Islanders

The islanders are asking us for help.

The custom of bowing is peculiar to the islanders.

The Earth is just a little island and we are little islanders.

The islanders are being slaughtered for no apparent reason.

Since the COVID-19 crisis began, there has been an upsurge in violence against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

The islanders are nice.

It is now the 1st of November of 2014. I opine that Lulu Islanders just do not understand how important Halloween is. Halloween allows us to face the theme of death with humour and feasting. It celebrates the colours orange, black, and purple. Halloween springs from very ancient traditions, both Xtian and pagan. An encyclopedia could tell one about its mysterious beginnings.

It is the 25th of March of 2015. Once again, war is on the mind of Lulu Islanders. What really is the current state of weapons technology? Are they great enough to damage the resilience of the biosphere? Or, do enemies want to use biological warfare, to spread a deadly virus of some sort? Common people think of fire when they think of war. However, a big war may not be of fire. Some still hold to the idea of raining hot missiles, a torrent of nuclear bombs. But biological weapons may not destroy valuable real estate. Yes, humans are still fighting primates. Racial intolerance is a sign that people still cannot live in peace. The real hope is that there is the probability of life beyond this Earth. Even if humans were to destroy themselves, there would be life elsewhere, outside of Earth. Such is the real hope.

As a society, there are really three blending elements in the Philippines: the Sundadonts, the Sinodonts, and the Caucasoids. My family is such a blend. Mongoloids really comprise three variants: the Sundadonts, the Sinodonts, and the Super-Sinodonts, these respectively being the Pacific Islanders, the East Asians, and the Amerindians of the Americas. The Filipino Caucasoid element is commonly Mediterranean. There are four human subspecies in my preferred model of anthropology: the Mongoloids, the Caucasoids, the Negroids, and the Australoids. Caucasoid has variants Nordic and Mediterranean; Negroid has variants Congoid and Capoid; and Australoid has variants Veddoid, Negrito, Papuan, Melanesian, and Aborigine. Migrants into the Philippines might have carried various bits of other strains. For example, Super-Sinodonts, Amerindians, might have reached the Philippines with the Manila-Acapulco Galleons during the Spanish Empire.

"Toward a Comparative Japanese-Austronesian I" by Takao Kawamoto demonstrates that Japanese is cognate with the Austronesian family of languages, the Pacific languages. The demonstration bases itself on pairing a few hundreds of words of Old Japanese (OJ) with words of Proto-Austronesian (PA) or one of its branches. What was this world like in those ancient times? I have heard theories that in ancient Pre-Columbian times, Pacific Islanders made voyages reaching as far as the Pacific coasts of the Americas. I believe such did happen. So, there were likely contacts between Polynesian tribes and Amerindian tribes. "Linguistic Evidence for a Prehistoric Polynesia—Southern California Contact Event" by Kathryn Klar and Terry L. Jones expounds on the theme, mentioning the Amerindian language groups Chumashan and Gabrielino in southern California. Some Pre-Columbian contact between the Americas and Polynesia is evident from the ubiety of the South American sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) in Polynesian archaeological sites, most notably from Mangaia, Cook Islands (circa 1000 CE).