Are fillipino people Black?

[jsnowpro]

Supposedly many africans had migrated east back in the day, it's very possible that those people were survived by later generations.

But judging off the pic, I'd call them black.

they were survived by the polynesians, east asians, dravidians ...

of course over time their appearances changed. some changes were drastic (extremely light skin). some not so much (^ negritos in the phillipines) and for some it became a mish mash of phenotypes.

 

[High Revolutionary]

ummm, do people not understand how skin color works yet?

if you live in a climate with a lot of sun, over time you will get dark(er) skin. and the filipines is a climate with a lot of sun. this is the same reason you'll see people from india, bangladesh, cambodia, thailand, etc, with drake skin

it doesn't mean they're "black." well black people have black skin because we come from africa which also has a hot climate

Aren't you from Africa? How come you're not dark?

buy a plane ticket homie

The point is, if we are to go by the American criteria that 'black' equals anyone with African genetics then some of the people in the pic are just as black as she is.

 

[fuc_i_look_like]

@ harlem hustla

I thought OP was seriously asking if they were Black as in Black Americans. I've seen so many retarded questions posted on this forum, i don't know if niggas are fuckin around or being dead ass.

 

[Allah_U_Akbar]

Dumbest question in IC history. No they ain't Black, just tanned Asians. TBH, most would be highly offended/disgusted if you confused them as Black. I grew up round a lot of them and they tend to only fuck with other Fillipinos.

Stop it, Bruh.. Black people are EVERYWHERE. Yeah, the thread title is kinda silly, considering the fact that there are many types of people on the Philippine islands... But, some of the earliest inhabitants of the Philippines were Black and they still exist there..

^^^Black man from the Philippines^^^

So, to answer the threadstarter's question, Yeah, SOME Filipinos are Black.

 

[harlem hustla]

Heres a video of some negritos or aeta people, If you pay attention to the video some of the kids look like regular black americans nd some look like str8 asians. But they're all considered negritos
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[harlem hustla]

whats african tho white people decided africa's borders.

 

[Allah_U_Akbar]

Many Filipinos are the descendants of Africans, just like Black Americans.

 

[jsnowpro]

Many Filipinos are the descendants of Africans, just like Black Americans.

it's not the same. blacks in the new world came here recently and their heritage isn't just west african bantu, there's european and native american admixture.

the ancestors of the filipinos and basically everybody else in asia left africa a long time ago (30-20 thousand years ago) and we don't even know what the conventional 'african' looked like in those days. it could be that the whole continent might have been populated with curly haired, bushmen with asian looking eyes (who none of you would say is 'African')

people have always been on the move and appearance / language / customs have never stayed static for any significant length of time.

 

[Cabana_Da_Don]

Oh they look black to me anyone saying that's a tan is fucking out there mind.

 

[G Mack]

There not your typical European washed Filipino.....more then likely a small indengenous minority in the same family/group as the aboriginies...you see them all over the Asian pacific ....

 

[The Lonious Monk]

ummm, do people not understand how skin color works yet?

if you live in a climate with a lot of sun, over time you will get dark(er) skin. and the filipines is a climate with a lot of sun. this is the same reason you'll see people from india, bangladesh, cambodia, thailand, etc, with drake skin

it doesn't mean they're "black." well black people have black skin because we come from africa which also has a hot climate

lol this is backwards as a mutha fucker. You think these people were light and turned dark because of the climate? Remember prevailing archaeological theories are that people originated in Africa and spread out. So it's much more likely that these people were already black and didn't change as others did. That said, the deserts in the middle east are hot as hell and most Arabs aren't that dark, so you might want to rethink your theory here.

 

[Rahlow]

Damn, I always thought it was common knowledge that fillipino's had negrito's (blacks). Plenty live out here in parts of Cali.

Dude from Black Eye Peas is Fillipino... name is Apl De Ap or some shit

 

[d.green]

Love dark asian women

 

[kzzl]

I've often felt that black pretty much refers to US slaves far as the international community is concerned. They hear a reference to black people and think Tupac. Or Kudjoe or some shit. The perception of black people is fucked up in our own country. Imagine some place 10 years behind, just catching on to the use of modems. I met a Philippian (typical looking Asian) a few years ago and dude told me his village just started wearing "regular" underwear when he was 13. They just started getting running water right before he left from there. He was like 20 something when I met him.

He pulled a black chick dark as night and fine as wine from my class. Wifed her up too. Third world or not.

This shit is interesting, if I see him again I'll have to ask him about it.

 

[ocelot]

Yep... The original philipinos and Australians were dark skinned... Then white people messed it up

 

[Will Munny]

I think they are the asian mixed with the native peoples of mexico and central america. Asian and Hispanic.

 

[Kushington]

Negritos

 

[Lurker6]

ummm, do people not understand how skin color works yet?

if you live in a climate with a lot of sun, over time you will get dark(er) skin. and the filipines is a climate with a lot of sun. this is the same reason you'll see people from india, bangladesh, cambodia, thailand, etc, with drake skin

it doesn't mean they're "black." well black people have black skin because we come from africa which also has a hot climate

Aren't you from Africa? How come you're not dark?

because skin colour is a range. i have siblings that are darker than me and some lighter.

What about him? Is he black?

What about him? Is he black?

look like nigga hair to me so yea

 

[The Lonious Monk]

ummm, do people not understand how skin color works yet?

if you live in a climate with a lot of sun, over time you will get dark(er) skin. and the filipines is a climate with a lot of sun. this is the same reason you'll see people from india, bangladesh, cambodia, thailand, etc, with drake skin

it doesn't mean they're "black." well black people have black skin because we come from africa which also has a hot climate

lol this is backwards as a mutha fucker. You think these people were light and turned dark because of the climate? Remember prevailing archaeological theories are that people originated in Africa and spread out. So it's much more likely that these people were already black and didn't change as others did. That said, the deserts in the middle east are hot as hell and most Arabs aren't that dark, so you might want to rethink your theory here.

you're only talking about humans, i'm going back way further.

throughout evolution, our ancestors slowly lost the body hair we have in common with great apes. our earliest hominid ancestors had fair skin just like chimps. about 4 million years ago, hominids moved down from the rain forest and onto the savanna, which meant they had to work harder for food and were exposed to the sun more.

but hairless skin is much more susceptible to sun damage. it was long thought that our ancestors evolved melanin as a method to absorb/disperse harmful ultraviolet light, but the affects of UV light (ie cancer) are not felt until later in life after they reproduced. it's now been found that UV light has a drastic effect on folate, an hour of sun can cut the folate in your body by a half if you are light.

folate is also very important in embryonic development (low folate levels during pregnancy can result in anencephaly and spina bifida), therefore coupled with random mutations, through natural selection, ancestors developed darker skin, which kept the uv light from robbing their bodies of folate, and were more likely to pass on their genes plus have healthy offspring.

lol @ trying to bring australopithecine into a thread where someone is expressing surprise over blacks being in the Phillipines.

The fact is you said these people had dark skin because they lived in warm climates and not because they are "black" or African. Again, by current anthropological theories, those people are black due to the fact that they are descended from the Africans that migrated through that way, and have maintained their high melanin count as well as some other genetic factors they share with Africans. Of course they've lived out of Africa for so long, they it would be incorrect to call them African, but what do you mean they aren't black? A lot of the people in the Pacific Islands are as dark as any African. If that's not Black what is?

And again, if their blackness was just about being in a warm climate then all the Arabs in the desert would be black and all the natives in equatorial South America would be black too.

 

[Will Munny]

dispure me you anonymous no-signing faggot.