The Blonde Black Race

Melanesia (from the Greek meaning "black island") is an archipelago that extends from the East Nusa Tenggara archipelago in Indonesia and then east into the western Pacific, as well as north and northeast Australia. The term was first used by the French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville in 1832 to designate an ethnic group and island grouping distinct from Polynesia and Micronesia. At present, Dumont d'Urville's "racial" classification is considered inappropriate because it obscures the cultural, linguistic and genetic diversity of Melanesia and is currently used for geographic naming purposes only.

Melanesia is a sub-region of Oceania that stretches from the western tip of the Pacific Ocean to the Arafura Sea, and eastward to Fiji.

The Melanesian archipelago is bordered by Indonesia to the west, Australia to the southwest and south, New Zealand to the southeast, the Polynesian islands to the east and northeast, and the Micronesian archipelago to the north.

The countries that are included in the Melanesian archipelago are:

1. Indonesia (Eastern Indonesia: East Nusa Tenggara Province, North Maluku Province, Maluku Province, West Papua Province and Papua Province).
2. Timor Leste
3. Papua New Guinea
4. Solomon Islands
5. New Caledonia
6. Vanuatu
7. Fiji

In addition, the countries of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia (which are French dependencies), Vanuatu and Fiji use this term to describe themselves because it reflects the colonial history of European nations and the general regional situation in the Pacific islands as Melanesian race. The Solomon Islands are located in the South Pacific, the heart of Melanesia, just northeast of Australia, and are an independent nation within the British Commonwealth.

The name Melanesian was first used by Jules Dumont d'Urville in 1832 to denote the ethnic and geographical grouping of the islands distinct from Polynesia and Micronesia. To this day, native Melanesians still practice cannibalism*), head hunting, kidnapping and slavery, such as the Asmat. Contact with Europeans meant that the population is now largely Christian, but more than 90 per cent lead a rural life.

It is interesting to learn that the Melanesian people of the Solomon Islands are black but have blonde hair. Although the Melanesian natives of the islands have the darkest skin outside of Africa, between 5 and 10 percent of them have naturally light blond hair. There are several theories as to why they have blonde hair. Starting from the theory of sun and salt bleaching, high fish intake, or genetic inheritance from interbreeding with the Americans/Europeans who discovered the islands.

A geneticist from the agricultural college of Nova Scotia in Canada, Sean Myles, performed a genetic analysis on saliva and hair samples from 1209 Melanesian residents living on the Solomon Islands. By comparing 43 blondes and 42 brown-haired islanders, he found that the blonds carried two copies of the mutant gene that is present in 26 percent of the island's population.

Melanesians have the original gene TYRP1 which partially makes hair blonde and contains melanin, and this is very different from Europeans and beyond in that it is not in their gene. It is a recessive gene and is more common in children than in adults, with hair tending to darken as the individual grows older.

*) Cannibalism:
New Guinea is famous in the popular imagination for the ritual cannibalism practiced by some (but far from all) ethnic groups. The Korowai and Kombai tribes in southeastern West New Guinea are the last two surviving tribes in the world said to have engaged in cannibalism in the past. In the Asmat area in southwest Papua, this may have been the case until the early 1970s. In a 2006 episode of the BBC/Discovery Channel documentary series "Going Tribal," a Kombai man recounts his participation in a cannibalistic ritual. In 1963, a missionary named Tom Bozeman described the Dani partying with enemies killed in battle. According to Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, cannibalism probably arose in New Guinea because of the scarcity of protein sources. Traditional crops, taro and sweet potatoes, are low in protein compared to wheat and beans, and the only edible animals available are small or unappetizing animals, such as mice, spiders, and frogs. Cannibalism led to the spread of Kuru disease, affecting the brain, similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, prompting the Australian government to ban the practice in 1959.

source : TribunTravel, wikipedia, newworldencyclopedia

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