Asian people with mixed racial heritages are called Hapa

[neggo]

Originally Posted by Matlock

So, would Filipino count as hapa? I think most if not all Filipinos are decendants of mixed origin. My mother's family (Filipino) has Filipino, Chinese, Spanish, and Italian origins.

I hear that originally Filipinos were very dark skinned, almost black. But that could just be a myth.
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An interesting thing to note is that these "Negritos" were all over Southeast Asia prior to the influx of an "Asian" wave of peoples that came from the mainland or from around the Malay Archipelago.

In the Philippines, these Negritos are primarily known as "Ati" or "Aeta", "Semang" in Malaysia and "Mani" in Thailand.

Population-wise, they are quite small in number present day but they do, indeed, exist.

[spideyv2]

Originally Posted by neggo

An interesting thing to note is that these "Negritos" were all over Southeast Asia prior to the influx of an "Asian" wave of peoples that came from the mainland or from around the Malay Archipelago.

In the Philippines, these Negritos are primarily known as "Ati" or "Aeta", "Semang" in Malaysia and "Mani" in Thailand.

Population-wise, they are quite small in number present day but they do, indeed, exist.

they are similar to the melanesian people of papua new guinea, fiji, vanuatu etc

[minoru_tanaka]

Originally Posted by neggo

An interesting thing to note is that these "Negritos" were all over Southeast Asia prior to the influx of an "Asian" wave of peoples that came from the mainland or from around the Malay Archipelago.

Just want to add, asians are probably descended from negritos. We just changed once we moved north and then back south. There's black people still in southern Asia. eg Sentinelese people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia