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Tenggerese people
Tenggerese, also called Wong Tengger or Tengger Javanese, are about 90,000 Hindu Javanese highlanders around Mount Bromo, East Java, preserving a Majapahit-era priesthood, an archaic Javanese dialect, and the annual Yadnya Kasada crater-offering rite.
Teochew people (潮州人)
Teochew people (潮州人, 潮汕人), a Han Chinese subgroup of the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong speaking the Southern Min Teochew dialect; noted for the Siam-centered diaspora of about 30 million, the 香叻暹汕 trade network, and a distinct ritual-craft culture.
Thai people
Thai people (ชาวไทย): Tai-speaking majority of Thailand, comprising Central, Northeastern (Isan/Thai-Lao), Northern (Khon Muang), and Southern Thai groups, descended from migrants from southern China and Yunnan, distinct from Sino-Thai and Malay Muslim minorities.
Viet people
Viet (Kinh) people, Vietnam's majority ethnic group (85.3% in 2019), Austroasiatic Việt–Mường language family, speakers of Vietnamese; Lac Viet origins, Dong Son culture, millennium of Chinese rule, global Viet kieu diaspora.
Visayans
Visayans (Bisaya) are the ethnolinguistic peoples of the central Philippines, divided into Cebuano, Waray, Hiligaynon, Kinaray-a, and Aklanon groups speaking related Bisayan Austronesian languages; Spaniards once called them Pintados, and tens of millions live in the Visayas and on Mindanao.
Yamato people
Yamato people (大和民族, Yamato minzoku) are Japan's majority ethnic group, over 90% of the population, formed by admixture of indigenous Jomon hunter-gatherers, Yayoi farmers from continental Asia via the Korean Peninsula, and a later Kofun-period East Asian influx.
Yellow Peril
Yellow Peril: racist Western ideology, also called yellow terror or yellow menace, framing East Asians, especially Chinese, as threats; drove the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and resurged in COVID-19 anti-Asian violence and US-China AI rhetoric.
Yi people
Yi people (彝族), also historically called Lolo, an official ethnic minority of southwest China; 9.8 million at the 2020 census, concentrated in Yunnan and Liangshan, Sichuan; Lolo-Burmese languages, bimo religion, logographic script.
Zhuang people
Zhuang people (壮族), China's largest ethnic minority, a Tai-Kadai-speaking group aboriginal to Guangxi; about 14.82 million in Guangxi (2010), strongly influenced by Han culture, with an Old Zhuang sinogram script.