Japan's indigenous Ainu people still hunting for acceptance of their ancestral traditions

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    In the face of discrimination from his fellow Japanese over his indigenous roots, Atsushi Monbetsu has decided to embrace his traditional Ainu way of life. The 38-year-old recently quit his job as a construction worker to become a professional hunter.
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  • @yahikokurotama4351
    @yahikokurotama4351 4 года назад +785

    So sad that no matter the country it seems like all indigenous peoples are mistreated

    • @Sam-iw5rl
      @Sam-iw5rl 2 года назад +35

      It really is unfortunately 😕

    • @silverhawkscape2677
      @silverhawkscape2677 2 года назад +80

      No Surprise Japan Mistreats Ainu. They look like Foreigners and Japan already doesn't like Foreigners.

    • @Sam-iw5rl
      @Sam-iw5rl 2 года назад +11

      @@silverhawkscape2677 yea sadly 🙁

    • @drphilisalwayswatching5993
      @drphilisalwayswatching5993 2 года назад +75

      @@silverhawkscape2677 they do not look like foreigners, they were on the island of Japan before the Japanese ever settled there.

    • @silverhawkscape2677
      @silverhawkscape2677 2 года назад +18

      @@drphilisalwayswatching5993 And whose the Dominant people of the Nation?
      Native Americans have to be thankful Caucasians actually built a system that allows them to live as equal citizens and a culture that takes them seriously.

  • @cthomas7129
    @cthomas7129 4 года назад +700

    I'm Polynesian, and people thought I was Ainu in Japan on account of my physiology, beard and hair. I took it as a compliment rather than the intended slight

    • @kasikasivendjinn5345
      @kasikasivendjinn5345 4 года назад +87

      The Ainu we see today looks Asian or Mongoloid today because they've been mixing with Japanese for a long time, they used to have a more European feature, long and wavy hair, and really long beard.

    • @yahikokurotama4351
      @yahikokurotama4351 4 года назад +35

      @h i The Ainu lived in Russia and Japan they had a mix of European and Asian look but with more European features.

    • @ChromeMan04
      @ChromeMan04 4 года назад +52

      Yahiko Kurotama they are not mixed with Europeans

    • @elroyhi3963
      @elroyhi3963 4 года назад +56

      Yahiko Kurotama european? please stop whitewashing

    • @yahikokurotama4351
      @yahikokurotama4351 4 года назад +15

      @@elroyhi3963 Omfg Google it yourself and see. I'm not even a white or live in a white country.

  • @saitokanzawa3097
    @saitokanzawa3097 4 года назад +792

    For interested ones: The Ainu are the descedants of the northern Jomon people. They arrived in Japan more than 30,000 years ago from a region somewhere in Central Asia or Siberia. They are descedants from an paleolithic population which can be traced back to southern Siberia.

    • @ZFG1467
      @ZFG1467 3 года назад +14

      But aren’t they genetically more related to East Africans?

    • @mhmgbk9728
      @mhmgbk9728 3 года назад +19

      *conquered the jomon, not descendants of

    • @烏梨師斂
      @烏梨師斂 3 года назад +41

      @@ZFG1467 They are closer to the Australian aboriginals I believe

    • @abcddef2112
      @abcddef2112 3 года назад +19

      @@烏梨師斂 where did u get that idea?Most ainu would be closer to japanese. The closest outside Japan is Andamanese.

    • @thomasbarca9297
      @thomasbarca9297 3 года назад +39

      @@烏梨師斂 that’s actually true, through genetic they discovered the Ainu, the native adamanese, the first Australians, tibetans, native south asians and Papuan populations are all descendants from the first waves of humans to leave Africa into Asia around 60-80,000 years ago

  • @santiagokuan271
    @santiagokuan271 3 года назад +399

    I am a Filipino. I support your efforts to preserve indigenous culture. I admire you being proud as Ainu.

    • @jackjackyphantom8854
      @jackjackyphantom8854 3 года назад +22

      Filipinos invaded the Negrito peoples too.

    • @N8TANIEL
      @N8TANIEL 3 года назад +18

      @@jackjackyphantom8854 Yes the Aetas were there first

    • @gosen1776
      @gosen1776 3 года назад +11

      @@jackjackyphantom8854 nope it was the spanish they later join us during the philippine independence but they are sometimes being discriminated

    • @jackjackyphantom8854
      @jackjackyphantom8854 3 года назад +5

      @@gosen1776 Filipinos are ultra racist.

    • @gosen1776
      @gosen1776 3 года назад +9

      @@jackjackyphantom8854 if Ur calling them ultra racist then I don't know how ultimate racist u are...

  • @PunkSolar22x
    @PunkSolar22x 3 года назад +270

    Native American here, never be ashamed of who you are. Those people who try to make use feel abnormal are the one who truly feel that way about themselves. They feel guilty and like a fraud Japan as they call it belongs to the Ainu People and it bothers them.

    • @silverhawkscape2677
      @silverhawkscape2677 2 года назад +1

      It doesn't. Japan is for Japanese. Japanese people already mistreat foreigners. Ainu are no different. They don't look anything like Japanese.

    • @mokakuma7329
      @mokakuma7329 2 года назад +22

      @@silverhawkscape2677 but ainu are the natives to japan before yamatos

    • @brantdanger
      @brantdanger 2 года назад +2

      There's no such thing as a "Native American." All the peoples in the Americas migrated from other areas of the planet.

    • @kushagermaithani8871
      @kushagermaithani8871 Год назад +13

      Ainu are indigenous people of Hokkaido island of Japan not of entire Japan because Japan is a island nation Ainu migrate in Hokkaido first . The group of people migrate first to a specific please are indigenous people of that particular land. Yamato people were first to migrate in southern islands of Japan.
      So Japan is a country with two indigenous group of
      peoples.

    • @mingchenwei1978
      @mingchenwei1978 Год назад

      It is def not japans fault that they were not able to adapt.

  • @arbaz79
    @arbaz79 4 года назад +212

    I got to know about Ainu people by watching "Golden Kamuy".Very underrated anime.One of my favourites.Must watch

    • @FshineK
      @FshineK 4 года назад +10

      @kyleplier yeah, it's such an underrated anime, hyped for the 3rd season

    • @obliterator3426
      @obliterator3426 4 года назад +1

      Wont watch cause i dont like anime

    • @watching2341
      @watching2341 3 года назад +5

      Hinna hinna!

    • @jackjackyphantom8854
      @jackjackyphantom8854 3 года назад +2

      @@watching2341 The Ainu guy look kinda like Takeshi Tsuruno (an Japanese actor and singer).

    • @ganonmain907
      @ganonmain907 3 года назад +1

      Haven't watched that yet but when i watch shaman king theres a character called horohoro who is ainu native

  • @mfreak1126
    @mfreak1126 Год назад +43

    I was born in Hokkaido. I've seen many people who looked similar to him in my city. Although the number of people who identify themselves as Ainu is getting smaller and smaller, their genes have been passed onto many Japanese people, especially ones in some cities in Hokkaido, unbeknownst to themselves.

  • @jub743
    @jub743 4 года назад +242

    Nothing ashamed for being ethnic-native.

  • @lunakelly2113
    @lunakelly2113 4 года назад +482

    Fun fact: the Ishvalans of Fullmetal Alchemist are based on the Ainu people.
    Based Amestris' annexation of Ishbal from Japan's annexation of Ainu lands.

    • @OjaysReel
      @OjaysReel 4 года назад +41

      Golden Kamuy

    • @LuminousSpace
      @LuminousSpace 4 года назад +13

      doesnt look that way to me since ive watch both golden kamuy and fma, ishvalan similar to arabian in my eye

    • @lunakelly2113
      @lunakelly2113 4 года назад +40

      @@LuminousSpace she said so herself. Just because they remind you of another race just means suffering and greed is universal and sadly there are always victims, often those victims are minorities.

    • @hetzatheofany2235
      @hetzatheofany2235 4 года назад +1

      I see

    • @vertie2090
      @vertie2090 4 года назад +5

      Oh I always thought it was a reference to Islam. How do you know this? I mean beyond just that annexation, which could refer to any event in the real world.

  • @johndelamontaigne7711
    @johndelamontaigne7711 3 года назад +64

    Wishing this young Ainu man all the best of luck! Going back to and preserving the old traditions is very wise in my opinion.

  • @peteryeung111
    @peteryeung111 4 года назад +286

    What's wrong with people? They are normal just like everyone else.

    • @gambigambigambi
      @gambigambigambi 4 года назад +80

      Interest. Same with the purging of Native Americans in USA. It is all a cycle.

    • @soulplexis
      @soulplexis 4 года назад +5

      @Mula Mi failing, our numbers are growing faster

    • @adityanawani8134
      @adityanawani8134 4 года назад +2

      @@soulplexis
      Really?
      Very happy to know that!😊😊😊

    • @e.i.3077
      @e.i.3077 4 года назад +37

      Prejudices are easy to build but difficult to destroy. The discrimination against them goes way beyond the 1800's and even today, Japanese people are EXTREMELY reticent to acknowledge anyone who looks different as being Japanese. Even half-Japanese people born and raised in Japan aren't acknowledged.

    • @vister6757
      @vister6757 4 года назад +4

      Discrimination happens everywhere any time. Sometimes human can be vile especially when they cannot relate to people and culture that are different from their own. Perhaps due to fear or the need to feel more powerful 🤔

  • @pillbobaggins2766
    @pillbobaggins2766 Год назад +23

    i think it's wonderful to see Indigenous peoples such as Ainu and Maori learning from each other and trying to preserve or revive their languages for the future. it's exciting to think about how technology has brought people together this way

  • @kevaran1422
    @kevaran1422 3 года назад +50

    I hope they speak their Ainu language more often and regulary and be proud of it.

    • @Figgy5119
      @Figgy5119 7 месяцев назад +2

      Unfortunately, there are no native Ainu speakers left and there are very few people considered fluent at all, and they are all pretty old.

    • @mar25947
      @mar25947 2 месяца назад

      @@Figgy5119oh no 😭

  • @vladimirpoutine7522
    @vladimirpoutine7522 Год назад +25

    That's so weird since I'm infatuated with learning about the Ainu. What an amazing story!! I really hope they maintain and flourish.

    • @XfromDarkHorse
      @XfromDarkHorse Год назад +7

      If you're interested in Japan's ethnic minorities, you can also check Ryukyuan people from Okinawa and Kagoshima, Ōbeikei/Bonin Islanders from Bonin Islands, and extinct Emishi from Honshu.

    • @ashton1952
      @ashton1952 10 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@XfromDarkHorseso interesting, thanks

    • @qwertyuiopasdfghjk11111
      @qwertyuiopasdfghjk11111 2 месяца назад

      @@XfromDarkHorse The Emishi were not an ethnic minority group with a unique culture, but simply a people who lived in the Tohoku region and were not greatly influenced by the ruling powers.

  • @kraftthisile9113
    @kraftthisile9113 4 года назад +305

    He looks like he could be my cousin or brother. And I'm from central america.

    • @OshiyoNatakagi
      @OshiyoNatakagi 4 года назад +72

      Basically, Native American came from North-East Asia ^^

    • @nikolnolastname4473
      @nikolnolastname4473 4 года назад +51

      I'm from central america too and his looks were throwing me off. He looks like one of my uncles.

    • @kraftthisile9113
      @kraftthisile9113 4 года назад +6

      @@OshiyoNatakagi i understand that. I just found it very fascinating.

    • @OshiyoNatakagi
      @OshiyoNatakagi 4 года назад +35

      @Siyovaxsh En-sipad-zid-ana that's why I said North-East Asia. ^^
      Before living in America, they had to pass through the detroit of Bering between Siberia and Alaska.
      Genetically, Native American are closer to Asian than European or African.

    • @italiansoldierfromww2460
      @italiansoldierfromww2460 4 года назад +23

      @Chang technically indigenous Americans are of North Asian ancestry

  • @axxessmundi
    @axxessmundi 4 года назад +497

    In Japan there's even discrimination to your blood type.

    • @gambigambigambi
      @gambigambigambi 4 года назад +40

      It is like the difference between Native Americans and White Americans.

    • @iSayMonica
      @iSayMonica 4 года назад +59

      Ainu are nothing like modern Japanese people today. This is equivalent to when Europeans colonized the Americas and its indigenous people. Except America still has (albeit few) Native Americans. Modern Japanese were successful in wiping out Ainu and forcing assimilation.

    • @axxessmundi
      @axxessmundi 4 года назад +70

      @@iSayMonica Ainu still populates northern Japan and Russian border islands.

    • @soulplexis
      @soulplexis 4 года назад +4

      @@iSayMonica native americans are growing fast

    • @axxessmundi
      @axxessmundi 4 года назад +10

      @@soulplexis central Americans are majority indigenous & mestizo Indians

  • @Λυκάων
    @Λυκάων 4 года назад +98

    He looks Polynesian
    Phenotypically Ainu also resemble some Native Americans of the Pacific and Alaska regions (proof that they were more ancient than the Sinid populations)

    • @gpl992
      @gpl992 3 года назад +10

      All are "Proto Mongoloid" that's why

    • @jonajo9757
      @jonajo9757 3 года назад +9

      When I saw Ainu clothing for the first time, I was immediately reminded on how much they've reminded me of Tlingit art. Also little info, but I think some Tlingit did visit the Ainu in japan for some cultural exchange thing?

    • @jackjackyphantom8854
      @jackjackyphantom8854 3 года назад +6

      @@jonajo9757 These are all hypothetical claims! If anything, Ainu culture is very unique if u ask me. And I can definitely sees some Ainu influence in Japanese culture. Maybe Samurai culture has some Jomon elements.

    • @TheRelen222
      @TheRelen222 3 года назад +6

      @@jackjackyphantom8854 Samurai battle tactics were originally based on Ainu tactics, as their horse archers were feared and respected.

    • @jackjackyphantom8854
      @jackjackyphantom8854 3 года назад +2

      @@TheRelen222 You mean the Emishi?

  • @mehhhhh421
    @mehhhhh421 4 года назад +80

    This, but also every other native population ever.

  • @PTheGoat
    @PTheGoat Год назад +10

    This inspires me to keep trying to learn more about my ancestors and their indigenous ways tho I no longer have a tie to any specific group it’s still nice to learn about the groups we have today and learn to honor and respect their ways and traditions from afar

  • @urphakeandgey6308
    @urphakeandgey6308 Год назад +13

    I'm native Okinawan. Studies have shown that Ainu share some genetics with us. Long story short, we both have more Jomon ancestry than the average Japanese person, who is predominantly of Yayoi descent. Ainu and Okinawans tend to be mostly of Jomon descent.
    Because I've seen comments mentioning how the person here kind of looks Hispanic... I often get mistaken as Hispanic too! People try to speak Spanish to me all the time and it takes a moment for them to notice I'm not Hispanic. When I tell them I'm "Japanese," they're usually surprised.

    • @matasa7463
      @matasa7463 9 месяцев назад

      Well, technically because you're actually Ryukyuan lol

    • @genuscorvid
      @genuscorvid 7 месяцев назад

      @@imprisonedone8054 Not all Ryukyuans are Okinawans, however. I've seen other Ryukyu people use the name Ryukyu or Lew Chew for all the natives of modern day Okinawa prefecture.

    • @blyat5352
      @blyat5352 3 месяца назад

      Most Japanese are Kofun(Chinese) by dna(around 75%), only 15% Yayoi(Neolithic Northeast Asian) and 10% Jomon

    • @user-fz1rd2pz4e
      @user-fz1rd2pz4e 2 месяца назад +1

      @@blyat5352 In terms of haplogroups, China is virtually non-existent. Rather, the Chinese are a race that immigrated from Siberia or Mongolia.

  • @alexeimuraki3420
    @alexeimuraki3420 3 года назад +38

    Hello, I am ethnic Ainu from Sakhalin - Russia. We are the native population of northern Japan and southeastern Siberia. We are descedants of the Northeast Asian Okhotsk and a paleolithic population from Central Asia which migrated to Japan more than 30,000 years ago. The Northeast Asian Okhotsk people were related to other Northeast Asians and Native Americans, while the paleolithic Central Asians are not closely related to any modern group. The paleolithic Central Asians contributed the "European-like look" as they share some genes with Europeans and Middle Easterners, but not all Ainu had such "European-like look". The majority always looked Northeast Asian or a mix of the two looks. The Ainu language and culture originated largely from the Northeast Asian Okhotsk people, thus we have many similarities to other Northeast Asians, Siberians and Native Americans. It is a misconception that all Ainu are hairy or look European. We do not. The majority of historical Ainu and of modern Ainu is similar to other people around the Sea of Okhotsk. Europeans exaggarated the "European" look among Ainu.
    To sum up: We Ainu people came from the combination of the Northeast Asian Okhotsk culture and a paleolithic population which arrived from Central Asia. Thank you all for your interest in my people! :)

    • @gpl992
      @gpl992 3 года назад +1

      Are the other ancient population related to the Ancient North Eurasians?It sounds so,they had Ancestry with the Native Americans and Northerrn Europeans too.

    • @oqqaynewaddingxtwjy7072
      @oqqaynewaddingxtwjy7072 3 года назад

      Karahto Ainu ytah any a-nu-ye-kar e= e-as-ka-y ya an wa,a-nu-kar yan-ne-e taan ne { VK ot-ta Dmitry Suslov Yama un pet (O-yaman-betsu) 大弥満別 O-yama-an-pet -- big hill on river } ku=no bloq > oqayne.vk.com}

    • @oqqaynewaddingxtwjy7072
      @oqqaynewaddingxtwjy7072 3 года назад

      Please make some thing of Qarahto Ainu puri wa Utary ki en-qor-e ne-e wa

    • @xXxSkyViperxXx
      @xXxSkyViperxXx 10 месяцев назад

      aren't the Okhotsk culture, the Nivkh... who were ancient rivals of the Ainu...

  • @lgm5499
    @lgm5499 11 месяцев назад +6

    All indigenous people around the world are our connection to the past. Preserve them and be proud of them.

  • @HawkinaBox
    @HawkinaBox 4 года назад +26

    1:16 I love that. So creative.

  • @megasocky
    @megasocky 4 года назад +40

    Ainu people and art always gave me a oceania vibe, and he kind of looks like someone that could be related to me (im japanese mixed with micronesian) huh

    • @gpl992
      @gpl992 3 года назад +6

      We are all Proto Mongoloid as well as the likes of Amerindians,Siberians,and Tibetans.

  • @FlyingNazgul-wm1dv
    @FlyingNazgul-wm1dv 4 года назад +8

    I am from Central America if this guy came to me and said he was my countryman I would believe him

  • @trenchkiddgaming7850
    @trenchkiddgaming7850 3 года назад +9

    Keep being you bro keep your traditions strong know your self worth no one can ever take that away no matter how much they hate. Stay strong

  • @TheHollandHS
    @TheHollandHS 3 года назад +70

    With the jomon history, makes me feel that the Japanese people and its culture may actually have some Alaskan and native links besides the dominant east Asian sphere. The Taiwanese have austronesians.

    • @reneerobinson3559
      @reneerobinson3559 2 года назад +7

      Fascinating. Inuit people span the entire perimeter of the Arctic circle- even Quebec, Greenland and possibly Scandinavia. It's amazing the indigenous people of Japan, Russia, North America and perhaps even Scandinavia...are the same!

    • @bjrngumundsen939
      @bjrngumundsen939 2 года назад +4

      @@reneerobinson3559 that could be true. I was told by a professor in California that we are linked to Siberian people. It could be possible that we have links to Greenland and Northern Canada.

    • @tatsuyahori8837
      @tatsuyahori8837 Год назад

      @@saucerfull1 you're not Ainu, stop stalking people! What is your mental issue!

    • @bjrngumundsen939
      @bjrngumundsen939 Год назад +2

      @@saucerfull1 stop stalking me. Go away.

    • @tatsuyahori8837
      @tatsuyahori8837 Год назад

      @@saucerfull1 because your picture says it all on the school year book. That's why idiot. Grow a brain idiot.

  • @HeyMelani
    @HeyMelani 4 года назад +27

    Wow this video is so interesting! Didn’t know about this at all 😯 Thank you for such a great video, I learned a lot!
    Much love from italy

    • @HeyMelani
      @HeyMelani 4 года назад +2

      One Time I didn’t say I was Italian 😉 have a lovely day!

  • @santiagokuan271
    @santiagokuan271 3 года назад +23

    If given a chance, I want to visit your place to know and see your preserved culture as Ainu. Be proud of what you are. Thumps up!

  • @Reckoning2943
    @Reckoning2943 3 года назад +11

    He looks so much like my Peruvian uncle it threw me off for a second. lol

  • @Tindreal
    @Tindreal 4 года назад +39

    Started watching Golden Kamuy yesterday and now this is recommended for me...we need to talk Google.

  • @FireBomberBassist
    @FireBomberBassist 3 года назад +15

    Indigenous people seem to get the short end of the stick all over the world.

    • @noname-bt9ky
      @noname-bt9ky 3 года назад +1

      Not here in my country everyone should be allowed to hunt I hate when vegans say they are allowed to hunt, but I am not...

  • @nnnf467
    @nnnf467 4 года назад +13

    if I ever go over there I want to be around these guys.they are so relateable.

  • @tamtam1199
    @tamtam1199 5 месяцев назад +6

    日本人でありながらアイヌという少数民族の存在を知ったのはネットです。23年生きてきて日本メディアがアイヌ民族を報道するのは見たことなかったです。この国の政府やメディアが彼らの存在を伏せようとしてるのは何故何だろう?コメント欄にあるように差別があるのは事実だと思います。

    • @acerolaorion2857
      @acerolaorion2857 3 месяца назад

      Because Japanese full of Yamato, Yamato are originally from east china

  • @ENGLISHTAINMENT
    @ENGLISHTAINMENT 2 года назад +8

    He could easily be Canadian. There must be a million guys in Canada who look like him and have this close-to-nature lifestyle.

  • @fredh8065
    @fredh8065 3 года назад +8

    Free Hokkaido. If Japan say Taiwan is not part of China, then Hokkaido is not part of Japan neither.

    • @chairmanlebzong5456
      @chairmanlebzong5456 3 года назад +2

      Yeah both Japan and China are killing
      Native People and settlement their lands

    • @Ok-oo2kh
      @Ok-oo2kh 2 года назад +1

      Free america 😂🤣

    • @わわ-l8w
      @わわ-l8w 2 месяца назад

      Free Manchuria.

  • @emilyc7727
    @emilyc7727 3 года назад +10

    I’m Ainu, and happy to watch a video about my people.

    • @Arthur-ot7id
      @Arthur-ot7id 3 года назад +4

      Your people is similar to us Natives. When was playin arcade, I choose Nakoruru. She's Ainu girl.

  •  4 года назад +10

    I didn't even know it was allowed to have rifles in Japan, lol

    • @yaboybouttaturnisraelintoi7329
      @yaboybouttaturnisraelintoi7329 4 года назад +1

      technically their laws say that no person may have a firearm or sword, anyone who owns one is an exception

  • @mokakuma7329
    @mokakuma7329 2 года назад +6

    i just hope ainu stay exist in japan and in this world, along with their cultures, i wish that from all my heart

  • @farazsworkshop
    @farazsworkshop Год назад +4

    he looks more Polynesian than anything. very interesting culture. can't wait to learn more and perhaps visit northern japan someday.

    • @mfreak1126
      @mfreak1126 Год назад +1

      Yet they're genetically closer to Japanese, especially ones in Okinawa, than to any other group.

  • @Callummullans
    @Callummullans 2 года назад +10

    I relate to this story I’m Anglo-Romany and a lot of the culture has been eroded by oppression and forced assimilation, barely any of us speak the full language by now and mainly use words as idiolect within English. Even as a teen I would be beaten, by groups sometimes, if they knew I was a gypsy as a sort of trophy to say they beat up a gypsy, I’m 26 now so it wasn’t long ago (this is more of a problem as teens). I was also given speech and language therapy by my school even though I was in the top reading group and had a strong vocabulary, this was to change my accent as it was elocution lessons but called something else. I am English as are my family but I was treated like some sort of criminal refugee for my heritage.

  • @jacobperez8921
    @jacobperez8921 7 месяцев назад +2

    It's really tragic how Japanese society treat the Ainu native population. They have a beautiful culture in my opinion. I am Mexican and my great great grandfather from my father's side was born in Okinawa Japan but he was of Ainu descent so i am proud to say i am part descedant of the Ainu people. I am so happy to see these types of documentaries about the Ainu people. They have an amazing culutre and the anime " Golden Kamuy" really highlights some of the amazing aspects of Ainu people and also well as the atrocities that have been committed against them even today with the government of Japan berely starting to recognize them as an indigenoius people.

  • @abbotmortimer1593
    @abbotmortimer1593 4 года назад +34

    The same thing happened to the indigenous people of northern India, too... I guess it's really the same for every indigenous group across the world, isn't it? They have no protection against expanding agricultural societies.
    There MUST BE a way to fix this. There has to be.

    • @bluesky8033
      @bluesky8033 4 года назад

      may I ask your ethnical background?

    • @abbotmortimer1593
      @abbotmortimer1593 4 года назад +2

      @@bluesky8033 Hi! I'm so sorry, I didn't see your reply... I'm actually a white person from the United States, and I'd like to share this link with you about some of the things people do here to honor treaties with indigenous people (don't count on the govt to do the same though... people in power, I swear. they're unbearable) ruclips.net/video/vHEJj4c0MZY/видео.html

    • @Universalbeing0
      @Universalbeing0 3 года назад +6

      This what happens when pure evil is at work...Colinizers destroying indigenous tribes all over the world.

    • @sweetdream5024
      @sweetdream5024 3 года назад +1

      I'm from Malaysia. In my country indigenous people were treated specially. They even have their own welfare department. Government also provide them education opportunities in science schools and universities.

    • @schoolofgrowthhacking
      @schoolofgrowthhacking 3 года назад +1

      Northern India?? Do you mean Arunachal Pradesh? There are virtually no natives in Northern India, the primary natives are the Dravidians in the south of the country, such as the Tamils. Groups like the Assamese and Naga are Mongoloid groups.

  • @StaminatorBlader
    @StaminatorBlader 2 года назад +10

    i think what this guy is doing is actually quite amazing. these practices are not only essential to his culture, but human nature itself. indigenous peoples were the last in our modern times who still lived a natural life and we can learn so much from them that we have unlearned in our domesticated materialst cultures. i am a white person with mixed indo european ancestry but my ancestors too were once conquered by romans and christianity. stop worshipping the systems and religions of those who conquered you and return to nature.

  • @Shazzyhtown
    @Shazzyhtown 3 года назад +8

    Wow, this man looks Polynesian. Like he could easily be a Samoan or Hawaiian.

  • @johnp.johnson1541
    @johnp.johnson1541 2 года назад +3

    Much respect for you Mr. Monbetsu, I have.

  • @johan9199
    @johan9199 3 года назад +9

    He looks absolutely like my uncle and i'm Indonesian😂🤣

    • @oriri2849
      @oriri2849 2 года назад +1

      Gua jg Indonesia 🇮🇩👍

  • @paisleyprincess7996
    @paisleyprincess7996 3 года назад +11

    He looks very similar to the Native Americans who live on the Pacific Northwest regions on North America, like the Tlingit. The Ainu have similar totem poles, tepees, and other traditions/customs found in Native populations
    When I worked at a hospital one of my patients liked learning about Ancient cultures…He was reading Shogun, and I said that the Shoguns and the Samurais were probably Ainu because of their long beards and tall frames…Years later I found out I was right. All it takes is to read more, and you learn

    • @anda134
      @anda134 2 года назад +2

      You were right???The Ainus didn't have a horse culture...the Emishi did.And the Emishi were a mixture of different groups with a bit of maybe Ainu too.Its the Emishi who migrated northwards that influenced the Ainu.The Samurai have predominantly always been Yayoi with minor admixture in the frontier families.

    • @anda134
      @anda134 2 года назад +1

      Name the Samurai families that were Ainu.DNA test of the mummies of the frontier families like Ando and Abe have clearly shown them to be Yayoi,not even Emishi let alone Ainu.

    • @paisleyprincess7996
      @paisleyprincess7996 2 года назад

      @@anda134 I was right about the Samurais. I said PROBABLY for Shoguns. Other than that, I have nothing more to explain to you

    • @anda134
      @anda134 2 года назад

      @@paisleyprincess7996 which samurai families were Ainu?

  • @zealogix
    @zealogix 4 года назад +15

    The Ainu, Jomon, Ryukyu has connection with Austronesian family tree. Thats why they looks like SEA people

    • @alexeimuraki3420
      @alexeimuraki3420 4 года назад +8

      Recent genetic studies (such as most recently in May 2020) found no genetic relation to any Southeast Asian people. But there is evidence of some Jomon influence in ancient Taiwan. Native Taiwanese tribes (Amis and Atayal) were found to have some Jomon ancestry, next to their Austronesian ancestry.

    • @zealogix
      @zealogix 4 года назад +1

      ​@@alexeimuraki3420 the Taiwan Formosan IS from Austronesian family, along with SEA people known as Malayo Polynesian

    • @FlyingNazgul-wm1dv
      @FlyingNazgul-wm1dv 4 года назад

      They look literally NOTHING like SEA people...

    • @zealogix
      @zealogix 4 года назад

      @@FlyingNazgul-wm1dv maybe yes or no, might be some distance relative,

    • @gpl992
      @gpl992 3 года назад +1

      @@zealogix Malayo Polynesians are the same as Austronesian

  • @jimy_rizu
    @jimy_rizu Год назад +3

    Ainu was also shown in Samurai Champloo series and how these people were subjugated during the Edo period and nearly wiped out from Japan.

  • @i_am_RB
    @i_am_RB 4 года назад +7

    And here I thought discrimination will go away along with illiteracy

  • @lggen6062
    @lggen6062 Год назад +2

    I hope we all can respect each other in the future regardless of our ancestry, ethnicity and where we came from.🤗

  • @sukhmeet8665
    @sukhmeet8665 Год назад +3

    Sad how indigenous people everywhere are pressured to conform

  • @goforbroke4428
    @goforbroke4428 3 года назад +3

    A country boy can survive! Rock on brother!

  • @piroskaracz3621
    @piroskaracz3621 4 года назад +9

    This and especially another doc on youtube called Have You Heard of the Ainu.....exactly the treatment of all the other indigenous peoples including mine....forced to settle....forced to give up language....adopt local faiths...everything! The Ainu remind me physically of the Southwestern Nations here in USA....Dine....Apache....but also like the northern Nations fishermen....smoke the fish outside. As with my own I hope somehow the Ainu will keep language and culture alive

  • @suiloongyong7563
    @suiloongyong7563 4 года назад +5

    From Ainu to Manchuria , nothing new with Japanese Samurai

  • @KeithTKO
    @KeithTKO 4 года назад +6

    This wasn’t even a issue until recently. Same with Okinawa just check who is behind raising this issue.

    • @anonymousstout4759
      @anonymousstout4759 4 года назад +3

      Mind to elaborate?

    • @samtmh7240
      @samtmh7240 3 года назад +4

      This has been an issue for thousands of years, with Japan trying so hard to take over other cultures and erase them.

  • @otineyskciderf
    @otineyskciderf 3 года назад +10

    Indigenous peoples let’s unite

  • @ShinyMew151
    @ShinyMew151 4 года назад +7

    I've heard of Ainu from the Shaman King manga many years ago.

  • @cloverful18
    @cloverful18 8 месяцев назад +1

    I wish he would start a youtube channel teaching cultural practices and arts so the tradition wont get lost or die out

  • @aristotlet9102
    @aristotlet9102 3 года назад +3

    as a east Asian yoyoi I think that japanese people should not be racist and be kinder to the ainu community

  • @morgan97475
    @morgan97475 10 месяцев назад +2

    This dude could pass for Polynesian, Eskimo, Native American, or Asian/ Caucasian mix. Interesting.

  • @edgarchapa7266
    @edgarchapa7266 11 месяцев назад +2

    Learned about the Ainu people from the golden kamuy manga

  • @human_862
    @human_862 3 года назад +9

    I'm belong from santhal tribe in india and i can relate to him about wishing he was not ainu and about discrimination

  • @mitchjames9350
    @mitchjames9350 Год назад +4

    You can see where the Japanese get there distinct features from.

    • @officialnyiyanmoehtet
      @officialnyiyanmoehtet Год назад +1

      Still Asian.

    • @ALIMUSLIYAR1921
      @ALIMUSLIYAR1921 Год назад

      @@officialnyiyanmoehtet still they have andamanease australioid South Indian ( dravidian ) Tamil genes..

    • @OblivionZXZ
      @OblivionZXZ Год назад

      *their

    • @ALIMUSLIYAR1921
      @ALIMUSLIYAR1921 7 месяцев назад

      @@imprisonedone8054 Check their Dna results Bozo...
      Wait i will send you few of it

  • @yuenhai
    @yuenhai 4 года назад +45

    There's a common racist joke in Japan to call the Ainu A-inu (instead of Ai-nu)
    A-inu, for those of you who aren't aware, sounds like "Ah, dog" in Japanese

    • @annmaryjohn3258
      @annmaryjohn3258 4 года назад +18

      That's so mean😒

    • @abbotmortimer1593
      @abbotmortimer1593 4 года назад +4

      Wow, that's AWFUL ☹

    • @ade6653
      @ade6653 4 года назад +5

      i'm japanese and never heard of that joke

    • @bbbgranzi1933
      @bbbgranzi1933 4 года назад +4

      I have been spent 20yrs in Japan but
      I never heard of that

    • @bbbgranzi1933
      @bbbgranzi1933 4 года назад +2

      Val K
      It’s not common joke at all
      You just try make Japan racist country

  • @primarch02
    @primarch02 Год назад +4

    As a Korean as i know, Jomons are also lived in Southern part of Korean peninsula. Ainus are decendant of Jomons.

  • @deadby15
    @deadby15 2 года назад +6

    Japanese tend to brag about the Jomon culture, but they look down on the two surviving ethnic groups that are more closely connected to the original Jomon people, the Ainu and the Okinawans. Modern day Yamato people do have some Jomon blood, but it’s been diluted to between 10-20%. If anything, the Japanese government should try to preserve the Jomon heritage by protecting the minority cultures and supporting revival of their traditions. (Prolly the Okinawans don’t need much help tho, because their culture is still quite alive and resilient.)

  • @josevaveremalua8969
    @josevaveremalua8969 Год назад +3

    Lived in Japan for centuries!!! No they've in Japan for millenniums

  • @qmydee1481
    @qmydee1481 4 года назад +3

    I always love your videos. Thank you 💗

  • @ximrade4287
    @ximrade4287 4 года назад +22

    Free Ainu People.

    • @fkfc6040
      @fkfc6040 4 года назад +2

      @Ob Bop 😁🤣🤣you wrong for that

    • @sambull2621
      @sambull2621 4 года назад +2

      The Ainu are not really a thing anymore, they are all assimilated.

  • @Off_The_REZ1
    @Off_The_REZ1 3 года назад +4

    I want to bring this guy to Canada to come hunt with me in my reserve and take him moose hunting with me and teach him my aboriginal ways and he can teach me his aboriginal ways

  • @kushagermaithani8871
    @kushagermaithani8871 Год назад +5

    Ainu are indigenous people of Hokkaido island of Japan not of entire Japan. Because Japan is a island nation the group of people migrate first to a specific please are indigenous of that land. Yamato people were first to migrate in southern islands of Japan making the true indigenous of that land.
    So Japan is a country with two indigenous communities.

    • @LuckyvillageLife
      @LuckyvillageLife 7 месяцев назад

      Noo you don't understand anything about Truth indegeneous native of Japan

  • @AccipiterAtricapillus
    @AccipiterAtricapillus Год назад +2

    dude you guys look like pure Siberian people

  • @techovore
    @techovore 2 года назад +2

    The UN needs to conduct an investigation on Japan's on their human rights abuse and oppression against tbe ainu poeple!!!

  • @eraywayne2165
    @eraywayne2165 4 года назад +7

    Real japan

  • @codyshi4743
    @codyshi4743 4 года назад +5

    This is very interesting.

  • @wongcy713
    @wongcy713 11 дней назад

    Being a hunter and still feel uncomfortable about being known as an Ainu.
    A hunter need no acceptance by others . A hunter depends on himself for his own life his own survival. Just tell all others who have others deprecated views of Ainu where to FO

  • @Nicholas-ri9rv
    @Nicholas-ri9rv 4 года назад +6

    im iban dayak from borneo..keep fighting all indigenous peoples for survive..

    • @andriwahyudani1302
      @andriwahyudani1302 3 года назад +1

      Which Borneo? Borneo Malaysia or Kalimantan Indonesia?
      I am Banjarnese from Indonesia and Dayaknese in here live savely and sound 🤔

    • @Nicholas-ri9rv
      @Nicholas-ri9rv 3 года назад

      @@andriwahyudani1302 dayak iban from Sarawak, Malaysia.

  • @cntryboy_corb
    @cntryboy_corb Год назад +2

    No disrespect intended but I do want to appreciate Golden Kamuy for informing me about the Ainu! All I did was look up hunting in Japan and it brought me here 🥲.

  • @AS-Pra1.0
    @AS-Pra1.0 6 месяцев назад

    The forefathers of the Ainu the Jamon played an important part in the Samurai's creation amd the emishi played a key role too

  • @shinobi650
    @shinobi650 4 года назад +7

    behaving "normally"? What does that even mean? If you assimilate others to your culture by persuasion or coercion, then at least accept them.

    • @gambigambigambi
      @gambigambigambi 4 года назад +18

      Sure dude, tell that to American people in the year 1940s.

    • @paqboii1907
      @paqboii1907 4 года назад

      @@gambigambigambi I need more context. Please explain

    • @gambigambigambi
      @gambigambigambi 4 года назад +21

      @@paqboii1907 no matter how much "Americanized" blacks, latinos and others are and try to be, unless you are white, you will never be a true American to an American's eyes in 1940s America.

    • @yahikokurotama4351
      @yahikokurotama4351 4 года назад +4

      @@gambigambigambi Despite them also not being true Americans

    • @samtmh7240
      @samtmh7240 3 года назад +1

      @@gambigambigambi Lol check out the Japanese in the early 1900's.

  • @andrewlogan8198
    @andrewlogan8198 2 года назад +6

    People of the First Nations stand with every indigenous culture around the world. Reverence for the earth, appreciation for existence, and love for the people. I may not agree with some cultural practices like headhunting, but still we are all human, we are all related.

  • @shenowvlok7436
    @shenowvlok7436 3 года назад +4

    Indigenous people get discriminated almost everywhere sadly.

    • @la.mu.sa10
      @la.mu.sa10 3 года назад +1

      Same as black people, and the whole humanity came out of África lol

    • @collin-theonlyandone2299
      @collin-theonlyandone2299 3 года назад +2

      Especially in America and Australia, it never ends it seems

    • @florasaf6240
      @florasaf6240 3 месяца назад +1

      Iraq as well. Assyrians, Yazidis and Kurds (native Mesopotamian groups) See what the colonial-majority did to the Yazidis only ten years ago.
      ​@@collin-theonlyandone2299

  • @give_me_my_nick_back
    @give_me_my_nick_back 6 месяцев назад +3

    i'm very disapointed with Japan and their treatment of natives.. Still isn't it ironic this video was published by a PRC channel with much worse treatment of natives in PRC...

    • @brutallyhonest3529
      @brutallyhonest3529 5 месяцев назад +2

      Japan is wiping out their language and you still think China is worse? China teaches Tibetans their own language. 😂

    • @villiamfangy6205
      @villiamfangy6205 7 дней назад

      This channel is an HK channel, though HK is part of the PRC, they do have a different form of government. But that is going to change when the british colonization of hong kong reaches its centennial.

  • @intreoo
    @intreoo 8 месяцев назад +1

    I'm a bit shocked that an anti-discrimination law against Ainu people was only passed in 2019. I can imagine how difficult it is being a minority in your own land, especially in an extremely homogenous country like Japan.

    • @Otnaifla
      @Otnaifla 7 месяцев назад

      Don't put lghdtv on the same level as ethnic people, they are different.
      LGHDTV vanish please

  • @timmyodaley1411
    @timmyodaley1411 Год назад +1

    I love this dude....

  • @nmocho1155
    @nmocho1155 4 года назад +3

    やっぱ沖縄っぽさもあるね
    同じ縄文人が祖先なのかな

  • @Huy-G-Le
    @Huy-G-Le 9 месяцев назад +1

    For reference, Native American are 3% of the American population in 2021. Uighurs is 25% of Xinjiang population (Most due to the region unfertile landscapes, either hills or desert but with grass).

  • @cshgeo
    @cshgeo 2 года назад +1

    Beautiful warrior.

  • @muhammadfadly7362
    @muhammadfadly7362 14 дней назад +2

    Jomon or ainu is handsome dan beautiful..

  • @takashiadachi7938
    @takashiadachi7938 3 года назад +10

    It is a common misconception that all Ainu looked "Caucasian" or were very hairy. There were always many Ainu which looked typically Northeast Asian or like Inuit (long before we Japanese arrived in Hokkaido). The Ainu language itself descended from the Okhotsk culture and people which looked like Itelmens or Yakuts. Ainu history is very complex and for the sake of respect, it should be noted that the people speaking proto-Ainu and the Ainu culture largely originated from the Okhotsk, which were related to other Northeast Asians and eastern Siberians. Also, is is a common misconception that all Ainu have haplogroup D. Southern Ainu have it predominantly at 75%, while northern Hokkaido Ainu have more C (the same clade as Athabaskans in northern America).

    • @TheRelen222
      @TheRelen222 3 года назад +2

      Where do you think the stereotype of hairiness came from?

    • @mfreak1126
      @mfreak1126 Год назад

      No one says it's all.

    • @tiago6295
      @tiago6295 8 месяцев назад

      Thats actually a misconception, The general academic consensus seems to be that Ainu are descended from the Satsumon culture ( This is a Jomon culture) and were later influenced by the Okhotsk culture from Sakhalin - likely related to the Nvikh

    • @angelusvastator1297
      @angelusvastator1297 Месяц назад

      Ainu have deep set eye and pointy nose like Caucasian but it’s pseudo Caucasian

  • @potatomatop9326
    @potatomatop9326 4 года назад +24

    Bow and Arrow:
    My sister:
    Me: omae wa mou shindeiru

  • @moulterie
    @moulterie 3 года назад +5

    Look native american

  • @pandaru9685
    @pandaru9685 4 года назад +29

    Chitatap!

    • @oqqaynewaddingxtwjy7072
      @oqqaynewaddingxtwjy7072 3 года назад +1

      Chep=chi-e-p wa chitata-p/chi-ta-tap-pi wa chi-ta-ta-ta-ta Oripak Panda-ru an-ak-ne e=Ainu itak easkai ya.

  • @mikielee735
    @mikielee735 4 года назад +5

    So the Ainu were there before the japanese? What!!!! Japanese people aren't really Japanese!?

    • @maymeg6777
      @maymeg6777 4 года назад

      Neither before or after the Japanese were at the island. Ainu people are said to have historical connections with Emishi of ancient Eastern Japan.

    • @collin-theonlyandone2299
      @collin-theonlyandone2299 3 года назад +3

      Well the Japanese people themselves have 10-11% Jomon Ancestry, unlike the average American or Australian who insists that they are native when they have 0% indigenous ancestry. Do not proceed to claim that that ainus wuz white n shiet

  • @VladimirBeregovoy-hi8gu
    @VladimirBeregovoy-hi8gu 9 месяцев назад +1

    They also have excellent hunting dog . It should be also preserved like their national culture.

    • @AinuRussia
      @AinuRussia 9 месяцев назад +1

      ❤❤❤❤❤🇷🇺人種差別的な日本から私たちを救ってくれてありがとう ファック日本👦🏻🗾🇯🇵💩ロシア大好き🇷🇺❤️ アイヌ🧔🏻🤝🏻🧔🏻🇷🇺 いいえ🗾👦🏻❌️🇯🇵👎🏻

  • @Lisa-se2bx
    @Lisa-se2bx 3 года назад +4

    Ainu people look special and European more than Asian. Other Asian china Vietnam Thai Philippines Mongolia all look same.

    • @jackjackyphantom8854
      @jackjackyphantom8854 3 года назад +6

      Filipinos are Southeast Asians lol. And a lot of Vietnamese look more like Southeast Asians rather than East Asians.

    • @Lisa-se2bx
      @Lisa-se2bx 3 года назад +2

      @@jackjackyphantom8854 yes Philippines and Vietnam = cosmetic surgery, make up, fake white skin made by doctor . Ainu = look Caucasoid by genetics also beautiful

    • @collin-theonlyandone2299
      @collin-theonlyandone2299 3 года назад

      @@Lisa-se2bx Yes the Ainu wuz white n sheit bro, they wuz Europeans n sheit. The Japanese are not indigenous! The ainu wuz genocided

    • @collin-theonlyandone2299
      @collin-theonlyandone2299 3 года назад +1

      wait until you find out that the indigenous people of Europe were dark skinned with blue eyes who themselves got genocided in the process

    • @Ok-oo2kh
      @Ok-oo2kh 2 года назад

      @@Lisa-se2bx lol , americans do more plastic surgeries than filipinos

  • @MichaelKing015
    @MichaelKing015 4 года назад +13

    Japanese people discriminate if your not full blooded Japanese it's a fact, their nationalism is the same as China heck Eastern Asian seems to be very proud to the point that it's wrong

    • @violajackson6885
      @violajackson6885 4 года назад

      So?

    • @mike4ty4
      @mike4ty4 4 года назад +10

      @@violajackson6885 The world needs less discrimination and less bullying.

    • @MichaelKing015
      @MichaelKing015 4 года назад

      @@toshi8569 oh boy if you only knew

    • @violajackson6885
      @violajackson6885 4 года назад +2

      @@mike4ty4 A country that wants to remain a monoculture is all of a sudden a bully?

    • @MichaelKing015
      @MichaelKing015 4 года назад +7

      @@toshi8569 half japanese born in japan does not get the same treatment as a full blooded japanese and those half japanese even though been raise in the culture is not accepted and dont get me started in the sexism japan has and the work culture they enforcing on their people want more? The people there is not being educated to what they have done the same as China they will talk behind your back this is not ancient Japan this is Japan that have western influence

  • @youtubede963
    @youtubede963 4 года назад +4

    いや蝦夷(えみし)ならともかくアイヌは先住民じゃねぇから
    民族が成立したの鎌倉時代だし