You’re the first RUclipsr that I’ve seen that actually treated the tribe you visited like your own family and not just subjects you were studying. It humanizes them in a way people can identify with, not like exotic tribal people from a far away land.
This guy trying to claim an entire other black AUSTRONESIAN ethnicity as his own ..... It's like a Thai man going to China and saying "look the Chinese have Asian eyes... They belong to us". A Japanese man should go to south Africa and tell the khoi San people he owns them too🤦🤦🤦. Mexican should go to Cuba and tell Cuba belongs to Mexico..🤦🤦WTF🤦. I'm so sick of these lost Black American SUPREMACISTS claiming everything belongs to them...they are the worst of all various black ethnicities. You can't just claim and BRAINWASH 👉OTHER👈 PEOPLE that are NOT YOU as your own. You should do a DNA test to see what you really are and then claim THAT...not claim something that is NOT YOU. Aetas are AUSTRONESIAN by DNA.
We are like that .I know because I am like that. Europeans found that out quickly and exploited this quality among aboriginal people everywhere on earth. Europeans have evil as a major trait. Life means something else to these evil exploiters of the Earth.
It’s a known fact though that the “negritos” were among the first inhabitants of the Philippines prior to Chinese/Spanish coloinzation. If you ever listen to the tribal music/dance it’s beyond evident.
@@dannywearsthecrown567 the blackman is the first inhabitants of every part of the earth. These people are the aboriginal people of that part of Asia. Personally I do not know what fiipino means but I do know that the Negritos are first in that land
But you are not an African sister for the blood in your viens are the true Hebrew in the lineage of Yoktan...the younger brother of Peleg...for we are remnants of the people of Shem from Noah...your blood still carry the original human...not the Serpentine blood of Ham who peopled Africa
JJ DD why does her surname have to be attributed to black American? I swear you African Americans go into shock or have a heart attack when you have to fathom the idea of blackness outside of the United States
I’m Filipino, Thanks for showing this to the whole world and the Filipinos too. These people are friendly and funny too; it shows their hospitable character here without being superficial or shallow. Majority of people including Filipinos looks down on them. They lived differently but they’re not ignorant nor stupid.
I can't figure out for the life of me why anyone would look down on people living harmoniously off the land. Mainland Phlillipino is a dump. I'd much rather live in the forest
Sad reality - The Negritos are losing their identity and culture to Tagalog. Most don't even speak their ancestral languages anymore. Case-study: the Ayta Mag-Indi tribe who are fighting to hang on to their language. The Negritos will succumb to Tagalog culture and language if they don't pass on their own language.
@@somebodythatyouveusedtokno9604 your statement still doesn't make sense pragmatically, but it's cool. I can't qualify yet as a grammar policeman. I'm still working on getting my Master's in English 😉
It's not really fair to call them Africans if they have been there for 10s of thousands of years, and actually diverged away genetically from Africans 55k years ago. They're "black" but just as much "African" as the local Asian groups...since both have similar divergence times from Africans.
Very true, they are Melanesians like me. I am from Papua New Guinea and we are proud Melanesians, we are not Africans. You can find us in Papua, Torres Strait islands of Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji and Kanaks of New Caledonia. We are Melanesians, Period.
That's why I've always been proud of the people who embrace 100% of their skin color and not being influenced by whitening products just so they can be called beautiful by the public. Your melanin is golden and therefore, needs to be appreciated and pass thru the future children. Inside of us lives a rich history of beauty, pain, and everything that we are now. I've always been proud that I'm a brown skin girl. ✨
Oh hell yes!! Growing up my mother thought that skin-whitening soaps would help me advance in the world. I don't blame her as she was just struggling to bring us up and wanted the best for us. But little me HATED those soaps, it's like something deep within really rejected such practices naturally! Today I am still proud of my skin colour, I'm proud of my olive/tanned skin :)
@@gabrielferrer3205 Igorots are not Aetas bobo. This is coming from somebody that is actually an Aeta, Igorots are Northern Austronesian highlanders. We are different tribes tang ina mo.
@si Markeyan You don’t know what you are saying. There are 4 hairtypes namely: 1A, 1B & 1C 2A, 2B & 2C 3A, 3B & 3C 4A, 4B & 4C Type 4 is hair of people from Sub Saharan African descent and we call it for example Kinky Hair/Afro Hair Texture. You can have curls from 4C to 2C so having curls doesn’t mean you have the same type of curls.
ThatOneAsianBroChick none In Benguet. The Igorots are the only ones there until the Americans arrived really. The Spanish couldn’t colonise the cordilleras. Be proud of that my friend.
Ty, I am half Aeta on my mothers side. For a long-time. I felt like a mutt, and I accepted in society. My mother failed to tell me of our peoples past because she didn’t want me to live with the same sort of things that made her leave the Philippines. I am so glad that our peoples history is starting to become better known, and I thank you for accepting us as people with melanin. My heart belongs to both my people & Africa. Ty for your acceptance. Ty for helping heal generations of pain.
White supremacy exploitation is being exposed today for the evil it represents. I cannot blame them because they expose their nature. God gave them that. As they say ,"it's a mystery". I expect nothing more and am surprised when they show justice.
I'm not sure if you're a professional at this, but the way you portrayed these people is respectful and dignified. I personally appreciate you for that. Thank you.
Maybe before, but I think that a majority of our youth would rather prefer to be 'black'. At least that's from what I see in western countries. Rap is one of the more popular genres in music nowadays. People wear hip hop sort of clothing, 'supreme' and such. Some even try to get afros or fungy hair.
Philippine heritage is more diverse than you think. We didn't just originate from Aetas. Fact is, the first people that were acknowledged as Filipinos were decendants of the island-to-island dwellers in the farther east of the Pacific. Pacific Islanders some would say. Some of them settled in the mid part of the Philippines on the regions from the place we now call South Luzon down to Cebu-the birth place of Lapu-lapu, the first folks discovered by the Spanish invaders and were addressed as Indios. Until eventually, Filipinos. Our Muslim heritage came from the Southern part of the Philippines descended from Malays, they stayed there on the South pretty much because that's where their ancestors were close and because Christianity was spreading throughout the regions first invaded by the Spaniards. Lastly, our African heritage came from the Aetas of the Northern Luzon. It is an accepted fact that they were the first to settle on our lands before waters occupied what we consider now as our coasts. So no, we didn't orignate from Aetas. At least not every Filipino descended from them. There is a stigma with their color that's a fact, but there's nothing wrong with wanting a fairer skin when most (and the first to be acknowledged as) Filipinos exchanged genes and bred with our colonizers (Spaniards), for more than 300 years, who were white. Not to mention our Japanese and American invaders (also white).
I would caution against calling them “Africans.” They are Asians, and they are most closely related to the surrounding Asian and Austronesian populations rather than to Africans. They just happen to be dark-skinned. Their facial features are distinctly Austronesian / Filipino, and they resemble some of my family in the Philippines. Other than that, nice video. The indigenous cultures of the Philippines need to be explored and talked about more often. It’s very fascinating.
Indeed, they are austronesian. Africa is geographically too far. But still, we all came from the same flesh a long long time ago, whether you're religious or not.
They are not Asians, Africans or Austronesians. They are melanesians. They diverge from Africa gene ancestry around 50-100k years ago. In fact everyone is Asia including east asians have more African genes than melanesians.
@@Thekomokoro A quick Google search showed that they are australo-melanesian, although it's a controversial inclusion. I had a gene analysis with Circle DNA and it did not show any western western ancestry.
@@torigoth7487 Yes, I know. Modern humans evolved and migrated out of Africa. Just that the time since then and the distance has allowed people to become genetically distinct groups from the first humans. Culturally and ethnically at this point, the Negrito people of the Philippines are Southeast Asians, sharing in the Austronesian history of the Philippines and other nearby countries.
What do the San people of Southern Africa look like. And who created the Melanesian, Austronesian, and Asian labels? These people are descendants of migrants out of Africa, no matter if they mixed with ancient human ancestors who lived in the Pacific at the time.
That tribe is not far from my house. I tried to get there by car but I was stopped by a soldier who told me I had to turn around only members of the village are allowed there. Glad you could get in. I’m white so I guess I stood out as not a village member lol
@@JordanJumpin some of them are the ones requesting for relief programs thoi. They are still part of the Philippines, therefore they should get benefits from the government and from private sectors if they so choose.
The Aetas are definitely not African they are Asian their ancestors may have come from Africa but they are true Asians with no genetic relatives in Africa which means their population completely deserted Africa
Yes because every people in the world comes from africa at some point. But the vid is ni prob because there are indeed some interesting similarity between central african tribes and the aetas.
Rock Roll i can vouch growing up there. The darker your skin, the shittier the people treat you. Even now whenever I visit, at least one person tells me to use papaya soap or some skin whitening lotion.
@@majorianus8055 this a theory dont state it as if its a fact. People also say, the universe started from bigbang. This is also a theory and not a fact
"one relative that looks like a celebrity from the 80s" 😭 i screamed. i'm filipino american and it's so strange how little i know about our own indigenous people. this was so great to watch. thank you for this video!
Welp, this is exactly what they're saying pinoys have identity crisis. we claimed to be chinese-hawaiin-spinash-polynesian-islanders-indian-and now African.
Love this! People need to know this! (I said this in part 2) but I might be from the light skinned Filipino people but am so so so interested in this topic and I find it so important that people know about this. The discrimination and colorism is strong so awareness and positivity is highly appreciated! Much love!
Many Filipinos not born in the Philippines don’t know about these people. The only black Filipinos they know are the one’s in the NBA Jalen Green (Houston Rockets) Jordan Clarkson (Utah Jazz) I’m pretty sure there’s some Filipino’s that share blood with these people and don’t know it. Look at the lady in this video that said she’s half Aeta, half Filipino and she’s married to a Filipino. You can already hardly see her aeta side so what do you think her kids will look like ? 🤔 her kids will likely look like your typical Filipino and then he or she will go on to have children with a Filipino man or woman and guess what ? That child is going to say “I’m not black” do I look black ? Once that lady is dead there’s no longer a noticeable black connection even though it’s still in their blood.
I think people are missing the point.. many KAYUMANGGI (brown) Austronesian in the provinces of the Philippines have some "negrito" in them. Kind of like how many Malagasy in Madagascar has Austronesian in them.
@Edilberto Gerna jr if you follow the Austronesian theory, then it is the other way around and they come from us, because the starting point is Taiwan going down.
What an amazing video! I’ve been dedicated to learning about my roots and most of the videos are very monotone and serious. I’m glad I was able to learn a lot and giggle (especially during the family reunion cuts)! Thank you, what an amazing video. The toxicity of our culture really shamed me being dark and was always confused when my western friends loved my skin tone. Anyway, it took 25 years, but now I am a proud Morena!
Agree great video. Regarding your skin tone, wow, unreal but i get it. Ive always admired it for decades, its simply the best. Like Mahogany. Quality. Trust me, you have something to treasure.
Guys, to those people who think why most filipinos don't look exactly like them or have most of their features. It's because we're mostly of austronesian descent (same as malay and indonesian people). Negritos or aetas were the first people who inhabited the islands next are the austronesians.
Hey People in the comment section, It doesn't matter if they are African or not... we can be brothers no matter what our skin color is.. common its already 2020!
I totally agree with you but land masses was taken from different indigenous peoples around the world from corporations in companies. They always come into certain landmass saying that they are friendly but then they betray you and take the land make you move from your land and change your name and try to teach you a western philosophy so there is a problem with that. They want to colonize you and make you forget your old ways the ways of your people's the ways of your culture, they want you to embrace the European culture or the Western culture.
Sir, I definitely agree with you, BUT I so hate foreigners talking about our country like they are some sorts of experts claiming this and claiming that. Giving wrong information without even enough background knowledge of my country and it's cultural heritage.
So beautiful. The truth is ppl need to learn, and understand that some knwoledge aren’t teached at school. We have to make our own research. I’m Happy to have find that video. Thank you So much.
Thanks for educating us "Filipino", I'm ashamed with myself I really don't know how their life is or what kind people are they.. Just reading on some books, that's all I know.
I love this video!You should head out to meet us Melanesians of Eastern Indonesia in Maluku,West Papua,East Nusa Tengarra,or now Independent East Timor!Much love and respect from a Moluccan brother! Ps. these Aeta and even other Southern Phillipines tribes like Mamanwa and Manobo remind me alot of the people of Flores,Sumba,and Timor in Eastern Indonesia!
You should do some research first before claiming that Aeta's are an african tribe. Aeta's (Negritos) are genetically related to tribes within southeast asia and not africans. Just because Aeta's have dark skin and curly hairs it doesn't mean they came from Africa.
i am only ¼ aeta now since i got mixed but I really enjoy learning about the aeta tribe ❤ and i got to say, thank you so much for appreciating and researching with respect to the tribe❤
Not being disrespectful, but how do you link the Negritos to African decsent ? Equatorial people tend towards the same features, Australian Aboriginals for example.
Thank you for showing this part of my culture. People in the Philippines forgotten about them already and sometimes treat them bad too. You won’t believe the racism among my ancestors too. Thanks!
Just to be clear the negrito people are no more African than Chinese people, even if they superficially look like it. Both the negrito and other East Asian groups descend from the same migration out of Africa 50-70,000 years ago. The negritos are most closely related to other East Asian groups.
I appreciate the creation of this video. I'm both filipino and black and for this inspiration and information to be shared with the world is an honor. Peace and love 🙏🏾🧡🔥
I'm mixed (half white/ half black) and I've traveled a lot. You'd be surprised some of the area's which have communities with African ancestry: South Pakistan, Middle Eastern countries, South West of Mexico, India, South of Peru, Black hoods in the Maritime provinces of Canada. I've even met a beautiful Afro-Singaporean woman who's ancestors were brought to South East Asia through slavery. Our ability to survive, no matter were fate takes us, is proof of our resilience.
Nice video you earn a Subscription from me, am a African living in the Philippines is really nice here, and I will be going to all those villages right after lockdown And many other videos I have plan to shoot about Philippines
It’s good to see a person of African decent visiting other people of African decent. Beautiful!!! You can tell they are vary comfortable. Keep up the good work!!
Traveled from Africa to mainland Asia thru land bridges, passing through the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India, then Indonesia, then Philippines, Papua and Australia. 👍
They say that most Filipinos have some mixture of Negrito and Austronesian blood in them (not even including European, Chinese, etc.). Most of our blood of course is Austronesian but some regions posses more Negrito genetics than others.
@@kawaiiafangirl this documentary falsely calls them African when they are not. They are indigenous to the Phillipines. Aboriginals and Papuans migrated at about the same time as Europeans so the creator of this video might as well call Europeans Africans as well.
@@minnieee123 From what I've read, while they posses similar looks, they have forged their own culture and language to the point that they've deviated from Africans. idk what Negritos, people Papua New Guinea, aboriginal Australians and other Melanesians think about being compared to Africans though.
This is so amazing; I would love to visit! As a Black + Filipino American, I am loving researching more about how Black and Filipino cultures come together. I just learned about Captain David Fagen's story.
Most american comment ever 💀 First of all, we are not africans, we are austronesians which are not related to africans at all 😂 Do better on your research mate, or you will make a fool out of yourself
Brother thank you for discovering our Aeta brothers in our islands. They're still around in every islands they gave up their lands and moved simply to the mountains to avoid the dramas of the modern Filipinos and its colonizers. Thanks for sharing your stories to the world.
Black is one of the major ancient races here on planet earth . Black history has been here a very long time it’s no surprise that they made it all the way to the Philippines. 20,000-70,000 years ago is a long time so much of the the history is lost to time .
to my black brothers out there please help preserve the tribes im mixed aeta too but the pure blooded ones must be protected and they voices be heard cuz they the real filipinos 🇵🇭
They're ancient Africans also. Other groups in the Pacific trace their ancestries to Taiwan thousands of years ago, so what's wrong with tracing the origins of the Melanesian people to Africa. In addition, the aboriginal peoples of the Americas are linked to migrants from Mongolia and other parts of Asia, and they've been here maybe as long as 20,000 years. Africans have been in the Caribbean only 500 years, as opposed to tens of thousands, but we are Caribbean, and African. Finally, based on their looks, most will link them to Africa, just like people will link a white Australian thousands of years from now to Europe (If humans survive that long).
@Mhark Leo Mendoza so? Austronesian ancestors/natives are black. Philippines native language mirrors Hebrew language. My grandpa is not Aeta but also looks like a small black man. I don’t claim to be black but I know where I came from 👆🏼
I’m at the intro of my second video on your channel…ever. I’m hooked already! So much awesome, valuable content. I’m so ready to travel and learn about my people all over the world. I think this is a great start. Thank you so much for doing what you do! Keep spreading the word!
So nice of you to feature our brother/sister Aetas. I love your effort in bringing them to the rest of the world for a much needed exposure. I've learned an impt. information from this vlog.Thank you!
@@j.e.5984 What are you talking about? It's proven by genetics, it's in our DNA, and proven and corroborated by other very extensive scientific studies - all humans originated from a common ancestor from Africa. All human "races", whatever you mean by that, came from there.
@@zedrameses1564 Not every race came from a "common" ancestry. By common, you mean 1 group of ancestry. Research has concluded that this idea of having a single "common" ancestry is very simplistic and is technically wrong. Modern homo sepiens came from multiple ancestral groups. Do your research
Thank you for this. I live in the UK and I create dance work using hiphop within theatre to express my voice, thoughts and emotion. I'm currently doing alot of work that looks into my roots and identity as a filipino. I'm really interested in doing more research into the aetas as I feel really connected in learning and sharing our ancestral roots to the public. Would be dope to somehow get in contact to hear more on how you went about visiting the tribes. Would like to do this trip too.
I'm unsure why my comments are disappearing, but as a FIlipino, I left two very positive, comments expressing my love and support of these Aeta peoples and was trying to share a bit about the diverse backgrounds of the different peoples and groups of the Philippines. I suspect it might be because I said that these beautiful black peoples of the Philippines are genetically more different from modern Africans than modern Europeans (because long-distance human migrations cause genetic drift, especially over tens of thousands of years). Please look this up, as this is widely established. Their blackness doesn't make them African. They are black, but they are the first Asians and are truly indigenous to the Philippines, truly Asian and truly the first Filipinos. Also, I don't know why my comments about Filipino identity and origins disappeared or were deleted, but I was simply trying to explain why the people in this video (and Part II of this video) said, "I'm half Aeta and half Filipina," or "The younger generations of Negritos are assimilating to the Filipino style." This is because even though the country is named after us, and every Filipino citizen is equally 'Filipino' in the eyes of the Philippine Republic, 'Filipino' as an ethnicity (different from 'Filipino' as a citizenship) properly refers to the collection of lowland tribes living in coastal areas that were forced to 'live under the bells' and were hispanicized and Christianized. Our brothers and sisters in the highlands, mountains and deep jungles do not share this history with us and have maintained their own pre-colonial cultural traditions. Therefore, they think of themselves as Aeta or Negrito and call us "the Filipinos" and children born out of mixed marriages are considered "mixed." Again, we should support them and love them and see them as our brother citizens in our Republic, but we shouldn't push the 'Filipino' identity on them, and we shouldn't assimilate them and force them to speak Tagalog, Ilokano, etc. Our beautiful country is made up of many nations, the indigenous peoples, the Negrito peoples, the Moros (Muslims) and us, Filipinos -- and all of us are equally Filipino citizens. We don't need to trace ourselves to other peoples, like Hawaiians, Chinese, Spanish, Indians, etc. and we don't need to copy other countries that want to homogenize and assimilate all differences.
They are Aeta an indegenous people who live in scatered, isolated mountainous of Luzon islands of the Philpines. They are among earliest inhabitants of the Philippines, preciding the Austronesian migrations. The Aboriginal or Aborigenes is the first setler or people in Australia which is a far cousins of Aeta & other pacific islander or Astronesian
See the issue is this everyone else keeps saying who they are but no one listens to what they say who they are they are not Israelites because they do not say they are Israelites
Us as people of color in America have to stop saying where other people are from and stop allowing other people to say who and where we are from that's why we're in the situation we are in now to this day
The group in Thailand is tiny. It's just one tribe, and like 300 people. The Philippines has 30 Negrito tribes, with a combined population of more than 400,000
We are Melanesian. Fijians, Papua New Guineans, Torres Strait islanders, Thursday islanders, Vanuatuans, Solomon Islanders, New Caledonians and Australian Aboriginals. Black People of the South East Asia-Pacific region The word Melanesian comes from Latin. Mela - Black, Nesian - Person of the Pacific
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Ya Rob......Hence "Pure"...cus there's not that many of us Dark / black ones anymore bc of the diaspora and new wave of immigrants plus centuries of colonization........
Lmaooo, someone doesn't know their history @Rob Whitey or whatever your name is... stop flooding your head with bias pseudo google threads and read a history book bro.
thank you. I got a lot of footage pre-pandemic that I'm editing right now. They'll focus on specific ancient African empires. I'll start releasing them in a few weeks.
the very first people and original people in the Philippines are Negritos or Aeta, then others came like Chinese, Spanish and so on.. they are all mix with Filipino blood from foreigner then we all became Filipino.... thats why Filipinos are beautiful people.....which I can say its cool. everybody in the whole world are brother and sister,,and should be treated equality without discrimination. we adapt or late adaption for new way of life..but by watching history we learn to respect and value tradition and culture of others because thats how life been for them.
I always felt like there had to be a reason my Filipino high school friends, jocks and advanced placement students alike all had a black swagger to them confidence wise, and it turns out it something more natural than I realized. I think that confidence comes from never feeling out of place or out of potential, and perhaps its the environment of being in the creation by god where food and shelter like fishing and game hunting with vast jungle building material and edible plants coupled with rainfall and a climate thats easy to even sleep outdoors in made day to day life easy and abundant for their time on an island setting
I have this opinion that the Aeta, the Australian Aboriginals, the Melanesians, the Vedda of Sri Lanka, and Andaman islanders are all related,,, this used to be popular academic though, they were all lumped together in a group called "vedoid" or "australoid" it's evident in how they all conserve some part of very ancient african culture.
The Negritoes of the Philippines or the Orang Asli of Malaysia are descendants of the first wave of Africans who left Africa. The Australian aborigines, the Papuans and the tribes in the Andaman Islands of India also descended from that wave. According to the National Geographic Genographic Proheject, over 50% of Filipino genes came from them. I am mixed Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian), Chinese, Spanish, and Negrito. My mother is Chinita (Chinese looking) while my father, whose mother is mestiza (Spanish mixed), has darker skin tone which some of my brothers and cousins also have. This mix is actually common here, which was confirmed by the Genographic Project. Technically speaking, the notion "pure Filipino" is false. No Filipino is pure, same thing with our Indonesian cousins. Bruno Mars, who was called a cultural appropriator of Black Culture by "woke" and "politically correct" African American millenials, actually possesses a very strong Negrito feature which he most probably got from his Filipina mother.
@Archnid 001 I have already provided stats and that's coming from Nat Geo's Genographic Project. The over 50% comes from the ancestors of Negritoes, Papuans, Australian aborigines and Orang Asli tribes.
Your editing is everything 🙌🏾. I had no idea about this. I wish they remembered what part of Africa they came from. That would be interesting to know. Great video as always.
They don't care of the past sister. They live peacefully in the mountains, moved away from the drama of modern Filipinos. Spanish/Japan colonizers did not even bother to make contact with them until the US GI Joes plane crashed and was saved by them.. the US soldier came back and made a unit out from them to fight the Japanese out.
Yes, everyone descended from Africa, however the Aeta are not African. Although they do share many physically characteristics with Africans, they are not African. They are genetically similar to people from Papua New Guinea and the Aboriginals from Australia (Austronesian). They are native to my province in the Philippines, and as far as I know, they do not recognize themselves as African either.
I met an asian Phillipino and he informed me that tge original inhabitants of the Phillipines were a people called Negritos. Phillipino's are not shy or ever hold back telling you this in America. They are quite proud!
Ya know what I'm praying for a very long time... is to have a first pure blooded Aeta in the philippines to ever join in a beauty pageant. I mean they look gorgeous same with the level of beauty of black women.
Anak ng Pasay ako. Great video! I had so much fun watching this (Lionel Richie lol). You increased my education while greatly entertaining me. I especially liked how you related the regulars. I have seen so many similarities of people from many cultures. Thank you and I will now watch your other videos my brother. Now subscribed!
I grew up in the US and never really knew my family from the Philippines. People would see me in person or in pictures and asked if I was black or part black. I wasn't sure what to say. In high school at Illinois, I grew my hair to help cushion my head in football and I was low on money to get a haircut immediately. It looked like an Afro and people were asking what the heck is that. I ended up cutting it cause I stood out in a very predominately white school (southern Illinois). I'm gonna grow my hair out and wear the Nefro (just now came up with it!!) to honor my roots. Came to find out in my mid 30s I have some Papuan in me and I believe Negroid as well.
What the hell , they're aren't African guys stop afrocentrism. and take note they are only 20,000 they are originated from Malaysia . majority of Filipino are Austronesian people about 109 million +20,000 Aeta
Dna says otherwise. Austronesians didn't just magically appear in Malaysia. They are the descendants of Africans who left the continent thousands of years ago
They did not migrate from Africa. They are natives to those lands. It is demeaning to assume that every dark-skinned person in Asia migrated from Africa. It is also foolish because tens of thousands years ago, sea technology was so crude to sustain a voyage of tens of thousands of miles, from Africa to far Asia.
first major genomic study of Aboriginal Australians ever undertaken has confirmed that all present-day non-African populations are descended from the same single wave of migrants, who left Africa around 72,000 years ago. Researchers sequenced the complete genetic information of 83 Aboriginal Australians, as well as 25 Papuans from New Guinea, to produce a host of significant new findings about the origins of modern human populations
At last! I've been looking for contents like this. Thank you for producing these contents. Immediately subcribed and liked your channel. Greetings from a Filipino living in Mindanao Philippines.
Up in Cabanatuan, north of fort Magsayssy, i saw a crowd of African looking people, short also. That was 2012. Just add to your list of adventure. Its good to know and follow our ancestry. Keep it up.
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You’re the first RUclipsr that I’ve seen that actually treated the tribe you visited like your own family and not just subjects you were studying. It humanizes them in a way people can identify with, not like exotic tribal people from a far away land.
THIS! ❤️🔥
Not really he say we Africans not African we Melanesian
This guy trying to claim an entire other black AUSTRONESIAN ethnicity as his own ..... It's like a Thai man going to China and saying "look the Chinese have Asian eyes... They belong to us". A Japanese man should go to south Africa and tell the khoi San people he owns them too🤦🤦🤦. Mexican should go to Cuba and tell Cuba belongs to Mexico..🤦🤦WTF🤦. I'm so sick of these lost Black American SUPREMACISTS claiming everything belongs to them...they are the worst of all various black ethnicities. You can't just claim and BRAINWASH 👉OTHER👈 PEOPLE that are NOT YOU as your own. You should do a DNA test to see what you really are and then claim THAT...not claim something that is NOT YOU. Aetas are AUSTRONESIAN by DNA.
We are like that .I know because I am like that. Europeans found that out quickly and exploited this quality among aboriginal people everywhere on earth. Europeans have evil as a major trait. Life means something else to these evil exploiters of the Earth.
It’s a known fact though that the “negritos” were among the first inhabitants of the Philippines prior to Chinese/Spanish coloinzation. If you ever listen to the tribal music/dance it’s beyond evident.
Post Oak Blvd they were THE original inhabitants. The Filipinos themselves acknowledge that
Post Oak Blvd it's true i do acknowledge that , but most filipinos don't even know!
My mom is Filipino and she acknowledged that, in her explanation whether they are black yellow brown they are Filipinos
@@dannywearsthecrown567 the blackman is the first inhabitants of every part of the earth. These people are the aboriginal people of that part of Asia. Personally I do not know what fiipino means but I do know that the Negritos are first in that land
Rohaanii Daalii Filipinos are the people from the Phillipines
I'm an aeta.. thank you for sharing this video 💞
Wow
But you are not an African sister for the blood in your viens are the true Hebrew in the lineage of Yoktan...the younger brother of Peleg...for we are remnants of the people of Shem from Noah...your blood still carry the original human...not the Serpentine blood of Ham who peopled Africa
I'm very interested in how you got our common surname
JJ DD why does her surname have to be attributed to black American? I swear you African Americans go into shock or have a heart attack when you have to fathom the idea of blackness outside of the United States
Beautiful inside out
I’m Filipino, Thanks for showing this to the whole world and the Filipinos too. These people are friendly and funny too; it shows their hospitable character here without being superficial or shallow. Majority of people including Filipinos looks down on them. They lived differently but they’re not ignorant nor stupid.
Of course the're not totally stupid and ignorant. What about the Muslims among them.
I can't figure out for the life of me why anyone would look down on people living harmoniously off the land. Mainland Phlillipino is a dump. I'd much rather live in the forest
Sad reality - The Negritos are losing their identity and culture to Tagalog. Most don't even speak their ancestral languages anymore. Case-study: the Ayta Mag-Indi tribe who are fighting to hang on to their language.
The Negritos will succumb to Tagalog culture and language if they don't pass on their own language.
Very good.
well they are part of us now Sooooo
@@somebodythatyouveusedtokno9604 who is "us"? "Us" is ambiguous, it can be anyone.
@@Just4Kixs If your Going to be a grammar Nazi i swear I have enough "what i mean "us" is your subject" Define that 😂
@@somebodythatyouveusedtokno9604 your statement still doesn't make sense pragmatically, but it's cool. I can't qualify yet as a grammar policeman. I'm still working on getting my Master's in English 😉
It's not really fair to call them Africans if they have been there for 10s of thousands of years, and actually diverged away genetically from Africans 55k years ago. They're "black" but just as much "African" as the local Asian groups...since both have similar divergence times from Africans.
Very true, they are Melanesians like me. I am from Papua New Guinea and we are proud Melanesians, we are not Africans. You can find us in Papua, Torres Strait islands of Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji and Kanaks of New Caledonia.
We are Melanesians, Period.
@@philemonmaiennakanangu1867 thank bro im glad to hear that from a Melanesian. Most importantly, these people are Filipinos, not separate term.
@Crusher Corps That's so true. Even African tribes in Africa have different genetics when compared to each other. Aetas are Asian
Philemon Maiennaka Nangu if you think you’re not black or have little to no ties to Africa, you’re in some serious denial
Crusher Corps care to share his DNA results, considering you must have administered the test and have them on hand? Didn’t ask for your two cents.
That's why I've always been proud of the people who embrace 100% of their skin color and not being influenced by whitening products just so they can be called beautiful by the public. Your melanin is golden and therefore, needs to be appreciated and pass thru the future children. Inside of us lives a rich history of beauty, pain, and everything that we are now. I've always been proud that I'm a brown skin girl. ✨
Yes, but you bleach your skin.
Amen Sister...I just wish alot of the other black people would feel the same way. So many of them bleach,it makes me sad. 🙁
Oh hell yes!! Growing up my mother thought that skin-whitening soaps would help me advance in the world. I don't blame her as she was just struggling to bring us up and wanted the best for us. But little me HATED those soaps, it's like something deep within really rejected such practices naturally! Today I am still proud of my skin colour, I'm proud of my olive/tanned skin :)
We love our Aeta brothers and sisters. Love from Igorot Tribe.
And Igorots are not Japanese/Chinese just as much as Aetas are not Africans. Also those ignorant Tagalogs know that Igorots are Aetas.
@@gabrielferrer3205 Igorots are not Aetas bobo. This is coming from somebody that is actually an Aeta, Igorots are Northern Austronesian highlanders. We are different tribes tang ina mo.
@@jjdd4307 bobo kaba? Ano ba sinabi niya? Magbasa ka ng husto
@@jjdd4307 hindi naman nya sinabi na Igorots are Japanese/Aetas.
@@gabrielferrer3205 tungang!
I love to see my fellow black brothers and sisters around the world. Much love from Africa.
That's so cool that he made this connection. His long long long lost family.
Yeah Philippines and Africa are Brothers too
@@CubSATPH evey human came from africa. Dark skin and curly hair is not exclusive for african tribes, that features is global.
@@CubSATPH It depens on what philippines you are talking about because their are different types
@si Markeyan You don’t know what you are saying. There are 4 hairtypes namely:
1A, 1B & 1C
2A, 2B & 2C
3A, 3B & 3C
4A, 4B & 4C
Type 4 is hair of people from Sub Saharan African descent and we call it for example Kinky Hair/Afro Hair Texture. You can have curls from 4C to 2C so having curls doesn’t mean you have the same type of curls.
That's my grandfather right there @ 4:38 the one training with the american.
I am an aeta my father is a chief in our aeta communit
ThatOneAsianBroChick none In Benguet. The Igorots are the only ones there until the Americans arrived really. The Spanish couldn’t colonise the cordilleras. Be proud of that my friend.
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Respect to all indigenous people of the Philippines. You are the real filipinos
Ty, I am half Aeta on my mothers side. For a long-time. I felt like a mutt, and I accepted in society. My mother failed to tell me of our peoples past because she didn’t want me to live with the same sort of things that made her leave the Philippines. I am so glad that our peoples history is starting to become better known, and I thank you for accepting us as people with melanin. My heart belongs to both my people & Africa. Ty for your acceptance. Ty for helping heal generations of pain.
We are not from African people
White supremacy exploitation is being exposed today for the evil it represents. I cannot blame them because they expose their nature. God gave them that. As they say ,"it's a mystery". I expect nothing more and am surprised when they show justice.
I'm not sure if you're a professional at this, but the way you portrayed these people is respectful and dignified. I personally appreciate you for that. Thank you.
No is not we not African
This is our origin.. however, it's sad to see that most of us would rather look fair with blond dyed hair.
Western ideals.. 😞😞
@@dakilangraikage9988 I say colonial mentality but yeah you're right too.. 🤷
Maybe before, but I think that a majority of our youth would rather prefer to be 'black'. At least that's from what I see in western countries. Rap is one of the more popular genres in music nowadays. People wear hip hop sort of clothing, 'supreme' and such. Some even try to get afros or fungy hair.
Philippine heritage is more diverse than you think. We didn't just originate from Aetas. Fact is, the first people that were acknowledged as Filipinos were decendants of the island-to-island dwellers in the farther east of the Pacific. Pacific Islanders some would say. Some of them settled in the mid part of the Philippines on the regions from the place we now call South Luzon down to Cebu-the birth place of Lapu-lapu, the first folks discovered by the Spanish invaders and were addressed as Indios. Until eventually, Filipinos. Our Muslim heritage came from the Southern part of the Philippines descended from Malays, they stayed there on the South pretty much because that's where their ancestors were close and because Christianity was spreading throughout the regions first invaded by the Spaniards. Lastly, our African heritage came from the Aetas of the Northern Luzon. It is an accepted fact that they were the first to settle on our lands before waters occupied what we consider now as our coasts. So no, we didn't orignate from Aetas. At least not every Filipino descended from them. There is a stigma with their color that's a fact, but there's nothing wrong with wanting a fairer skin when most (and the first to be acknowledged as) Filipinos exchanged genes and bred with our colonizers (Spaniards), for more than 300 years, who were white. Not to mention our Japanese and American invaders (also white).
@@francofranco9815 Bottomline is.. those spaniards, japanese and americans were not out origin, yeah?
I would caution against calling them “Africans.” They are Asians, and they are most closely related to the surrounding Asian and Austronesian populations rather than to Africans. They just happen to be dark-skinned. Their facial features are distinctly Austronesian / Filipino, and they resemble some of my family in the Philippines. Other than that, nice video. The indigenous cultures of the Philippines need to be explored and talked about more often. It’s very fascinating.
Indeed, they are austronesian. Africa is geographically too far. But still, we all came from the same flesh a long long time ago, whether you're religious or not.
They are not Asians, Africans or Austronesians. They are melanesians. They diverge from Africa gene ancestry around 50-100k years ago. In fact everyone is Asia including east asians have more African genes than melanesians.
@@Thekomokoro A quick Google search showed that they are australo-melanesian, although it's a controversial inclusion. I had a gene analysis with Circle DNA and it did not show any western western ancestry.
@@torigoth7487 Yes, I know. Modern humans evolved and migrated out of Africa. Just that the time since then and the distance has allowed people to become genetically distinct groups from the first humans. Culturally and ethnically at this point, the Negrito people of the Philippines are Southeast Asians, sharing in the Austronesian history of the Philippines and other nearby countries.
What do the San people of Southern Africa look like. And who created the Melanesian, Austronesian, and Asian labels? These people are descendants of migrants out of Africa, no matter if they mixed with ancient human ancestors who lived in the Pacific at the time.
That tribe is not far from my house. I tried to get there by car but I was stopped by a soldier who told me I had to turn around only members of the village are allowed there. Glad you could get in. I’m white so I guess I stood out as not a village member lol
@Love Machine I’m a Filipino I still didn’t know that. ;-;
I didn't know they couldn't let foreigners in. Maybe if you could arrange a relief operation or some kind of charity operation then they'd let you in?
They remember what happened the last time they let a white man. Not good!
@@rabbitazteca23 nah leave them alone
@@JordanJumpin some of them are the ones requesting for relief programs thoi. They are still part of the Philippines, therefore they should get benefits from the government and from private sectors if they so choose.
Filipinos always show love, no matter where you're from or what you look like.
Good vid bro
Big facts!!
Hahahahaha pagmay foreiners ang pilipino nagiging normal pagtayo lang pilipino nagmumura sa isa't isa
@@jmtejada8290 lol that's true too for our culture but when we're in need, we help. we're known for our hospitality.
@@BLaCkKsHeEp 👉👌💧😉😉😉😉
Maybe they should teach that to white Americans. Then America would not be such a racist place to live.
Aetas are not africans, we are polynesians, pacific islanders
Idiots you are not even black philipinos fool
Historically, Aetas originated from Africa, moving to other continents unitl they settled in the Philippines.
ORIGINATED from AFRICA, TRAVELLED to ASIA. DNA WILL PROVE.
The Aetas are definitely not African they are Asian their ancestors may have come from Africa but they are true Asians with no genetic relatives in Africa which means their population completely deserted Africa
the polynesians came from african migration millions of years
Calling Aetas African are a bit misleading...
Yes because every people in the world comes from africa at some point. But the vid is ni prob because there are indeed some interesting similarity between central african tribes and the aetas.
Rock Roll i can vouch growing up there. The darker your skin, the shittier the people treat you. Even now whenever I visit, at least one person tells me to use papaya soap or some skin whitening lotion.
@Rock Roll , so your saying Conservatism is Racism?
Eldelezgon it’s absolutely misleading. Aetas are genetically distant from Africans.
@@majorianus8055 this a theory dont state it as if its a fact. People also say, the universe started from bigbang. This is also a theory and not a fact
"one relative that looks like a celebrity from the 80s" 😭 i screamed. i'm filipino american and it's so strange how little i know about our own indigenous people. this was so great to watch. thank you for this video!
they are not africans
They are melanesians
You're American, I don't blame you
@@singda7975 They are decedents of the original of people of EARTH WHO ARE FROM AFRICA . Educate youself and not stay ignorant. Are you white ?
Welp, this is exactly what they're saying pinoys have identity crisis.
we claimed to be chinese-hawaiin-spinash-polynesian-islanders-indian-and now African.
Don't forget "y'all are basically bootleg mexicans"
Desairio 7 : LOL dat too! and But Basically Mayans or was it the Aztics? xD
I dont even care who we are anymore! What makes us who we are is what we do Right now!
@@somebodythatyouveusedtokno9604 ikr! Fuck that complicated shit. Let's just be our own race LMAO.
Average filipino are austronesian tho
Love this! People need to know this! (I said this in part 2) but I might be from the light skinned Filipino people but am so so so interested in this topic and I find it so important that people know about this. The discrimination and colorism is strong so awareness and positivity is highly appreciated! Much love!
Many Filipinos not born in the Philippines don’t know about these people. The only black Filipinos they know are the one’s in the NBA
Jalen Green (Houston Rockets)
Jordan Clarkson (Utah Jazz)
I’m pretty sure there’s some Filipino’s that share blood with these people and don’t know it. Look at the lady in this video that said she’s half Aeta, half Filipino and she’s married to a Filipino. You can already hardly see her aeta side so what do you think her kids will look like ? 🤔 her kids will likely look like your typical Filipino and then he or she will go on to have children with a Filipino man or woman and guess what ? That child is going to say “I’m not black” do I look black ? Once that lady is dead there’s no longer a noticeable black connection even though it’s still in their blood.
I think people are missing the point.. many KAYUMANGGI (brown) Austronesian in the provinces of the Philippines have some "negrito" in them. Kind of like how many Malagasy in Madagascar has Austronesian in them.
@Edilberto Gerna jr if you follow the Austronesian theory, then it is the other way around and they come from us, because the starting point is Taiwan going down.
@@ceasara7794 there is another theory which is called Sundaland dispersal, so out of Taiwan theory is still debatable.
Their are 3 original people in the philippines:
*malay=brown skin
*indones=brown skin
*aeta=black skin
thats true
What an amazing video! I’ve been dedicated to learning about my roots and most of the videos are very monotone and serious. I’m glad I was able to learn a lot and giggle (especially during the family reunion cuts)! Thank you, what an amazing video. The toxicity of our culture really shamed me being dark and was always confused when my western friends loved my skin tone. Anyway, it took 25 years, but now I am a proud Morena!
Agree great video. Regarding your skin tone, wow, unreal but i get it. Ive always admired it for decades, its simply the best. Like Mahogany. Quality. Trust me, you have something to treasure.
This makes me so proud of my heritage. thank you for coming to the Philippines
Guys, to those people who think why most filipinos don't look exactly like them or have most of their features. It's because we're mostly of austronesian descent (same as malay and indonesian people). Negritos or aetas were the first people who inhabited the islands next are the austronesians.
Hey People in the comment section, It doesn't matter if they are African or not... we can be brothers no matter what our skin color is.. common its already 2020!
I totally agree with you but land masses was taken from different indigenous peoples around the world from corporations in companies. They always come into certain landmass saying that they are friendly but then they betray you and take the land make you move from your land and change your name and try to teach you a western philosophy so there is a problem with that. They want to colonize you and make you forget your old ways the ways of your people's the ways of your culture, they want you to embrace the European culture or the Western culture.
Sir, I definitely agree with you, BUT I so hate foreigners talking about our country like they are some sorts of experts claiming this and claiming that. Giving wrong information without even enough background knowledge of my country and it's cultural heritage.
It does matter because its spreading false information and people will believe it.
It does matter when other race are trying to claim soemthing that they never own
Thanks
They are Melanesian people who came out of Africa over 100 thousand years ago to South East Asia and Pacific
Thank you. Finally someone gets it
So beautiful. The truth is ppl need to learn, and understand that some knwoledge aren’t teached at school. We have to make our own research. I’m Happy to have find that video. Thank you So much.
Thanks for educating us "Filipino", I'm ashamed with myself I really don't know how their life is or what kind people are they.. Just reading on some books, that's all I know.
I am loving learning about the Filipino history I was never taught. ❤️
You in the Philippines?
I wish i can recommend this to every filipino
I love this video!You should head out to meet us Melanesians of Eastern Indonesia in Maluku,West Papua,East Nusa Tengarra,or now Independent East Timor!Much love and respect from a Moluccan brother!
Ps. these Aeta and even other Southern Phillipines tribes like Mamanwa and Manobo remind me alot of the people of Flores,Sumba,and Timor in Eastern Indonesia!
You should do some research first before claiming that Aeta's are an african tribe. Aeta's (Negritos) are genetically related to tribes within southeast asia and not africans. Just because Aeta's have dark skin and curly hairs it doesn't mean they came from Africa.
i am only ¼ aeta now since i got mixed but I really enjoy learning about the aeta tribe ❤ and i got to say, thank you so much for appreciating and researching with respect to the tribe❤
I'm sure you're white enough now to get by in the world
same...
@@tummytalk605 mixed = automatically white
Not being disrespectful, but how do you link the Negritos to African decsent ?
Equatorial people tend towards the same features,
Australian Aboriginals for example.
All descendants of the 1st Africans who left the continent thousands of years ago. Dna proves that buddy
@@dickhardpicard They’re as African as Chinese are. Stop erasing these dark skinned Asian identities!
Thank you for showing this part of my culture. People in the Philippines forgotten about them already and sometimes treat them bad too. You won’t believe the racism among my ancestors too. Thanks!
My ppl 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
That’s why we were originally called “ island negritos” ❤️👊🏽🇸🇽
Just to be clear the negrito people are no more African than Chinese people, even if they superficially look like it. Both the negrito and other East Asian groups descend from the same migration out of Africa 50-70,000 years ago. The negritos are most closely related to other East Asian groups.
Yes, you are right, this channel is ignorant, they are closely related to east asian, the afrocentris is annoying as white supremacist
You go, bruh! Thanks for this.
EDIT: 🥰
I appreciate the creation of this video. I'm both filipino and black and for this inspiration and information to be shared with the world is an honor. Peace and love 🙏🏾🧡🔥
I'm mixed (half white/ half black) and I've traveled a lot. You'd be surprised some of the area's which have communities with African ancestry: South Pakistan, Middle Eastern countries, South West of Mexico, India, South of Peru, Black hoods in the Maritime provinces of Canada. I've even met a beautiful Afro-Singaporean woman who's ancestors were brought to South East Asia through slavery. Our ability to survive, no matter were fate takes us, is proof of our resilience.
Aetas are not part of African tribes I think. They're both amazing and rich in culture, but I think they're from differenr countries.
They are lol
You go in school learning about our history
They're wearing fubu. I'm going to the Philippines this June. This video is beautiful
Man bruh your extreme high and positive vibration made you welcome amongst the villagers quickly! That’s cool AF! Keep up the good work!
Scentsational preciate the love man ✊🏿
Thanks for making a video!!! I tell people about the Aetas all the time, You should visit Papua New Guinea next to Indonesia.... Thanks man!!!
I've just watched the first 10 seconds of this and im already lovin' it!
Nice video you earn a Subscription from me, am a African living in the Philippines is really nice here, and I will be going to all those villages right after lockdown
And many other videos I have plan to shoot about Philippines
We support you💓🇵🇭
@@yourmarkie346 Appreciated po
Thank you for pulling it off man, much love.
It’s good to see a person of African decent visiting other people of African decent. Beautiful!!! You can tell they are vary comfortable. Keep up the good work!!
Sorry to say this to you but you should careful calling the aetas African descent coz they are not they are austonesian descent.
this channel deserves a tv show
Traveled from Africa to mainland Asia thru land bridges, passing through the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India, then Indonesia, then Philippines, Papua and Australia. 👍
Gotta take some DNA test and see if i have these aeta lineage cause I really love them and respect their culture and I like their physical aspects.
They are also the main reason why i don't put any whitening products to my skin haha just to keep the blood last here.
They say that most Filipinos have some mixture of Negrito and Austronesian blood in them (not even including European, Chinese, etc.). Most of our blood of course is Austronesian but some regions posses more Negrito genetics than others.
@@kawaiiafangirl this documentary falsely calls them African when they are not. They are indigenous to the Phillipines. Aboriginals and Papuans migrated at about the same time as Europeans so the creator of this video might as well call Europeans Africans as well.
@@minnieee123 From what I've read, while they posses similar looks, they have forged their own culture and language to the point that they've deviated from Africans. idk what Negritos, people Papua New Guinea, aboriginal Australians and other Melanesians think about being compared to Africans though.
Why does it matter? Bragging rights?
This is so amazing; I would love to visit! As a Black + Filipino American, I am loving researching more about how Black and Filipino cultures come together. I just learned about Captain David Fagen's story.
Most american comment ever 💀
First of all, we are not africans, we are austronesians which are not related to africans at all 😂
Do better on your research mate, or you will make a fool out of yourself
Damn man why does this video is not yet famous? too much positivity radiates
Where you from in Africa Sir, I coudn't see the map that you Put on the Screen.
I’m from Atlanta
Brother thank you for discovering our Aeta brothers in our islands. They're still around in every islands they gave up their lands and moved simply to the mountains to avoid the dramas of the modern Filipinos and its colonizers. Thanks for sharing your stories to the world.
Black is one of the major ancient races here on planet earth . Black history has been here a very long time it’s no surprise that they made it all the way to the Philippines. 20,000-70,000 years ago is a long time so much of the the history is lost to time .
to my black brothers out there please help preserve the tribes im mixed aeta too but the pure blooded ones must be protected and they voices be heard cuz they the real filipinos 🇵🇭
Wow!!! I never knew this! Thanks for the exposure 😀
Thank you for contacting those tribes of the Philippines.
They are not African tribes, they are Asians, they are Filipinos. On the other note, It's nice that you made documentary and help them get recognize.
They're ancient Africans also. Other groups in the Pacific trace their ancestries to Taiwan thousands of years ago, so what's wrong with tracing the origins of the Melanesian people to Africa. In addition, the aboriginal peoples of the Americas are linked to migrants from Mongolia and other parts of Asia, and they've been here maybe as long as 20,000 years. Africans have been in the Caribbean only 500 years, as opposed to tens of thousands, but we are Caribbean, and African. Finally, based on their looks, most will link them to Africa, just like people will link a white Australian thousands of years from now to Europe (If humans survive that long).
Awesome video! Currently waiting on the next one! I am from the Igorot tribe :-)
@Mhark Leo Mendoza so? Austronesian ancestors/natives are black. Philippines native language mirrors Hebrew language. My grandpa is not Aeta but also looks like a small black man. I don’t claim to be black but I know where I came from 👆🏼
@Mhark Leo Mendoza my grandpa is an Igorot. You need help lol
I’m at the intro of my second video on your channel…ever. I’m hooked already! So much awesome, valuable content. I’m so ready to travel and learn about my people all over the world. I think this is a great start. Thank you so much for doing what you do! Keep spreading the word!
How do you find them Aeta tribe ? May I ask if I want to learn skills and culture from them , how ?
Where do you find trustworthy local guides?
So nice of you to feature our brother/sister Aetas. I love your effort in bringing them to the rest of the world for a much needed exposure. I've learned an impt. information from this vlog.Thank you!
Angry at myself that I’m JUST now finding this. What in the ENTIRE hell!
I mean, where are you from?
@@chryslerrodrigooberst-tcha9731 jessica is a martian.haha
You blend in well with the whole village. So welcoming
We are all Africans.
All humans descended from a common ancestor that can be traced back to Africa.
So yoursaying we all have a n word pass?
YAY, N WORD PASS!
Not every one has african descendents. Africans may be the first to walk the land but african race is not the only race who walked on earth
@@j.e.5984 What are you talking about? It's proven by genetics, it's in our DNA, and proven and corroborated by other very extensive scientific studies - all humans originated from a common ancestor from Africa. All human "races", whatever you mean by that, came from there.
@@zedrameses1564 Not every race came from a "common" ancestry. By common, you mean 1 group of ancestry. Research has concluded that this idea of having a single "common" ancestry is very simplistic and is technically wrong. Modern homo sepiens came from multiple ancestral groups. Do your research
Wonderful video. I have subscribed to your channel. I also love the way they welcomed you with open arms.
I’m flip and this is cool. Subbed.
Thank you for this. I live in the UK and I create dance work using hiphop within theatre to express my voice, thoughts and emotion. I'm currently doing alot of work that looks into my roots and identity as a filipino. I'm really interested in doing more research into the aetas as I feel really connected in learning and sharing our ancestral roots to the public. Would be dope to somehow get in contact to hear more on how you went about visiting the tribes. Would like to do this trip too.
I'm unsure why my comments are disappearing, but as a FIlipino, I left two very positive, comments expressing my love and support of these Aeta peoples and was trying to share a bit about the diverse backgrounds of the different peoples and groups of the Philippines. I suspect it might be because I said that these beautiful black peoples of the Philippines are genetically more different from modern Africans than modern Europeans (because long-distance human migrations cause genetic drift, especially over tens of thousands of years). Please look this up, as this is widely established. Their blackness doesn't make them African. They are black, but they are the first Asians and are truly indigenous to the Philippines, truly Asian and truly the first Filipinos.
Also, I don't know why my comments about Filipino identity and origins disappeared or were deleted, but I was simply trying to explain why the people in this video (and Part II of this video) said, "I'm half Aeta and half Filipina," or "The younger generations of Negritos are assimilating to the Filipino style." This is because even though the country is named after us, and every Filipino citizen is equally 'Filipino' in the eyes of the Philippine Republic, 'Filipino' as an ethnicity (different from 'Filipino' as a citizenship) properly refers to the collection of lowland tribes living in coastal areas that were forced to 'live under the bells' and were hispanicized and Christianized. Our brothers and sisters in the highlands, mountains and deep jungles do not share this history with us and have maintained their own pre-colonial cultural traditions. Therefore, they think of themselves as Aeta or Negrito and call us "the Filipinos" and children born out of mixed marriages are considered "mixed." Again, we should support them and love them and see them as our brother citizens in our Republic, but we shouldn't push the 'Filipino' identity on them, and we shouldn't assimilate them and force them to speak Tagalog, Ilokano, etc. Our beautiful country is made up of many nations, the indigenous peoples, the Negrito peoples, the Moros (Muslims) and us, Filipinos -- and all of us are equally Filipino citizens. We don't need to trace ourselves to other peoples, like Hawaiians, Chinese, Spanish, Indians, etc. and we don't need to copy other countries that want to homogenize and assimilate all differences.
You know RUclips promotes pan Africanism bullshiit
They are not Africans they are Filipinos they are from that dirt they are Aboriginal to the Philippines
No they are not they are Israelites from the Silk Road slave trade
They are Aeta an indegenous people who live in scatered, isolated mountainous of Luzon islands of the Philpines. They are among earliest inhabitants of the Philippines, preciding the Austronesian migrations. The Aboriginal or Aborigenes is the first setler or people in Australia which is a far cousins of Aeta & other pacific islander or Astronesian
H2O WALTER they are Israelites they are not from the San bushman people they are not of the Asian ones you see in china ones mix with huns,mongols
See the issue is this everyone else keeps saying who they are but no one listens to what they say who they are they are not Israelites because they do not say they are Israelites
Us as people of color in America have to stop saying where other people are from and stop allowing other people to say who and where we are from that's why we're in the situation we are in now to this day
Sir there is a group in Thailand also.
The group in Thailand is tiny. It's just one tribe, and like 300 people. The Philippines has 30 Negrito tribes, with a combined population of more than 400,000
We are Melanesian. Fijians, Papua New Guineans, Torres Strait islanders, Thursday islanders, Vanuatuans, Solomon Islanders, New Caledonians and Australian Aboriginals. Black People of the South East Asia-Pacific region
The word Melanesian comes from Latin. Mela - Black, Nesian - Person of the Pacific
Well, negritos are pure Filipinos.
The part that got me confused is when the woman said that she was half pinoy and half negrito
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Ya Rob......Hence "Pure"...cus there's not that many of us Dark / black ones anymore bc of the diaspora and new wave of immigrants plus centuries of colonization........
Lmaooo, someone doesn't know their history @Rob Whitey or whatever your name is... stop flooding your head with bias pseudo google threads and read a history book bro.
@Rob Gorman Do you know how mixed Present Day Philippines is now ? Are you slow ?
Hey my brother I appreciate this video my great great grand dad is Black Malaysian his parents was farmers but I blended in America for so long lol
Flaming HotBoy1 wow ✊🏿. Have you visited Malaysia to visit that side of the family?
I never had the chance my grand farther told my family a few things how my great great grand was a herb doctor he born 1856
Dayumm. Flaming hot boi
And you're gay?
wow, i hope you continue to do this after the pandemic. good on you man, this is what kids should see.
thank you. I got a lot of footage pre-pandemic that I'm editing right now. They'll focus on specific ancient African empires. I'll start releasing them in a few weeks.
May I know which part of Olongapo this place is , thanks
Negrito is aborigines in Philippines.. they lived in North Luzon. i havent met them yet
This is misleading. Aetas or Agtas are not of African descent because they are australo melanasian
So you’re saying they don’t know their own history??
Where do you think Melanesians came from? Europe? Thin air?
We better start calling Europe as Africa too
the very first people and original people in the Philippines are Negritos or Aeta, then others came like Chinese, Spanish and so on.. they are all mix with Filipino blood from foreigner then we all became Filipino.... thats why Filipinos are beautiful people.....which I can say its cool. everybody in the whole world are brother and sister,,and should be treated equality without discrimination. we adapt or late adaption for new way of life..but by watching history we learn to respect and value tradition and culture of others because thats how life been for them.
We Filipinos aren't a mix of Chinese and Negrito especially not Spanish don't you know that our ancestors are Austronesian?
I always felt like there had to be a reason my Filipino high school friends, jocks and advanced placement students alike all had a black swagger to them confidence wise, and it turns out it something more natural than I realized. I think that confidence comes from never feeling out of place or out of potential, and perhaps its the environment of being in the creation by god where food and shelter like fishing and game hunting with vast jungle building material and edible plants coupled with rainfall and a climate thats easy to even sleep outdoors in made day to day life easy and abundant for their time on an island setting
I was born and lived in the Philippines for such a long time but I have never met an Aeta or Negrito in person before I think. This is fascinating :O
Hey bro.....Make a video about North sentinels Island
VIDHAN CHANDRA SAHU I'd like to travel there, but I heard people don’t make it back 😂
@@travelandtruth Yep....🤭🤭🤭👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@@travelandtruth But you can go Andaman Nicobar Islands.....many African tribes are lives there.....& They are friendly 🤗❤️
I have this opinion that the Aeta, the Australian Aboriginals, the Melanesians, the Vedda of Sri Lanka, and Andaman islanders are all related,,, this used to be popular academic though, they were all lumped together in a group called "vedoid" or "australoid" it's evident in how they all conserve some part of very ancient african culture.
Glad to see one of our Tribe!
The Negritoes of the Philippines or the Orang Asli of Malaysia are descendants of the first wave of Africans who left Africa. The Australian aborigines, the Papuans and the tribes in the Andaman Islands of India also descended from that wave. According to the National Geographic Genographic Proheject, over 50% of Filipino genes came from them. I am mixed Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian), Chinese, Spanish, and Negrito. My mother is Chinita (Chinese looking) while my father, whose mother is mestiza (Spanish mixed), has darker skin tone which some of my brothers and cousins also have. This mix is actually common here, which was confirmed by the Genographic Project. Technically speaking, the notion "pure Filipino" is false. No Filipino is pure, same thing with our Indonesian cousins.
Bruno Mars, who was called a cultural appropriator of Black Culture by "woke" and "politically correct" African American millenials, actually possesses a very strong Negrito feature which he most probably got from his Filipina mother.
@Jacky Phantom Mostbare heavily mixed with Chinese? Proof please?
@Archnid 001 I have already provided stats and that's coming from Nat Geo's Genographic Project. The over 50% comes from the ancestors of Negritoes, Papuans, Australian aborigines and Orang Asli tribes.
You'd have to ask Bruno Mars if he has Aeta heritage, you can't just assume because he's also half Puerto Rican. Not all Pinoy have Aeta heritage.
You are not Filipino
@@magdamanduhai252 I am Filipino.
Your editing is everything 🙌🏾. I had no idea about this. I wish they remembered what part of Africa they came from. That would be interesting to know. Great video as always.
They don't care of the past sister. They live peacefully in the mountains, moved away from the drama of modern Filipinos. Spanish/Japan colonizers did not even bother to make contact with them until the US GI Joes plane crashed and was saved by them.. the US soldier came back and made a unit out from them to fight the Japanese out.
They are lineage of phygmey i think same hieght but in leyte aeta are tall than in luzon aeta.
Yes, everyone descended from Africa, however the Aeta are not African. Although they do share many physically characteristics with Africans, they are not African. They are genetically similar to people from Papua New Guinea and the Aboriginals from Australia (Austronesian). They are native to my province in the Philippines, and as far as I know, they do not recognize themselves as African either.
I met an asian Phillipino and he informed me that tge original inhabitants of the Phillipines were a people called Negritos. Phillipino's are not shy or ever hold back telling you this in America. They are quite proud!
My brother. You are amazing. Those are definitely our relatives. As we are the first inhabitants of America. Light your light shine.
no african tribes in the philippines. please do research.
Ya know what I'm praying for a very long time... is to have a first pure blooded Aeta in the philippines to ever join in a beauty pageant. I mean they look gorgeous same with the level of beauty of black women.
These are not Africans. Just because someone's black doesn't necessarily mean they are African.
Anak ng Pasay ako. Great video! I had so much fun watching this (Lionel Richie lol). You increased my education while greatly entertaining me. I especially liked how you related the regulars. I have seen so many similarities of people from many cultures. Thank you and I will now watch your other videos my brother. Now subscribed!
I grew up in the US and never really knew my family from the Philippines. People would see me in person or in pictures and asked if I was black or part black. I wasn't sure what to say. In high school at Illinois, I grew my hair to help cushion my head in football and I was low on money to get a haircut immediately. It looked like an Afro and people were asking what the heck is that. I ended up cutting it cause I stood out in a very predominately white school (southern Illinois). I'm gonna grow my hair out and wear the Nefro (just now came up with it!!) to honor my roots. Came to find out in my mid 30s I have some Papuan in me and I believe Negroid as well.
What the hell , they're aren't African guys stop afrocentrism. and take note they are only 20,000 they are originated from Malaysia . majority of Filipino are Austronesian people about 109 million +20,000 Aeta
Dna says otherwise. Austronesians didn't just magically appear in Malaysia. They are the descendants of Africans who left the continent thousands of years ago
They did not migrate from Africa. They are natives to those lands. It is demeaning to assume that every dark-skinned person in Asia migrated from Africa. It is also foolish because tens of thousands years ago, sea technology was so crude to sustain a voyage of tens of thousands of miles, from Africa to far Asia.
Don't forget the sea levels were lower because of the ice age. 😉
first major genomic study of Aboriginal Australians ever undertaken has confirmed that all present-day non-African populations are descended from the same single wave of migrants, who left Africa around 72,000 years ago.
Researchers sequenced the complete genetic information of 83 Aboriginal Australians, as well as 25 Papuans from New Guinea, to produce a host of significant new findings about the origins of modern human populations
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All praises to the Most High! Keep up the good work my bro. Our family is really big and we’re everywhere. Peace!
Who is your family?
At last! I've been looking for contents like this. Thank you for producing these contents. Immediately subcribed and liked your channel. Greetings from a Filipino living in Mindanao Philippines.
Up in Cabanatuan, north of fort Magsayssy, i saw a crowd of African looking people, short also. That was 2012. Just add to your list of adventure. Its good to know and follow our ancestry. Keep it up.