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Contents

 * 1Etymology
 * 2Culture and Soctiety
 * 3Origins
 * 3.1Genetics
 * 3.2Anthropology
 * 4See also
 * 5Notes
 * 5.1References
 * 6Further reading
 * 7External links

Etymology[edit]
The word Negrito is the Spanish diminutive of negro, used to mean "little black person". This usage was coined by 16th-century Spanish missionaries operating in the Philippines, and was borrowed by other European travellers and colonialists across Austronesia to label various peoples perceived as sharing relatively small physical stature and dark skin. Contemporary usage of an alternative Spanish epithet, Negrillos, also tended to bundle these peoples with the pygmy peoples of Central Africa, based on perceived similarities in stature and complexion. (Historically, the label Negrito has also been used to refer to African pygmies.) The appropriateness of using the label "Negrito" to bundle peoples of different ethnicities based on similarities in stature and complexion has been challenged. Negritos in a fishing boat (Philippines, 1899)

Many online dictionaries give the plural in English as either "Negritos" or "Negritoes", without preference. The plural in Spanish is "Negritos".

Culture and Society[edit]
A majority of the Negrito groups now live acustomed to the cultures of their homeland. The Negrito groups who remained untouched from other societies lived as hunter-gatherer s, up unitl the 1960's when governments and big corporations began to move into their land, tearing down trees in order to provide lumber to logging companies,thus deculturalizing their primary ways of life. The Negrito people recently as almost a decade ago have moved away from the hunting and gatheirng way of life. Nowing using agriculture as a primary means of growing crops and raising live stock. Not only has agriculture become a more wide spread means of surivial, agriculture paved the path to the use of trading. The Agta Negritos of the Phillipines trade meats and other goods to a neighboring lowland filioino group. But the Negrito people still face Discrimitaton and Poverty as their biggest problems. As the years keep progressing and the government begins to resrict the land of the Negrito people, the use of trading went from trading goods for other resources, to the Negrito trading those same goods as low wage labor. As food resources begin to dwindle we can now see the Negrito people moving to a more economic based way of life.