Taino children and Filipino children appear similar to one another.
As they reach teenage and adolescent age the appearance becomes apparently different between these two groups. While some appear still similar to one another, others begin to appear different to one another. The differences ranges from minor to drastically different.
Photos gives us the impression Filipinos and Tainos have similar appearances but when I watch videos of them in motion then I begin to realize that there's a clear difference in their demeanor.
which videos are you watching? Some of the Tainos have mongoloid traits like the Filipinos. So, I cherry-picked the most Asian looking for click bait. I post more Videos of Tainos that have reminds me of Filipinos.
Awhile back ago there were some videos.
Filipinos and Tainos do have similar appearance and behavior since both groups are from the 7,000 plus islands. Philippines have 7,000 plus islands and the Caribbean Islands have also 7,000 plus islands. I guess Islanders in the tropics have more similarities to one another than the people on the mainland continent.
Cuban people wearing their Guayabera shirt appear similar to Filipinos wearing their Barong shirt.
The guayabera is widely known to have originated in Cuba in the 1880s, but sources make note of the arrival of the barong (invented two centuries prior) in Mexico and later, Cuba.
Cuban Guayabera
Filipino Barong
Caribbean and Filipinos wear them throughout the year but I see it commonly worn casually and formally during the summer heat which allows breezy air to enter the Barong shirt and Guayabera shirt to cool us down. Without pineapple fiber we would be wearing a different outfit probably.
The guayabera is cooler because Pinoys don't have hats & shades to go along with it.
Guayabera could be worn in almost any setting whether it's a formal wedding, night club and bar, concert, outdoor event, beach, at a party and plus more.
Barong is only worn in formal occasions in the Philippines and since it's considered a traditional outfit the Filipinos are not wearing a stylistic hat and cool looking shades to go along with it.
Some of the Adult Tainos can look Filipinos but very rarely
The tattoos, writings, clothing & statues a very similar for the customs of our ancestors
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Tattoos and some clothing gives us the impression that they look like Native Filipinos residing in the Province.
How come the tainos are not well represented in the media
Tainos have been declared extinct even though they probably still exist. The pics above are either Mestizos and/or a mixture of different Native Indians because there are a dozen variety of different Indigenous tribes thriving on 7,000 plus islands in the Caribbean.
I wonder why the Caribbean Amerindians are close to extinction while the natives in North America and South America are still alive in large numbers.
There were more extinctions in the continental Americas compared to Caribbean islands actually. There were 60 million plus Native Indian population throughout the Americas. Around 6 million in Caribbean Island and around 55 million on North and South America continent. In terms of percentage, the Natives on Caribbean Islands suffered more but in terms of total population the Natives on the continent suffered more in comparison.
Several tribes have come and gone and only a few survived in North and South America continent. Since American continents are big and spacious several Indigenous tribes were able to salvage whatever was left of their people and only some were able to rebound their population to where it was before such as the Navajos.
Since Caribbean Islands have smaller land compared to the North and South American continent therefore they were in constant contact with the colonist which didn't allow them to find salvation. Also depends on what defines extinction since several Native Indians are Mestizos and therefore their Native Indian side survives among the present day people. Pure Native population on Caribbean Islands are small but several Mestizos and Chollos identify themselves as Native Indians. The actual pure Natives are likely an admixture of different Natives. In other words, Tainos have admixed possibly with Ingeri who admixed with the Caribs and who admixed with another Native Caribbean Indian and therefore several of them are pure Native Indian still but not exactly pure Taino or pure Carib or pure Ingeri.
Tainos have becomes us but mixed with Spaniards, Jewish, Portugese & African.
Jennifer Lopez for Example have Taino blood
Among Europeans they were predominantly Spanish. Hispaniola which is DR and Haiti had also French influence. With the list of different ethnic groups that you mentioned there were also Guanches that were transferred from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean.
J-Lo may also have a variety of different Caribbean Indian blood along with her Taino ancestry.
Post some taino beauty 😉
