Why some Japanese people look mixed race

[Jason Voorhees]

I was watching this Japanese netflix
With subtitles a while back. The guy didn't look japanese. He looked mixed. While I don't understand or speak Japanese I could tell he hard some weird slang. When I looked it up. He was 100% Japanese but then learned about the Ryukyuans.

These people has their seperate kingdom in the Ryukyu Islands. They had their own culture, their own language and also looked different to Japanese. Before getting bulldozed and conquered by imperial Japan. Japan wasn't always a homogeneous society. They just best everyone down to accept their culture and renamed the entire area to Okinawa.

Ryukyuans like the Ainu in the north have alo retained a significantly higher percentage of DNA from the indigenous Jomon hunter-gatherers. And hence also look different. They are generally much darker skinned, deep set eyes, thick facial hair, more caucasian leaning bone structure than regular japs. Some of them can pass as mixed race due to this

 

[Jason Voorhees]

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[TopTierIncel42]

They look like Uyghurs

 

[Swarthy Knight]

Coincidentally they (at least the men) are generally the best looking among East Asians. Not counting surgerymaxxed Koreans

 

[ltnbrownacnecel]

 

[ICL]

If pseudocaucasian DNA leaked into the cracks of the gook DNA

 

[Yliaster]

Yeah Legit

I've also for some reason noticed that a shit ton of Native Hawaiins look remarkably similar to Japanese and
vice/versa

 

[MagicalWaves]

I was watching this Japanese netflix
With subtitles a while back. The guy didn't look japanese. He looked mixed. While I don't understand or speak Japanese I could tell he hard some weird slang. When I looked it up. He was 100% Japanese but then learned about the Ryukyuans.

These people has their seperate kingdom in the Ryukyu Islands. They had their own culture, their own language and also looked different to Japanese. Before getting bulldozed and conquered by imperial Japan. Japan wasn't always a homogeneous society. They just best everyone down to accept their culture and renamed the entire area to Okinawa.


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Ryukyuans like the Ainu in the north have alo retained a significantly higher percentage of DNA from the indigenous Jomon hunter-gatherers. And hence also look different. They are generally much darker skinned, deep set eyes, thick facial hair, more caucasian leaning bone structure than regular japs. Some of them can pass as mixed race due to this


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because im a cool guy

 

[Roara]

FYI, there are also tow main genetic influences , the jōmon and the Yayoi, who came after the Ainu, still interesting to think about how the Ainu people were the first Japanese, and they were white in hablogroup

 

[kisslessvirgin]

Like the Ainu

 

[Jason Voorhees]

because im a cool guy

You is Chinese tho?

 

[MagicalWaves]

You is Chinese tho?

mixed because im hispanic so i deadass have everything in me most of it is chinese and spanish tho

 

[Latinolooksmaxxer]

When ryukyu is in the talks I always remember Samurai champloo because one of the MCs is a ryukyujin

 

[FatCatLoafing]

Damn this is really interesting it just goes to show you there is a lot more variance among human populations than we thing.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

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