Comments by "xXxSkyViperxXx" (@xXxSkyViperxXx) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1.  @SlimjimMK11  ah yes, u know very well the filipino behavior and the inferiority complexes and fatalisms and silly insta-doom panic-attacks
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  2. legacy of the iberian masters
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  3. both philippines and vietnam actually are a bit hush hush on the true numbers of their ethnic and mixed chinese populations since ph for example, does not actually ever take any ethnic-based census and most mixed and pure/majority ethnic chinese filipino mostly primarily speak english and tagalog and/or their respective dominant regional language and most often identify as just filipino anyways, not like any official body ever asks anything but your citizenship anyways. in reality, nat geo made a genographic study last 2005 and they found that around 36% of the average filipino genepool has east asian components,... which historically points to none other than colonial-era mestizo de sangley and modern-day chinese filipinos
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  4. we need to utilize the nickel ore abundance in the philippines to supply the growing electric vehicle market, thenwe can make electronic vehicles industries in the philippines and have more jobs for everyone to be rich
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  5.  @nvelsen1975  maids and family drivers working 7 days a week, living with the family with only maybe one day-off break per month in the philippines among upper middle class and upper class filipino families is a norm that ive grew up with
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  6.  @himanshusingh5214  what does religion have to do with that???
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  7. ​ @omniyambot9876  probably, cuz these landlords in the philippines. the practice started with "hacienderos", who were first started by spaniards setting up farming estate hacienda plantations for the king of spain. when those spaniards died, they simply bequeathed their lands to the friar orders who let some mestizo families be their inquilino tenant families running the affairs of those hacienda estates. when the philippine revolution came, some of the abusive spanish and italian friars were murdered and eventually when the americans came to conquer, they gave the friar lands away to the people, that being the inquilino tenant families who had a lot of influence already and so officially started their legitimate being as the real landlords now. the national hero himself, his parents up to his great grandfather were also simply inquilino tenants running a farming estate under the friars who later kicked out his father when he was young.
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  8. it is because many are assimilated in thailand and identify as thai. in philippines and vietnam, this is the same case. many chinese descendants identify as simply filipino or kinh vietnamese
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  9. Cukong is pronounced like Chukong/Tsukong. the letter C in Indonesian was inherited from the Dutch. they use that letter for like CH sound
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  10. i wish my country can follow on the footsteps of the korean shipbuilding industry. my country is also an archipelagic country surrounded by water on all sides. the infrastructure issues or the lack of infrastructure are also due to the difficult geography
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  11. australia when viewed coming from the north is an utter wasteland. the austronesians follow to settle land on tropical island paradises they find. if the austronesians in new zealand had more time to further continue exploring, they would sooner or later find that the southern parts of australia were more welcoming for human settlement, but the british already made landfall before that happened
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  12. ​ @SlimjimMK11  yes, i myself am not of the usual ethnic groups that people imagine when they think of "Filipino" but born and raised Filipino, but throughout the repeated years, it is a frequently observed behavior of many other filipinos to react to situations with just either "Paniccc", blaming, complain, run to another country cuz huh pilipinz bad, complain some more to everyone in the world pilipinz bad cuz huh have someone else help us cuz huh helping each right thing huh then no no you help, me run away, then next guy, no i run away too + insult own house like an entitled guest in their own house. point out this and that bad to them, "moar panicccc", more blame/complain/run-away. in a way, certain migrant ethnic groups in the philippines are able to be successful without these behaviors, but then reveal that to the usual "native" ethnic groups and their reaction "moar panicccc", "protect self, copy foreign racist mindset", "complain and insist have other succesful removed cuz haha blame you you you corrupt privileged", "gov always corrupt dont'yu know", then "aaaah powerless", "instant-doom", "give up", "run away", "country bad, moar complain". haaaay these kinds of filipinos, might as well good riddance. and then, when they come back to something good and fixed by someone else, "oh cri, iz a miracle, we (i) have hope".... eh no wonder, other minority ethnic groups in the country leads in various sectors instead.
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  13. the northern and southern han chinese do have differences but not in the way you described. the southern han aren't just cantonese. there's many groups within southern han like hokkien, hakka, teochew, hokchew, hinghwa, cantonese, taishanese, hunanese, shanghainese, wenzhounese, hokchia, etc etc. these southern groups all had a history before of migrating over and displacing and/or assimilating previous ancient populations in southern china that preceded them before there. in china, those are called baiyue, but realistically, it was the ancient ancestors of modern southeast asian groups today. the northern han were the han that stayed in northern china and spread northeast and northwestwards and had other northern migratory peoples come over and assimilate into their population like mongols, khitans, manchu/jurchen, etc. etc. northern han mostly speak mandarin and jin now.
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  14.  @bryedtan  dont contact the number in that comment. that's a fake scammer pretending to be asianometry
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  15.  @MithunOnTheNet  han kuo-yu, the politician. his name sounds like han-kuo yu in mandarin, literally "korea fish"
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  16. "boba" is originally cantonese anyways that people just took the mandarin pinyin writing from. in the philippines, nobody calls it boba still. the popular term to call it is still milk tea or bubble tea or bubble milk tea. the drink utilizing chewy pearls is unsurprising to people since theres always been cold drinks with hard chewy toppings inside for centuries, like grass jelly, sago pearls, and such. the spanish record always utilized romanized hokkien terms to call them and the street vendors were often roving chinese peddlers, such as the likes that sold hot tofu curd in cups, people now call taho itself also from hokkien.
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  17.  @himanshusingh5214  what does this have to do with shipbuilding??
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  18.  @rutvikrs lol in the philippines, many filipinos would also read maharaja as maharaha as a legacy of the past spanish orthography used centuries ago that is still alive in some placenames and surnames
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  19. sadly some of our biggest top richest taipan billionaire chinese filipinos of the philippines have recently died of (maybe) old age (or idk) this covid season last 2020 and this 2021, such as Henry Sy (his fortune is now divided to his many children), John Gokongwei Jr, Danding Cojuanco, etc. the top big taipans left are guys like Lucio Tan, Tony Tan Caktiong(founder/owner of Jollibee corp), etc.
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  20. that decision is in the hands of the landowners. would the landowner agree to tax themselves?
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  21. The Kims Kings of North Korea
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  22.  @carlosviajes  tsinoy dont have anything to do with that. we call the mainlanders as mainlanders in english, taga-china in tagalog, and taidioka in ph hokkien
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  23. those pronunciations of the pinyin are cringy
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  24. maybe he just researches them and then has AI write the script given the info and data
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  25. the out of sundaland are the negritos, melanesians, australians the out of taiwan are the austronesians
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  26. many in the philippines always say that indians are the best in IT and even on youtube, they teach us free IT tutorial, but in terms of customer service to speak clearer english or more convincing accent of english, this is where filipinos excel.
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  27. Salim also helped Manny Pangilinan in the Philippines to fund Globe Telco so now Manny Pangilinan is a rich billionaire in the Philippines
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  28. he still says kuomintang a bit weird
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  29. instead of smoke and haze, its the rain and super typhoons that want to come to ph
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  30. lol only the sino-xenic loans in korean and vietnamese. the core of those languages are koreanic and austroasiatic respectively, which are separate from sino-tibetan.
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  31. if Spanish Hermosa kept Taiwan and kicked the dutch out, it would have been part of the philippines as the 4th island chain and 4th star in the philippine flag. the ethnic chinese of taiwan are mostly the same as the ethnic chinese of the philippines too.
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  32.  @taiwanfocus4385  non-Asian?? lol austronesian or persian dna are all Asian...
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  33. what do the non-ethnic-chinese living under CCP think of it?
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  34. the Taic peoples come from ancient proto-austronesian. the proto-austronesians just left the continent earlier and so in china, they remember Taic speakers since those persisted later and spread further to indochina peninsula
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  35. companies will still find a way to expect more from human workers even with the presence of better automated technology and such. u will eventually hear them reason out that humans need to work harder to compete with machines
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  36. coffee doesnt always cost the same
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  37. there are more lannang chinoys in metro manila, although i did also have a filchi college classmate friend from cebu before. filchi are spread across the country. there are in davao too and iloilo and bacolod and many many other places in ph too
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  38.  @neilmckay8649  administrations always try because the public demands it as an ever urgent concern, but of course when you have the landowners as rulers, they will always try to maintain and hide their exploits to keep themselves in power
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  39.  @carlosviajes  yeah everyone just sayin whatever it is. hopefully those fishing militia clowns stop building more sand castle islands
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  40. naga people are tibeto-burmese people. naga are cousin to peoples of myanmar, tibet, and china.
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  41. then everyone wants to be one of those elite fckers
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  42.  @jackking7549  lol Orchid island by Taiwan is inhabited by a people who call themselves "Tao" who the japanese called as "Yami". ..."tao" is the common word for human in most philippine languages, including the nearby Batanes islands, where the nearest island of the philippines "Y'ami island" is only 97.5km, whereas penghu islands to mainland china is 158.70km....
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  43. Sudono Salim is Indonesia's Henry Sy
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  44. why dont places like greenland or snowy places just export the frozen freshwater
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  45. if looking for good news about ph, you can try the Behind Asia and Behind Philippines channel. they make a lot of good news kind of ph economy things.
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  46. the official name of taiwan is republic of china. of course, it is "chinese", just not mainland chinese
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  47.  @onemigreyes8950  filipinos love to jump ship at first sign of doom. complain and blame, have someone else deal with it and run away to another country and insult the house that nurtured them as if they were merely guests entitled to their land's servitude.
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  48.  @nunyabiznes33  maybe the american english that philippine english inherited is more neutral than if it were from british english, tho i think the frequent complaint about indian english has to do with an indian accent exhibited by many indian english speakers. Perhaps, languages in india contribute to that sort of accent more, whereas in the philippines, austronesian languages usually have simple enough phonetics like how japanese pronounces words and people in the philippines already had exposure before codeswitching with another european language, that is spanish, which today contribute lots of loanwords to philippine languages now like how english has a lot of norman french and latin/greek loanwords.
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  49. Sudono Salim is Manny Pangilinan's benefactor for Globe
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  50. Bitcoin is your lord and savior. go worship now!!
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  51.  @himanshusingh5214  what if the economy was opened up without harsh protectionism but the local industries were simply heavily supported via subsidies instead. perhaps a developing country may see faster industrialization
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  52. ​ @himanshusingh5214  religion is a personal matter that helps motivate individuals even in dire cases, but don't worry my country is not a theocracy, it is secular too just like many countries. contrary to the ideas of different peoples, christianity has its own rationality to the point, there is even a whole formal study on it called christian theology, but i dont think id wanna sidetrack and delve into explaining the christian logic from the topic at hand. As for nationalism, don't worry I have my own sense of nationalism and I also don't like other people in my country who may have tendencies to run away from problems or inferiority complexes. As for local products, I think it needs more than just patronage as a support, it needs to improve itself, whether or both quantity and quality and idk if they can improve maybe via learning from other countries if it applies to their situation. local industries need to be guided right and nurtured well, rather than to be left underdeveloped as people run away to better pastures than fix their own house. it's a bit ironic that i believe this even if my ancestors were not originally "native" or living as long as the other peoples of my country.
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  53. so it was a marketing success?
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  54. "acquire" is a neutral word. there is no connotation at all to anything besides one having received something in whichever way. Russia did acquire Donbas. It says nothing at all to how it was done.
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  55.  @marvin19966  min wage in the philippines is like around 15k pesos officially around the capital at metro manila, but unofficially, blue collar workers like maids are normally paid like around 8k pesos or lower inclusive of living and food in the same home as the family at some room at the back by the kitchen. this has been the norm among upper middle to upper class filipino families where many grew up with many maids being paid just around that amount. i know in taiwan, they do source a lot of their factory workers and maids these days from the philippines, cuz i met a poor lady and her family in the slums before in payatas in metro manila and she said she has worked as a factory worker before in taiwan and was thinking as well of getting work in south korea. of course, these are the blue collar manual labor workers that only have like highschool graduate or didnt complete college. they're only working subsistence level salaries. the ones who graduated at some college can be paid around 20k-25k pesos as an entry level white collar job, but if person comes from one of the big 4 universities, they could be paid around 20k-30k pesos or so for an entry level job. the middle managers and experienced career people slowly get higher salaries but it usually just caps around 90k pesos or so. for incomes of over 100k or 120k pesos, u gotta have ur own business or big shares or be C-level at some company. some richer families in the philippines get rich off of having multiple branches of their business grow and spread till the their families make business empires to be billionaires. usually the billionaires in the philippines are some chinese filipino families and a few old blood spanish filipino families. the above rates are monthly rates.
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  56. sali na ba sa NPA? sumusuko na sila sa mindanao
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  57. it is now "conquered".
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  58. Noice!!!
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  59. quite the human experience. just go to college and theyll do the same to humans. teach them some stuff where most of it wont apply to your life later on
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  60. hopefully, there would be no paywalls soon coming up
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  61.  @missplainjane3905  No obviously different.
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  62.  @missplainjane3905  so different obviously.
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  63.  @missplainjane3905  what's different? u mean to japonic and sinitic? of course, different. there's videos here on youtube showing radically different ancient old japanese and ancient old chinese language being spoken. if there was common heritage, it would have been many more millennia before there in the asian continent.
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  64.  @missplainjane3905  that's one of the current theories so far. the other is pointing to liaodong peninsula
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  65.  @himanshusingh5214  yes, that's the story too of people of my background for centuries and the big companies in this country and those ...east asians are also present in this country, most of the biggest and iconic companies and billionaires in this country are of that background and some of the owners had their own rags to riches lifestory and are the ones funding the big infrastructure projects if not with partnership with those ...east asian countries tho there are also problems of protectionism mentality that inhibits industrialization and entrenched self-serving elite landlord/oligarch political families....
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  66. proto-japonics come from eastern coasts of modern china many millennia ago, just north of proto-austronesian urheimat
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  67. the area of china proper was an ancient cradle of many people groups. it's only the chinese sinitic group that ended up dominating the area while many other groups from the area got pushed out or assimilated. most all groups around southeast asia inevitably trace origins back to around southern china many millennia ago. their ancestors just got kicked out or migrated away themselves gradually.
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  68. malays dominate "malaysia" (lit. land of malays)
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  69. northeast india have many tibeto-burmese people groups. tibeto-burmese peoples are cousins of chinese sinitic peoples, under sino-tibetan family.
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  70. because the chinese mainlanders are bitter over the fact that their last imperial rulers weren't the same ethnicity as them
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  71. rounding error? ahahahahahaha
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  72.  @hesdam4935  of course, who else to know the good news or insider info than filipinos themselves
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  73.  @oneviwatara9384  is that so? i guess Laos can now be carved up so that all those people groups can reclaim their supposed ancient ancestral homeland now, wouldn't u say?
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  74.  @oneviwatara9384  u go ask urself the same question. all this stuff is on wikipedia anyways and the source documents they put there or otherwise someone on quora or youtube here will be raving about the same things
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  75. i think it has to do with having to read and watch stuff when studying or reading books or electronic devices. when outdoors, instead of straining your eyes trying to read stuff, u just need to move nearer to read from a comfortable distance. if u do not do that outdoors and still have to gaze far away frequently to read or watch something, you will also have problems with your eyes. meanwhile if you always lived indoors but rarely ever read or watched something, then your eyes would not be so strained.
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  76.  @oneviwatara9384  whats with this ethnic Lao people you keep mentioning. these ancient cultures have been long gone for thousands of years and have produced many descendant people groups. Lao is just one of many more. there was another girl long ago here on youtube comments in another video raving the same things you're saying but saying austronesian instead of this Lao Lao you keep moaning about. Also, the part about the japanese origins, I had already guessed that path of origin many years ago and they're just now confirming what i had guessed long ago. Im sure many people have guessed the same before too.
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  77.  @herrkommandank675  it's because ph got a lot of ...nega ...right, my nigga?
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  78.  @oneviwatara9384  years? I haven't kept track. I just know people been talking about stuff like this for the past years now and ive just read the same things u tell me or text u copy paste in places like quora or wikipedia or here on youtube or other people who are interested in stuff like that or those youtube mapping videos by those usual mapping channels
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  79. what was taught to us in college about these american era laws was that the limits to the hectares of land on the people were a ploy by american politicians lobbied by their sugar industry barons there in the states to block the growth of philippine agricultural exports from being able to compete in the US market and so, it was the fault of the americans, not the local landlords
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  80.  @oneviwatara9384  well, u just described what a language family is. The ones who named that family also took spellings coming from mandarin pinyin due to those groups they find in china. Those are Tai people, not Dai or Kadai. Letter D is mandarin pinyin logic substituting /t/ to that letter.
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  81. the polticians, a.k.a. the mestizo filipinos, a.k.a. the older chinese & spanish filipinos... who tell people they are just filipino.
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  82.  @oneviwatara9384   this text just says the same. proto-tai-kra and proto-austronesian split off earlier in the asian continent before austronesian distributed to taiwan and other parts of island southeast asia. the groups in taiwan and island southeast asia have always had a cousin relationship than direct ancestor relationship, as with any simultaneously existing group. Also, this "Daic" group it labels might as well be proto-austro-tai if the sample they have was the split off.
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  83.  @oneviwatara9384  the german ethnographer and linguist, wilhelm schmidt coined these words to describe peoples with common shared language ties. the genetic tests only give further credence that the commonalities are more than the linguistic ties. u keep saying Lao people but their language is also part of the tai-kra linguistic family, which there are several existing theories showing their relationship with austronesian language family. Them having common genetics just further proves those linguistic theories further. such tests do not say ethnic austronesian taiwanese aboriginal groups to be ethnic Lao, it just says they have common genetic traits pointing to common ancestry. Ethnic Lao people as its own ethnic group did not precede the formation of austronesian ethnic groups in taiwan, so of course, their shared genetic tests tells common ancestry from older ethnic groups that split off elsewhere, such as continental southeastern china.
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  84. in my country, that's an enviable stable salary tho
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  85. lol try philippine rates... graduate starter salary for big university graduate is only around ₱20k-30k (RM1600-2400), while official minimum wage at the capital is ₱15k, but unofficially, there are maids and other blue collar workers or part-timers paid around ₱8k (RM643) or lower
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  86. ​ @leponpon6935  its stupid rates. i graduated at a top university like ateneo de manila filled with rich kids, but starting salary for graduates is still like around only ₱25k-30k (RM2000-2400), rather than ₱20k-25k (RM1600-2000) to other more generic universities or ₱12k-20k (RM962-1600) for the more desperate, then families like mine usually grew up with maids living at home being paid monthly like ₱8k (RM641). the cost of a meal outside each day at some restaurant or mall is like around ₱60/120-400 or so (RM4/9-32) and the utility bills for internet or others is like ₱1k something. i managed to land a starting job before with US company for ₱31k(RM2500) before covid happened but its a software engineer job with office location very far away from my home filled with programming for me who graduated with a course not geared too much in that and have to commute daily there for like maybe 3-4hrs back and forth every day if i dont pay some ride hailing app instead to get there in 1-2hrs, so left it after some months when its already covid. of course, stupid covid, i could not find anymore such job. other fresh graduate job only want like ₱20k-25k (RM1600-2000) or lower. even with that, stupid job interviews never went ahead ever in the past months and years, so my sister decided to make an online store in lazada and shopee and the sales were doing ok last year, like i could see 6 digit ₱ earnings (around RM8k) some months selling anti-covid products. of course, unlucky for me, it's not me who owns the shop, so i still only get like at first zero salary, then later ₱3k(RM240), then later around ₱10k(RM800), then later around ₱25k(RM2000) but family decided to start making me pay bills so i only get half those with the bills deducted. fastforward to now, this year covid product sales are down because of course covid is not so much there anymore, so now, sales are lower than the bills they give me, so now since june and july, im getting negative salary. wtf... i try for the past months to find job again but as usual, interview interview goes nowhere, leads to either ghosting or reject. idk if i should just go abandon the career meant for what i graduated and go to those call center or bpo kind of jobs offerred from china or taiwan with those online casino for chinese mainlanders, at least for relatively simple enough job, they say they offer ₱80k-₱100k (RM6400-8000). for other career, those might as well be middle manager salary rates in the philippines. any higher rate needs to run your own business or be C-level to get 6 digit ₱ inflow each month.
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  87.  @oneviwatara9384  that is because tai-kra peoples are same haplogroup as austronesian peoples. proto-tai-kra split off from ancient proto-austronesian thousands of years ago in the area around modern southern china. it is part of the austro-tai hypothesis and austric family theory
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  88.  @oneviwatara9384  the "chinese national" in china is different from "ethnic han chinese". there are of course other ethnic groups that are chinese national and ethnic chinese that are not chinese national.
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  89. if your country has a culture that accepts working children living with their parents, they can still be beneficial to have in sharing the payment of bills for the same house or supporting the parents' retirement and old age
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  90. plant? naaah just have a virtual plant or pet. more convenient to take care of.
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  91. basically a bunch of chinese indonesians that moved to south africa?
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  92. hey the philippines does not have an aging workforce. it still has a young growing population. the excess just migrate out
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  93. there are wind farms too in nearby ilocos region of luzon in the philippines
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  94. as an overseas chinese descendant, i kind of resonate with this.
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  95.  @oneviwatara9384  what is this grass is not grass. ethnic chinese is not ethnic chinese you are saying.
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  96. i thought it was HK Vision
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  97. this comment is like grass is grass. yes, Chinese are Han Chinese.
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  98. of course, they are Han ethnic Chinese = ethnic Han
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  99. the first world countries will finally weaken and the jobs will finally go to the developing countries as developed nations fall down a notch
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  100. doesn't "salim" in Indonesian also mean like the practice of blessing where one puts the back of the hand of a respected person on their forehead or kiss the back of their hand
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  101.  @thefalconflame  it's not an either/or choice. this looks like a multilingual pun that utilized both, which is common among overseas chinese in southeast asia. people do it in my country too for their business names, that is multilingual puns.
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  102. @Jizun Ernia the multilingual puns im talking about was first devised by older chinese descents...
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  103. ​@Jizun Ernia it's not an everyone thing cuz puns don't always work, but when they do they're something older chinese descents find as an ingenious thing to do, since it has a good meaning in multiple languages they use. i think my maternal grandparents mustve also paid some government workers long ago last century to probably find them a nice local surname since that side of my family is using some common surname that's wholly unrelated to their original surname
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  104. they can get cheaper salaried factory workers if they source poor workers from the philippines. the min wage salary there is slightly higher than the min wage in the philippines or even the unofficial rates are much lower
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  105. i had a hakka friend in china before, so that's why she behaved the way she did. it matches well with the description here.
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  106. didnt koxinga die from some sort of mental fit nervous breakdown when he realized his son impregnated a maid
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  107.  @dianebrady6784  empress*
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  108. in the philippines, we dont typically call it as "boba tea" or "bubble tea", although Quickly during the early 2000s did sell it marketing it as "bubble tea". it only took off in popularity the philippines being called as "milk tea", because the concept of having tapioca pearls in your drinks was not particularly special to people in the philippines because we've always had cold drinks with sago pearls in them and in fact in Filipino/tagalog, we call the tapioca pearls as "sago" even tho, its not sago but tapioca. what was surprising to people was the combination of milk and tea as a cold drink lol. there were already cold drinks with sago pearls in the philippines for centuries since the spanish colonial times, such as Gulaman, which in spanish before was called Chanchau, the word itself being from Hokkien 田草 (chhân-chháu, “grass jelly”). grass jelly itself is gooey and chewy like sago pearls and tapioca pearls. centuries ago there were roving street peddlers selling such drinks called chanchaulero and they were in the same class as roving street peddlers that sold tofu pudding we now call taho in the philippines, itself also originally from roving hokkien chinese street peddlers
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  109. it goes way back in the philippines. even during spanish colonial times, there are illustrations of roving chinese street peddlers selling sago and tofu drinks. the spaniards called them chanchaulero, the root itself being from hokkien 田草 (chhân-chháu, “grass jelly”). although tagalog has also called the drink as "gulaman" for centuries, but the tofu pudding drink "taho" also comes from hokkien 豆腐 (tāu-hū, “tofu; bean curd”)
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  110. there is also a strawberry flavored version of that sold in baguio in the philippines
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  111.  @Banom7a  is that cantonese
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  112.  @xenxx1192  hokkien and teochew are definitely siblings, along with hainamese, luichew, and hai lok hong. they were just split into 2 different languages because of provincial boundaries but their core heartlands are basically next to each other in a contiguous coastline
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  113.  @xenxx1192  the word for tofu in both hokkien and teochew is tāu-hū 豆腐, exactly the same, only slight difference with tones depending on which dialect of hokkien and teochew
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  114. mmorpgs are way too grindy anyways. and at the end of the day, what do u get after u grind that much? his roommate surely wasted his time on that if he was even booted from school
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  115.  @zairatulumierah9436  noah and sons are further back in time before out of sundaland
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  116. ​ @SunnyIlha  the ancestors of Austronesians and Tai-Kra = Austro-Tai originated at the southern mouth of the Yangtze river. they gradually migrated southwards on the southeastern coasts of Fujian in ancient times, till they split off there. those that sailed over to Taiwan were the ancestral Austronesians and those that went further west to Guangdong toward the Pearl River were the ancestral Tai-Kra. the ancient Austronesians stayed in Taiwan/Formosa for centuries and split off there and those that sailed over to the Philippines also settled there for centuries and also later spread to Borneo, Northern Sulawesi and Moluccas. The ones in Borneo later spread to Malaya, Sumatra, and Java. The ones in Sulawesi and Moluccas later sailed across Northern coasts of Papua, who which are the ancestral Polynesians which later spread further eastwards doing more island hopping over the centuries to medieval era right before european colonial centuries. New Zealand, Chatham islands, Rapa Nui were only settled during Medieval times.
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  117. ​ @SunnyIlha  Australian Aboriginals, Melanesian Papuans, the Andamanese and Negritos of the Philippines and the ancient Extinct Negritos of Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia spread out during ancient times several millennia ago from prehistoric southern india coasts and myanmar, they later migrated over land on the ancient sunken Sunda peninsula that later sailed over to ancient Sahul continent and the ancient islands of the Philippines that were also not connected back then. they even reached Taiwan during ancient prehistoric times when it was still part of the Asian mainland. Today, those Negritos in Taiwan and former Sundaland areas of Sumatra, Malaya, Java, Borneo are all extinct with the only survivors in Andaman islands, the Philippines, Papua, Australia, all of which islands since prehistoric ancient times.
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  118. you'll be notice the concern urself once u notice it affecting other things in life
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  119. i used to fill my childhood with a lot of video games but after you've played so much and thought about what u got after doing so, u just thought how fed up u are on many kinds of games and would just rather play ur favorite games during times u can best relish them which if u're busy with other things, u would not be able to give it full attention
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  120. yeah he was trying to pronounce pinyin guomindang literally with the english pronunciation
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  121. it's ... step towards Japan's rise, down in the future. "rise down" is not a thing in English
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  122. haha "illegal foreigners" a.k.a. the poor overseas workers of the philippines, indonesia, and vietnam....
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  123. just japanese-speaking han chinese
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  124.  @bctvanw  its a funny situation hahaha. in the philippines, ethnic chinese are minority while ethnic austronesians are majority, but in taiwan, ethnic chinese are majority but ethnic austronesians are minority. i, myself, am an ethnic chinese minority that grew up and lives in the philippines.
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  125.  @taiwanfocus4385  right. cuz such people are "foreign DNA".
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  126.  @taiwanfocus4385  i know several of such in my asian country too, but they aren't considered "foreign" or "non-Asian" at all...
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  127. lol many southeast asian countries were richer many decades ago than the big countries these days, plus they are easy bridge to migrate to the country of their former colonizer
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  128. theyre still there like in okinawa. theyre not calling the shots in japan's government tho of course, so its not an occupation anymore
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  129.  @matovicmmilan  treaty partner. look up the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan. the US has the same agreement with south korea, philippines, thailand, and unofficially with taiwan. japan's constitution was remade after losing ww2 and they cannot build a military besides a self defense force. they are constitutionally mandated that if they are attacked in a war, that the US will come in to defend them. japan's military these days is mostly the JSDF which they are informally enlarging for supposed defense purposes. they aim to defend taiwan as well from invasion.
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  130.  @matovicmmilan  the naming of whatever treaty would be named like that whichever the interests of whichever country there may be. it's pretty neutral and serves its purpose in as usual default propagandistic title to a treaty for whatever purpose. if u want to delve deeper into american and japanese interests, why are you hiding the threat to taiwan? i have simply stated that american forces have not left japan and have a treaty there and this is so as well in multiple neighboring countries. geopolitics in whichever country never does anything simple on the surface without other interests motivating the actions and decisions done under it because of course each nation has its own national interests. japan could station troops on the US mainland for whatever reason, but in the current landscape, this would be a waste of money if besides joint training. it is fairly obvious even in the past decades during the cold war that the threat to US and japanese interests lays closer to the west and/or north of japan and south korea so of course, theyd want more troops in japan and south korea than in continental US. they could station troops in alaska or guam or hawaii or somewhere in the pacific if for some reason, their set rival/s have perceived threats nearer to those places.
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  131. ah so this is where shabu came from. meth is called "shabu" in the philippines and indonesia cuz probably it spread from japan
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  132.  @taiwanfocus4385  right. meanwhile, in neighboring asian countries, spanish, portuguese, dutch are all rare ethnic groups, but the rare few of whom aren't foreign at all. tho i doubt, taiwan has any more of those than its neighbors do, especially spanish, portuguese, and dutch.
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  133. thats why people say theyre brainwashed lol
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  134. Gochisousama desu
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  135. meanwhile in former command economy countries, the people look up to government-run corporations as the well-run ones
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  136. Malaysia WTF????
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  137. may iba rin namang steel mill pa na handle ng ibang business. ito lang malaking government-run one dati
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  138. u wanna know why they pronounce Thames like Tems? just go to etymology page of Thames in wiktionary, you will find the answer tldr, it's cuz it's really Temes before but they tried to correct the spelling before cuz they thought it was from Greek, but actually it was from Latin which actually was also from a native Brythonic word Tamesis
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  139. technically the philippines is currently on its way there as the economy is rising very fast
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  140.  @valopf7866  u speak of the typical pessimist filipino mindset, but even during duterte's time, they said stuff like that yet the economy still rose with a very high growth rate. i dont think a country's growth should be attributed to single political or presidential figures anyways, but i suppose ph politics has to be all about the who's rather than focusing on national progress regardless of whoever is leading it.
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  141.  @valopf7866  the pessimist mindset isnt reserved to pinoys. if it's a neutral stance, it wouldn't be based on some political figure one would have preconceived notions upon already.
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  142. i guess he records the script rereading so passed the first reaction emotions already
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  143. as a child visitor tourist to singapore around maybe 2 decades ago, i vaguely remember going through some sort of tunnel museum thing and being given bottles of water and as a small child, i didnt know what it was or what was so special about it and didnt understand what the place was about. i guess maybe it was some sort of place trying to convince people the treated wastewater was good
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  144. have you drank your human poopoo and peepee water?? just come to singapore and try it now!!
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  145. southwestern japan had more cattle cuz the cattle initially came from china and/or korea, while horses in northeastern japan came from sakhalin and the northern asian continent where the mongols and other peoples had more horses
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  146. buddhism didnt like eating meat cuz meat was expensive before and more useful for other matters
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  147. my doctor just gave me a tube of medicine and it seems to be made in india...
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