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China was too big to keep all its flok together. They were not Chines for the same reasons that so many parts of India today are not Indian.

I heard that the vietnamese used to be malay but the chinese killed most of them because they were pirates. The cham people of vietnam.

hahaha Anujkhamar! How is India my friend? I have been to Assam a while ago and been to Bengal quite a few times! Nice place.fun fun! hahaha

peace bro!

Well this is an interesting perspective you all placed in my country and my great people. Good inputs on the history of the Thai, but your inputs of raciology infer a colonialistic point of view to the thread and implies an inferior-superior status on different racial groups ( as the raciology theory was ment to do).

The Thai people belong to the Ai-Lao group of people which are not only Thai, but includes Laotians, Shan and Karen ethnic groups of northeastern Burma as well as the Tai groups of present day Yunnan province in China.

The word 'Thai' is nothing more than a national identity, the Thai people and the Lao people actually are related culturally and ethnically to the Tai ethnic group in china and we lived in Yunnan (once called Nang Zhou or Nanchao) by the Han Chinese. This was our historical birthplace and land that were forced of with the influx of the Han Dynasty, forcing the Tai people in an ethnic diaspora to the golden lands of the south. Some settled in northern vietnam, laos, modern day Thailand and parts of burma and north easter India.

When the Tai groups arrived in present day Thailand, the land was already occupied by the Khmer Empire, which is now present day Cambodia. Khmer Empire was influenced by Indian empires such as the Chandra Gupta Mauraya Empire and King Ashoka's empire to spread brahimism and buddhism. Hence the the Khmers were culturally Indian. When we Thais arrived to the lands of present day Thailand, we formed small princedoms and formed the state of Sri Sukkothai (first great empire of Thailand) and ousted the Khmer Empire of our lands. Thais of course adopted Khmer writing script (based of Indian Sanksrit) as well as adopted some methods in building and city admnistration as the Khmers had greatly mastered.

The fact that Thailand is so close to India allowed a lucrative trade with India and Thailand and allowed our recongition as the hegemonic power of S.E Asia.

Its true that Thailand is the cross roads for both India and Chinese traders..beautiful actually.

 

Proof of the beauty of our distinctly 'Thai'  culture...

 

People still argue wether Australoid is a seperate racial group or a sub group of Caucasoid.

I think initialy they was a tendancy to put them somewhere within the existing framework (Negro/Caucas/Mongol), but eventualy some anthroplogists began to treat them as a seperate group unto themselves.
Geneitlcy Australian aborigines cluster close to people in Indonesia, but on a more old fashioned physical anthroplogical view, appear to cluster closer to certain Caucasoid groups.

The thing with Physical anthropology is that several different classification systems have emerged, most of the main groups have sub groups which can be sort of in two main groups at the same time leading to them being classified differently by different people, mostly for convinience sake.

well put

I don't think Austroloid is a sub-group of Caucasoids. Austroloids are related to the Aboriginals of Australia, and they are not classified as a sub-group of Caucasoids.

Originally posted by Paul The 1st inhabitants of Thailand migrated there from India so were probably caucazoid. Later major migrants the Mon for instance came were mixed race but a good part caucazoid. The thais we don't know what. And then for the last 1000 years a steady influx of Chinese. So the amount of mongoloid has steadily increased. Some Bangkok Chinese/Thais can look almost Chinese.

 

Actually, the first inhabitants of Thailand region where a group of people called the "Negritos". They look very similar to southern Africans, tight curly hair, black skin, but they are of short stature. Shorter then the Africans. There are still some Negritos left in Thailand.

Originally posted by Degredado Paul, could you please explain to me how the Thais were once Caucasian? I have a thick skull.

Caucasian as in another word for Caucasoid maybe?
Though he is as good as saying they were mix, so part Indian part whatever probably.


Edited by Cywr

Originally posted by Degredado Paul, could you please explain to me how the Thais were once Caucasian? I have a thick skull.

               lol.......i was thinking likewise...

                       and i don't think they're mongoloids either...