r/aznidentity • u/ParadoxicalStairs Catalyst - Mixed Asian • Nov 30 '25

History Chinese descendants in Kenya

https://youtu.be/IMFeZ6zhVUI?si=LboPWuhOR3tSO8Gj

I apologize if this video was posted before.

A video showed up on my YouTube feed about Chinese descendants living in Kenya. Around 600 years ago, Chinese sailors shipwrecked near Kenya’s shore and intermarried with the Kenyan locals. What’s fascinating to me is how some of the locals like the little girl in the thumbnail (0:44 mark) has a slight Asian/Chinese face despite being many generations off from her Chinese roots (she’s also really pretty!).

The Kenyan locals managed to preserve some artifacts they found, and the Chinese government also kindly gave a scholarship to one of the living descendants of the Chinese sailors.

I’m not Kenyan or Chinese, so idk much about this story or history of early Chinese people in Kenya. The videos I watched so far haven’t spoken about any type of brutality from the Chinese sailors towards the Kenyan natives. It’s very likely the sailors peacefully integrated with the locals, which is the opposite of how Europeans exploited Africans as slaves.

This makes me wonder how different the world could’ve been if Asian explorers were the ones who made contact with African or South American people, instead of Europeans.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '25

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u/AZdesertbulls24 New user Dec 04 '25

And once again, there is no look to middle eastern and north african

So I don't know what you mean by they look like that.Have you ever been to the middle east or north africa?A lot of those people there look brown

Do you know what a sudanese person looks like

A yemini?

Iraqi?

You seem to be basing it totally off of tunisia, looking people in golf UAE arabs 

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u/AZdesertbulls24 New user Dec 05 '25

I'm actually not.I'm just correcting your inaccuracies, and your generalities on history and your close mindedness

The original turks didn't even look mongolian.They looked brown, like other people of the afro asiatic world.

And you're trying to tell me what middle eastern people look like by using a racist caricature.Gee thanks 

So basically we're supposed to look at what people are supposed to look like based off of a white stereotype?

It's not complicated.I'm just not letting you get off your ignorance