Anthrop. Relationship between Japan and Hong Kong?

[jrowt]

Hello All,

I'm curious if there exists a physical anthropological relationship that would explain the occurence of fair-skinned "Japanese-like" people in the Hong Kong area of Southern China. I'm afraid I have no pictures to support my description.

I can confirm I'm not referring to transplanted Japanese immigrants simply living in Hong Kong but people who are ancestrally tied to the place.

Do the Japanese and people of Hong Kong share any direct common ancestry?

I am aware of Japan and China's historical/cultural ties but I seek more information from a physical anthropology/ancestral perspective.

Thanks for your thoughts,

-J

[attis]

The people of Hong Kong are varied like any other part of China. Various groups have settled the Hong Kong area. There isn't any special link between the people of Japan and Hong Kong.

[gelaye]

any physical relationships you see between chinese and japanese usually concern chinese that live in manchuria etc. the relations in physical features you see in the Hong Kong Chinese and Japanese are probably due to the fact that these two Asian nations (i know hong kong isnt a nation) have been relatively westernised for quite some time, and its inhabitants can afford similar cosmetic products (skin lighteners, hair colourings etc), clothes, and cosmetic surgery to create a typical 'developed world' mongoloid look

faculty.chml.ubc.ca/nellis/naoko2005.jpg

[Agrippa]

Both areas have Sinid and Palaemongolid influences, thats what they have in common in the first place.

[asianist]

The HK people are really "mixed"...the native there are Cantonese, southern type of the Chinese. Around 1949, when the communists came to the power in the mainland China, almost a million of Chinese from the north, especially from Shanghai area of east China, fled to HK. But...I couldn't see any close antho-relationship between HKers and Japanese. In fact, I once visited Wen-zhou rural area of Zhe-jiang province, southeast of China, people there do look like sort of the Japanese type...dark skin, thick eyebrows, narrow eyes, convex noses and pointed chins.

[human2]

gelaye said:

any physical relationships you see between chinese and japanese usually concern chinese that live in manchuria etc. the relations in physical features you see in the Hong Kong Chinese and Japanese are probably due to the fact that these two Asian nations (i know hong kong isnt a nation) have been relatively westernised for quite some time, and its inhabitants can afford similar cosmetic products (skin lighteners, hair colourings etc), clothes, and cosmetic surgery to create a typical 'developed world' mongoloid look

faculty.chml.ubc.ca/nellis/naoko2005.jpg

Ok, so the women who look exactly like her say in the 1920s black and white photos before cosmetic surgery was available must've went back in time? She just looks like a regular female. What does a non-plastic surgery Asian look like?

As I said before, your a fine boy but god you're ignorant and dumb.

asianist said:

The HK people are really "mixed"...the native there are Cantonese, southern type of the Chinese. Around 1949, when the communists came to the power in the mainland China, almost a million of Chinese from the north, especially from Shanghai area of east China, fled to HK. But...I couldn't see any close antho-relationship between HKers and Japanese. In fact, I once visited Wen-zhou rural area of Zhe-jiang province, southeast of China, people there do look like sort of the Japanese type...dark skin, thick eyebrows, narrow eyes, convex noses and pointed chins.

No! Listen to your nationalist-racialist compatriot Agrippa. Those Japanese have Europid admixture.