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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 1391140, member: 2844&quot;]Wow, [USER=30]@antidiem[/USER] , I had forgotten about this thread.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Descendants of Africans are everywhere.</p><p>In the 17th century the Dutch East India Company or VOC captured some Portuguese ships off the coast of South Africa. Turns out they were carrying slaves from Angola. The VOC couldn&#039;t take them home because Angola was Portuguese, so they took them and the ships to Java in the Dutch East Indies. There they freed them and gave them land.</p><p>They were called &#039;Mardijkers&#039;, from the Javanese word &#039;merdeka&#039;, freedom. Some became very wealthy as traders throughout Asia. They intermarried with locals and their descendants live in Indonesia to this day.</p><p>No doubt some are also found in neighbouring countries, like the Philippines.</p><p><br /></p><p>And Indonesia and the Philippines are a bridge between Asia and the Pacific, which shows in their looks. On top of that, some of the people have clear Melanesian or Polynesian roots through seafaring, and their looks can resemble those of people with African ancestry.</p><p><br /></p><p>Moluccans from the former Dutch East Indies in the Netherlands:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://eenvandaag.avrotros.nl/fileadmin/poms_import/voordekunst.jpeg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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