NE Asians Closer to SE Asians Than They Are to Caucasians

Click to enlarge.This chart clearly shows that NE Asians are closer to SE Asians than they are to Caucasians.

It was commonly quoted on Internet sites and forums that the distance between NE Asians and SE Asians is so great that NE Asians are closer to Caucasians than they are to their SE Asian brethren. Hence I quoted that in a few of my articles on race.

However, some Asians stopped by in the comments to set me straight, and continue to do so. Some linked to good evidence showing that what I said was wrong. Sure, there is quite a bit of difference between NE Asians and SE Asians, but NE Asians are closer to SE Asians than they are to Caucasians. This stands to reason of course and seems commonsensical.

In general, with a few exceptions, all NE and SE Asians are members of the Mongoloid race. A common NE Asian slander against SE Asians is that SE Asians are Australoids. Not that there’s anything wrong with being an Australoid, but it’s just not true. All SE Asians with the exception of Negritos, the Senoi of Thailand and some Melanesians in eastern Indonesia are members of the Mongoloid race. All NE Asians with the exception of the Ainu are members of the Mongoloid race also.

The truth is that both NE and SE Asians underwent a transition from Australoid to Mongoloid. Before 9,000 YBP, all Asians were Australoids. Around 9,000 YBP, the transition from Australoid to Mongoloid took place in NE Asia. The same transition occurred much later in SE Asia. It was not complete until ~2,200 YBP in Vietnam. Some SE Asians, notably Indonesians, although members of the Mongoloid race, retain some Australoid features from an earlier era.

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Filed under Ainu, Anthropology, Asians, Indonesians, Negritos, Northeast Asians, Physical, Race/Ethnicity, SE Asians

10 Responses to NE Asians Closer to SE Asians Than They Are to Caucasians

  1. Xera

    Oh shit!!!!!!! Great News!!! To think that Chingooks would ever DAAARE to consider themselves a white related master race when everything says otherwise and I have been that drum for a long time!!! Goddamn Chingooks will always be insecure white-wannabe’s, CHEERS HUAX and all those fag Asians desperate for the white pussy and treat left-over white girls as accomplishments.

    • joe

      stop harassing east asians,i am white mediterranean and i give thanks to east asians for many things:thanks to them for my lg cell phone(korean brand),my hyundai car (korean brand) and most of all,for kpop,korean drama and anime;what have done your middle eastern,indian race or whatever?i dont have any thanks to you and you are even annoying,you are a failed person,sorry

  2. mott 69

    Of course, we all still know that Caucasians are really just Asians…albeit w/ much, much bigger Caucs!

    Sorry- too easy…

    And yeah, I’m speakin’ for myself. I know, here comes Huax…ohhh nooooo!

  3. But you do still count them as two of the major races? Or are you revising it?

    I thought they were the same race til I saw genetic distance data.

  4. anung97

    Hi Robert,

    Do you have any data about Melanesians? My opinion is they should be closer to Western Indonesians (i.e. Austronesian) than to any other group. Is this correct?

    • No one really knows. On some charts, they just line up with other Oceanians such as Polynesians and Micronesians and on other charts, they line up with in a sort of an Australoid race of some sorts.

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