've done great research.

DO MORE! I went to philippines for vacation this summer and I haven't there for 10 years since I was 8. I got so stuck with western stereotypes that philippines have one major peoples. Then I soon realized that there were people with really different looks and can be very different from the typical east asian features. Some people looked like they can pass as half black and some can pass as some type of half caucasian. I went to many islands and each island had more or less types of feautures that I saw. It was very interesting

I am a Muslim and a Filipino.

Very imformative. thank u for educating us. Nice to have seen this video today. greetings from The Philippines.

Good job! I love your videos! They're very educational!

Thank you for your efforts, I've learned much about S.E. Asians. Very informative & amazing video, keep them coming.

Wow,you get a lot of history lessons in this video than a whole day of what a history class can provide.

it's nice seeing people interested in the southeast Asia, we have rich histories and culturally diverse but most westerners probably sees us as somewhat a backwater countries. I just wish there are more people like you which explain us more to the world. greetings from Malaysia 😁.

Very well explained! Just to add, we have a government organization composed of all Southeast Asian countries (except East Timor). I would love to visit our neighbors someday. Because we have lots of similarities. Greetings from the Philippines.

I have watched a lot of your vids and subbed. You deserve it! Great content. From a Dutch-Indonesian 👍🏽

Well researched video! Please keep up the good work! I just want to add that there are also the Negrito tribe in Malaysia. Here we call them to be one of the 'orang asli' or the Aborigines. Hopefully one day, you'll be able to travel here and experience all SEA countries for yourself. =)

Very informative good job!

Hui actually had a strong Islamic presence in the nation, they were influential in spreading Islam in Malaysia I believe.

Good work on this video. Enjoyed it.

I just came across this video and find it very informative. I'm from Mizoram which is in Indian territory but shares a border with Myanmar. You might wanna focus on some of the "Northeast" ethnic population of India. We got Sino-Tibetan, Austric, and even Mon-Khmer language cultures too.

Awesome video!!! Very informative. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Since I know now that I am around 28% to 30% Southeast Asian, I feel the need to know about my roots, this video is so helping.Thanks again :D

Hi Masaman, thank you for this video. It's very interesting. I'm from East Malaysia, from Borneo & from one of the largest ethnicity / race there. A Land Dayak or nowadays called as the Bidayuh people. We're mostly found at the 'tail end' of Borneo; in the region of Lundu, Kuching & Serian. We are both fair & also dark skinned with wavy, curly & straight hair. And we have different languages too; Biatah, Salako, Jagoi etc etc... Even our countrymen are sometime confused with our actual lineage. (LOL) I hope you can talk more about Borneo next time.

Great video, I'm finding it very interesting and educational. We really are unraveling the mysteries of mankind.

U had a very good research, thumbs up...

i love all your videos, im watching it one by one!

Very informative, keep up the good works

Fascinating. I'd love more videos on this topic- especially Thailand.

nice video..educational from Philippines here

I liked and sub. This is great

This information is appreciated; so, thank you for your efforts and clarity.

Great video. Thanks!

Great video! learned something new.

Love your videos! Thank you for the work you put in to making them🙏🏼

Amazing video I love and really appreciate your work ✌️

The best educational video about South East Asia in youtube.!

Can you do a video about the different kingdoms and empires in Southeast Asia? That would be very interesting!

Thank you for making this video. Btw I'm from Thailand

I so happy u make this video.greetings from Malaysia

Will you do a part two? I really think your channel is awesome. I have learned so much about different people. Thank you.

In Lowell, Massachusetts there is a large Cambodian population with signs translated in Cambodian everywhere.

Thanks for the video. I'm a Malaysian and my first language is Malay, but being in Malaysia means you'll know some other languages as well, depending on your proximity to certain ethnic groups. As a rural West Malaysian, I knew Temiar, Mandarin and a little bit of Javanese. But the Malay-speakers in the East (Borneo side of the country) probably knows Kadazan, Tagalog or Visaya as well. The amount of dialects springing up from these mixup is bedazzling. Oh, and probably you should mention that the Oceanic peoples (Hawaii, Samoa, Fiji etc.) are Austronesians too.

Great work on this subject. Truly our region is a melting pot of different peoples.

I am Filipina and first time viewer...thanks, your videos very informative and you are so knowledgeable on your topics! 😄

I'm from SEA and It's a shame that I don't know much about the region, but this video helped me learn so much. I enjoyed watching the very informative video. You just earned a new subscriber from you already know just by looking at my surname. Cheers and have a good day man!

THANK YOU. I live for these videos!

Probably the clearest explanation I've found. Most videos don't even show a map or images of faces! I too have become fascinated by Indonesia and hope to make a documentary about the Torajans in Sulawesi

That was actually a very good video. More than what it was worth 👍💪

Thanks for this video. The subject of how we became who we are and how we got to where we are has been a topic I have had a great interest in for many years. Thomas Sowell has written many historical books on this subject as well.

I've been in Singapore before.I noticed that Indonesian are nearer to Filipinos,the way they speak.I understand. The same words but some times not the same meaning,but I still understand it.they looks like me.brown and short!I have a very strong feeling that they are related to me.

I think I just discovered that I’m an Austronesian 😂 Continue the good work man you’re amazing. Subscribed!

Great video Masaman, like always :)

thanks for sharing this. greetings from a Javanese

Greetings from south malaysia-sri lankan tamil here !

Best yt channel in existance

I enjoy your channel, young man. Keep up the good work.

Great video as always Masaman. I will always be subscribed to you mate cause you are such a smart fellow.

Are you Chinese? No I'm Malaysian. But you are Chinese! Okok, I'm Malaysian Chinese... Yes, SEA is complicated hahaha

Awesome channel!

👌Your explaination style is superb!!!👌

i would love to use this for my students

as a south east asian person, i can tell you that there are 2 rules in commenting about south east asian countries in social media: 1. if you brag about your country is better than the rest of SEA, the rest will bash you. 2. if you praise other countries, they will praise your country too. SEA may diverse but we have a common same way in threating others. love

Hey mate , I will subscribe because you really work hard for this and its very informative . Appreciate the informative content !!! Keep doing more of this stuff .

Nice! First time I’ve heard a RU-vidr say Khmer correctly. ❤️

Some of the temples in Southeast Asia that are Hindu temples can be found on main land Southeast Asia not just Bali; such as Angkor Wat in Cambodia and po Nagar which was built by the Champa kingdom in Vietnam. They also have a Buddhist temple on the island of Java called Borobudur.

Cool to hear it's your favorite region to research. I'm Cambodian so would like to see a follow up thorough video of the land from historic times. Around 800 AD that whole area was the Angkor Empire aka Khmer Empire... That led to the buildings of the Angkor Wat (the biggest religious monument in the WORLD). With it's great architecture that was even named "Khmer Architecture" there had to be some influences from there as well. They are theories that the temple was built in one day and even hundreds of years before it was actually dated. Being faced to the west (the only temple to do so) and on the same latitude of another ancient site...the Pyramid of Giza. Also, the temples line up to mirror the constellation of Draco. It be nice to see what you can find out what happened before that time.

The story of the Hmong is interesting. I am surprised you didn't go into their evacuation during Vietnam. We have some pretty large communities here in the states.

Good job making this educational video

Its amazing that both Maoris of New Zealand and Austronesian people of SE Asia are traced back to Taiwan .

if you remove all the lines from the map that divides the land you can see the mixing of people...its not complicated at all...my neighbors are Polynesian and black and they look like they're from Melanesia

Nice educational video :D

i learned something from you today... thanks Masaman

Thank you for learning about us. By the way, Hmong people are not the only one who's very independent by themselves. Many ethnicities in Indonesia are independent, just like the Badui in West Java, Mentawai people in North Sumatra and Dayak people from the Borneo. They prefer chieftain although many of them centuries ago had establised kingdoms, they turned it into chieftain instead.

I think you forgot to mention Borneo ppl who are sub cultural from Malays and Philiphines. Some of them similar to Filipino and some with native ppl where you called Malaynisian. But that's okay. Nice video btw

i love your vdo :) p.s. I'm from the northern of thailand.

Very informative.