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Oct 28, 2026
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While the islands may appear to be uninhabited to the untrained eye, that's simply not the case.
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Migrants from Southeast Asia, known as Micronesians, came to this paradise home as early as 2000 BCE, and their descendants today maintain a rich and beautiful culture.
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Surprisingly, there's no account of the residents of these islands coming into contact with Europeans until Captain Samuel Wallace happened upon them in 1529 even then their namesake Captain John Marshall of the British Navy did not venture through the atolls until 1788 and the majority of the mapping in this area was done by Russian explorers between 1808 and 1823.
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Over the centuries, native Marshallese chieftains brokered deals with various captains and companies across the world.
Vincent MoralesGUEST
Man, it was an assault on my senses, right? Because coming from the Midwest and being one of the only Latinos, Chicanos in that space, I never met any other brown folks.
Vincent MoralesGUEST
If you were in Kansas City, you were either Mexican or Micronesian.
Vincent MoralesGUEST
I mean, a lot of
Vincent MoralesGUEST
Micronesians in Kansas City.
Vincent MoralesGUEST
But I never met any Puerto Ricans, no Colombians.
Vincent MoralesGUEST
I never met any other brown folks.
LuemasGUEST
I think so.
LuemasGUEST
Um, I almost think that, um, well, the Polynesians, for example, which w- would be the majority of the Pacific, South Pacific islands and, but not all of, 'cause you have Melanesians and Micronesians.
LuemasGUEST
Uh, but I feel like they found the...
LuemasGUEST
I think, I feel like maybe people were on the continent, and then these navigators on the sea found these islands with people already on it that were survivors of that giant cataclysm.
Conrad FranzHOST
Oh, this is, uh, this must have just been a hard ground.
Conrad FranzHOST
Yeah, this was a very hard, uh, hard game for the day with the freaking Micronesians and the non-Khoisan, non-South African Khoisan, the, uh, Slavic people that looked Irish.
Conrad FranzHOST
That was that one.
Conrad FranzHOST
I should have gone with my instincts on that one.
Matthew P. FitzpatrickGUEST
Um, the Samoans have a relatively privileged position, um, in Pacific terms in that kind of hierarchy.
Matthew P. FitzpatrickGUEST
So for the Samoans, they'll say, for example, that the, um, that the, the, that there is a kind of, that, that the Samoans sit above the, the Melanesians and the Micronesians in terms of their racial position.
Matthew P. FitzpatrickGUEST
I mean, again, this is all pseudoscience nonsense, but this is what the, what the Germans are saying.
Matthew P. FitzpatrickGUEST
That leaves an opening in some ways for some interesting kind of, um, social experiments to be conducted.
Matthew FitzpatrickGUEST
But the, the, the short of it is, in some ways, [clears throat] that although the Samoans still fit into this kind of un- this understanding of a global hierarchy of races that the, that German anthropologists, amongst others, are, are kind of dis- uh, distributing around the world as, as science, um, the Samoans have a relatively privileged position, um, in Pacific terms in that kind of hierarchy.
Matthew FitzpatrickGUEST
So for the Samoans, they'll say, for example, that the, um, that the, the, that there is a kind of ... that, that the Samoans sit above the, the Melanesians and the Micronesians in terms of their racial position.
Matthew FitzpatrickGUEST
I mean, again, this is all pseudoscience nonsense, but this is what the, what the Germans are saying.
Matthew FitzpatrickGUEST
That leaves an opening in some ways for some interesting kind of, um, social experiments to be conducted.
Matthew FitzpatrickGUEST
But the short of it is, in some ways, that although the Samoans still fit into this understanding of a global hierarchy of races that German anthropologists, amongst others, are distributing around the world as science, the Samoans have a relatively privileged position in Pacific terms in that kind of hierarchy.
Matthew FitzpatrickGUEST
For the Samoans, I'll say, for example, that the Samoans sit above the Melanesians and the Micronesians in terms of their racial position.
Matthew FitzpatrickGUEST
Again, this is all pseudoscience nonsense, but this is what the Germans are saying.
Matthew FitzpatrickGUEST
That leaves an opening in some ways for some interesting social experiments to be conducted.
JanalineHOST
And then there are the US territories of Guam and American Samoa.
JanalineHOST
The ethnic makeup of the islands is broadly the Melanesian countries, the Polynesians, and the Micronesians.
JanalineHOST
So they have different cultural backgrounds.
JanalineHOST
So it's a very diverse region.