Melanesians are the predominant and indigenous inhabitants of melanesia, in an area stretching from new guinea to the fiji islands Melanesians are usually considered darker than polynesians, in old photos and earlier engravings, polynesians appear with dark skin and heads of 4c hair, much like black americans. [1] most speak one of the many languages of the austronesian language family (especially ones in the oceanic branch) or one of the many unrelated families of papuan languages.
Anthropologists and geneticists treat melanesians as indigenous to the region with deep. We are just a different type of black if that makes sense, but nonetheless still family. The dominant image of a pacific islander includes light skin and straight or wavy hair — but that's not how everyone from the region looks
No bleach, no dye, no foreign admixture. Because the black race mostly consists of those of african descent But this doesn’t somehow exclude melanesians and aboriginals Similarly it’s not uncommon if an african descendant visits papua new guinea and the locals mistake them for natives
