What is Melanesia?
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Footage used from:
8 Days in Vanuatu CINEMATIC VLOG - Pavel Ivo Sedlacek
Becoming a man - Slice
Climbing the second-highest Mountain in Papua New Guinea - Mount Giluwe - Jerry Albaniel
Festivals of Papua New Guinea - Mike Van Gorkom
FIJI ISLANDS 2021 DRONE REEL - Pacific Media House
Solomon Islands from the air Munda Region - Pacific Islands - Tom Vierus
NEW CALEDONIA, Grande Terre Amazing Planet - Amazing Planet
PAPUA NEW GUINEA, one day in East New Britain - Bart Napierala
PAPUA NEW GUINEA, one day in New Ireland - Bart Napierala
Secrets of Melanesia - Conan Productions. UA-cam
Vaka Taumako Project - We, the Voyagers Trailer
Tanah Papua A Paradise for Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Natural Blondes with Dark Skin (SOLOMON ISLANDS) - Drew Binsky
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I love my Melanesia. ❤🇵🇬❤
Im Micronesian but my ancestors came from Fiji during the European era when they were colonizing the Pacific. My lastname is Polish/German & my blood is Melanesian(Fijian) & Micronesian(Chuukese/Pohnpeian/Marshallese & European)
Today i have NZ, Samoan & Australian families ❤️
I had a lot of Papuan friends during my college days in the Philippines! Some of the most friendly and fun people I had the pleasure of hanging out with!
God bless you ❤
Love to papua new guineans, bougainvilleans, solomon islander and more melanesian peoples! ♥️ one of the most beautiful colorful and diverse people of all time. They dont deserve those racial stereotypes of just being uncivilised islanders, considering all those islanders did was to defend their homeland. Love from turkey 🇹🇷
Rotuman Polynesian from 🇫🇯 Fiji. Love all my Melanesian Brothers and Sisters. ❤❤💯💯
#PASIFIKAUNITE
Bula vinaka from Suva! For a brief summary, that was really good :) Fun fact - Rotuma is made up of people whose ancestors were exiled from the Kingdom of Tonga.
Don't forget about us Maluku Islanders,East Timorese and East Nusa Tengarrans such as Flores Islanders and Sumba Islanders.
Wasn't it covered/shaded along in the map?
@@Remarema-we9qj No,it WASNT!🥲
@@Remarema-we9qj And it shouldnt have been out of ignorance!East Timor is a whole new nation and also a part of Melanesia just like West Papua and Maluku in Eastern Indonesia!
@@gpl992are you like a country on it's own ? Politically speaking
Are all 2 thousand islands habitable ??
In 1964 I served on a ship based out of Guam. Our routine voyages, patrolled Micronesia. One of our voyages took us to Rabaul, New Britain, giving me my first exposure to Melanesia and its people. My dad had been exposed to Melanesians in Fiji during WWII.
Was your father in Fiji during WW2 ?
@@waterboy.6001 Yes he was in Fiji while serving aboard the USS Raleigh CL-7.
@@Me2Lancer thank you ! 🇫🇯🇫🇯🇫🇯
I love my Melanesian people.
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Yes, I love you too from fiji 🇫🇯.
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Hello from fiji bless maluku from fijian
You're right on addressing the problem of the term from the start. Nowadays, there are many outside the 'traditional' boundaries of melanesia who identified as Melanesian. From the one that should've been recognized as Melanesian from the start, like Aru Islanders to a more or less recent development like the Flores and eastern Sumbawan.
If I ask friends and families, yes part of the reasons are colorism, religion, language, geographic vicinity, cultural, etc. But the unspoken one, the cassowary in the room, is the feeling of underrepresented. Specially in Indonesian politics.
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How about the Aborigines in Australia? Their appearance is the same as Melanesian
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@@WoBuXihuan they are totally different,the indigenous people of Australia mainland,is similar with polynesian ,not melanesian,and in the northern territory,the indigenous people is very similar to negrito people of Philippines.actually,cross the great barrier reef,maybe fraser island people have some appearance of melanesian.
@@xcusemefrench171.. Fiji is not a Lost Tribe.. sorry for that. Leave Fiji out
Our identity is non- negotiable
.proud islander 🇫🇯 ..
The Torres Strait is such a unique area of Melanesia, essentially bridging the gap between Papuans and Aboriginal Australians while also having strong Austronesian influences
The Natives of Papua New Guinea and the Aboriginals of Australia, r from the same place and ppl, all from ASIA, Eurasia Oceana to be exact! They have common ASIAN DNA!
@@teresafernandez9849there not from Asia they came out of Africa if I move to somewhere and then another place I'm me saying I'm from the place that left after I moved away from my original homeland does not make me from rhere
@@bobjacksom9776 Take ur argument to science and genealogists, they disagree with you! The ancient DNA studies have been done and verified, they are from ASIA!
Love the video.. proud Melanesian Solomon Islands 🇸🇧 ❤❤
The people of the islands of molocas are also Melanesians. We are West Melanesians
One people one ocean. !! God bless our brothers and sisters from the Pacific ❤
What a fantastic and clear breakdown! I can't wait to share this with my geography students.
Thank you very much! I hope it proves useful to your students!
Polynesia , Melanesia , Micronesia stand together 💯
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huh and what excatly would melanesia bring to the mix.. it only better melanesians dont itg@@hekalkal8111
@11 onme808 , with you Pacific fam🔥🇵🇬💯
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Thank you for sharing this informative summary of the region's geography and cultural traditions! This video is excellent for introducing students and anyone who wants to learn about the region.
Thank you so much as always! Hope this video may contribute to to helping students learn more about the Pacific.
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Outstanding work!
I can see a lot of work went into making this, very concise and informative. Thank you for sharring , loved it.
Love your content! 🌴🌞🌴
Thank you
This information was really interesting & helpful for me
Beautifully done! Thank you!
Thank you very much!
Great work brother
I am from North Wales and was surprised when my My Heritage DNA results showed trace Oceanic DNA, while my two cousins showed trace Melanesian DNA. My mother's brother and sister did/have facial features which hinted at a heritage outside Wales, and this has been confirmed by the family of the siblings my grandmother never knew. Her family were Master Mariners from Pembrokeshire called Gronow/Gronwy/Grono. They were from the same village as John Grono but I have no evidence to link us to him. I would love to understand if and how I might have Melanesian ancestry and whether one of my ancestors came from Melanesia to Wales.
welsh ppl have afro hair’ it makes sense
Bore da/Bula 🏴 🇫🇯
As a Fijian,we love the welsh.They are our favorite brits except for Rugby.You welcome to the part of melanesian family😂
@@sonnyboytaukamo399not all welsh people but this person in particular has melanesian dna
My dad 🇬🇧 Married Mum 🇵🇬 and here I am... 🫡✌️❣️🏳️🌈🇬🇧
Very interesting and thank you for the videos. Regards from Vanuatu 🇻🇺 😊
I’m so thankful I found your channel-this is such accessible and great public work. Vinaka from a diasporic Fijian.
TYSM this helped my report
for our school project
God bless to all my black brother's and sister's 👍
Great video. Very informative 👍
Thanks!
We often here it said in Polynesia , the great ocean of Kiwa does not divide us it brings us together. The great navigator Papa Mau Pialug of Satawal in Micronesia is testament to that who said, we are all of the ocean we are the same people. The lay lines, the boundaries are western concepts.
However, we can use it as is shown here to be markers for geographical reason and more.
Much like my Maori People of Aotearoa New Zealand. We identify first and foremost with our tribal identities. Maori is an identity which was introduce by European. Geneology is important to Maori, we can trace ourselves back to Polynesia and thus further back to the Indonesian areas.
As I mentioned Te moananui a kwia does not seperate us but joins us together. Noho ora mai aku iwi o te moananui a Kiwa (be well my peoples of the great ocean of Kiwa).
what are you talking about ratomuans and tongans back then were quite racists in terms of keeping the polynesian blood strong// and why they only desire to marry samoan woman
long distant cuzin from phillippines ❤
Proud fijian and proud Melanesian..Fiji is the Heart of Melanesia.. together with our Melanesian Brothers and Sisters we are one Family ❤. We believed that the Original Lapita Pottery people were the Fijians themselves Only...from there it went all Through out the Regions.. to Asia..png..to Polynesia and Micronesia...
Love the video. Papua Love. ❤
Bula from fiji 🇫🇯 🌴
Thank you so much for taking the time to curate this video and break down the historial, geographic and cultural aspects of the different regions in Oceania. This video is very informative and very important. We need more media that focuses on the other regions, especially Melanesia, because for far too long mainstream media has only focused on Polynesian culture. I really want to see media that focuses on Melanesian culture!
Thank you PulanSpeaks for creating this... love From Melanesia
Si Yu'os ma'åse'! (Thank you!)
Saya dari west papua, tapi sekarang saya hidup di Marshall island
As a native Papuan I want to say that white and yellow skinned people have destroyed us black people on the island of New Guinea by dividing us into two different countries. making us forget where our ancestors actually came from and losing our identity as indigenous people. .Most young people on the island of New Guinea today do not know and do not want to know where their ancestors came from
I've always thought you're from Africa....
A COLONIAL STYLED TACTICS, STRATEGIES AND TRICKS USED AGAINST MELANATED PEOPLE GLOBALLY DEFINITELY IN AMERICA PRESENT DAY WITH THE HELP FROM THE COMPROMISED AMONGST OUR OWN.
I'm Polish but some of my ancestors were from French colony of the Reunion Island🇫🇷🇷🇪 They were enslaved Papuans sold to the French by the Indonesians..
@@debathor9346 Wow such an interesting mix
are you that dumb.. lol you saying you no longer look melanesians lol
our ancestors tell us of our life coming from lake tangayika’
Good to hear , welcome back Africa, Tanzania-Tanganyika
Saya bangga dan senang kalau saya disebut mekanesian... walaupun secara fisik 90% sya tdk terlihat seperti Melanesian asli..rambut saya tdk bisa berbohong kalau saya pasti campuran Melanesian 😂 saya orang Flores Manggarai..
I'm half Hawaiian and half white. My relatives are tough dealing with saltwater and crocodiles and sharks. I could do it I grew very modern. Lots of respect to them.
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MALUKU MELANESIA BARAT ❤
Cushites - Egypt- Rufiji Tanganyika Island pacific Fiji
Beautiful people
Nice 👍
God bless your people in peace beyond understanding.
New boundary line shoud be drawn to include other melanesian islands that are currently not in the region.
Yes!Like the West Melanesians of Maluku,East Nusa Tengarra,and East Timor!
Yes!Like the West Melanesians of Maluku,Timor Leste,and East Nusa Tengarra!
Yes!Like the West Melanesians of Maluku,Timor Leste,and East Nusa Tengarra!
We Melenesians, Polynesians and Micronesians , are one, they cannot separate us. Our Ancestors where first sea nevigators in the entire world, they traveled the entire Pacific ocean about 90 to 100 000 years ago
Håfa adai!
THANK YOU. for. EDUCATING me about my. ANCESTORS.....OBRIGADO..
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Mapia is part of Micronesia. It was an outlier until many of its inhabitants were already speaking the Indonesian language of Bahasa. The last speaker died in 1990.
100% melanesian
Every map I’ve seen of Melanesia only go far west as Papua New Guinea, but Maluku and NTT count themselves as Melanesian. Where does it end and where does it begin?
Maluku and East Timor is Melanesian too.
@@gpl992 melanesian primitive person 🤣
We are literally in the Melanesian Spearhead Group and it's well known in the Genetic circles.
My old Moluccan Ancestry DNA results heavy with Melanesian and even Polynesian ancestry.Take in mind that I'm also only HALF Moluccan with still this much Melanesian and even Polynesian ancestry.
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It is a divide with the Australasia plate and basically ends left of the Wallacea line. So Maluku, Timor Leste, NTT are all part of West Melanesia and have also the first true polynesian genome - which is paternal Melanesian and maternal Malayo-Polynesian. Moluccas is basically the missing link between Melanesia and Polynesia (including Madagascar).
I found out I was Melanesian. I test 50% Ethiopian Jew, 15% Yemenite Jew. Never would have guessed.
Me too!! 😮
That's crazy. I'm trying to wrap my brain on how that would have come about?. Although, very interesting to learn that.
@@mmiller8373 I didn't understand what you mean?
@@baemon_haya You good but let me rephrase it. Do you have any idea how you would have 35% melanesian in you?. Do you know of one of your ancestors who was melanesian?. Also, were you born and raised in Ethiopia?.
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I only have 0.8% Melanesian.. I think I have Ethiopian roots because my father is black
They're Beautiful
Filipinos negritos aeta are melanesian they are the original Filipinos who lived in the Philippines there the most beautiful out of all the melanesian there just short they speak Filipino and cook our food the Filipinos negritos aeta or ati are scattered to our beautiful islands
I don't know why they are separated from under the Melanesian group.
How about the Aborigines in Australia? Their appearance is the same as Melanesian
@@WoBuXihuan They're Melanesian race no such thing as Aboriginal race, Aboriginal means indeginous/native.
@@WoBuXihuan yes they dont have afro they tend to look like native indian from America
@@kidmanila2160 They are genetically related to Melanesians we have the same ancestors, and not all Melanesians have kinky hair, some have straight hair and light skinned tone.
05:55 what the flag at Tores Strait ?
The 45 might have been a typo my thumb slipped but .❤
1st century cushites from Ethiopia settle in Tanganyika Rufiji river
10th century AD about this time the fable of fijian from Tanganyika
( Chronological History man in Tanganyika)
I love Melanesia ❤
Our identity is your languages and spiritual beliefs
East Nusa and Maluku and Timor and some bits of west Nusa and Sulawesi are also Melanesian
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The slave trade took place in all of Indo China.
Keep in mind Black means multiracials of colour hence the word Sorte.
They originated in New Zealand and Papua New Guinea and known in the Amerikas as the Amerindians.👍
Kanaks, Southerners, Canadians, Oregonians, Seminoles, Maroons, Dark Reds, ,,,
Melanesian in Indonesia,is people of Ntt provincy(Timor island),Maluku provincy,and Papua Indonesia provincy.all this is Melanesian from Indonesian.you now
What about timor? I thouht the natives were closer to the papuans. If it werent occupied by indonesians would it be considered part of melanesia?
I did a genetic study and they showed me all the percentages that my genetics or blood type study percentages were and what and where they matched up too, and I was surprised! But then they changed the main areas 3 or 4 times, so who knows what was real about their study, but I have a feeling that the first one made the most sense. I have B Positive blood type and they said my highest percentages matched in the Indian areas and then some had African heritages like Mealanisia, Micronesia, Polynesia areas and the Asian areas were high on the chart as well, but not as high as the Indian areas. I was showed small amounts from some areas that I thought would have been higher, but obviously my blood type changed my thoughts about all of this. I found it to be very interesting!! I live in the US but neither of my grandparents' parents were born here, they all came here from somewhere else.
Micronesia, Malanisia and Polynesia r not in Africa, they are also all in Asia!
Huh? I stopped reading at “African”. Come correct love
Black people for the most part are found all over planet. Even the original tribes in the Americas where black and some of us are still here and some of us are indigenous and don't know. Shouts out to the Saponi Nation in NC, Cherokees of NC/Alabama and the Coharie people of NC and lastly the Fula people of Senegal. It's in my blood.
Yes. "Indigenous and don't even know "
There is a 4th one Australasia
My mom is and grew up in Papua Indonesia, her story is similar but a bit different from what she heard from other local stories. She had told me that where she came from, Papua Indonesia, the “white man” provided jobs and was at peace, but when they left “black” islanders started getting enslaved ect by the more Asian looking Indonesiens. From what I’ve hear and seen, even to this day the separation between the two looks still provides many problems. 😢
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Same thing actually happened to us Ambonese and South Maluku.They literally called us "Black Dutch".
I'm from Totoya Fiji or Fijian
Vanuatu 🇻🇺 here and I still have African DNA in me.
That is false
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That's a lie 😭 melanesians don't have African dna
Not all Asian are the same white brown native African. Why can’t we just say Al Melanesian came from motherland aborigines Australia. Melanesian are black but different black from Africa.
I agree they can’t seem to get away from skin complexion but if you say all races with straight are the same they will feel mad so I understand what you mean we all not the same because I share melanin skin but I know these aren’t my people at all
Melanesians and Aborigines are the most genetically distant peoples from Africans because their ancestors were the first to leave Africa about 70000 years ago.
That means that Europeans are more closely related to Africans because their ancestors left Africa only about 40000 years ago.
Skin colour only indicates the different latitudes where people have adapted to different solar intensities, so has nothing to do with how much different peoples are related to each other.
We Melanesians aren't Asian, Asians came after us, we were here first.
You right bro
@Nagin-zt6sc Didn't I say that in one of my previous comments, Papuan + Austronesian (Asian) = Melanesian, Polynesian, Micronesian? The first inhabitants of South East Asia were Papuans. You can still find a small group of Melanesians in Malaysia, Philippines and apart from West Papuans in Indonesia, there are other groups of Melanesians in Indonesia. East Timor is part Melanesia also.
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I'm from the Admiralty islands in the Bismarck archipelago. Why some Admiralty Islanders are light brown skin and soft hairs though they are Melanesians?
What is the difference between Melanesian and Papuans.
Soundtrack please🧐
Papua New Guinea (Rave) soundtrack 1980s 🫡✌️❣️🇵🇬🇬🇧
Shout-out to Melanesia for not allowing the Europeans to come and conquer. Much respect. Something Africa couldn't even do.
That was a highly unnecessary and honestly just racist comment about Africa. Africa did not need to be mentioned, and you need to evelaute what you were even trying to do by brining Africa up, because it is clear you are trying to belittle Africans, even if you yourself didn’t realize that’s what you were doing.
@@virginia9820I’m black & they told the truth
@@vmlksm9 thank you, from one blk person to another.. @virginia9820 It wasn't racist because I didn't say anything negative about them as a people. I spoke on their DEFENSE towards the Europeans. I chose to bring them up as a comparison to make people THINK. But some people are already aware of some of the truth that Africans were sold by Africans. Take it how you want
Not really lots of blackbirding slaves taken to aust and samoa@@vmlksm9
Instead of placing blame on Africans, instead place blame on the European settlers that *didn't need* to colonize and enslave millions of Africans just because of their superiority complex. 🙄 And let's not forget that Africa had royals and warriors that fought back fiercely to protect their land. Africans didn't just let it happen, but history seldom ever wants to talk about the Africans that fought back.
I want to visit this place. I don’t know if they call themselves like how Black Americans do
"islet" is pronounced more like "eye-let"
Thanks for this! Mistakes like these frustrate me like no other. I hope you still enjoyed the video.
DON'T forget Australia is also a part of the Melanesia no matter what
Ummm...no
What do u mean No?? Native Australians are is black asf
They stole black owned land and claimed they were natives.
It's illegal to be gay and Melanesian
Tonga mix melanesian and polyester
You forget the moluccan islands. Like our brothers and sisters from papua our islands are politically a region of indonesia. That part of melanesia is now Indonesia. Its Indonesia because that used to be a dutch colony. And after the independence of the dutch indonesia was its own state. But culturally the moluccan islands are like the melanesians. Maluku & papua merdeka ✊🏾💙🤍💚❤️❤️❤️✊🏾
I have Melanesian DNA and Polynesian in Hawaiian DNA.
The American Democratic Mercantilist Empire formed another grouping, based in the Bikini Atoll, called “Amnesia” because they would rather the world forget what they did there.
I didn’t know what or where Melanesia was until I done a DNA 🧬 test from MyHeritage 🤦🏿♂️
They were Malaysian until the ocean weather in their travel made them darker.
All Polynesian from Filipino Taiwan
a Melon🥝
Genuinely beautiful. Looking at least, idk the culture
MELANATED ISLANDS✊🏿💎
PALEPER NEANDERTALBINO exonymic labeling is a colonial Darwinazi imposition.
Papua New Guinea*
Free west Papua
Melanesians are not uncivilized or bad people. We are black, and we are happy and accepted who we are. Agriculture began on Melanesia and we domesticated animals. The cannibalism practice that was practiced on Melanesian islands are our rituals, to kill people, eat them and gain supernatural powers, adding superiority to our societies. Its a ritual that must be performed to keep our society strong and powerful.