ANSWER: The racial label "Black People" is mostly used by North Americans, Spanish, Italians, French, and British (A western European label). Black is not an actual people or traditional culture and Polynesians have no involvement in its continued use as a racial indicator. The ethnic questions of "Are Polynesians part black" came to be from the usual small-town, untraveled people, who are uneducated in the wide range diversity and Geography of Greater South, Southeast, and East Asia who in their mind picture all Asians as short, brown or yellow, small, and squinted.
The regions of India, Southeast Asia, and the Middle-east are considered Asian who also have dark skin-tones. Polynesians are considered a Mongolic breed of Austronesian, or an Indo-Mongolic, having links to Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia and East Asia. Most foreigners to the region completely over-look the Malayo-Polynesians in Indonesia being just west of Samoa with a population of over 290 million people. The Malay-Indonesian islands alone are equal in population to the United States. Put together with Polynesia, the Philippines, the Malayo-Polynesian Pacific Islanders population out numbers Canada, Australia, and the United States combined.
- Indonesia Pacific Islander Population: 290-300 Million
- Micronesia Pacific Islander Population: 200,000 thousand
- Polynesian Pacific Islander Population 1,500,000 Million (as of 2020)
- Malaysia Population: 30.9 Million
- Thailand Population: 78-100 Million
- Cambodia Population: 16-25 Million
- South China Population: 200-500 Million
- Philippines Population: 104-120 Million
- Laos Population: 10 Million
- Myanmar Population: 51.4-65 Million
- Vietnam Population: 100-105 Million
Indonesian-Malyunesia Bali children
Polynesia - Samoan children
Public Comments about the Topic
"The Malay-Polynesians are the Indonesians (Malayunesians). They are the same as the Polynesians, Filipinos, Micronesians, Laos, Thais, Cambodians, Maori, Samoans, and Southern Chinese. The Malayo-Polynesian Austronesians are the oldest in Asia. That makes them the first Asians of Southeast Asia and East Asia and the founders of Northeast Asia and Central Asia"
"Its funny to be US. American all you have to do is be a citizen. Melanesians have been in the Asia Pacific for thousands of years so are they just never going to be considered Asian Pacifican over their skin-tone?"
"Blacks who call anyone who looks like them, black as well, may use it to gang up on people, and white people too, some use Colonial History to gang up on any foreigner including blacks. Very countrified and very childish. By misleading your own identity you lose your own culture. Many western Scottish who say they're white can't recite a single Scottish custom. The same is true for African Americans who claim to be black are usually not at all in tune with actual African traditions"
"Polynesians are an ocean fairing people 3000 years in the Asia-Polynesia pacific stop already with the nonsense"
"This is not a good way to keep good relations with Polynesians. Racism in the West is so bad that the African Americans, Mexicans, and Whites, just recruit anyone they think is their ethnicity"
Melanesians and Western Black people
The area Melanesia which includes Fiji are not "Black" people either. Melanesia is as far from African as one can get on the planet. Genetically the Melanesians are another people of Asian-Pacific Islander, being that they've been settled in the Asia Pacific for over 35,000 years and have a very unique genetic make-up. The Genetic Data on Melanesia with a great many other genetic studies of Melanesian Blonde Hair, has more than confirmed simple time tables in the Asia Pacific, showing rampant sea voyaging before European encounters. The Fijian people have a complicated Polynesian-Melanesian History (the crossroads of Melanesia and Polynesia) and are a proud culture that do not like their history mixed with foreign politics.
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