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Take away the face paint and she could pass for Lao, S. Chinese, Vietnamese, Hmong, Karen, Burmese, northern Thai.
Of course not all, but some Amazonian natives could pass for Asians, imo, although of course they're not EXACTLY THE SAME (genetically nor physically) but I would class them of the 'Mongoloid' type.
Take away the face paint and she could pass for Lao, S. Chinese, Vietnamese, Hmong, Karen, Burmese, northern Thai.
Of course not all, but some Amazonian natives could pass for Asians, imo, although of course they're not EXACTLY THE SAME (genetically nor physically) but I would class them of the 'Mongoloid' type.
OP, ALL of the native peoples of the Americas are classified as Mongoloid just thought you should know.
Thats mean debated. I would say they're definitely an offshoot of proto-Mongoloid, but like I said some Native Americans look closer to Asians than others. I think there might have been several waves over time, some fairly recent.
To non-Asians they could pass off as typical Asians, but an Asian could tell they are not Asian or a half-Asian like myself could tell they are not Asian lol.
To non-Asians they could pass off as typical Asians, but an Asian could tell they are not Asian or a half-Asian like myself could tell they are not Asian lol.
That's what I would say too. I'm Latin American and I can tell if they are from the Americas. There's a girl I work with who is Mayan, and maybe Postman would think she looks Southeast Asian (epicantric fold, low nose bridge, tanned skin), but I knew right away she was from southern Mexico. I asked her, in Spanish, and I was right.
There's a growing community of Southeast Asians in my area, and none of them could pass for indigenous American, and they range from Vietnam to Thailand to the Philippines.
Well of course in general, if you see many natives vs SE Asians, it'd be easy to tell them apart, but if I didn't know, I'd be damned if the first lady wasn't from like Vietnam or something, because I've BEEN to Vietnam and I see people that look almost exactly like her.
To non-Asians they could pass off as typical Asians, but an Asian could tell they are not Asian or a half-Asian like myself could tell they are not Asian lol.
Or a black person like myself who has seen both his whole life could also tell.
It depends on the tribe. There's a HUGE variety of types in SA, stemming from separate migrations from Asia, and there's some ancient proto-European admixture too, that's being sorted out, from Y-DNA haplogroup X. So if you compare the Amazonian tribes with the highland Quechua, you won't see any resemblance between the two, and you wouldn't see any resemblance between the Quechua and any Asians, either.
Well of course in general, if you see many natives vs SE Asians, it'd be easy to tell them apart, but if I didn't know, I'd be damned if the first lady wasn't from like Vietnam or something, because I've BEEN to Vietnam and I see people that look almost exactly like her.
Postman, not trying to be disrespectful as I do respect you but how many Native Americans have you seen?
Postman, not trying to be disrespectful as I do respect you but how many Native Americans have you seen?
That's the thing, her resemblance to a lot of Vietnamese.etc to me has nothing to do with how many native Americans I've seen.
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just thought you should know.
