How come Malaysians are brown? What happened to the black people that must have lived there before?

Question

At that latitude the people should be black unless they got there in the last twenty thousand years. The Australian Aborigines must have walked from there. The melanesians probably sailed to asia, but they don't look like today's east africans either. Did God put them there!

Answer 1

God did not put anybody anywhere !

God created lkife whiich evolved into humans about a million years ago in Africa. All humans began in Africa. Then they MIGRATED to all the other parts of the world.

Of course the native people of Borneo and Summatra were black but they were heavily influenced by Chinese, Indians and Arabs.

Those folks you see that are BROWN are probably only from the 15th century.

All people were black at one time, even the white people of to-day were once black.  AS they migrated north theywould have all died without  absorbing Vitamin D from the sun.  The black pigment was a deterent so it gradually faded to permit Vitamin D to enter. At the same time, those broad noses gradually became longer and thinner to warm the cooler air as they went north. Bodies changed too. The tall black natives became shorter as they became Chinese and even shorter when they became Eskimos. Those Chinese that migrated across the top of North America to become Indians still beat the resemblance of Chinese.

So that's the answer to your Malaysians, such fascinating anthropology.

Answer 2

how comes you're stupid?

Answer 3

ronmac had it partly correct.  The orientals migrated there relatively recently in consecutive waves.  Ethnic chinese were the latest.  There are still small pockets of Negritos, very dark skinned native people (very small in stature) there but they only survived in areas where they managed to stay hidden from the more successful later migrators. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negrito