the key word is Austronesian. Fujian and Cantonese have in them
Austonesian blood, a common ancestry they share with pacific
islanders, filipino, cambodians, malay, thai, vietnamese and other
s-e-asians.
that is why they have those characteristic features like deep eye
socket, the eyebrow bone are prominent, darker skin color, short
body frame, short limbs, the skull looks different (side, cross
section, back and frontal), more angular, high forehead, weak chin
for some, broad garlic nose, thick lips, coarser hair, bigger eyes
with non epicantic fold (double lids), more facial relief etc.
darker and thicker eyebrows, got much body hair. and also
odor-emitting tendency due to their acclimatisation to a warmer
climate. All these features are never considered the archtypical
standard marker of Chinese aesthetics. In short, they look ugly in
all honesty. why is Sammi cheng the darling of chinese pop-star
versus say, malaysian-born Fish Leong or souther-look sandra ng or
local singer, tanya chua (she looks perankan to me or look
thai-ish). even maggi cheung and sandy lam, representations of the
non-southern-look are popular. both have shanghainese
parents.
u can compare a local-born chinese against some from china, at
least north and beyond yangzte. the genetic makeup is very
different. the face is flat, more squared, thin or even sharp nose,
thin lip and small eyes, pale skin and very sparse body hair. it
applies to both gender. very litlte variatiation of facial
topography. u can find such people in Jiangsu and above, plus also
inland provinces like Sichuan. Only the Chinese whose heritage is
from coastal provinces like Guangzhou, Guangxi, Fujian, plus
Jiangxi and Hainan exhibit on a more frequent basis, those
Austronesiatic genetic features. They look very much like the
Souther minority pple in China like the Miao and Yi. and these are
what make up the genetic population here. u can see them everywhere
here, on the street, in food court, on the train. it is
everywhere.
