America's Forgotten Mixed Race Ethnic Groups. European, African, and American Indian

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  • Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
  • Today, we're going to discuss the history of America's forgotten ethnic groups of multiracial origin, such as the Melungeons, Redbones, and more! This video is specifically over established ethnic groups that just so happen to be of multiracial origin, rather than simply all mixed race Americans, who may not be of any specific ethnic group.
    Happy late Independence day everyone, for those who don't know, the 4th of July is when the United States celebrates it's declaration of independence from the British empire (shoutout to all my British subs.)
    Go ahead and let me know your thoughts on the different mixed race ethnic groups of the Americas! Huge thanks and shoutouts to my Patreon donators:
    -Recho B.
    -Kelvin M.
    -Blake CR.
    Thanks for watching!

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  • @Masaman
    @Masaman  7 лет назад +180

    Happy late Independence day fellas. Let me know your thoughts on the mixed race ethnic groups in historical America! This video is specifically over established mixed race ethnicities, rather than all multiracial Americans.
    Huge thanks and shoutouts to my Patreon donators:
    -Recho B.
    -Kelvin M.
    -Blake CR.
    -Mike S.
    -Kyle R.
    Thanks for watching!

    • @nikitaxo8846
      @nikitaxo8846 7 лет назад +8

      I'm not sure if this is true but apparently black americans are native to america and that is why africa never sent for them back? The sioux tribe allegedly? IS THIS TRUE I'm not sure

    • @bigmike5638
      @bigmike5638 7 лет назад +17

      Masaman you should check out the Lumbee Indians of North Carolina they are native Americas mixed with Black and are maybe the lost tribe of James town

    • @bigmike5638
      @bigmike5638 7 лет назад +5

      Oh and google the last Aztec couple and go to images they look like black native Americans imo

    • @theblkidentity2537
      @theblkidentity2537 7 лет назад +6

      Lisa Khadijah it isn't

    • @MohamedMansour-qi7vk
      @MohamedMansour-qi7vk 7 лет назад +8

      Hello massman happy independence day man and I see now your video quality enhanced with both contents and style also I enjoyed discovering these new mixed races of the U.S wish you all success man

  • @dougla96
    @dougla96 7 лет назад +329

    Wonder why they don't teach us this in school but sure as hell teach mfs about "blacc" n "white"

    • @solgato5186
      @solgato5186 7 лет назад +65

      Diversity is harder to control.

    • @MADNEWYORKER914
      @MADNEWYORKER914 7 лет назад +41

      BronxGorilla 96
      Because they want us to learn their lies and fucked up history!!!

    • @Maki-00
      @Maki-00 7 лет назад +15

      I didn't ever hear of Melungeons until I was in my 30s.

    • @prerog9585
      @prerog9585 7 лет назад +18

      Teachers no longer teach, they are only allowed to facilitate learning. which translates to 'the stupid gov't does not want you to learn and know the truth and never know too much. Because then they could never rule you anymore.

    • @The2fiddyridah
      @The2fiddyridah 6 лет назад +2

      so does freemasonry like tile squares in an occultists mansion

  • @ThePoisonBiscuit
    @ThePoisonBiscuit 7 лет назад +26

    This is quickly becoming my favourite channel. It's refreshing to hear someone analytically discuss race from a totally non partisan position.

  • @gulnaazafzal8650
    @gulnaazafzal8650 7 лет назад +155

    I get bowled over by the knowledge of this boy -- He is absolutely learned! Keep it up, chap!

    • @Alloydiv
      @Alloydiv 6 лет назад

      Gulnaaz Afzal That’

  • @tabathafeucht3513
    @tabathafeucht3513 6 лет назад +55

    I had a friend in high school named Meryl. Her dad was German and her mom was from Louse. She had the most gorgeous eyes! She had Asian features and bright blue/green eyes. I personally think the mixing of people from different cultures and genetic groups is beautiful. 👍🏻

    • @the4thempire
      @the4thempire Год назад

      You're a complete idiot. If everyone mixes together, true diversity and the uniqueness of different types of people will be destroyed forever. Fuck your race mixing BS.

  • @KuroiHato69
    @KuroiHato69 7 лет назад +110

    I found this to be fascinating! My doctor told me that he was Melungeon when we were talking about ethnicity and I thought it was interesting because I had never heard of that group of people before. My family is extremely mixed. You name it and I am sure that it is in there. So I grew up accepting that somehow I am connected to everyone on Earth in some way! LOL Nice presentation. I really like your vids.

    • @katheliz1938
      @katheliz1938 6 лет назад +4

      I learned about Melungeons only recently, when I read Big Stone Gap, a novel by Adriana Trigiani.

    • @kindnessfirst9670
      @kindnessfirst9670 Год назад +2

      We are all related to everyone on Earth already- regardless of so called "race" or ethnicity.

  • @metamorphosis2312
    @metamorphosis2312 6 лет назад +49

    I am descendent of Melungeons on my Mother's side from Hawkins County Tennessee., My genetic makeup is Portuguese, French, Italian, Nigerian, Mali, Cherokee, Creek, Swedish. German. Scottish, Jewish And Middle eastern! I know this from doing several DNA tests as well as being the family historian!

    • @courtneyalli4363
      @courtneyalli4363 3 года назад +4

      Me too!

    • @ALL1006
      @ALL1006 Год назад +3

      Fascinating!

    • @WilmerCook
      @WilmerCook 11 месяцев назад +1

      Family from Louisiana, thought we were just Cajun. Wrong I am just like the Melungeons. Native American, Portuguese, French, Basque, Spanish, Scot Irish then it goes into 4%,2%,1% and there's african, Italian, Roma, etc.

    • @lindamaemullins-wr1jg
      @lindamaemullins-wr1jg 9 месяцев назад +2

    • @paulwinters7647
      @paulwinters7647 7 месяцев назад +1

      They just keep rewriting history I guess, because when I was growing up we were taught Melungeons where in America before Europeans came here and nobody knew where they came from

  • @TheNYCndn
    @TheNYCndn 7 лет назад +273

    The correct pronunciation is (ma-LUN-jin)
    Also for many years they were unsure of their racial makeup though guessing it was probably a combo of Iberian, Native and Irish and/or British. However a genetic study was done a couple of years ago that revealed they are of Brit, Irish, Spaniard and African descent to the dismay of some of their community members. It is not to say none of them have Native ancestry but the long held belief that their tan complexions were due to indigenous relatives was actually because of the African ones. I spent my childhood in Virginia and am Native.

    • @jameshouston4835
      @jameshouston4835 7 лет назад +8

      That study was demoralizing, since my Mom had been raised with stories of Virginia Native Americans marrying the British colonizers in the 1600's, one being a "Gentleman" who married a Native Virginian of means. Ligon name was mentioned in "Who Do You Think You Are" for Courtney Cox, who has my identical ancestors who left VA to go to Kentucky. Our ancestors traced to Norman William the Conqueror.

    • @keptins
      @keptins 6 лет назад +7

      The NYC ndn I thought the Turkish origins of the Melungeons were a common knowledge since many of them have the "anatolian bump"

    • @hajjibarbara2900
      @hajjibarbara2900 6 лет назад +25

      Hi people. Actual Melungeon here. My ggggggggggreat grandmother (born in England and migrated to colonial Virginia) was raped by "Indians" in the 1730s. One of which was evidently sired by/descended from an African slave because every man in my line carries the E1B1A Y-DNA marker with a rare mutation signature. She gave birth to a mixed race child and never married. He went on to earn a small inheritance from his maternal grandfather and would go on to own slaves of his own. He fought in the French and Indian War and his sons fought in the American Revolution. Their descendants would go on to fight for the Confederacy. I don't know where uninformed people keep getting this Spanish/Turkish/Gypsy crap from. We're all mostly Anglo Germanic blends with a drop of African and Native American. There are two distinct lines to my distant relatives. One (mine) looks mostly white while the other has a distinct Afro Indian look to them. I have a year round tan bordering on looking Mexican if I spend too much time in the sun and I also have full lips, broad nose, bubble butt, ripped chest and six pack. Didn't get the giant wang though I've never had any complaints. Do these "typical" African features show up by chance or does it come from one tiny strand of African DNA? Who knows. All I know is that I am not Egyptian, Italian, Spanish, Turkish or some other dumb crap.

    • @hotgirlmidsommar
      @hotgirlmidsommar 6 лет назад +19

      i'm melungeon, and we do have african ancestry. but, many of us have southern europe and southwest asian ancestry as well.

    • @hotgirlmidsommar
      @hotgirlmidsommar 6 лет назад +11

      general consensus of dna results i've seen are west european, southern european, african, and southwest asia, native. sometimes iberian.

  • @elisolomon6173
    @elisolomon6173 6 лет назад +12

    Nice work, Mason. You've obviously put a lot of work into your research.
    You taught me something today. Thank you.

  • @wackyruss
    @wackyruss 7 лет назад +415

    White people in America in general are all mixed up too. A mix of British, Scots-Irish, Dutch, German, Scandinavian, Slavic etc. but that's another video topic!

    • @Masaman
      @Masaman  7 лет назад +71

      Russell Solomon Indeed, a topic for another video, just like Latino Americans and Black Americans.

    • @ryanwhoadie7843
      @ryanwhoadie7843 7 лет назад +73

      Russell Solomon. so your saying your mixed but all the so called races you just munched are all white people lol.

    • @osiruskat
      @osiruskat 7 лет назад +37

      Ryan Whoadie so called "white people" like Scandinavians have slightly "Asian" or seemingly Asian from the indigenous of Russia, Norway and Finland. The Eurasian Steppes had a population of mixed ancesy from Iranians, Turkic people, Uralic speakers,Viking and Celts. The Huns at one time ruled a lot of what is now Hungary and Germany. The appearance of "white" skin has been theorized to have occurred around 8 to 10 thousand years ago after many generations of isolation from Gaul, Middle Eastern early farmers and people from the Steppes that split boy of Central Asia

    • @osiruskat
      @osiruskat 7 лет назад +4

      Correction: split out of Central Asia....

    • @mudejartrainingnaturalscie6938
      @mudejartrainingnaturalscie6938 7 лет назад +20

      osiruskat There is no European continent, Europe is not a Continent. There's only Asia. Asia major and Asia minor.

  • @vivalacarlo
    @vivalacarlo 7 лет назад +23

    I love your channel bro! Im filipino but i took a dna test and found out I am of European, North African, Kazakh, Sindhi (romani), Papuan, Han and Siberian descent too. Because of your videos, I am able to picture the migrations that all my ancestors made and how i became those ethnicities. Your video on gypsies help me realize that my sindhi dna couldve come from my Spaniard lineage and i would have not known about this if it wasnt for your videos! Being romani descent can help explain at least half of the ethnic groups that i am made up of. Thanks bro.

    • @PsychicMediumAlyssaGrace
      @PsychicMediumAlyssaGrace 3 года назад +2

      Opre roma!!! Sastipe phral! Romani here as well! Melungeon native:)

    • @gpl992
      @gpl992 2 года назад +1

      Your Papuan came from contact and admixture probably with us neighboring Maluku Islanders to your South.

  • @7919AEM
    @7919AEM 6 лет назад +15

    Great video! Have you considered doing a video on us Hispanics? We are by far THE MELTING POT of the continent. There’s over 1 million Mexicans of African descent, as well as European, mostly Spaniard lineage, but there’s also French, Portuguese, Italian, German, English, Arab and Asian mixed ancestries with NATIVE AMERICAN or Amerindian.

    • @selinaBARMAR2565
      @selinaBARMAR2565 2 года назад +2

      Sounds like my genetic history, lots of diversity. I see it that we are all distant cousins.

  • @kaleahcollins4531
    @kaleahcollins4531 7 лет назад +79

    I recently found I have creole gullah/ geechee and melungeon ancestry as well as maroon

    • @MrJecossey
      @MrJecossey 3 года назад +5

      Welcome to the fam. I was raised

    • @gypsyguy40
      @gypsyguy40 3 года назад +6

      Da fuck is that?

    • @proudmisogynistracisthomop1280
      @proudmisogynistracisthomop1280 3 года назад +3

      @@gypsyguy40 lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @carmaela2689
      @carmaela2689 3 года назад +7

      You are a mix of people who carved out lives under tough surroundings and who weren't going to be pushed around. Be proud. That's really cool!

  • @Joshfuentes77
    @Joshfuentes77 7 лет назад +21

    Thank you for putting out this content:) I would definitely want to see a video about Mestizos:D Thanks again:)

  • @DiMacky24
    @DiMacky24 7 лет назад +62

    Being mixed race in America is weird. The nation's obsession over phenotype has always left me perplexed. I just don't care about race and I don't understand why I should care. Growing up my parents never even brought up the concept of race relations, because they saw it as so unimportant, being from different races, and race had never played any important role in either of their lives (or my own).
    It was only after moving to the "tolerant" city of Seattle from a rural peninsular town that I ever heard a racial slur used or encountered a situation where people were being shamed for dating outside their ethnicity. Interestingly, in the outer suburbs of Seattle basically no one cares about race, friend circles are mixed, and inter-racial marriage is the norm and no one cares. So in my experience race is just an urban obsession and for the maybe 300K rural skinheads (0.1% of the population).
    Once I am finished advancing my career, I am looking forward to moving back to a small rural town where no one cares about skin colour.

    • @GoogleUser-wy2vv
      @GoogleUser-wy2vv 6 лет назад +5

      You will have to move away from earth. Do you not know who controls the global wealth?

    • @DiMacky24
      @DiMacky24 4 года назад +4

      @@Federalblue81 Well, you are true to your username. I moved to San Diego since I wrote this, race relations are better here than Seattle, but still not as good as rural Washington. Small town America is still my goal.

    • @carmaela2689
      @carmaela2689 3 года назад +2

      For me, race is only interesting in relation to history....how race was used as a weapon but also in instances when people beat very difficult odds such as with escaped slaves.

    • @123denuevo
      @123denuevo 2 года назад +2

      Race doesn't matter in the sense that it should effect your present day politics. And while I recognize that there is a thin line between cultural pride or heritage and racism or some form of prejudice, I believe that your heritage is important because it gives roots. It allows you to celebrate all of the factors that led to your existence. That being said that should not affect how you interact with other people with that have a different origin than you.

  • @morganwatson1554
    @morganwatson1554 5 лет назад +24

    I am melungeon! From east Tennessee Hawkins county! Love hearing this being talked about. Thank you so much!

    • @newmanoutdoors1564
      @newmanoutdoors1564 3 года назад +3

      Morgan me as well My Fathers family Came from Newmans Ridge .

    • @kivanbrown7368
      @kivanbrown7368 3 года назад +1

      Me too my understanding is my family lived in cocke county and surrounding area before moving to Knoxville a few generations ago

    • @hollynonya6991
      @hollynonya6991 3 года назад +3

      Melungeon from Bell/Harlan county KY
      Miracles and Greens

    • @hollynonya6991
      @hollynonya6991 3 года назад +1

      I was always told we were from Portugal

    • @dylanhubbard2162
      @dylanhubbard2162 3 года назад +1

      @@hollynonya6991 my mothers father was melungeon from the ward, Collins, gibson, minor, daniels, castle, Goins and Sizemore lineages from Floyd and Johnson ky

  • @dominiquedoeslife
    @dominiquedoeslife 6 лет назад +33

    My family are descendants of the melungeons. We have family from Eastern Indiana and the Appalachians. We've got a lot of ethnicities in the mix!

  • @dkeelin
    @dkeelin 7 лет назад +254

    do a video on extinct and endangered ethnic groups please

    • @drag0n_rage682
      @drag0n_rage682 7 лет назад +50

      legofreak446 european isn't an ethnic group

    • @KSmithwick1989
      @KSmithwick1989 7 лет назад +24

      The Punjabi population is 120 million, the Punjabi population is larger than the entire Philippines (#12). The Yazidis (population 200,000-700,000) are in fact endangered in the religious and cultural sense. Although from a genetic standpoint they are Kurdish and speak a North Kurdish dialect. It is best to describe the Yazidi as Kurdish people, which still observe their original pre-Islamic religion. The Kurdish people themselves are not endangered, with the Kurdish Institute of Paris estimating a population between 36.4-45.6 million. They also inhabit a de-facto autonomous state in Northern Iraq (established in 2005), safeguarding future population growth. The Druze are rare at a population between 800,000 and 2 Million. Although the nearby Samaritans are critically endangered at a population of 777 members. Do actual research before posting.

    • @drag0n_rage682
      @drag0n_rage682 7 лет назад +13

      legofreak446 blacks also make up a similar percentage of the world's population, so by that logic blacks are also endangered

    • @drag0n_rage682
      @drag0n_rage682 7 лет назад

      legofreak446 oh of course, I was going by race instead of continent but even still that'd put europeans at 11 percent.

    • @drag0n_rage682
      @drag0n_rage682 7 лет назад

      legofreak446 not by a significant portion, like with the asians

  • @BBarNavi
    @BBarNavi 7 лет назад +42

    Métis are basically the Mestizos of Canada.

    • @JonDoeNeace
      @JonDoeNeace 4 месяца назад

      Exactly. And there's no real equivalent among Americans. There are American Indians with admixture from intermarriage with other groups. But those are groups that have intermarried recently. Not during colonization. This is due to the differences in British Colonial Policy regarding colonial borders which were not to be crossed by English settlers, as opposed to the French & Spanish tendency to just settle anywhere they wanted and ask questions later. Those who are American Indian and have other ancestrys from intermarriage are from recent intermarriages, not from all the way back during Colonialism, as is the case for both Mexican and Metis.

  • @lawrencenicolin3375
    @lawrencenicolin3375 7 лет назад +8

    It is impossible not to like your videos........brilliantly well-researched and informative. This is most welcome in our largely stereotyped and prejudiced world.

  • @Cummins359forLife
    @Cummins359forLife 7 лет назад +83

    Your video's are educational and well made. Keep up the great work! We are all God's children.

  • @schellstarr
    @schellstarr 6 лет назад +7

    Welcome to the community glad someone is highlighting such diverse genetic history.
    I always have and for years since my 20's wrote "other" on my documents when asked, which most often in my presence crossed out and another conformative answer written in, or a coded letter or number stating different what I wrote.
    I felt to do otherwise would be denying the rich inheritance in every aspect of life and living I was bequeathed with through having a mulititude of people ans their ways, means, views, insights, and diversely different life experiences, opportunities and obstacles all based on what who they were perceived to be.

  • @ChelseaHoffmancrime
    @ChelseaHoffmancrime 5 лет назад +3

    This was a really informative video. Thanks so much for posting it. I've had a hard time finding thorough information about Melungeon heritage. I did my DNA and have been researching my family tree and recently found out that I'm a Melungeon descendant!

  • @chrisoleary9876
    @chrisoleary9876 6 лет назад +5

    I love this video. Thanks for including "Redbones" here. I think the Gaels of Ireland and Scotland and their unknown origins (Goidel Glas & Scota perhaps) are worthy of further review.

    • @toaster2428
      @toaster2428 8 месяцев назад

      The Irish are Meditaranian and the Scottish are The White.

  • @jakesnake2612
    @jakesnake2612 7 лет назад +7

    as always great content. your channel has quickly become one of my new favorites.
    i myself happen to be of melungeon ancestry and not to be nitpicky but its pronounced "mel-un-jun".

  • @clevelandavenuee
    @clevelandavenuee 6 лет назад +21

    I have documented Melungeon Ancestry. I’m from Southeastern Kentucky, and the county I am from was highlighted on the map ironically. I have had my DNA tested, and outside of the British Isles and German which makes up most of my admixture, I am of Iberian, North African, and a small amount of Native American.

    • @martinsanchez4827
      @martinsanchez4827 2 года назад

      Did you have any West African or was that not there? and how much was the make up of the others in a percentage? Sorry if the question sounds intrusive just really interested in this topic.

  • @charitysheppard4549
    @charitysheppard4549 6 лет назад +2

    I just found your channel today. I cannot express to you how impressed I am with your informative and well-researched video, from which I learned so much. I am excited to explore your other offerings.

  • @verlan3293
    @verlan3293 7 лет назад +80

    melungeons are basically what coloured brazilians are today

    • @portugeseking7959
      @portugeseking7959 6 лет назад +1

      @Kyle S. so Kyle you arent Portuguese or Brazilian at all. If you were you would be iberian. Let's thank the white for not knowing shit.

    • @NewYorkCityBoxing
      @NewYorkCityBoxing 6 лет назад +6

      Cubans, Puerto Ricans, some Native American groups...

    • @ricanredru4760
      @ricanredru4760 4 года назад +5

      @@NewYorkCityBoxing yeah...melugeons are basically americas "Trigueños" aka Tri-racal

  • @brwneyesaz
    @brwneyesaz 7 лет назад +2

    My family is of mixed too. I can relate. Keep doing these videos. It is important for historical reasons. Happy 4th of July.Best wishes to you and your family. Peace.

  • @RetroBasementGamingAnime
    @RetroBasementGamingAnime 7 лет назад +40

    It's interesting that people always leave the African part out of the mestizo since the word just means mixed. Mestizos are not exclusively European and Native/Indigenous. Many DNA tests (on and off RUclips) combined with the history of where the slaves went confirms that a sizable amount of African blood has permeated most Latin American countries (the denying of it is somewhat racism due to brain washing, ignorant and how animal like Europeans and Arabs treated the African people). North America got very few slaves (most went to the Caribbean, Mexico and South America, such as Peru, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Haiti, Panama, Costa Rica and Dominican Republic and more). Similar to the Creole, the blood of the slaves were mixed in with the European and Taino Indian blood. I hope if you do a video on Latin America you include the truth and not your version of what you want it to be Masaman. Hasta Luego.

    • @JSharpe427
      @JSharpe427 6 лет назад +2

      I hear there are mestizos European Amerindian in Panama that have elements of African ancestry

    • @charlesspeaksthetruth4334
      @charlesspeaksthetruth4334 6 лет назад +1

      Kickative truth Shut your confused ass up bitch Lol

    • @neo_9568
      @neo_9568 6 лет назад +1

      Kickative truth You are one uneducated jack ass. Full blood native american....What an idiot. LOL! :)

    • @jmartin6158
      @jmartin6158 6 лет назад +7

      Not true, mestizo was part of the caste system that the Spaniards created. There's another term for those mixed African, European, and Native American. I believe it's called "Pardo". Mestizo was used to classify only European and native mixed.

    • @jmartin6158
      @jmartin6158 6 лет назад +5

      How is he an idiot? There is still full blooded Native Americans In Mexico, Central America and South America. There is 68 indigenous languages spoke in Mexico alone with Nahuatl being spoken by 1.5 million people and Mayan spoken by 700,000 people. Don't call people uneducated when you yourself is uneducated.

  • @rockym9981
    @rockym9981 7 лет назад +6

    Melungeon is pronounced (Muh-lun-jin) and Coahuila is pronounced (Co-uh-wee-la). Otherwise, great video!
    Another interesting mixed-race group in the U.S. are the Alaska Creoles. Most now identify simply as Alaska Natives, but they are indeed descended from Russian colonists and many still follow the Orthodox Christian religion.

  • @VTPSTTU
    @VTPSTTU 6 лет назад +10

    I grew up in East Tennessee, and I've been interested in the Melungeons since i was a kid. (We have always pronounced the word with the "g" having a "j" sound and the "eo" having a "u" sound.)
    The real makeup of these people may not be as clear as what you are saying here. Undoubtedly, many escaped slaves came to this area to get away from those who would take them back into slavery. Others who were of mixed black and white ancestry may have fled here also to avoid the prejudice that they would find in more populated areas. To some extent, they may have mixed with the original Melungeon groups, but many have thought that the original Melungeons had only a small African contribution to their makeup. Different DNA studies at different times have come up with different results.
    When these people first met settlers going west, they claimed to be "Porta-gee" which everyone took as their form of the word "Portuguese." While we can understand why descendants of escaped slaves would want to identify as Portuguese to avoid being taken back into slavery, their choice of this claim is still interesting and may be a clue to other parts of their background.
    I'm not as versed in the details as I once was, but some have suggested language connections between some Cherokee words and some Turkish words. One researcher found where Francis Drake had rescued about 400 Ottomans from a Portuguese prison in Brazil and left them on the coast of Virginia because he found settlers on the coast who wanted to return to England. He was going to return to take them back to England and eventually return them to their home in Turkey, but when he returned, they were gone. The genetic presence of middle-eastern DNA in the Melungeons might come from this kind of situation.
    Some of the past research showed that many people of many different backgrounds were dumped on the eastern coastline for various reasons. Survivors of these groups could have ended up together and formed a community in the mountains.

  • @LauraGYoung
    @LauraGYoung 6 лет назад +4

    Cool video. Much of my dad's family is Melungeon (pronounced Muh-LUN-jin). I'd no idea this was part of my heritage until I ran into someone who'd written her doctoral thesis on Melungeons, and she mentioned that my dad's surname often came up in her research. Growing up in south-western West Virginia, there were rumors of Native American ancestry to explain the dark-skinned people with light eyes in my grandparent's photo album -- but the real story is much more complex and interesting.

  • @stevensanabria1326
    @stevensanabria1326 7 лет назад +25

    We have Punjabi-Mexicans in our family and the Indian language part has completely died out. However, my cousins are routinely approached with someone speaking to them in Hindi/Punjabi/etc without even doubting that my cousins speak an Indian language.
    BTW, it's not the "city of Yuba", but "Yuba City". Not mad, just helping.

  • @bridgetsweeney7908
    @bridgetsweeney7908 6 лет назад +15

    I was raised in a white, wealthy liberal family in Los Angeles. I am 67 years old with a Masters degree in psychology. I went to "exceptional" schools. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH OUR EDUCATIONAL/SOCIAL SYSTEMS THAT I HAVE NEVER LEARNED ANY OF THIS?!? Sometimes I am deeply ashamed of being a human being.

    • @beautifulcorpse8202
      @beautifulcorpse8202 Год назад

      I agree. This is so much more valuable. So much knowledge is so unimportant in schools. Extremely ridiculous

    • @cynbarron731
      @cynbarron731 Год назад

      It's being white

  • @keithmayfield6653
    @keithmayfield6653 7 лет назад +3

    , You are awsome! I watch all your shows and find them to be most interesting. You are wise far beyond your years. Keep it up and if you are on Patreon Ill contribute. Excellent info and really valuable for all Americans to watch. I tell folks about you all the time and encourage them to watch.

  • @TheDOTKU
    @TheDOTKU 6 лет назад +2

    The amount of research you do is so impressive. I love your videos!

  • @theonlymeaning
    @theonlymeaning 7 лет назад +23

    So VERY MANY Americans have such a mixed heritage, to a greater or lesser degree...I am a blonde, blue eyed descendent of such folks. Our phenotypes often don't reflect our GENOTYPE! Lactose intolerance, tendency to diabetes or , for example, instant drunkenness after one drink and the INABILITY to stop....teeth that don't fit one's jaw...food
    sensitivities, all are common among "mixed race" peoples....This video is quite well done~!
    Remember the huge move Westward helped people blend into European communities....families that have been in the Western US...Mississippi River Westward...
    have much more "racial" diversity in their heritage........and do not care!

    • @mernie2011
      @mernie2011 7 лет назад +2

      I was fascinated by your comment because I am multi mixed race and have all the ailments you have listed!!!!

    • @glimmeringsea5105
      @glimmeringsea5105 6 лет назад

      That is so true. Never thought about it. Completely mixed here.

  • @osiruskat
    @osiruskat 7 лет назад +27

    Good video. In most Afro American slang a "redbone" is a person of African descent that has a slightly brown reddish skin tone sometimes of Creole descent or just a particular mix from generations of admixture. I'm of majority Yoruba and other African ethnic groups including Kikuya, Mbuti pygmy, Amazigh and maybe Fulani, SW Asian, Creek with traces of Thailand and Scotland...I find Kayble Amazigh, Afro Mexicans, Afro Iranians, Siddi Gomi, Namibian coloured and "Negritos" of Thailand and the Philippines interesting.

    • @char08fal
      @char08fal 5 лет назад +1

      Soooo redbone is an actual ethnicity?!? My grandmother & her siblings were redbones but we used it as slang to describe their skin, red hair and freckles. Wow.

  • @Callsign-Blade_RunnerSG
    @Callsign-Blade_RunnerSG 7 лет назад +135

    Bruce Lee is actually a mix race too, 2nd generation Eurasian.

    • @vtecpreludevtec
      @vtecpreludevtec 7 лет назад +9

      Billy The-Kid Bob Marley!another famous mix!,

    • @prerog9585
      @prerog9585 7 лет назад +19

      Bruce Lee identified as and felt like a Chinese person. As far as i am concerned, he was Chinese.

    • @johnnywonder394
      @johnnywonder394 7 лет назад +7

      pre rog technical not

    • @superphysiologicallevelsof1349
      @superphysiologicallevelsof1349 6 лет назад +4

      No he was part black of African heritage

    • @Klaharnchaiya
      @Klaharnchaiya 6 лет назад +26

      Reinis Goldstien his mom is eurasian (half chinese-white), and his dad is chinese... african? u must drunk..

  • @kakibackup2koujo612
    @kakibackup2koujo612 7 лет назад +5

    Awsome to see yet another video from you.

  • @brendanmcnally9145
    @brendanmcnally9145 6 лет назад +4

    Very well done, Very interesting. I love learning about the ethnic mix of this country. It's all GOOD as far as I'm concerned!

  • @Ric9hardify
    @Ric9hardify 6 лет назад +2

    Great video, I’m Black American with Irish, Choctaw, Cherokee and Sioux ancestry and my children are half Mexican in ethnicity. Thanks for acknowledging mixed race people.

  • @tbreez6945
    @tbreez6945 6 лет назад +25

    African Americans have always known of the meleungon and the redbones as well as the Lumbee. These triracial isolates exist up and down the East coast. We've always known about Carol Channing, Humphrey Bogart, Abe Lincoln and Elvis. The DuSable museum of AfAm Art in Chicago has an exhibit on The Meleungeon people!
    You guys are really late.

    • @char08fal
      @char08fal 4 года назад +4

      I grew up in NC, I knew about the Lumbees and Louisiana Creoles of course. But I didn't find out about Melungeons until doing my ancestry & research. Based on surnames, paper trails, DNA & migration I've discovered there's a big chance that i'm a Melungeon descendant from my mother's side of the family. It also would explain why they're so much different from most of the AA's in the part of TN she's from. I just thought we were different & lived our own types of lives but now I'm starting to learn why.

    • @bellacortez
      @bellacortez 3 года назад +5

      Lumbee ancestry here. The problem with Lumbee is they never ever acknowledge they are mixed and always just claim the native

    • @shuffman8094
      @shuffman8094 3 года назад +1

      ‘We’ is quite a broad statement.

    • @blancherobinson629
      @blancherobinson629 3 года назад +1

      Not me...but do now

  • @byron3176
    @byron3176 5 лет назад +4

    I thought "Redbone" was just a nickname we gave light skinned black women...I learned something today!

  • @houzeroze
    @houzeroze 6 лет назад +10

    Dominicans. We are the first mixed ethnic group in America (continent).

  • @appsource3466
    @appsource3466 7 лет назад +54

    here in kentucky mixed people seem to be quite numerous in the rural areas.

    • @char08fal
      @char08fal 4 года назад +1

      Same in Northern TN places on the border of TN/KY

  • @vancehawkins9524
    @vancehawkins9524 5 лет назад +3

    I thought I added a post -- apparently not. :) I am of Melungeon ancestry. Many people call themselves of Melungeon ancestry. When I use the term, I am referring only to those families whose ancestry goes back to SW Va and NE Tn. There was an Indian home given to the Saponi near the beginning of the 18th century at a place in SE Va called Ft. Christanna. The Saponi were a band of the Eastern Siouan people. After the Tuscarora and Yamasssee Wars, which ended about 1717, there were just a few of these people still alive, with the main branch called "Catawba". All the Eastern Siouan people became known as "Catawba" eventually. At Ft. Christanna there was a man who was a teacher named "Charles Griffin". In the 1740s there is a record of a Saponi Indian named "Charles Griffin" -- he obviously took the name of the one time teacher. There is a record of one Melungeon named "Griffin Collins" in the 1790s in the region these "Melungeons" lived (sw Va and ne Tn). This points to an origin of the people being Saponi peoples. The word "Melungeon" is a French verb and it means "we mix" even today. And there were thousands of French Huguenots living in the Carolinas/Virginia. This is just the tip of the iceberg . . . there is so much nonsense written about us --- but the truth is simple and not complicated (Occam's rule). We descend from an extinct tribe, mixed with our one time neighbors, who are sometimes White, sometimes black, or maybe mixed. There was a 1948 article from the Smithsonian saying we are a remnant people of mixed Native American ancestry. My ancestors left that region long ago for Oklahoma where I still live. We were never granted tribal status, with the government saying we were already assimilated and of mixed race. I have a lot more ... :) vhawkins1952@msn.com

  • @boblenk
    @boblenk 6 лет назад +2

    Very interesting. Kudos for your work in bringing recognition to what has been, at times, a very sensitive area. We are all one!

  • @DakotaCelt1
    @DakotaCelt1 7 лет назад +11

    Metis (descendants of Native American Women and French Canadian, Scottish, English fur traders in Canada and the northern US states.)

    • @nb7316
      @nb7316 3 года назад

      The term for English/Scott/Irish and Native Amer. coupling is actually "Country Born" :D

  • @mernie2011
    @mernie2011 7 лет назад +1

    I am very impressed by you and your research. For you young age, you are very knowledgeable. Don't let the haters win with their negative comments. Most replies are positive. Keep up the great work!!!!👍

  • @WILD__THINGS
    @WILD__THINGS 7 лет назад +6

    I respect your dedication to this topic. What got you so interested in it in the first place?

  • @pbhoulden8212
    @pbhoulden8212 6 лет назад +1

    Thank you for posting this! I suggested the Melungeons as a subject to do a video for on another one of your videos but never mind lol. I've been fascinated by the Melungeons since my dad mentioned them to me after he recalled seeing a "20/20" or "National Geographic" TV special on them years ago. Black Seminoles and Choctaws are very interesting too!

  • @desertboy1162
    @desertboy1162 7 лет назад +20

    Hey man can you do a video about the different ethnic origins in Iran from Azeris to Baluchis

  • @kvarley87
    @kvarley87 7 лет назад +2

    Awesome channel. I hope it grows into the "geography now" of ethnology

  • @oppboyputt
    @oppboyputt 7 лет назад +4

    Thanks for doing this video! Now it make sense I know now what my grandparents were.

  • @patshandymanllc
    @patshandymanllc 6 лет назад +1

    Dude, your videos are the stuff I have been thinking about my entire life!

  • @onjegin6984
    @onjegin6984 7 лет назад +6

    you should make one show about ethnic and religious groups in former Yugoslavia...before desolution state had over 25 ethnicites, 3 main and couple of more religions and dozens of different regional groups and subgroups with its own identity, like Gorani people, Circasians from Caucasus, whiteguard Russian, yuruk and konyar Turks, couple of diffferent Gypsy ethnic groups, also Wallahians of different groups, native people in small Adriatic islands, Cici people in Istria etc..

  • @1zero8dragon
    @1zero8dragon 7 лет назад

    Just wanted you to know I have found the most important RUclips channel that has been made so far. At some point in the future a very important individual will discover your archives and wish you did more. I am a first and third generation American from Britain and Canada and I know what your doing is trueley important and exciting. I wish you the best.

  • @JohnSmith-hb7pc
    @JohnSmith-hb7pc 7 лет назад +3

    Here I thought you were Hispanic or mix Indian. Great video, by the way, I'm looking forward to the next one.

    • @JohnSmith-hb7pc
      @JohnSmith-hb7pc 7 лет назад

      www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/06/15/is-being-hispanic-a-matter-of-race-ethnicity-or-both/

    • @reekrodriqguez6552
      @reekrodriqguez6552 6 лет назад +2

      Hispanics are already mixed

    • @JonDoeNeace
      @JonDoeNeace 4 месяца назад

      ​@@reekrodriqguez6552he Means American Indian like from the U.S. mixed with non Hispanic.

    • @JonDoeNeace
      @JonDoeNeace 4 месяца назад

      ​@@reekrodriqguez6552He said mixed Indian like from the U.S. American Indian (Non Hispanic)

  • @thesportstalkcountry3341
    @thesportstalkcountry3341 7 лет назад

    Lol I'm one of those people that says I'm part Native American to get attention; I'm actually like 3% Cherokee but people actually think that's very interesting.
    These videos are great though! Keep it up man! I've always been interested in genetics and demographics, and this is the first channel of that kind I've been able to find on RUclips.

  • @jonathanflores9874
    @jonathanflores9874 3 года назад +3

    This is very interesting! I can relate for sure being Mexican. I have an admixture of British and Irish, Aztec, Apache, Comanche and Afrolatino. That's technically almost the same concept but from a different region which is Texas, New Mexico and Mexico.

  • @yarekim5932
    @yarekim5932 6 лет назад +1

    The Melungeons and The Redbones are fascinating , along with the Quadroons and Octoroons . great short vid .

  • @1234smileface
    @1234smileface 7 лет назад +1

    Great video! This channel is inspiring for me on a personal level!
    The word 'Celtic' by the way is prounounced as 'Keltic'.

  • @deeMo81
    @deeMo81 7 лет назад +5

    I love this, your page is amazing. As a adult I embrace my mix. I'm East Asian hapa Louisiana Creole with Irish 😁. So my mom is half indeginous Okinawan, half Louisiana Creole and my dad is half Black American and Irish. I have Mexican, Filipino neices and nephews and Chinese cousins. my boyfriend is a Chinese Filipino. whew 😌

    • @levhdv2117
      @levhdv2117 5 лет назад +1

      Boring I am a Jewish, Transylvanian,Gujarati,Russian,South African, Persian, Azerbaijani,Jordanian,Israeli and Uzbek

    • @Todo_fighting
      @Todo_fighting 9 месяцев назад

      You're an orgy.

  • @djm122270
    @djm122270 6 лет назад

    Kudos, sir! Such an overlooked topic, but yes...here we still are! Much apprection! :)

  • @DesertMouse298
    @DesertMouse298 7 лет назад +8

    I'm curious if you have ever studied or plan to do a video on the multi-racial or mixed race origins of the Lumbee Indian once called the Croatan or Roanoke American Indian. The Lumbee American Indian's claim is they are the Lost Colony. This was a verbal history given to these people in traditional Native culture. The claim is that they are the lost colony and therefore the first people on this land (after the coming of Columbus) to be "mixed race." The Natives took this colony of settlers away and hid themselves in the swamp lands of North Carolina. The story I heard told was when they discovered this group of people living in the swamps by new settlers they found a group of people speaking an old form of English. The people varied in skin color and had many dark skinned people with light colored eyes that stood out due to their unusual color. If you go visit the area where the Lumbee Indian lives and have their Lumbee Homecoming (coincidentally in July) you will still see people with this beautiful dark skin and light colored eyes that are not blue or gray or even green. It's like it is all those colors in one or perhaps looks unusual because of the contrast of the skin tone. I just know I have not seen eyes like this elsewhere, but to be true, I have not traveled much.

    • @melvawages7143
      @melvawages7143 6 лет назад

      Desert Dweller you are describing Amber eyes which is the most rare eye color and people who have this eye color have both white/ European and African/black ancestry in them in varying degrees.

    • @marvange2498
      @marvange2498 6 лет назад +1

      Am part lumbee and there all colors in Pembroke but every ones no matter what shade calls them selfs lumbee..

  • @jodilynn2017
    @jodilynn2017 11 месяцев назад +2

    Thank you for this info!! I am Mexican, Scottish, French and indigenous American(Cherokee) My husband is indigenous black American(multiple tribes)We both have so many recessive genes our kids all look similar but all four have different skin tones and hair types than each other and our oldest has green eyes with a dark complexion. Myself and my siblings are the same way. It’s interesting. 💯

    • @joemama4473
      @joemama4473 9 месяцев назад

      Blacks aren't indigenous

  • @handsomesquidward5160
    @handsomesquidward5160 7 лет назад +35

    I love your channel

    • @Masaman
      @Masaman  7 лет назад +9

      Dominique Govinden Thank you!

  • @FMCchannel323
    @FMCchannel323 7 лет назад +1

    I absolutely love your content man. Keep it up! Please dont stop. Also, it would be nice if you could do a video on the south american countries, like the area of Gran Colombia

  • @tedarionjohnson5164
    @tedarionjohnson5164 4 года назад +4

    So I'm from Texas and based on the way my family moved throughout history, my family seems to stem from Redbones and Creoles intermixing in East TX and Louisiana area.
    Most of my family relations in the 1700s were majorily within the region known to belong to Melungeon, and Most of my family in the 1800s were within the East TX/Louisiana region.
    My family's migration pattern and genetics seem to back up the notion of Melungeons settling in that area.
    It explains why I'm such a much coming from 2 multi-ethnic/multi-racial groups lol.
    I learned of the Creole I just couldn't figure out exactly how the other ethnicities came to be in my genes. But studying the Melungeons, things actually made more sense with my genetic makeup.
    WelI guess I'm a Red Creole lmao.
    In modern times despite being multi-racial, my family identify as black.

    • @Movierebel3
      @Movierebel3 4 года назад +2

      Sounds like me to a degree. I'm white, but my first ancestor to the states was a black slave that arrived in Virginia in 1654. His wife died on the journey over. Migrated from Virginia down to Tennessee and is identified as one of the Melungeon families. With a mixture of white, black, Cherokee Bird-Clan and Choctaw, along with Spanish/Jewish. DNA also shows Irish/Scottish along with Egyptian and Sub-Saharan African. I have blue eyes and blond hair. Also in Texas.
      Going through this process I learned you can't tell what someone "is," if that's even a real thing, just by looking at them. Makes me wonder what other white people have black-ancestry, because I know I'm not alone. My dad was adopted, so I really never knew all of this until we went through the testing process and started to research what genealogy information we had.

    • @tedarionjohnson5164
      @tedarionjohnson5164 4 года назад +2

      @@Movierebel3 goes to show how complicated racial identity really is here in America. Sadly it's simplified which has mislead many and warped their way of thinking things

  • @quincybirwood2629
    @quincybirwood2629 7 лет назад +1

    Your videos are both interesting and informative. Keep up the great work.

  • @Otokichi786
    @Otokichi786 7 лет назад +8

    Hawaii is 2,000 miles from anywhere, so there's a built-in "we're all in this together" bond that crosses ethnic groups. Most long time residents of Hawaii have at least one or more "mixed race" relatives in the family tree. A local phrase goes: "No talk stink about X." (Don't diss Hawaiians/Blacks/Whites/Asians, because there's one in your family.;) The old time sugar and pineapple plantations brought over workers from across the Pacific, Atlantic, and the mainland U.S., and the "salad bowl" effect was the result. For some it is odd that "Meiling Gonsalves" could be the Narcissus Queen (Chinese), or that "Kimiko Agsalud" would be the Cherry Blossom Queen (Japanese), but that's the way it is when everyone is a minority.;)

  • @nterry894100
    @nterry894100 6 лет назад

    Just quickly scolling through the comments it is great to see that they are almost entirely positive. Not sure if you are curating them, but happy about it. Good to see facts being disseminated. Keep up the fantastic work.

  • @FaaduProductions
    @FaaduProductions 7 лет назад +37

    Do a video on Parsis. Zoroastrians who sought refuge in India fleeing from Islamic persecution in Iran.

    • @doualdoual8106
      @doualdoual8106 7 лет назад +1

      Kamran Ali
      Yeah that's a cool topic to be discusse.

    • @debrakennedy830
      @debrakennedy830 7 лет назад

      Wow!!! That was really interesting!!!!

    • @gabbar51ngh
      @gabbar51ngh 6 лет назад

      Dad Parsis are good

    • @s.a.8548
      @s.a.8548 6 лет назад

      India has the 2nd most Islamic population and was ruled by muslims for a long time lol that was a stupid move

    • @AnneDowson-vp8lg
      @AnneDowson-vp8lg 2 месяца назад

      ​Mercury was a Parsis. His family lived in India for generations, then moved to Zanzibar, the island off the East Coast of Africa. Freddie, or Farouq Bolsara, was born there. He was sent back to India to a very English boarding school. Racial tensions after Zanzibar gained independence from Britain and became part of Zambia caused Freddie's family to move to London and he joined them there, to complete his college education.

  • @staceysimmons8742
    @staceysimmons8742 7 лет назад +2

    Although I know the material you have been presenting, I'm very impressed with your research and professionalism. You might be interested in following different Asian mixed race people. A's you noted, many are in Hawaii, but there are groups, especially along the west coast. Enjoy your research!

  • @bonniechance7315
    @bonniechance7315 7 лет назад +50

    What about the Lumbee Indians of North Carolina?

    • @Masaman
      @Masaman  7 лет назад +13

      Bonnie Chance Wanted to include them, but unfortunately didn't have time. Will probably be included in a future video!

    • @vutube379
      @vutube379 7 лет назад +10

      Bonnie Chance They lost their court case to be federally recognized tribe because it was a fraud from the beginning!

    • @gloriabruce4798
      @gloriabruce4798 7 лет назад +2

      Bonnie Chance im told we are register. Lumbee

    • @marvange2498
      @marvange2498 6 лет назад +1

      Gloria Bruce am lumbee and it's easy to no if you are are theres only a hand full of last names . Are. You from n.c or s.c

    • @jeanbekr7247
      @jeanbekr7247 6 лет назад +3

      I wonder what percent of Native American would be found in the Lumbee on a DNA test. They sprang up out of the blue after hiding for over a century after Andrew Jackson drove all the Native Americans out of the eastern part of the nation.

  • @crystalcota2732
    @crystalcota2732 7 лет назад

    OUTSTANDING-another great video, mil gracias Masaman.

  • @rucussing
    @rucussing 7 лет назад +18

    Can you do the history of the white Chinese, the Uyghurs?

    • @M.Đ-z4u
      @M.Đ-z4u 7 лет назад

      rucussing then they are white not chinese

    • @pdxtran
      @pdxtran 6 лет назад +1

      They are a Central Asian Turkic people, related to the people of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and so on. A friend who had traveled extensively said that the Uighur neighborhoods of Beijing reminded him of the Middle East.

  • @kathryncarter6143
    @kathryncarter6143 7 лет назад +1

    Thanks for exploring the culture issues. Always cool to learn more.

  • @ocirontariocryptidinvestig8010
    @ocirontariocryptidinvestig8010 7 лет назад +3

    this is a great channel only yo go into any detail with these subjects

  • @madamemarmot
    @madamemarmot 6 лет назад

    Very interesting video. Good to learn about. Great job, Masaman.

  • @maximumsdecimusceckhladze3173
    @maximumsdecimusceckhladze3173 7 лет назад +5

    Paul Barbato i love his channal and i love your channel too man. plise do Video abaut Georgians

  • @shawnmoore1319
    @shawnmoore1319 6 лет назад

    Once again, great video!
    Keep up the good work! 👍

  • @TsalagiAgvnage
    @TsalagiAgvnage 6 лет назад +4

    Very interesting. You make a point that I make often in regards to the assimilation into the white population. People tend to forget or ignore it. And some people are even living racist bubble not knowing that they are not "purely" European. The same for Black, and Latino populations. Most, if not All Black people are mixed to some degree.

  • @sutzmiah4638
    @sutzmiah4638 7 лет назад

    very informative and well presented. I too have interest in the topics you cover on your channel. keep up the good work bra !!

  • @saltyshanker
    @saltyshanker 7 лет назад +9

    so many hate comments on each video lmao dont mind them , keep up the videos bro :)

  • @larsentosh9710
    @larsentosh9710 7 лет назад +2

    It would be awesome if on either this or your alternate channel you did a dna test and showed the results, it's kinda overplayed at this point, but since you're a youtuber that makes content about anthropology and have a very mixed heritage it would be really cool.

  • @edsqaully69
    @edsqaully69 7 лет назад +3

    Hey nice video can you make a video about the ethnic makeup of the Seminole Indians and the groups of people with them

  • @NeptunesLagoon
    @NeptunesLagoon 6 лет назад +2

    Great Vid, realy... I study ancient cultures... Enjoyed it, great opener to individual branches. THX!

  • @mdodo2380
    @mdodo2380 7 лет назад +7

    The fulani (peul) people of west Africa are still somewhat of a mystery. Actually I saw a RUclips video that says the red bone people you mentioned are descendants of the fulani, they were said to be very good farmers and so were never enslaved unlike other Africans at the time. Can you confirm this?

  • @mikegamebred3464
    @mikegamebred3464 7 лет назад

    your channel is awesome!!! Keep up the good work bro!

  • @doclittlejohn3261
    @doclittlejohn3261 7 лет назад +11

    What about the mixtures of upstate South Carolina we have a high mixture of scots-Irish Cherokee Catawba and African

    • @reekrodriqguez6552
      @reekrodriqguez6552 6 лет назад +1

      Doc Littlejohn North Carolina too

    • @marvange2498
      @marvange2498 6 лет назад

      In the pee dee to bit it not much Indian it mainly black and white...

  • @johnegan3413
    @johnegan3413 7 лет назад

    great video Mason I really enjoyed it... keep making them

  • @mensa517
    @mensa517 7 лет назад +3

    interesting, however in Hawaii the Japanese mix are called Hāfu, which can be of any racial mix but primarily the black race as it was/is used as a term to denigrate those born of black soldiers and Japanese women

  • @tmarevisited118
    @tmarevisited118 6 лет назад +1

    We say "muh-lun-jun" not "muh-lung-ee-un" lol and it's "keltic" not "selltic" by the way, but I appreciate you doing this video and bringing attention to my people.
    You might have mentioned the Great Desolate Swamp Maroons and the Black Seminoles.
    It's hard to say which one, or ones I come from, but we did maintain a lot of our African and even some of the Romani culture. I've written a little on this under the pen name "Ray Hess" and I have another book on the way in which I go much deeper into these spiritual traditions.
    I decided to do this upon discovering there were other mixed-race Southerners who grew up with the same. I thought it was just "hoodoo" at first, hence that was the subject of the first book, but now I think it may be a distinct system that either influenced hoodoo, or developed from common roots.
    If you're interested, the first book is titled "Backwoods Shamanism" and it's available on Amazon.

  • @tlanaeq8120
    @tlanaeq8120 7 лет назад +40

    I just say I am an African American blend, aka 100% HUMAN JUST LIKE YOU.

    • @tlanaeq8120
      @tlanaeq8120 7 лет назад +8

      Being 100% human is as complicated as you can get. Take care Ciao!

    • @M.Đ-z4u
      @M.Đ-z4u 7 лет назад +3

      tlana EQ thank you for that information.i have always thinking blacks are aliens

    • @salutic.7544
      @salutic.7544 7 лет назад +3

      tlana EQ okay, we know this, now could you please stop screaming at the top of your lungs BLACKS ARE HUMAN. because we KNOW THAT ALREADY, we just want to get more specific.

    • @BernardS4
      @BernardS4 6 лет назад

      About nationality or ethnicity, I believe you should identify as American of African descent among other ancestral origins. This goes for all who uses the hyphenation.

    • @GFSLombardo
      @GFSLombardo 6 лет назад

      @@salutic.7544 Who are the "BALCKS"? Are they, like near Estonia?(lol)

  • @chairde
    @chairde 7 лет назад

    This was a very well done video. Keep up the good work.

  • @Christina_Hira
    @Christina_Hira 7 лет назад +3

    Punjabi Mexican Americans?! Wow 😳 so cool

  • @stephensheets1172
    @stephensheets1172 7 лет назад

    I love your channel. This is fascinating stuff for me since I'm a mixed race American myself. (Potawatomi, Polish, German, Irish, Dutch, English, Cherokee, Fox, Sauk, French, Scottish, Welsh, Spanish, Guarani, Basque, Jewish)