Timor Leste DNA results! 🇹🇱

**KuakoVoice** · 05-29-2020, 10:16 PM

So I met an East Timorese or also known as Timor Leste girl on YouTube, she has two Timorese parents from Timor Leste and she showed me her Ancestry results which was very fascinating.

https://imgur.com/a/mlZj5Wj

**Leto** · 05-30-2020, 12:37 PM

Why is she so heavily mixed? Even a significant amount of African! Also 39% European which is almost half. My gosh, she is barely Asian!

**KuakoVoice** · 05-30-2020, 04:56 PM

Originally Posted by Leto

Why is she so heavily mixed? Even a significant amount of African! Also 39% European which is almost half. My gosh, she is barely Asian!

That is because both Eastern Indonesia and Timor Leste are heavily admixed with not just Papuan and Aboriginal blood,but also Dutch and Portuguese colonizer blood.Eastern Indonesia and Timor Leste was settled by Australian Aboriginals or a related population first,then Papuans,and then the "Asian" Austronesians were last.This also doesnt include the ancient trade networks that bought Arab,Indian,and Chinese blood to The Moluccas and Timor Leste area.Then there was also some of the Portgueuse African soldiers brought to Timor Leste as well.Timor Leste and Eastern Indonesia is a melting pot.

**ÁGUIA** · 05-30-2020, 05:20 PM

Originally Posted by Leto

Why is she so heavily mixed? Even a significant amount of African! Also 39% European which is almost half. My gosh, she is barely Asian!

East Timor was a Portuguese colony from the 16th century till 1975 (mostly a trading outpost). Still interesting because I don't believe many Portuguese settle there.

**Leto** · 05-30-2020, 05:23 PM

You didn't have to give me a thumbs down because I don't have to be aware of all of that. This isn't fucking Reddit. Last time I checked East Timor was a Southeast Asian country, so I thought they were just some kind of SE Asians.

**~~Joso~~** · 05-30-2020, 05:27 PM

Cool!

**KuakoVoice** · 05-30-2020, 05:38 PM

Originally Posted by Leto

You didn't have to give me a thumbs down because I don't have to be aware of all of that. This isn't fucking Reddit. Last time I checked East Timor was a Southeast Asian country, so I thought they were just some kind of SE Asians.

But you also could have used some some common sense such as looking at how close Timor Leste is to Papua New Guinea and Australia.Its just a thumbs down,no need to trip over it.

**Iroczor** · 05-30-2020, 05:47 PM

Edit.... To be continued in another post

**Iroczor** · 05-30-2020, 05:51 PM

Originally Posted by Joso

Cool!

Agreed

**KuakoVoice** · 05-30-2020, 05:53 PM

What's interesting to me is that she has more Melanesian blood than Austronesian blood,and also the Portuguese brought African admixture.She said that it's not uncommon in East Timor

The reason these small islands ruled by Iberia such as Guam and Timor Leste have much more Spanish and Portuguese admixture on average than Filipinos is because Timor and Guam were much smaller islands with lower populations.So a few Europeans would have gone a long way in mixing,unlike the Phillipines. In East Timor Portuguese is still spoken and a official language,and in Guam there vocabulary is heavily influenced by Spanish in comparison to Tagalog.