are south east asian mix with middle easterns Options

[JS1]

is that why there dark skin & there language look the same? i read somewhere that a middle eastern king took over south east asia long time ago. can someone find me a link? i am south east asian so i would like to know my roots. thanx

[RafaelM]

is that why there dark skin & there language look the same? i read somewhere that a middle eastern king took over south east asia long time ago. can someone find me a link? i am south east asian so i would like to know my roots. thanx

Is not that surprising to have dark skin when you live between the tropics and the equator. I don't know why people keep insisting on using that as an evidence of lost a link between two cultures.

I am not saying there couldn't a be a link, of course, someone had to bring Islam to Southeast Asia and I read somewehere that some European colonial powers actually allowed Arabs to immigrate to their colonies.

[AnybodyKiller]

No.

Maybe some Indonesians and Malays have ~5% Arab blood, but the Southeast Asian genotype is not the result of Middle Eastern + East Asian admixture. In fact there is more genotypical (blueprint) difference between most types of European people (They say there are 6 subclusters) than there is between East Asian and Southeast Asian peoples. The phenotypical (outwardly noticeable) differences are usually more noticeable amongst Asians the further south you go.

[AsiaticGlory]

Arab traders brought Islam to Malaysia and Indonesia. I would not be surprised if there was some mixing. Though I doubt the Semitic Arab mixture would be significant.

[capricon2]

It's entirely possible that some Persian king did rule Southeast Asia, but that must had happen long before the time of Cyrus the Great, and that part of history just got lost in time. We don't know who built the Adam's Bridge either.

[petimko]

yes especially the Cambodians.They have obvious Middle Eastern features.The Khmer Empire have the most Indic influence in Southeast-Asia besides Malays its because Khmers are the oldest people in Southeast Asia.

[AnybodyKiller]

yes especially the Cambodians.They have obvious Middle Eastern features.The Khmer Empire have the most Indic influence in Southeast-Asia besides Malays its because Khmers are the oldest people in Southeast Asia.

Yeah, I don't know all that much about the Cambodian genome, but they do definitely have their own sub cluster separate from the ISEA sub cluster.

You sure you guys aren't confusing Arabs with Indians? There has definitely been a lot more contact between South Asians and Southeast Asians.

This post has been edited by AnybodyKiller: Feb 8 2012, 01:12 PM

[Jc2]

I think only the Malays and some more Islamicized Indonesians has Middle Eastern/Arab blood. Some Malayan royalty could even trace their ancestry to Muhammad

[JuicyFruit]

Since when did Southeast Asian languages look like Middle Eastern ones?