Tibetans: Why are they so Genetically Distinct? 

One word: MOUNTAINS

As a Mongolian l hope to one day learn Tibetan though l hear it is quite hard, as Mongol and Tibetan people share a unique close bond and that the Tibetan people will some day get their due rights, freedoms and self-determination

As a Myanmar/Burmese person, I am shocked that Tibetans were more closely related with us rather than with East Asians. Such a great info.

I’ve always wanted to learn more about my ethnicity and cultural history so as a Tibetan-American, thank you so much for spreading this knowledge. 🙏🏻😊

People are talking about the Hong Kongers' protests, the Uighur to a lesser. But let's not forget that the Tibetans have been trying to get more sovereignty and cultural preservation since 1949, 70 years this year!!! ✌☸

I live in California and my neighbors are from Tibet and they are good people. Always smiling and very welcoming. God bless the people of Tibet

Tibetan Gamers Rise Up

Tibet was NOT a breakaway state. It was an historically independent state until China invaded in 1957. Claiming it was a separatist state is Chinese propaganda.

I have a Tibetan in my employ. She was born 1977 in India of displaced Tibetan parents. She has maintained Tibet's Culture and Religion since entering the US 9 years ago. She is one of my Care Providers.

Video ideas: Ainu Orgins How European is Turkey? How Scandinavian are Russia and Normandy? "The Rus and the origin of the Russian nation" How gothic is Iberia? How Frankish is France? How Celtic is France? How Roman is France? How phoenician is Lebanon and Tunisia? How arab is the levant? How Aryan/indo-Aryan are India and Iran How indo-European is Europe? How Italian is France/Iberia? How Turkic are the balkans? How Turkic are the Central asians? Fascinating Origins of Assimilated ethnic groups around the world? "The origin of the English and how Celtic/Germanic they are"

I know many Tibetans here in the US, and I have to say, they are probably the least xenophobic Asians. They are very welcoming of all people and are very kind and always willing to teach about their proud, glorious culture. Someday they will be free, as will all of China.

As always very informative video! Thank you …wishing you a very warm Tashi Delek.

Thank you for this video. I've waited so long for it.

India always loves tibet. Love from India.

Mr Masaman, you are an exquisite researcher and presenter. Your channel and your videos are the most interesting I have ever found in youtube and in general. Congratulations from Greece!

What brought me to the genetic differences of the Tibetans (your video) is my discovery of The Denisovan people of Siberia because in a video, they mentioned the Tibetans. Fascinating information! I am now listening to your video...

Tibetans usually have sharper facial features than rest of the asians

I am from Garo community. A tibeto-burman group form Meghalaya north east India. We have a story passed down from generations to generations that we migrated to presently Garo hills meghalaya ,India from Tibet long years back. Back then theres no boundaries no countries. The place where we're now was divided and drawn by Brithist imperial times. We still speak our own language and follows our culture although religiously 99% of us are Christian-Baptist.

Thank you so so so much for this! I'm always so thankful when people learn and spread our history so we don't get forgotten... stay save and keep up the amazing work! Love the way you summarize and portray info on your channel :)

Great job as usual, but, I was hoping you would go more into high-altitude adaptation 👍

The picture of the monk setting himself on fire has nothing to do with Tibet. He was a Vietnamese monk who was setting himself on fire to protest the South Vietnamese Catholic U.S. backed dictator Ngo Dinh Diem, who was violently repressing non Catholics.

I'm from Bodo tribe, one of many Sino Tibetan groups.

Yesss, I was waiting for this

Great video, really good facts!

Since I did a large list for the last video, I am going to wait for a future one to do an extensive list. Other than my usual reiterations that you haven't done yet (and thank you for addressing many of those topics), the one topic I wanted to suggest to you: How closely related are modern Middle Eastern populations to the ancient civilizations of the area genetically? The Arab conquests obviously spread the Arabic ethnicity all over the Middle East and North Africa, but are there any Mesopotamian peoples left genetically? This same question applies to all the multi-ethnic groups in the area as well. Are Levantine peoples and Canaanites the "same" people? Also, were the first Canaanites direct descendants of the Natufians from the Neolithic era? Also, I still think specifically learning more about the Garamantes of the Sahara would be fascinating since they had a complex society and few people have heard of them. Yes I know you've done stuff about the Berber's before, but I am suggesting to focus on this subtopic within their culture. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garamantes

As a kid, i’d always been told that we, Northeastern-Indians, descended directly from the Tibetans and are also distant-relatives of the Mongols.❤️ Thanks for making a video of our fellow tibetans and letting the world know about this rich culture which is still unknown to many.

Thank you for making these vids

Thank you!..very interesting and informative 😊

Mason, thanks for the very informative videos - I truly appreciate your effort. That said, I should offer a couple of corrections for accuracy: 1. The Bön religion predates Buddhism in Tibet, and Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) is famous for "converting" the Bön gods to Buddhism. 2. The core of Tibetan Buddhism is Mahayana in nature, with Vajrayana being an emergent tantric sect. 3. The image of the self-immolating monk (9:07) is from a protest in Vietnam during the Vietnam war and is therefore unrelated to the voice narration.

Thanks for the video... I am from Kargil in Ladakh UT of India. Purgis in India and Baltis in Pakistan speak the Purgi and Balti dialects of Tibetan language respectively.

This is very learned stuff. Congratulations

Very informative and interesting, thanks.

YESS YOU MADE A VIDEO ON THIS.

Tibetan people are honestly so amazing to me. Mountain people are unique

Very well explained. Well done 👍

♡ thanks for the info!

Do one on the Dardic peoples, concentrating on the three largest linguistic groups, Kashmiri, Shina and Khowar.

@Masaman. I see you have done several videos on Australoids but could you do a whole video on Aboriginal Australians. I think it would be very interesting to see a video based solely on them.

Great video masa

Very interesting stuff.

I’ve been fortunate enough to have traveled to South East Asia, Afghanistan and the Middle East. I never got to see Nepal, Mongolia or Tibet. Places I would love to experience.

Suggestion: What happened to the ancient ethnic Persians?

Thank you again for another very informative anthropology video. Enjoy them so much!

I always think I am knowledgeable when it comes to History and Anthropology but realise Masaman knows far more . Well done.

I'm Nepalese. My ethnic group have been practicing Bon religion for centuries alongside Tibetan Buddhism so, Bon religion ain't new but instead old shaministic/ animistic practices including supernatural beliefs and rits and rituals. Please do a video on Nepalese people.

I love Tibetans. They have big beautiful hearts. ❤

This video is very educating. I am from Burma(Myanmar).

Good video. Thanks

Nepali doesn't have dental fricatives. The in Sagarmatha is an aspirated [t]

My great grandfather great grandfather father was from tibet ♥️😭

Great Video

Indosphere and chinosphere. Learned new terms from you! Thank you!

You should make a video on the history of the Khmer people! We have a very interesting past.

You should do some videos about how similar different ethnicities are. I really want to see how similar the Polynesians are to the Melanesians or how similar the Khoisan are to the Zulus.

I,m From Balti Tribe,we Speak Balti Language Belong to Sino Tibeaten Group ...Greeting From Himalayan mountains (Balti Yull ) North 🇵🇰💝

Interesting. Thank you.

There’s a small community of Muslim Tibetans in Kashmir valley, particularly around Srinagar. They’ve been living there since centuries and have also adopted certain local customs.

Bon is the oldest religion in Tibet, and it was there in Tibet before Buddhism ever came to Tibet and became more prominent. The word Tibet in Tibetan language is called Bhoed which is actually derived from the term Bon. Before the first king Nyatri Tsenpo, Tibet was actually ruled by Shangshung Kings who were Bon.

Thank you for being very objective

The part about the Kusundas in Nepal is very interesting. There is a research on the Santhali tribe of Nepal who are also thought to be related to Dravidian groups of people rather than the Indo-Aryan. Can you do a more comprehensive video on the pre Indo-Aryan and Tibeto-Burman/ Sino-tibetan people of the Indian sub continent? Whence they came? Who are they related to?

Could you ever do a video discussing the native american connection to asia and the different migration waves? Like the reason mayan's and navajos are more like cousins than sisters

I’m Assamese from Northeast India and I’ve Indo-Aryan, Tibeto-Burman and Sino-Siamese admixture in varying degrees.

Thank you 🙏 100% research

Very interesting

the guy with the smug face in the thumbnail is one of the most badass thinngs I've ever seen

Could you do a video on the Karen ethnic group in Burma/Myanmar? I think it would be a great topic considering the recent genocides with the Rohingya Muslims and Karen people. We've had a lot of immigrants move here to the US because of it. I love your videos, extremely interesting and impeccably thorough! Thank you!

Hey Thanks for sharing this interesting video about Tibetans. I am from a minority ethnic group called Kachin in Myanmar. I have been doing a bit of my own research lately and learned that Kachins are nomadic and one website mentioned that we descended from Tibet. Could you make a video and explain that, please?

The Habesha and Quechua also have high altitude adaptations.

Geographic isolation due to the Himalayas, mountains frequently mark genetic barriers, the Alps. Even lower mountains such as those of the Highlands, Glen Lyon in Perthshire was overwhelmingly made up of people who came in from the west due to it being blocked by rock to the East, with there being a rather difficult path over that was unsuitable for vehicles or horses, that remained the case until with gelignite it was possible to blast through what was very hard rock and build a road through to Aberfeldy, now more than half the population there is wealthy people from South of England who sold up and moved out there, with more extensive communications such geographic isolation is becoming much rarer.

Hey Man Just love your videos!! Would like to more about mitochondrial dna haplogroups Thanks man

Very informative! When watching, I was thinking on wonder Burmas looks alike Tibetan people!

Thank you very much from my heart. May Avalokeshvar bless u n ur family throughout ur lives.🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼💐💐💐

Kargili ( Purgi) and Ladakhi population in India are also Tibetan origin.... Purgi and Ladakhi Language are partly intelligible to the Tibetans.

Another amazing people who populate our small blue marble. I love the Tibetan use of Turqoise in their jewelry and the unique culture and civilization. The food, architecture and just the look of these people is so cool and shows how a tough and hardy people can live in one of the least hospitable places on earth and make it their own.

Watching from North East India ,Manipur ,Rongmei tribes.Tfs!!

I belong to Miri tribe of Tani group. I got to know my roots from your video. Very knowledgeable

Qinghai would be another interesting topic because of the diverse influences from Tibetans, Mongols and Hui Muslims. The Mongols adopted Tibetan Buddhism as their national religion after they conquered Tibet in the 13th century, so even after the fall of the Mongol Empire in China, they had a tendency of invading Tibet and setting up puppet theocratic regimes all the ways up to the 18th century. The Mongols were largely expelled from U-Tsang and Kham by the Manchus, but they still have a large presence in Amdo (Qinghai) to this day.

Idk if Tibetans can ever gain independence or not but their culture and traditions will always be carried forward in India.

wow as a Tibetan Nepalese that was very accurate, however, i do have to emphasize that the Mongolians and Tibetans do share a common ancestors as pre Vajrayana they did and still do share most of the practices and names that are are same although slightly change in pronunciation (just to mention) and the clues are in surrounding countries like Uyghurs, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan. if Tibet was in its original state it would big a fairly sizeable country, just like in United state of America ,the differences in Texas and Newyork is quite apparent. The kingdom of Guge in far west and Amdo is very different. The language hindi although it is synonymous to Hindustan it does originates from Urdu which originates from arabic and farsi. In mahayana it is always mentioned that teachings of Buddha was not in fact in Sanskrit but in Pali and later transcribed in Sanskrit.

What is the music coming in there at the end ?

May I ask, how do you get your information?

Tibetans tend to have longer, sharper facial features in East Asia. Surely Some people have shorter, blunter like Han Chiense.. Because Tibet is very wide and their facial features are very diverse. (Western Tibetans have mixed face with Indian (Caucasoid ?), Eastern Tibetans have Han Chinese, Mongolia face)

Masaman has such a distinctive voice. I know its his video even before looking at the channel name.

Hi, I'm from Nepal. Really enjoyed video on Tibetans. Now, please do a video on Nepalese.

Years ago I read where Tibetan tradition says the Tibetan people descended from a female monster. They were proud of that and clung to it. I have often wondered where that tradition came from and now, listening to your video where you say the have strong Denisovan and Neanderthal DNA, I feel that has been answered. Fascinating

I'm a burmese.I really didn't know that we're originally come from Tibet.But I heard a word called Tibeto-Burman before.I'm really interested in it how we related before.When I asked my grandparents where're we come from?and then,they said they came from China like Yunan.I don't know exactly.That they said to me.In this video I knew that we're originally from Tibet. As a burmese,we're always keep touching with burmese every day,so we can't not only speak but also we don't understand what they said.But I think Tibet is a very beautiful part which is full with buddha images and the nature.

Bön is not a new faith, it is the native pagan faith of the region which was largely replaced by buddhism. It's actually incredibly surprising to see that it has survived after all these centuries, having apparently adapted despite it's decline.

I would love to learn more from you on the history and migration and genetics of the indigenous Buddhist in the Chittagong Hills of Bangladesh - specifically the Chakma peoples.

Do a video about the Hmong/Miao people, please

Dropping this vid on China's national day. Coincidence? I think not lol

Could you do a video on meso American tribes today, like which ones survived assimilation?

Was hoping for more on the Denisovan/Neanderthal genetic connection to the ability to survive and thrive in high areas with low oxygen.

There's a large Nepalese population where I live in Ohio

A good explanation for Tibetan people ! ! The Tibetan people, Andamanese people, and Jomon people (the people who lived during the Jomon period in the Japanese archipelago) carry distinct Haplogroup D gene, even though, each of these people lives far away. That's interesting ! ! Mason, WOULD YOU PICK UP THE TOPIC ABOUT KALMYK PEOPLE who live in southern European Russia, believing Buddhism. I think Kalmyk people are very unique ! ! ! Thank you ! ! ♥(^~^)♥

Love to all my tibetan brothers.from baltistan(north pakistan)we also speak a tibetan langauge

Can you please do a video on Nepal?? It’s a very diverse country

I would love to see your research regarding Lepcha Language (Rong Ring) which falls under Indo Tibetan Burmese language. Spoken by the Lepcha people in parts of India (Sikkim, North Bengal) Bhutan and Nepal.

If I were to cast a vote for which people have the most mysterious and complex culture and religion in the modern world, my vote would almost certainly go to the Tibetans. It is even surprising they exist at all, considering their apparent adherence to non-violence.

Very impressive Dr. Masaman. You know about the North East India than most of the NE people themselves

Pakistani Muslim Tibetan ( Balti ) here .