Asian, Micronesian, Polynesian, and Pacific Islanders are not races. They are geographical terms. Same with "African" or "European". European or African are not races but continents, a geographical boundary.
Austronesian speaking populations are geographically Asian, SE Asian, Pacific Islander, and African depending on which population you're talking about. Not all Austronesian speakers are Pacific Islanders. Malagasy are geographically African.
"Austronesian" is a short hand way of saying Austronesian speaking populations and is therefore a linguistic and anthropological term. It is not a geographical term.
Because of this vid a lot of filipinos think they're polynesian now lol. It's true we share ancestry and the fact that we're part of the Austronesia. But fellow flips don't even dare say you're Polynesian. That's a disgrace yo. Repp your pinoy bloodline and be proud to be filipino.
@hawaiian96chence of course we are not Polynesian because we are Austronesian from South East Asia in Philippines =) & we are proud Filipinos. At least I understand more the similarities of our native language to the other Austronesian I thought it's just a language & it explain it more the culture similarities of each countries. Proud of our Ethnic Background.
@impinai79 -.- No duh you're austronesian didn't you watch the vid?!? My friend meant that a lot of filipinos are trynna claim they're Polynesian. Which they're not. Flips are ASIAN.
U know, it would be really great if u could research the original native names of malays before all these mumbo jumbo indianized/sanskrit influenced and arabized/islamized names.
Because I would like to name my child with none of these outside influenced name-origin and stay true to the austronesian/polynesian origin.
i can understand now why indonesia, malaysia, philipina and pacific people have many similarity in appearance, and now they have similarity in language too
im really greatful to see this!! Im Filipino...and it is now clear to me ( i still need to do some research though ) that WE..FILIPINOS..are Austronesians! ..and i am saying this with pride!!! ... its sucks that THE WHITE MEN again destroyed it!! just like what they did to other places in this world! ugh... now all what i have to do is let people know about this GREAT RACE of AUSTRONESIAN people...
- thanks for sharing this! IM AUSTRONESIAN ( Filipino-Spanish ) and wootwoot to our RACE!
Japheth is teh answer because he is the father of the Asian people. Not to forget his descendants were well known as fearsome seafarers. it doesn't suprise me if the Austronesians are descended of Japheth. speaking As for the greek and the seafaringphoenicians, they are descended from Shem. Arabs, israelites are Caucasian just like European. By logic, they belong to Shem...
Japheth is teh answer because he is the father of the Asian people. Not to forget his descendants were well known as fearsome seafarers. it doesn't suprise me if the Austronesians are descended of Japheth. speaking As for the greek and the seafaring phoenicians, they are descended from Shem. Arabs, israelites are Caucasian just like European. By logic, they belong to Shem...
first two song from Taiwan aboriginal which remain about 350,000. Population in 10 different group and language,Taiwan scientists collect the Genetic component from different group,found divide to 6 major Genetic,1 genetic major from south Asia rest of 4 more close to Pacific region,remain 1 close to southern china.
Nice video i believe there is a Austronenesian presence in SEA my cousins look like Samoans LOL am Filipino. I swear to god.When I went back there it was eye opening of the similarities.
just like chinese and indian and other races..we need to let the world noe about our existence..but is it imposible because we've been seperated by language and culture..the only thing we share in common is..we hv a tan body....ohh in this case..THE ROCK aka dwayne johnson is also agronesian..half black and half samoan..
i think for me sport will unite us back... wish there is sport such Olympic just for Austronesian,,,the first venue will be held on Taiwan (the origin of Austronesian ancestor). here we from SEA can introduce takraw & silat, while from Micronesia have advantage in Rugby.
A beautiful video and a good choice of music for it.
I just wish someone translated it into the major Austronesian languages and then ensured its broadcast on Indonesian, Malaysian and Filipino TV in the prime time. There is so much ignorance on the topic among the Austronesians themselves, when I hear Indonesians claiming their language to be derived from Sanskrit (that's apparently what they are taught at school) I just feel depressed.
this was really enlightening and great information.
i had never heard the term "austronesia" before, so thanks for sharing the knowledge.
one question: at 8:07, it begins to talk about something that Wenceslao Vinzons believed... but the sentence is never finished. can someone please elucidate?
love the video. question, what is your take on koreans and austronesians? they are claimng to have negrito and southeast asian blood. i'm seeing vids like this all over youtube.
@kalulua06 just had to answer this questions...Koreans has nothing to do with Austronesians. Even though some of them claim that they do lol. it's so obvious, their appearance, their language, everything. And funny they claim to have ''negrito'' blood. When they try so hard to be white. sorry not hating, I know a lot of koreans, and I also know the language. We don't look alike at all!
question for ya, Hokulani.. do you know of any connection between the god Tagaloa (and it's variations) and the Tagalog people from the island of Luzon in the Philipines? from what I've read the commonality of those two names seems to be just a coincidence. But if otherwise I'd be very interested to hear about it.
There was but more to do with trade than occupation. Generally speaking, Austronesian-speaking peoples did not engage in military conquests of non-Austronesian-speaking countries and territories--sort of like the Chinese. Normally expansion was due to finding new lands where no one had previously lived on. Australia's coast was inhabited by Australian Aboriginals and generally the Buginese who had contact with them over hundreds of years respected them and just did trade.
@NirinaGasikara Interesting! I am filipino(ilokano),born and raised in Hawaii.. My dad looks like your typical dark filipino, while my mom looks chinese, but most of her siblings are a combination of the dark with asian attributes.
I remember when I was young they use to make those food offerings when you eat somewhere new, or killing a cow. They still do til this day.
@702nitro That is common, trust me my family in Pampanga is like that too, because Luzon is pretty much the bulk of the chinese ancestry.
Man but to the video, when you watch this it makes the "if filipinos are asian or pacific islander" debate sound really stupid, it's just not that simple. In reality, these both are just borders, and both has had austronesian contributions.I hope that debate dies off...It's just not that simple, and hmm didn't know we all used the similar "lima", or #5 :)
Beautiful people.So where should the capitol of Austronesia be?I vote INDONESIA lol!But seriously doesnt this mean Indonesia is the largest and most populous austronesian nation?Including malagasy?
Concluding my lengthy comment, I appreciate your video alot! Thank you so much, or in Austronesian/Polynesian languages I know: terima kasih (Indonesian), tēnā koe (Maori), misaotra (Malagasy), mauliate (Batak-Toba), mahalo (Hawaii), fa'afetai (Samoa)!!!
Even more fascinating that we (Austronesians/Polynesians) went as far as Madagascar thousands of years before the Europeans, interacting with the Africans in what could be considered the correct way of "colonisation" (if it can be called that) in contrast to the Europeans of later times; that is to live together, interact, trade, mingle, and assimilate, without the need to subjugate the other.
I used to find it fascinating that a Samoan has almost exactly the same words to my ethnic language (distinct from Indonesian/Malay) in counting numbers, and words with exact/similar meanings that I suspect are so old that it may have been formed when the languages have not diverged much at all thousands of years ago and that it had changed very little in spite of influence and assimilation of various neighbouring cultures and the recent colonialism.
I'm Indonesian, of Batak descent, specifically Toba. This video sums up what I suspect quite some time ago from reading books and stuff from childhood until high school, and from my experience so far as an immigrant in New Zealand, interacting with various P.I (Pacific Island) cultures, as well as the indegenous Maori.
Nice video..we all Austronesian...only that the Malays or modern Malays which also known as Deutro-Malay, were mixed with ancient Arabs, Indians, or even Persians. Our history is long enough..and by the way Malaysian Archeologist had found a 2 000 years old city/village/temples (?) which has a pure 'Austronesian' culture which is worshipping the sorrounding..and it is not Hinduism or Buddhism temple....I used the term Austronesian, because after 2 A.D, the Malays started to adopt Indians cultur
maedup eketamapesana agta depesana kapoloan ni kaataban ni pasipiko. e ketam ey agta ni kaataban a penagpala ni makedepat a maghadi de bewet polu . let our life prevail , we all the people in the islands of pacific. we are the islanders blessed by GOD to rule in every island!
thats awesome, if an 'Austronesian' (filipinos, malaysian, indonesians etc) person right , goes to a Polynesian from the 21st century not a poly from a million years ago(samoan,tongan,maori,cookislander etc) that their polynesian, im pretty sure that person would get a nice beating.
Please watch the video and look at the term "Malayo-Polynesian" and "Austronesian" even in wikipedia before asking a question that has already been answered repeatedly. Thank you..
@aldomovielovers Do some searches man. Yes, they are all related and have distinctly, differentiated from years of years of migration but they all have the same roots.
yeah, and when you see a Malaysian who looks like a Samoan who comes to samoa and you start speaking "samoan" with him, don't be bumbed out if he says to you " sorry, I am not from Samoa. i am from malaysia"...hahahaha.....
I;m not totally down with the idea of setting up an austronesia EU, co federation, or federation, but I am totally down fot the indepedence of Hawaii, French Polynesia, and the other islands as well as the reunification of Samoa.
btw, wouldn't the aboriginal peoples of Australia and New Guinea also be apart of Austronesia?
@KangaKucha Australian aborigines and Melanesians (incl. Papuans/New Guineans) are not Austronesian. They however, arrived earlier to the Indonesian archipelago and then settled in the regions we all know today. In certain regions of Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Philippines there are some aboriginal or mixed people still retain characteristics of Melanesian stocks.
@KangaKucha The Papuans, the aboriginals are totally different epoople from the austronesian and inhabited their land since around 40 000 BC... They are not part of Austronesia whatsoever...
Hi, i visit your blog and it was great. i am just wondering if we could make a bulletin board(website forum) for us austronesians. I can make it but the problem is who willl be the moderators since i am busy with my other websites.
@AlizeTHB Yea, I love my heritage, and our culture, but the shame is that few of us knows this...either they've never heard of it, or doesn't believe it. I was lucky enough to stumble upon hokulani's video, and learn the truth about my heritage as a polly and austronesian;)
aloha my brother from Aotearoa just a maori brother learning his roots thank you for the educational video please do more:) jah bless to all my Austronesian people:) my love to all we are all god 3<
Thrilled to hear Samingad's song! Proud to be a native of Taiwan. Thank you.
P.S. the first photo of paiwan tribe is actually an Atayal woman with their unique facial tattoo. Atayal and its subtribes are the only tribes with facial tattoos in Taiwan :)
oh in the ancient days yes. Some of it involved alcoholic beverage made from the 'awa or kava root. There were also ceremonies involving divination--trying to see the future.
Oh the feet part is the same for Hawaiians. Hawaiians before used to be very particular about feet, navels, and the crown on the head (the round spot where the hair grows out).
Also animal sacrifices (chicken, dogs, and certain types of fish) were also done around 4 to 5am when the sun first hits the tiki or totem of the temple. Funerals began when the sun was directly overhead. Night time was forbidden to do any "good work" since that was the time for black magic.
That is I think the same for most Austronesian languages and peoples--being indirect yet very poetic. For example, there's a lot of Hawaiian songs talking about vines crawling up cliffs and flowers blossoming with the rain but there is a double, more sensual, meaning. hehe.
well depends on what you mean by erotic. There aren't so much ki'i (tiki/totem) left anymore. Most of the remaining ones--many were destroyed due to Queen-Regent Ka'ahumanu who later became a devout Christian and saw those images as evil and had them burned along with the owners at times--are anatomically correct but not really in sexual positions except for showing the thighs. The thighs was a sexual part whereas the chest (for men or women) was not.
Wow thanks for sharing. That North-South orientation is interesting and makes sense considering the Malagasy ancestors did come from the North-East. Hawaiians temples and burials are East-West orientation but the villages (kauhale) face North-South.
You have a god called Tany? We Hawaiians have a god called Kane and other Polynesians call him Tane. Kane is the sun god and for Hawaiians but for some Polynesians like the Maori he's associated with the ground.
I understand that there are a lot of Malagasy there, as well as Chinese, Indians, Arabs and of course French. Those Malagasy and their descendants are definitely Austronesian just as Hawaiians in Nevada, Javanese in Brazil, and Filipinos in Qatar are still Austronesian but they are not in the traditional Austronesian lands.
the number 5-lima n 2-dua,lua,duha doesnt change much is a sign that all this people av the same origins,heck,most of the numbers do sound similar if you pronounce em carefully,
can someone tell me what is stock is the Australian aborigines and why arent they considered or apart of austronesia as the region depicted in the diagrams seems to go around australia
1. They are genetically different (Austronesians are genetically similar and probably originated somewhere in Asia; Aboriginals are genetically similar to each other and are related to Papuans, Melanesians, and distantly to Africans);
2. They have no linguistic ties with any Austronesian language;
3. A majority (note I said a majority) of Aboriginal nations have had no cultural ties to or influences from Austronesia;
Hi, I used to study history. This is kind of a short explanation. But this is why aborigines arent austronesian. There where 2 expanisions. The first expansion was about 30.000 years ago. Thats where the Negrito's, Papuans/Melanesian and Aborignes came from. The Austronesian expansion only came about 5.000 years ago maybe. Offcourse over time a lot mingled! But for example the aborigines look different, cause the austronesian expansion didnt reach them.
Woah. I never had a degree of any UNDERSTANDING, about how much linguistic-political differences engaged in us all, as a culture. Great information video. I Feel the micronesian/malayo-polynesian/canoe love!!
im happy to found this video. it's a good info. i'm an avid paddler from the island of Bohol and Cebu Philippines. I always believe that we are an outrigger canoe people. Im a Filipino and just to be honestly speaking that i don't believe in the balangay and that they are using the basic navigation. they are using a a support engine small bout to take them safe for docking and coming out.
The term "tribe" was only used by the Americans and later on adopted especially by Filipino-Americans. There is no word for "tribe" in most Philippine languages and tribes normally consists of kinship ex. Tagalogs, Visayans, etc are not bound by kinship.
However, the Philippines consisted of clans, sultanates, kingdoms, and chiefdoms composed of different ethnolinguistic groups prior to the Spanish. The term ethnolinguistic group is more appropriate than the term tribe.
Clans are families that have a direct ancestor and leadership is normally permanent to the most senior family member based on genealogy. Tribes are political units that do not have a fixed leadership (normally won through war or election). You can marry into a tribe or become adopted to a tribe but you can never be part of a clan unless you can prove a connection to that common ancestor or place.
As for language, yes its better to differentiate by language because there were several different political systems that existed in the Philippines prior to the Spanish. Some like the Tausugs have had a long political state whereas some like the Isneg are closer to a clan. The language grouping is better because all Filipinos are the same race and there was a lot of intermixing between groups. Ex. Lapulapu's father Tausug and possibly his mother was Boholana.
the larger Iwi Tribe was a mess, with opposing factions within the same Tribe.
Alliances were made through Rangatira of individual Hapu "sub-tribes" or High born chiefs representing a natural grouping of hapu. The Hapu were like clans with 1 common ancestor after which the hapu was named eg. Ngati(the many of) Tautahi (Ancestor) but these common ancestors also had a common ancestor after which the Iwi (Tribe) was named. eg. Nga(ti) Puhi.
..I think you're right. I don't think there are "tribes" in The Philippines originally, people don't express "tribal loyalty" to any tribe, but Filipinos are clannish. And, to add, Filipinos consider themselves a member of an ethnolinguistic group if the language of that certain group is their mother tongue (of course there are exceptions.) I, for example, consider myself a Tagalog because it is my first language, even tho my mother is a Waray and my dad a Karay-ah. Mabuhay Austronesia!
@josephricafort opo! Karay-ah po siya! (am sorry I don't speak the language...hahaha) I think you're asking why I picked up Tubol? nothing in mind really, I think it means "huge hard turd (sh**) right? I've been to his home town, Sibalom I think it was, at least thrice. he's got relatives scattered all over Bacolod, San Jose, San Rafael. You're from the province of Antique too?
I have alway say to myself that I more islander or austronesian than asian. I tell white people that I'm asian they say you don't lool it. I'm filipino. asia is just a geography austronesian is a race. it sad that when people say asian they automatictly think people of chinese, japanese, korean decent. It sad that lots of filipino don't know their identity.
Yeah for real. I think being Filipino means we are so many things at once. Ethnically we are Austronesian, Geographically we are Asian, and Culturally we are a blend of Malayo-Polynesian, Spanish, and East Asia. We are a truly beautiful people.
its hard trying to explain what you are to white folk because they think Asian is Chinese, Polynesian is Hawaii, and Spain is Mexico. so of course they get confused with the Filipino man. haha
Yeah for real. I think being Filipino means we are so many things at once. Ethnically we are Austronesian, Geographically we are Asian, and Culturally we are a blend of Malayo-Polynesian, Spanish, and East Asia. We are a truly beautiful people.
its hard trying to explain what you are to white folk because they think Asian is Chinese, Polynesian is Hawaii, and Spain is Mexico. so of course they get confused with the Filipino man. haha
This video gave me goosebumps.... so amazing! So, are filipinos technically should be Pacific Islanders? I am filipina and I've always thought I'm more Pacific Islanders than South East Asian... ;)
we are both, cuz we are Austronesians filipina sista=) I don't know why many uses pacific islander, islander, or polly. Those terms are just to segregate, and divide us, not unite us...
This video seems very reliable. I see similarity in them. Maybe the influence from China and India has made Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines have vibrant cultures as in clothing, architecture, food spices etc. But basically, Austronesians are all one big race and I'm proud to be one of them from Indonesia!!
interesting theory and believable
i am chuukese and we say NIMU almost close to tongans' NIMA lol
lsd12345lsd 5 days ago
thanks hokulani78 for sharing the accurate knowledge of our ancestors!
kauaisbadboy 1 week ago
Let me just make it easier for people
hokulani78 3 weeks ago
Austronesians = Micronesians, insular SE, Taiwan, Madagascar, Polynesia, and parts of Melanesia.
Pacific Islanders = Micronesia, Polynesia, sometimes Melanesians.
Oceania = Micronesia, Polynesia, Melanesia, Australia, and sometimes Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Taiwan.
Asian = Indian, Chinese, Filipino, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Thais, and technically everyone from Jews in Israel to Arabs to Turks.
hokulani78 3 weeks ago
Asian, Micronesian, Polynesian, and Pacific Islanders are not races. They are geographical terms. Same with "African" or "European". European or African are not races but continents, a geographical boundary.
hokulani78 3 weeks ago
Austronesian speaking populations are geographically Asian, SE Asian, Pacific Islander, and African depending on which population you're talking about. Not all Austronesian speakers are Pacific Islanders. Malagasy are geographically African.
"Austronesian" is a short hand way of saying Austronesian speaking populations and is therefore a linguistic and anthropological term. It is not a geographical term.
hokulani78 3 weeks ago
thanks for this... from the bottom of my heart
mariposa415 3 weeks ago
i loooove the songs!!!!!
Maluhia11 1 month ago
kayasa ataya a :D
juliaheartz 1 month ago
PHILI
jauciangabriel 2 months ago
@hokulani78 Hoooouu Hawaiian nice vid great job (:
HaVVaiianVVarrior 2 months ago
i am an Indonesian from Batak people and i know that Austronesians languange is basicly same with the some Indonesian languange.
lodraaa 2 months ago
i am an Indonesian from Batak people and i know that Austronesians languange is basicly same with the some Indonesian languange
lodraaa 2 months ago
i am an Indonesian from Batak people and i know that Austronesians languange is basicly same with the some Indonesian languange
lodraaa 2 months ago
this is so true im chamorro and lima is the ancient word for 5!
therokai 3 months ago
The Sun, indeed, never sets on the Austronesian Empire...lol! :)
MrRathbun 3 months ago
Because of this vid a lot of filipinos think they're polynesian now lol. It's true we share ancestry and the fact that we're part of the Austronesia. But fellow flips don't even dare say you're Polynesian. That's a disgrace yo. Repp your pinoy bloodline and be proud to be filipino.
HAWAIIAN BLOODLINNE CHEEHUUUU!!!
hawaiian96chence 3 months ago
@hawaiian96chence of course we are not Polynesian because we are Austronesian from South East Asia in Philippines =) & we are proud Filipinos. At least I understand more the similarities of our native language to the other Austronesian I thought it's just a language & it explain it more the culture similarities of each countries. Proud of our Ethnic Background.
impinai79 3 months ago
@impinai79 -.- No duh you're austronesian didn't you watch the vid?!? My friend meant that a lot of filipinos are trynna claim they're Polynesian. Which they're not. Flips are ASIAN.
People confuse polynesian with austronesian.
Polynesian is Austronesian.
But Austroneisan isn't Polynesian.
HaVVaiianVVarrior 2 months ago
ALL THE AUSTRONESIAN PEOPLE COMBINE AND CREATE A MIGHTY EMPIRE/KINGDOM!
13elsyd13 3 months ago
great music!!!
syndrah90 3 months ago
GREAT VID!!! White ppl FUCK SHIT UP man...! Fight the white super powers! I'm proud to be an islander
djpx49 4 months ago
Nusantara = Nusa + Antara
Nusa = Bangsa = Race = Nation
Antara = Inter
Nusantara = International
SilatBegin 4 months ago
U know, it would be really great if u could research the original native names of malays before all these mumbo jumbo indianized/sanskrit influenced and arabized/islamized names.
Because I would like to name my child with none of these outside influenced name-origin and stay true to the austronesian/polynesian origin.
destroyxeverything 7 months ago
@destroyxeverything your answer lies in the phils
nenabunena 3 months ago
great vid..whats the title of the song..
halashet 7 months ago
proud to be one! :)
VINTONGFX 7 months ago
great that there is a vid that recognises the austronesian peoples. i need to learn my native tongue, kadazan, before it goes extinct
imfromtambunan 8 months ago
we are a big family..cheers for all austronesian..
sardincapayam8788 8 months ago
i can understand now why indonesia, malaysia, philipina and pacific people have many similarity in appearance, and now they have similarity in language too
lansanak 9 months ago
Thank you for posting this video. The similarities makes sense to me now.
silatplayer 9 months ago
no wonder :D that's why the tagalog 'tae' can be understood by my tongan and samoan friends.
this video is amazing, proud to be austronesian.
PinoyNaPinoyBoy 9 months ago
Great Video!
BroYouKnowMe 9 months ago
Beautiful song. It makes my hairs stand up on end much like the songs sung by Difang.
neydogg 10 months ago
hello austronesians. austronesian here from the philippines.
rcmontecalvo 10 months ago
wow, watching this video makes me proud of the Austronesian family! Im Malay btw
sdurgefafd 10 months ago
im really greatful to see this!! Im Filipino...and it is now clear to me ( i still need to do some research though ) that WE..FILIPINOS..are Austronesians! ..and i am saying this with pride!!! ... its sucks that THE WHITE MEN again destroyed it!! just like what they did to other places in this world! ugh... now all what i have to do is let people know about this GREAT RACE of AUSTRONESIAN people...
- thanks for sharing this! IM AUSTRONESIAN ( Filipino-Spanish ) and wootwoot to our RACE!
vanLzjk 11 months ago
So who are we according to the Holy Bible that most people read ?? Noah had 3 sons, Ham, Shem and Japheth. Can anyone answer that question ??
wahaahla 11 months ago
@wahaahla lol if u believe in it that is...
Gille87 11 months ago
@wahaahla
Japheth is teh answer because he is the father of the Asian people. Not to forget his descendants were well known as fearsome seafarers. it doesn't suprise me if the Austronesians are descended of Japheth. speaking As for the greek and the seafaringphoenicians, they are descended from Shem. Arabs, israelites are Caucasian just like European. By logic, they belong to Shem...
Mohi 11 months ago
@wahaahla
Japheth is teh answer because he is the father of the Asian people. Not to forget his descendants were well known as fearsome seafarers. it doesn't suprise me if the Austronesians are descended of Japheth. speaking As for the greek and the seafaring phoenicians, they are descended from Shem. Arabs, israelites are Caucasian just like European. By logic, they belong to Shem...
Mohi 11 months ago
@wahaahla *ignore*
rjparko 10 months ago
first two song from Taiwan aboriginal which remain about 350,000. Population in 10 different group and language,Taiwan scientists collect the Genetic component from different group,found divide to 6 major Genetic,1 genetic major from south Asia rest of 4 more close to Pacific region,remain 1 close to southern china.
jo60382000 11 months ago
Nice video i believe there is a Austronenesian presence in SEA my cousins look like Samoans LOL am Filipino. I swear to god.When I went back there it was eye opening of the similarities.
JAD2385 11 months ago
salamat sa-intiro na nag pa-imod sini na video! 1 saro 2 duwa 3 tolo 4 opat 5 lima 6 onom 7 pito 8 walo 9 siyam 10 sampolo 100 sangatos 1000 sanribu
thats our counting in our dialect called bisakol!
AbddulJakul 1 year ago
@AbddulJakul Bisaya ka, Bikolano o Bisakol? : D
OrlyDudeGuy 11 months ago
just like chinese and indian and other races..we need to let the world noe about our existence..but is it imposible because we've been seperated by language and culture..the only thing we share in common is..we hv a tan body....ohh in this case..THE ROCK aka dwayne johnson is also agronesian..half black and half samoan..
Froddok 1 year ago
i would rather claim myself as an austronesian than malay..cause malay is fucked up..im austronesian people..greeting from malaysia
Froddok 1 year ago
i think for me sport will unite us back... wish there is sport such Olympic just for Austronesian,,,the first venue will be held on Taiwan (the origin of Austronesian ancestor). here we from SEA can introduce takraw & silat, while from Micronesia have advantage in Rugby.
archip83 1 year ago
United back The Mu empire? back from 10,000 BC... Imam Nuh Sia.
ahazeman 1 year ago
iAbsolutely Love This Video <3
in a Way , it Makes Me Proud To Be a Polynesian (Tongan btw)
And , Also it Makes Me Want To Learn More About My Great Ancestors
&'d To Learn More About The Different Types Of Islanders in This World (:
Plus , iLove Thee Songs For This Video Too , Especially Thee First One <3
EmmaManuatu1993 1 year ago
isnt 3:54 maori?
islanderpride123 1 year ago
could you make a video of the migration patterns.
islanderpride123 1 year ago
Wow, Hello Long lost cousin, I'm from Philippines and I'm proud to be one of our races...
xenon817 1 year ago
nice songs and music.
is there a link to download?
headstart9900 1 year ago
The most interesting video iv watched on youtube its great to learn about our heritage
FRESSSHIE 1 year ago
I'm Filipino-Hawaiian and this video makes me proud of my heritage.
islanderpride123 1 year ago
Yeah! We Conquered part of Africa! haha get off our island Africans!
llevijr 1 year ago
I just can't help but watch this video over and over. Very inspiring. Mabuhay!
LakanTubol15 1 year ago
A beautiful video and a good choice of music for it.
I just wish someone translated it into the major Austronesian languages and then ensured its broadcast on Indonesian, Malaysian and Filipino TV in the prime time. There is so much ignorance on the topic among the Austronesians themselves, when I hear Indonesians claiming their language to be derived from Sanskrit (that's apparently what they are taught at school) I just feel depressed.
Greetings from Poland.
hattivat 1 year ago
'Talofa lava' to all my Austronesian peoples :)
allikohcysp 1 year ago
That kulankii comment,ive actually talked to Polys(Tongans) who actually did say there was a connection with Island SEA.
gpl992 1 year ago
are filipino and tahitans,maori desame!? in terms of genetic ancestry!??
elenavlada 1 year ago
@elenavlada yes, just watch the video! ;D
Gille87 1 year ago
@elenavlada Yes, it's true. Search and read about this and it will open your mind. Google it up.
OrlyDudeGuy 1 year ago
nusantara unite
melak85 1 year ago
brothers we all are!
LakanTubol15 1 year ago
austronesian.... my brothers and sisters...
lansanak 1 year ago
Nusantara Union.
macmelmorgan 1 year ago
this was really enlightening and great information.
i had never heard the term "austronesia" before, so thanks for sharing the knowledge.
one question: at 8:07, it begins to talk about something that Wenceslao Vinzons believed... but the sentence is never finished. can someone please elucidate?
thank you.
EarthlingSofia 1 year ago
salam,, to all austronesian in the world,,,
let's save our heritage..
from malayan west borneo indonesia
apriandirusdi 1 year ago
salam,, to all austronesian in the world,,,
let's save our heritage..
from malayan west borneo indonesia
apriandirusdi 1 year ago
love the video. question, what is your take on koreans and austronesians? they are claimng to have negrito and southeast asian blood. i'm seeing vids like this all over youtube.
kalulua06 1 year ago
@kalulua06 just had to answer this questions...Koreans has nothing to do with Austronesians. Even though some of them claim that they do lol. it's so obvious, their appearance, their language, everything. And funny they claim to have ''negrito'' blood. When they try so hard to be white. sorry not hating, I know a lot of koreans, and I also know the language. We don't look alike at all!
Gille87 1 year ago
question for ya, Hokulani.. do you know of any connection between the god Tagaloa (and it's variations) and the Tagalog people from the island of Luzon in the Philipines? from what I've read the commonality of those two names seems to be just a coincidence. But if otherwise I'd be very interested to hear about it.
Tedminator1 1 year ago
interesting vid.. thanks, Hokulani78 :)
btw, why no austronesian inroads into the Australian mainland?
Tedminator1 1 year ago
interesting vid.. thanks, Hokulani78 :)
btw, why no austronesian inroads into the Ausralian mainland?
Tedminator1 1 year ago
@Tedminator1
There was but more to do with trade than occupation. Generally speaking, Austronesian-speaking peoples did not engage in military conquests of non-Austronesian-speaking countries and territories--sort of like the Chinese. Normally expansion was due to finding new lands where no one had previously lived on. Australia's coast was inhabited by Australian Aboriginals and generally the Buginese who had contact with them over hundreds of years respected them and just did trade.
hokulani78 1 year ago
Central Borneo..The Kayan(Borneo)
1='ji' 2='duwak' 3='telok' 4='pat' 5='limak' 6='nem' 7='tusu' 8='sayak' 9='pitan' 10='pulu'
visit360 1 year ago
Central Borneo..The Kayan(Borneo)
1='ji' 2='duwak' 3='telok' 4='pat' 5='limak' 6='nem' 7='tusu' 8='sayak' 9='pitan' 10='pulu'
visit360 1 year ago
@NirinaGasikara Interesting! I am filipino(ilokano),born and raised in Hawaii.. My dad looks like your typical dark filipino, while my mom looks chinese, but most of her siblings are a combination of the dark with asian attributes.
I remember when I was young they use to make those food offerings when you eat somewhere new, or killing a cow. They still do til this day.
702nitro 1 year ago
@702nitro That is common, trust me my family in Pampanga is like that too, because Luzon is pretty much the bulk of the chinese ancestry.
Man but to the video, when you watch this it makes the "if filipinos are asian or pacific islander" debate sound really stupid, it's just not that simple. In reality, these both are just borders, and both has had austronesian contributions.I hope that debate dies off...It's just not that simple, and hmm didn't know we all used the similar "lima", or #5 :)
ThtOnePinoy 9 months ago
Beautiful people.So where should the capitol of Austronesia be?I vote INDONESIA lol!But seriously doesnt this mean Indonesia is the largest and most populous austronesian nation?Including malagasy?
gpl992 1 year ago
Indo here,excelllent vid.Coming from a halfie austronesian.Ambonese-Romanian
gpl992 1 year ago
Concluding my lengthy comment, I appreciate your video alot! Thank you so much, or in Austronesian/Polynesian languages I know: terima kasih (Indonesian), tēnā koe (Maori), misaotra (Malagasy), mauliate (Batak-Toba), mahalo (Hawaii), fa'afetai (Samoa)!!!
DanieruShidebuteru 1 year ago
Even more fascinating that we (Austronesians/Polynesians) went as far as Madagascar thousands of years before the Europeans, interacting with the Africans in what could be considered the correct way of "colonisation" (if it can be called that) in contrast to the Europeans of later times; that is to live together, interact, trade, mingle, and assimilate, without the need to subjugate the other.
DanieruShidebuteru 1 year ago
@DanieruShidebuteru THUMBS WAAYYY UP!!! mabuhay brothers and sisters!
lawcifer 9 months ago
I used to find it fascinating that a Samoan has almost exactly the same words to my ethnic language (distinct from Indonesian/Malay) in counting numbers, and words with exact/similar meanings that I suspect are so old that it may have been formed when the languages have not diverged much at all thousands of years ago and that it had changed very little in spite of influence and assimilation of various neighbouring cultures and the recent colonialism.
DanieruShidebuteru 1 year ago
Hello!
I'm Indonesian, of Batak descent, specifically Toba. This video sums up what I suspect quite some time ago from reading books and stuff from childhood until high school, and from my experience so far as an immigrant in New Zealand, interacting with various P.I (Pacific Island) cultures, as well as the indegenous Maori.
DanieruShidebuteru 1 year ago
very educational :D
D3athAnG3lDarK 1 year ago
Nice video..we all Austronesian...only that the Malays or modern Malays which also known as Deutro-Malay, were mixed with ancient Arabs, Indians, or even Persians. Our history is long enough..and by the way Malaysian Archeologist had found a 2 000 years old city/village/temples (?) which has a pure 'Austronesian' culture which is worshipping the sorrounding..and it is not Hinduism or Buddhism temple....I used the term Austronesian, because after 2 A.D, the Malays started to adopt Indians cultur
saffronius79 1 year ago
maedup eketamapesana agta depesana kapoloan ni kaataban ni pasipiko. e ketam ey agta ni kaataban a penagpala ni makedepat a maghadi de bewet polu . let our life prevail , we all the people in the islands of pacific. we are the islanders blessed by GOD to rule in every island!
mataripis1 1 year ago
i'm proud to be 1 of the AUSTRONESIAN people.
gilagame90 1 year ago
thats awesome, if an 'Austronesian' (filipinos, malaysian, indonesians etc) person right , goes to a Polynesian from the 21st century not a poly from a million years ago(samoan,tongan,maori,cookislander etc) that their polynesian, im pretty sure that person would get a nice beating.
KuLaNkii 1 year ago
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Gille87 1 year ago
@KuLaNkii
That just shows how colonized Samoans, etc are. Polynesians, SE Asian, etc are all terms that came from colonial powers.
hokulani78 1 year ago
@hokulani78 so what are you trying to say is samoan,maori etc is Austronesian also ?? same like indonesian, filliphino etc?
aldomovielovers 1 year ago
@aldomovielovers
Please watch the video and look at the term "Malayo-Polynesian" and "Austronesian" even in wikipedia before asking a question that has already been answered repeatedly. Thank you..
hokulani78 1 year ago
@aldomovielovers Do some searches man. Yes, they are all related and have distinctly, differentiated from years of years of migration but they all have the same roots.
OrlyDudeGuy 1 year ago
yeah, and when you see a Malaysian who looks like a Samoan who comes to samoa and you start speaking "samoan" with him, don't be bumbed out if he says to you " sorry, I am not from Samoa. i am from malaysia"...hahahaha.....
Mohi 1 year ago
@KuLaNkii think outside the box man. it's not about claiming they're poly, but to claim that they are related peoples separated by colonists.
OmarDelfinity 1 year ago
@KuLaNkii hey You commented on a topic 8 months ago , thats was pretty funny and interesting
NamChampskee 10 months ago
Emotional,best wishes from Madagascar to Pan Melayu Unity.
TOOTOOLXXX 1 year ago
@KangaKucha
look at Janson84's comments.
hokulani78 1 year ago
I;m not totally down with the idea of setting up an austronesia EU, co federation, or federation, but I am totally down fot the indepedence of Hawaii, French Polynesia, and the other islands as well as the reunification of Samoa.
btw, wouldn't the aboriginal peoples of Australia and New Guinea also be apart of Austronesia?
KangaKucha 1 year ago
@KangaKucha Australian aborigines and Melanesians (incl. Papuans/New Guineans) are not Austronesian. They however, arrived earlier to the Indonesian archipelago and then settled in the regions we all know today. In certain regions of Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Philippines there are some aboriginal or mixed people still retain characteristics of Melanesian stocks.
rapemap 1 year ago
@KangaKucha The Papuans, the aboriginals are totally different epoople from the austronesian and inhabited their land since around 40 000 BC... They are not part of Austronesia whatsoever...
Ofionnain 1 year ago
link sent by my History 10.1 Instructor in Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan..
thanks,ma'am!
Ninz012091 1 year ago
is tatoo our first creation?
modsJUTSU 1 year ago
@modsJUTSU the tattoo is an Austronesian thing, the word itself is a Polynesian word.
OrlyDudeGuy 1 year ago
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AlizeTHB 1 year ago
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AlizeTHB 1 year ago
the number 5=lima is the most common nice
daybreak4491 1 year ago
Feel free to check out my blog at: austronesianists. blogspot. com/ (minus the spaces)
hokulani78 1 year ago
@hokulani78
Hi, i visit your blog and it was great. i am just wondering if we could make a bulletin board(website forum) for us austronesians. I can make it but the problem is who willl be the moderators since i am busy with my other websites.
new486dx 1 year ago
@new486dx
Okay if you think it would be a good idea, could you create one and I'll moderate it?
hokulani78 1 year ago
@hokulani78
Our forum website is almost done. I think it maybe online starting on saturday or sunday. gud luck to all of us.
new486dx 1 year ago
@new486dx
Okay thanks. Just message me privately when its done then we can work out things.
hokulani78 1 year ago
nice to see and remembrance our ancestor and history....
Love from java Indonesia.....home of austronesia....
God bless Us all austronesian...
ask2star 1 year ago
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AlizeTHB 1 year ago
@AlizeTHB Yea, I love my heritage, and our culture, but the shame is that few of us knows this...either they've never heard of it, or doesn't believe it. I was lucky enough to stumble upon hokulani's video, and learn the truth about my heritage as a polly and austronesian;)
Gille87 1 year ago
aloha my brother from Aotearoa just a maori brother learning his roots thank you for the educational video please do more:) jah bless to all my Austronesian people:) my love to all we are all god 3<
masscreation 1 year ago
Kia Ora and respect from Aotearoa (New Zealand)
punakesha 1 year ago
Thrilled to hear Samingad's song! Proud to be a native of Taiwan. Thank you.
P.S. the first photo of paiwan tribe is actually an Atayal woman with their unique facial tattoo. Atayal and its subtribes are the only tribes with facial tattoos in Taiwan :)
great video!
liria1985 1 year ago
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mikeokhurtz 1 year ago
@NirinaGasikara
oh in the ancient days yes. Some of it involved alcoholic beverage made from the 'awa or kava root. There were also ceremonies involving divination--trying to see the future.
hokulani78 1 year ago
@NirinaGasikara
Oh the feet part is the same for Hawaiians. Hawaiians before used to be very particular about feet, navels, and the crown on the head (the round spot where the hair grows out).
Also animal sacrifices (chicken, dogs, and certain types of fish) were also done around 4 to 5am when the sun first hits the tiki or totem of the temple. Funerals began when the sun was directly overhead. Night time was forbidden to do any "good work" since that was the time for black magic.
hokulani78 1 year ago
@NirinaGasikara
That is I think the same for most Austronesian languages and peoples--being indirect yet very poetic. For example, there's a lot of Hawaiian songs talking about vines crawling up cliffs and flowers blossoming with the rain but there is a double, more sensual, meaning. hehe.
hokulani78 1 year ago
@NirinaGasikara
well depends on what you mean by erotic. There aren't so much ki'i (tiki/totem) left anymore. Most of the remaining ones--many were destroyed due to Queen-Regent Ka'ahumanu who later became a devout Christian and saw those images as evil and had them burned along with the owners at times--are anatomically correct but not really in sexual positions except for showing the thighs. The thighs was a sexual part whereas the chest (for men or women) was not.
hokulani78 1 year ago
@NirinaGasikara
when you purify, do you use salt and sometimes tumeric (depending on the level of fady)?
hokulani78 1 year ago
@NirinaGasikara
Wow thanks for sharing. That North-South orientation is interesting and makes sense considering the Malagasy ancestors did come from the North-East. Hawaiians temples and burials are East-West orientation but the villages (kauhale) face North-South.
hokulani78 1 year ago
@NirinaGasikara
You have a god called Tany? We Hawaiians have a god called Kane and other Polynesians call him Tane. Kane is the sun god and for Hawaiians but for some Polynesians like the Maori he's associated with the ground.
hokulani78 1 year ago
@NirinaGasikara
proudtobepinoy1 said "people from Madagascar really look so much like us"
hokulani78 1 year ago
@NirinaGasikara
I understand that there are a lot of Malagasy there, as well as Chinese, Indians, Arabs and of course French. Those Malagasy and their descendants are definitely Austronesian just as Hawaiians in Nevada, Javanese in Brazil, and Filipinos in Qatar are still Austronesian but they are not in the traditional Austronesian lands.
hokulani78 1 year ago
the number 5-lima n 2-dua,lua,duha doesnt change much is a sign that all this people av the same origins,heck,most of the numbers do sound similar if you pronounce em carefully,
fmoa 1 year ago
5 is Lima or Rima across the board,
Ibalon2012 1 year ago
love your video... makes me proud of who i am everytime i watch it :-)
snowdusk715 1 year ago
@NirinaGasikara Aboriginal Meeting Song..(that's the title)..in Taiwanese Aborigene laguange ? Who Knows..??
lagodaxnian 1 year ago
Aloha from Ma'ili O'ahu...
DaHawaiian990 1 year ago
im confused
so i know im half philipino with australian
i recently asked my mum if shes half with anything. She said her mum was half spanish. So thefore she has spanish in her blood. Right?
so does that mean i have spanish in me to. like the smallest bit of spanish?
Greentoolify 1 year ago
@Greentoolify If what your mom says is true then yes you do have some Spanish blood in you.
ronaraullo 1 year ago
can someone tell me what is stock is the Australian aborigines and why arent they considered or apart of austronesia as the region depicted in the diagrams seems to go around australia
janson84 1 year ago
@janson84
They are not included because:
1. They are genetically different (Austronesians are genetically similar and probably originated somewhere in Asia; Aboriginals are genetically similar to each other and are related to Papuans, Melanesians, and distantly to Africans);
2. They have no linguistic ties with any Austronesian language;
3. A majority (note I said a majority) of Aboriginal nations have had no cultural ties to or influences from Austronesia;
Therefore they are not Austronesian.
hokulani78 1 year ago
@janson84 thats a really stupid question. One just needs to open there eyes. austronesians are brown, aborigines are black.
quanta3636 1 year ago
@janson84
Hi, I used to study history. This is kind of a short explanation. But this is why aborigines arent austronesian. There where 2 expanisions. The first expansion was about 30.000 years ago. Thats where the Negrito's, Papuans/Melanesian and Aborignes came from. The Austronesian expansion only came about 5.000 years ago maybe. Offcourse over time a lot mingled! But for example the aborigines look different, cause the austronesian expansion didnt reach them.
andanahu 1 year ago
I must the no. 4 in Polynesians yet alone all the numbers are VERY similar
janson84 1 year ago
Woah. I never had a degree of any UNDERSTANDING, about how much linguistic-political differences engaged in us all, as a culture. Great information video. I Feel the micronesian/malayo-polynesian/canoe love!!
deraAZ0 1 year ago
too bad theres no sense of pride in my country Indonesia, culturally and root...now we more midlle eastern wanna be....
aremania 1 year ago
im happy to found this video. it's a good info. i'm an avid paddler from the island of Bohol and Cebu Philippines. I always believe that we are an outrigger canoe people. Im a Filipino and just to be honestly speaking that i don't believe in the balangay and that they are using the basic navigation. they are using a a support engine small bout to take them safe for docking and coming out.
islandbuzz1 2 years ago
filipino race is austronesia and all of the island in oceana, micronesia melanesia, etc.
also indonesia, malasia, borneo is austronesia. dont be confused on that,
we are South East Asia be proud on that
playzgreek 2 years ago
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Gille87 2 years ago
@Gille87
The term "tribe" was only used by the Americans and later on adopted especially by Filipino-Americans. There is no word for "tribe" in most Philippine languages and tribes normally consists of kinship ex. Tagalogs, Visayans, etc are not bound by kinship.
However, the Philippines consisted of clans, sultanates, kingdoms, and chiefdoms composed of different ethnolinguistic groups prior to the Spanish. The term ethnolinguistic group is more appropriate than the term tribe.
hokulani78 2 years ago
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Gille87 2 years ago
Clans are families that have a direct ancestor and leadership is normally permanent to the most senior family member based on genealogy. Tribes are political units that do not have a fixed leadership (normally won through war or election). You can marry into a tribe or become adopted to a tribe but you can never be part of a clan unless you can prove a connection to that common ancestor or place.
hokulani78 2 years ago
As for language, yes its better to differentiate by language because there were several different political systems that existed in the Philippines prior to the Spanish. Some like the Tausugs have had a long political state whereas some like the Isneg are closer to a clan. The language grouping is better because all Filipinos are the same race and there was a lot of intermixing between groups. Ex. Lapulapu's father Tausug and possibly his mother was Boholana.
hokulani78 2 years ago
Iwi and Hapu in Aotearoa,
the larger Iwi Tribe was a mess, with opposing factions within the same Tribe.
Alliances were made through Rangatira of individual Hapu "sub-tribes" or High born chiefs representing a natural grouping of hapu. The Hapu were like clans with 1 common ancestor after which the hapu was named eg. Ngati(the many of) Tautahi (Ancestor) but these common ancestors also had a common ancestor after which the Iwi (Tribe) was named. eg. Nga(ti) Puhi.
Kia Ora. :)
DJRU2 2 years ago
..I think you're right. I don't think there are "tribes" in The Philippines originally, people don't express "tribal loyalty" to any tribe, but Filipinos are clannish. And, to add, Filipinos consider themselves a member of an ethnolinguistic group if the language of that certain group is their mother tongue (of course there are exceptions.) I, for example, consider myself a Tagalog because it is my first language, even tho my mother is a Waray and my dad a Karay-ah. Mabuhay Austronesia!
LakanTubol15 1 year ago
@LakanTubol15 Karay-a tatay mo? Nu ran imo ngaran TUBOL? Kun-i tatay mo.......... musta lang jan kana!
josephricafort 1 year ago
@josephricafort opo! Karay-ah po siya! (am sorry I don't speak the language...hahaha) I think you're asking why I picked up Tubol? nothing in mind really, I think it means "huge hard turd (sh**) right? I've been to his home town, Sibalom I think it was, at least thrice. he's got relatives scattered all over Bacolod, San Jose, San Rafael. You're from the province of Antique too?
LakanTubol15 1 year ago
i'ts amazing how the number 5- lima seems to be constant on all the different languages and dialect...it's so cool
alnvida 2 years ago
I have alway say to myself that I more islander or austronesian than asian. I tell white people that I'm asian they say you don't lool it. I'm filipino. asia is just a geography austronesian is a race. it sad that when people say asian they automatictly think people of chinese, japanese, korean decent. It sad that lots of filipino don't know their identity.
IsaneProductions 2 years ago
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Gille87 2 years ago
@IsaneProductions
Yeah for real. I think being Filipino means we are so many things at once. Ethnically we are Austronesian, Geographically we are Asian, and Culturally we are a blend of Malayo-Polynesian, Spanish, and East Asia. We are a truly beautiful people.
its hard trying to explain what you are to white folk because they think Asian is Chinese, Polynesian is Hawaii, and Spain is Mexico. so of course they get confused with the Filipino man. haha
rossybean 1 year ago
@rossybean well said;) maraming salamat po
Gille87 1 year ago
@IsaneProductions
Yeah for real. I think being Filipino means we are so many things at once. Ethnically we are Austronesian, Geographically we are Asian, and Culturally we are a blend of Malayo-Polynesian, Spanish, and East Asia. We are a truly beautiful people.
its hard trying to explain what you are to white folk because they think Asian is Chinese, Polynesian is Hawaii, and Spain is Mexico. so of course they get confused with the Filipino man. haha
rossybean 1 year ago
asyo22 2 years ago
This video gave me goosebumps.... so amazing! So, are filipinos technically should be Pacific Islanders? I am filipina and I've always thought I'm more Pacific Islanders than South East Asian... ;)
alnvida 2 years ago
we are both, cuz we are Austronesians filipina sista=) I don't know why many uses pacific islander, islander, or polly. Those terms are just to segregate, and divide us, not unite us...
Gille87 2 years ago
Thank you!!!! well all I know is we are beautiful Creatures.. maybe more so than others hehe.. lol I do appreciate your response. Salamat!
alnvida 2 years ago
@alnvida we mostly belong to austronesian people...that includes most of pacific islanders and southeast asian people.
kukurukuru21 2 years ago
This video seems very reliable. I see similarity in them. Maybe the influence from China and India has made Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines have vibrant cultures as in clothing, architecture, food spices etc. But basically, Austronesians are all one big race and I'm proud to be one of them from Indonesia!!