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

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

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

​@@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!

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

Bula my brother. 💯 PASIFIKA

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

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.

The motherland

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

@@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?

No they didn't

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

@@ChrisEAdlay dude Polynesians are created from male Melanesians.

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

@@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.

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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 !...

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

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

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

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

They didn't 'try'. They did.

@@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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Ignorons les !...

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

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

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

@@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!

@@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.

@@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?

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@@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.

Filipinos are SE Asians. Get over it. Accept your heritage

Makes sense, philippines has far more in common in South East Asia than Polynesia.

@@loolfactorie Philippines and Taiwan should be categorize as Micronesia based on geographical proximity.. lol

@@loolfactorie I'm indigenous Filipino and no we don't, they just came and colonized against our will (the 1st china town was built where?).

@@zeros-gy7blas another indigenous Filipino myself. I would say Philippines is obviously south East Asian especially our cultural and political ties to the rest of Asian and that also includes our language which is really similar to Indonesia and Malaysia.

Did they though? They obviously had names for individual islands or island groups, but for the Oceanic islands as a whole? Or for larger divisions, like Polynesia, Melanesia, etc? People don't tend to name regions like that except when they're dealing with other regions.

That's how they made sense of what they were seeing. It was European people writing for a European audience. If you have a different way of seeing it that's fine. But I seriously doubt that there was any kind of pan-oceania or pan-austronesian identity the way some of you are trying to claim.

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

@@DirtyKnickers 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.

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

You are mostly fijian in origin from my lineage of tawhiri an hina your ancestors came from me an my lineage im from tribal lands of vanalevu an tavunie your our children

We conquered tamotu an society islands you belong to our lineage an tribal lines the people of marquees later was enslaved by us fijiantahitian of hotumatua.

Polynesian is a joke . French polynesia an fiji 🇫🇯 are the same people an hawaiians an etc was conquered an enslaved by us. Hina an tawahiri an tawaki and etc hotumatua created the true maori. Not this babies in new Zealand an etc mix European

I prefer samoa. No venomous snakes or spiders

You follow white ways We are people of the pacific

@@ChrisEAdlay sea snakes & trousers snakes in Samoa 😂

@@paulagonebeci5296 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Polynesian power we don’t want to be you either

Its the gateway to the Pacific

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

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

@@cyberedge881 LIMA GANG.... 🖐😎

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

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

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

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.)

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.

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.

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

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

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

@@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.

@@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

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

@@EdibleFlipFlops Aww..someone needs love.

@@EdibleFlipFlops Define beauty?

Excellent video

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

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.

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..

They aren't Polynesians if they are Melanesian natives.

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??

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

@@rogersassah258 PNGans are Melanesians. Not Polynesians

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.

They are only mixed Austronesian adapted Austronesian Languages

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

​@@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

So why is it that these outdated classficstion hold true today ? Modern genetic testings show that the ploynesians can be traced back to modern day Taiwan and the darker melannesians to southern africa

I appreciate it!

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

Lol salty

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

This guy ain’t a European.

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

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

Taiwan to Melanesia not New Zealand

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

@@eeeaten Wrong

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

@@eeeaten that bullshit

Wasn't it called Hesperonesia?

@@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.

@@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

@@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.......

💯 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.

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!

Si Yu'os ma'ase'!

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.

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

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.

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

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

are there any Maori navigators today?

@@santospaul8103 yes

@@medit8iv_native970 they are called tongans and samoans LOL

@@alcapone8193 yea come back when you have learned dna

This is bullshit Tahiti & rapanui is the father of all Polynesian Takitumu tribe in tahiti is the legendary tribe of South Pacific & Eastern Pacific too

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.

@@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

You are lying

They navigated them to the last islands🤧😅

Especially Kanaka Maoli pure Hawaiians but white settlers came

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...

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!

@@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.

he meant yellow to highlight polynesians asian fathers

@@thvtsydneylyf3th077 ok, but Thor Heyerdahl's story Is more accurate.

asian fathers😆@@thvtsydneylyf3th077

Correction, there is one human race there used to be human races. And Homo sapiens, And the last surviving rest of humans come in all sorts of colors

@@Youngblood457 What's your Nationality?

what do you mean

Why?

I vote for “people of the sea”

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

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

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

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

Does seem from much more modern research than this that there's merit in the basic divisions, based on how the different island populations are related.

I have grown up hearing these terms my entire life and was unaware of the racial aspect of the classifications until seeing this, though I shouldn’t be surprised given that they were made by 18th and 19th century Europeans. Generally speaking, the divisions of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia roughly work for most geographic purposes, but there tends to be more overlap and exceptions when trying to apply them more specifically. Polynesia tends to be relatively unified in cultural and linguistic origin (sharing a much more recent common ancestor), but there are also many islands inhabited by Polynesians that fall outside the Polynesian Triangle known as Polynesian Outliers, mostly in offshore Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia. Societies in Micronesia tend to share many cultural similarities, but are linguistically much more divergent from each other than Polynesian languages, with Chamorro and Palauan being so different from the others as well as each other as to not even be included in the Oceanic branch of Malayo-Polynesian that includes most Austronesian languages of Remote Oceania. Melanesia is probably the most problematic of the subdivisions, not only because of the racial connotations described in the video, but because it is by far the least useful, being the most diverse region and having the most overlap with others. Fiji is usually considered part of Melanesia, but has had more contact and shares much more in common culturally with Western Polynesia, particularly Tonga. New Caledonia and Vanuatu are both home to a variety of languages (over 100 in Vanuatu’s case), and many of the nearly 1000 languages of Papua New Guinea, particularly in the interior, are not even Austronesian in origin.

@@TheKalihiMan Thats true. Many outlying islands to the mainland Of PNG are inhabitied by polynesian people but are still part of the nation of PNG. Especially to the north and west of the island of new britain (where they speak kuanua - an austronesian language). On mainland PNG though the languages for the most part are not austronesian.