What race were the Filipinos?
The very first Filipinos came to the Philippines through Ice Age land bridges as Negritos almost 70,000 years ago. These people were dark skinned and were on average, no more than 5′1″ tall for males and no more 4′9″ for women. They lived as hunter gathering nomads until 12,500 years ago when the end of the most recent glacial period caused sea level rises that isolated the Philippines into the archipelago we know of today. There were fewer resources on the smaller islands and the Negritos slowly declined.Then came the Austronesians who came from the then-temperate Taiwan and Eastern China. They were slender, yet more average when it came to height. They had pale or light olive/tan skin as a result of living in a colder climate further north. They were farmers and seafarers who had Neolithic and later, Bronze Age and Iron Age technology that allowed them to take dominance from the already declining Negritos and completely destroy their culture and drive them close to extinction between 5000 and 4000 years ago.Today, most Filipinos have some sort of mixture from these two groups, plus some Filipinos have features from immigrants who have come to the country (especially Romance, Chinese, Indian and Semitic) since the Austronesian invasions.
Cappie is a nickname for the female name...??
I saw this girl on tv whose nickname was Cappie, and I've always loved that name; it used to be my name because I wore this one hat a lot. But her nickname came from an actual name, but I can't remember it. Anyone know?
Why do blacks have white last names? How did this begin?
Family names are not a universal feature of human societies. In some places, your given name may be paired with the name of your father, the place you're from, or the job you do. In other places, you have only a single name, unrelated to the names of your relatives. Stable family names tend to be associated with hierarchical societies with centralized governments, good record-keeping, and censuses for tax collection; the use of a family name was essentially imposed by the government to help track ancestry over time.Of course, some Africans did come from places with family names. But none of that mattered much once they boarded a slave ship.When millions of Africans were taken from their home countries and sold into Western society, their new owners imposed Western customs on them. This included Western names, which would be assigned by the slave's owner. Often it would reflect the kind of work they did—a slave who worked in cotton fields might have "Cotton" for a last name.After slavery was abolished, the former slaves were able to choose their own names, and many of them rejected the names their former owners had forced them to use. For the most part, their ancestors' names were lost to them (the slave trade was abolished generations before slavery itself), so instead of trying to go back, they went forward. Some celebrated their new status with a name like "Freeman", or by adopting the name of an American patriot associated with freedom like "Washington", "Jefferson", or "Jackson". Others adopted the names of their former owners; when white people and black people share the same last name, often that means that the ancestors of some of the white people owned the ancestors of those black people. (If I ever run into a black Gordon or Holt, we may end up having an awkward conversation.)In short, black people have white names because, through slavery, they were stripped of their original African names. By the time they were able to choose their own names, they had been given Western names and grown up in Western culture, and so even those who changed their names usually changed them to something Western.