Ah so...can it then be said rather than the Chinese in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia are migrants/children of immigrants, that they were/had in fact returned home. :) That the Chinese are actually...Malays...of sorts? Ah I just want to be myself, before the rest of me is further denied. Extract: What the new evidence seems to suggest is that Malays and Negritos both evolved together in Southeast Asia during prehistoric times. At that time, southern Southeast Asia was one large block of land which then broke up to form the Malay Archipelago following rises in sea levels three times from 14,000 to 8,000 years ago. (For a comprehensive account of the sea floods and its significance in the history of Southeast Asia, please refer to the book Eden in the East by Stephen Oppenheimer, 2001). Some of the people who arrived in Southeast Asia from Africa (about 60,000 to 80,000 years ago) did not stay in Southeast Asia long and moved on without going through the process of early differentiation in Southeast Asia. They became the aboriginal peoples of Papua New Guinea and Australia as we know them today. Some others continued moving northwards instead and they differentiated further and became Tibetans, Yuehs, Thais and others, and only much later did the Chinese, Koreans and Japanese emerge. In other words, human migration was from south to north, and not from north to south as suggested by the theories of the 1930s. Thus, the Chinese are, in fact, a distant sub-set of Southeast Asians, and not the other way round.
Posted on: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 07:32:35 +0000
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