The Japanese guy doesn't give me TW aborigines vibes but rather Yayoi mixed with Jomon.

The TW aborigine man looks rather northern for his latitude, and may pass as an atypical Northern Chinese or Japanese or maybe even Native South American (he reminds me a bit of Quechua people from certain angles)

I feel that TW aborigines could at times have some "northern" looks, which make them somewhat different from the Austronesian peoples in SE Asia as well as the Tai-Kradai peoples on the South China mainland, who almost never have such looks.

I'm not that familiar with northern Luzon Igorots/Ifugaos, but from the Filipino immigrants I've seen in Canada (there're many) most of them look more southern or more stereotypically SE Asian than the Atayal aborigine man in the other video and this flute guy.

This guy looks a bit like Native American, if you said he's native Peruvian I would believe it. And if I'm not mistaken the natives in Peru also have this type of flute. I've heard that during the colonial period the Spanish had brought some Aztecs and Incas to the Philippines, so it's possible that some Filipinos may indeed have Native American ancestry.

Could it be due to the fact that the Taiwanese aborigines and northern Luzon people have some Ancestral Coastal Ghost or Jomon-like components that are not shared by the Tai-Kradai and other Austronesians located further south and further to the west? Tai-Kradai people on the South China mainland, despite speaking an Austro-Tai language and being genetically rather similar to Austronesians (albeit a bit further western-shifted), don't give me any Native American or Jomon impressions, but look straightly SE Asian, like the ethnic Zhuang woman in this video:



Jarai people, Austronesian speakers living in Southern Vietnam and parts of Eastern Cambodia, thought to be the direct descendants of the ancient Chams, also don't give me any northern impressions





The Rhade or Ede people, another Chamic-speaking group living in the same area as the Jarai



The Dusun, an Austronesian people residing in northern Borneo, they and the Murut people share the rare C1b-F725 lineage with South Chinese Tai-Kradai groups



Murut people





Minangkabau people, their women's horn-shaped headdress is rather similar to Zhuang



I feel that Tai-Kradai groups of Far South China have more in common with these Western Austronesian groups than with the ones in Taiwan and Luzon.

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The speaker looks clearly "Sudsinid" even if he isn't specifically from Lingnan... I thought that was fairly obvious. 

In the video, he clearly references the Guangdong and Fujian diasporas in the Chinatowns of the US. He also includes examples of Overseas Chinese YouTubers he's watched to gain insights on the overseas-raised ethnic Chinese diaspora, like Fung Bros (both 1/2 Guangdong 1/2 Shandong ancestry), and CantoMando (2/3 members are recognizably Lingnan-looking heritage Cantonese speakers),

Hey MNOPs, wanna join a discord server that I made? It's about Asian anthro and it would be nice to have your perspective on there. Nara et al are on there already.

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thoughts on the taiwanese aborigines in this video? do any of them look FSC/Tai-kradai passing

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What's the difference between Eastern Chinese and Northern Chinese in terms of phenotypes? I heard ppl from Eastern China e.g. Jiangsu, Anhui, Shanghai, Zhejiang can overlap a lot with Northern Han and even Koreans and are predominantly descendants of historical Northern Chinese migrants?