I'm Filipino but think that the reality is the Pacific Islanders are actually Asian, through our Filipino ancestors who literally populated their islands (Austronesian).. We should be prouder of being one of the most ancient Asian people who gave birth to the Polynesians and Micronesians, not seek validation the other way around.
I heard one person (Filipino) on one of the youtube videos here that say “I think Pacific Islander sounds cool, so I used that term” and I’m like, the heck with you stupid. I think the video is called “Geography, Philippines” and the host's name is Ken.
It's rubbish, FYI, filipinos were lumped in with the asians, in the 60's the chinese students were protesting in Berkley, to gain attention, they invited other asians including the filipinos to join them. That's how the filipino became asian suddenly, the filipinos who came to the U.S. were surprised to hear they are asians because all along since birth they always considered themselves pacific islanders, situated in the Pacific after all. I'm filipino I say to people when they ask me, Im filipino not asian. My grandfather and my father happened to be of spanish descent who knows maybe they have american dna for they both have light skinned, straight nose. So I cannot say I'm asian. Philippines is not in Asia. When I think of Asian, I think of chinese, Thais, Singaporians, Malaysian.
@@bb89670 You counted Malaysia but not Philippines they're 2 out of 3 Malay countries and if Ph is not in Asia then why is it part and founding member of ASEAN which also includes Thailand Malaysia and Singapore also Indonesia as it's founding members looks that are past down in Gene do indicate where you're from like originally there are more dark skins in near the middle of the earth cause they received more sun light than when you're more north or south but it's just a past down gene that helps people survive to the environment and Asians don't just compose of those countries you list Russian are Asian Indians are Asian and in the Asian map Philippines is one of the countries that are near in the Middle beeing sandwich in it
Phillipines are part of the Malay race of south east asia, mostly brown (lightest to darkest) tan skin. Same DNA. Went my dad went to quezon city manila years ago for a course, he could easily blend with locals cos we look the same. We have similar words too like selamat, murah and mahal.... cheers.
First and foremost, as a proud filipino, i consider myself as a proud southeast asian, we do share the same culture with spain and mexico, but that doesnt mean we are "asian mexicans" only those who are ignorant label the filipinos as such. I do not have problems with hispanic cultures as i think it is a colorful culture and i am looking forward to learn it! but the philippines is a country that is much diverse with ALOT of languages and colors, we do not have a single culture, we are diverse. I am not hispanic, I am not chinese, I am not american, but i am a FILIPINO!
Filipinos come from various Austronesian ethnolinguistic groups. Currently, there are more than 185 ethnolinguistic groups in the Philippines.The Spanish recruited thousands of Chinese migrant workers called sangleys to build the colonial infrastructure in the islands. Many Chinese immigrants converted to Christianity, intermarried with the locals, and adopted Hispanized names and customs and became assimilated, although the children of unions between Filipinos and Chinese that became assimilated continued to be designated in official records as mestizos de sangley.
but nowadays their descendants just identify themselves as Filipinos. Many of the politicians and rich families in the Philippines are Chinese descent but they just identify themselves as Filipinos. Cory Cojuanco Aquino, Heart Evangelista, Chavit Singson, even Rodrigo Duterte, even Charice Pempengco, Alodia Gosengfiao. These are people who descent from Hans and Hokkiens of China (mostly). There are countless of them. Including the Jose Rizal and his descendants.
I thought it was Austranesian-Malay connection. PH 1600's wayback has no written history. Migration happened during Ice Age. Thats what i read briefly and hard to strenthen many factual data since the OP said 1600's wayback history was lost.
Yeah long story the important is our culture to remain and forget about the Religion it just separate all of us that is the purpose, Just follow Jesus.
The Philippines geographically is a part of Asia because it sits on top of the eastern edge of the Eurasian landmass and the Asian continent. The Austronesian peoples came from Asia to Taiwan and then to the Philippines before they spread out to Borneo, Indonesia, Guam, Palau, Hawaii, Micronesia, and Polynesia. The Austronesians who settled in the Philippines and became the Filipinos are Asian and the Philippines is a part of Asia just like Japan, Okinawa, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, and Vietnam. Pacific Islanders live on countries that are not part of Asia but are included in Oceania.
I’m Mexican and Mexico is part of the Amelricas the word Latin was just added by USA our people are tribal people but we where raped by the Spaniards that is why many of us Mexicans can pass as a Spaniard but not all the Spanish it seems really mixed there blood a lot more in soo called latin America we have high Spaniard dna in us up to 50 and even 65 percent but I know what my real ansestors are really but during colonial times yes sad to say even the Philippines would be labeled a latin Asian country if Mexico South America Cuba etc are called latin countries soo would the Philippines regardles of geography
We were Spanish-Filipino since 1600's when a Spanish friar r*ped a Filipina. Only until my maternal abuelo married my half Taiwanese half Filipino (Kapampangan) grandmother did we have Chinese blood. Not really.. because my mom married and my dad, who's of Chinese (mainland China), Spanish, and Filipino (Baguio) descent. My maternal great grandparents were the last of the line to ONLY SPEAK SPANISH, because my grandfather's generation learned Tagalog and English. My grandfather was also one of the people who translated the bible from Spanish to Tagalog and copies of it are in the Philippine library in Manila and the original copy is in our ancestral home in Ilocos. Diba, and kulay?
@@sarad4077 Yes, because we feel loved. Past is past. And if it didn't happen.. I probably wouldn't have been born in my family. What happened in the past was horrible, but that's not how it was for my great grandparents and so on.
Then, I works as quantity sourveyor in UAE. I meet people that he Filipino. He say he not from Philppines but he born over there. WOW, so special your brothers, Philippines. 🇵🇭❤🇲🇾
On my dad’s side, they have mixed Filipino/Spanish DNA. On my mom’s side, they have Indian/Chinese DNA. Philippines is such a diverse country, but what sets it apart from other Asian countries, is that it has a blend of traditional Filipino and Spanish Catholic traditions, which is deeply rooted in our way of living. Please, react to Sinulog Festival and the Mexican and Filipino Connection. Thanks
@@telltruth7027 Stop Trolling and stop hating! LOL! 😂 I never said Mexicans are Asians and Filipinos are Mexicans. You clearly don’t know the history between Nuevo Espana (Mexico) and Las Islas Filipinas (Philippines). We were governed by the Viceroyalty of Mexico for a very long time. We shared foods, language-Nuhuatl (ancient Aztec language), philosophy, and religion (Catholicism). What is your problem by the way? Are you a racist? Do you have something against Asians or what? Or do you pretend to be a Mexican because you’re just jealous that Philippines had a special connection with the Spanish culture? We have the best of both worlds. That’s what makes Philippines so special.
I’m from the states. I am proud to be Filipino thats a fact and I don’t deny being Asian. I don’t try to claim that I’m Polynesian , nor do the people from the states claim they’re are. They may say Pacific Islander but lol they never say Polynesian out here, that I know! So please take that factor out. I would also like to say this…. Cause alot of these comments are real hypocritical. I’m not one of those Filipinos who like to bleach my skin white to have a status or cause people think it looks dirty,ugly and don’t want to look down on or poor. This is real and is problematic. A lot of people who live in the PI even some in the states seem to be disgusted of being slightly tanned,tanned or dark! I am ilocano and I am proud to be tanned cause that is who I am . I love my people! And I am from the states. the ones who say they’re proud to be Filipino , I hope you also embrace how you suppose to look like. Cause we aren’t Korean or Japanese, Chinese. We are our own people. What’s sad to see is , I would watch Filipino movies or tv shows, music videos and I see a lot of people in the entertainment industry trying to look like them. Especially Korean pop 🤦🏽♀️. Or highly praising people who are mixed with another race and rather show them on Tv cause it’s more suitable for society? This blows my mind. People should sit on that than worried about claiming being Asian or Pacific Islander. Cause racism is real in the Philippines to its own people, roots! Talking about identity crisis”…. On alot of these comments I’m reading , That’s real hypocritical. I’m not saying all Filipinos are like this but to the ones who are embarrassed how the way we look but claim to be proud…Not only be proud to be Filipino , also BE proud to LOOK Filipino! Real talk🙄smh .
No don’t take it out. Some Filipinos I know told me they are Polynesians. So don’t take that out, trust me I’m from California and traveled all over the states while I was in the military. But I corrected them and educated that them they are Asian
@@joselitopalacio2770 no but still how the hell that we filipinos are not considered asians when we look so asian lmao yes there are people that look spanish but most of us are quite looking asian (try living here and you'll see) like whenever we go to another country, people will ask if we're chinese,japanese or korean so that means we look asians and we eat a lot of rice and our culture share the same as to other asian countries as well so how the hell we're not considered asian to you? Vjsjnfvjsinefndnek
I was born in the Philippines and lived here in the US since I was eleven years old. Thanks for sharing this video since I learned a lot about my birth country❣️All I know is that my dad’s side is Spanish (Cortes). His mother (my grandmother) her last name was (Cesar) before marrying my grandfather. I remember she even spoke the “Latin” language growing up. My mom’s side is part Chinese, Filipino, and Indian, so I'm also a “mutt,” like you said, and I own it❗❤️😄
@@kyleneri10 In your dreams. It was colonized but the origins of the Tribes are from South China known as Southern Han Tribes. Austronesian tribes migrated thousand years ago to Taiwan to Ancient Philippines then they travel to Borneo before Stop with your Spanish brainwashing that we have spanish blood brother. ✌🏻
7:09 Spain could only occupy a small part of the Philippines and this is why the Philippines was able to retain most of its cultures and more than 150 dialects unlike Mexico that lost everything
We do have a huge Spanish Influence but we didn’t lose everything. Many people in the country still know their dialect language even if they know Spanish, The day of the dead is still celebrated all over the country which an indigenous holiday/celebration, many women still wear huipiles (indigenous dresses), people still learn the Aztec Folk Dance to this day. Thankfully we still have our pyramids to remind us for our ancestors. Though we did lose a lot of our culture unwilling, we didn’t lose everything.
My mother's grandfather is a half Spanish. He possessed a Spanish characteristics vocally & had a handsome look which a Spanish possessed too. Philippines is a country of diversities from food, talents, nature, etc.
Somebody, I forgot who, somehow summed up what the Philippines is/are quite nicely - "The Philippines is the most Americanized Hispanic Asian country" :)
Spanish was one among the subjects from elementary to college in the year 60's, until the Department of Education removed it in school curriculum because not all countries speak spanish but English. So English was the second language for Filipinos to learn to speak English. Now, there are little Filipino could speak spanish n one certain place in Zamboanga, Mindanao region/island, speaks spanish. Owner of a big mall here named "Ayala" is the ancestry of Zobel from spanish businessman.
Before Spanish came we have own language spoken called BAYBAYIN we can read and write and before our country given a name as Philippines the name our country is MAHARLIKA AND THE PEOPLE ARE MAHARLIKANS MEANS ROYAL
Spaniard Spanish Language (from Spain) is different than Mexican Spanish (a lot of similarities but not the same). My friend who speaks Mexican Spanish went to Spain and they couldn't understand her. A lot of Pilipinos still speak Spanish (at least in my family), but they are Spaniard Spanish, NOT Mexican Spanish.
Don’t ask an American or any western people what we are cuz they will say whatever they want without thinking about what you feel as a Filipino. I have nothing against other cultures or ethnicity but when you start telling Filipino’s what you want them to be, you’re not going to get a good result especially if you are a foreigner. We are Asians, I am Asian! And we are proud of it. Period.
Actually, Philippines is not only GEOGRAPHICALLY asian because some of our customs are still asian like "mano", asian food, asian honorifics like ate and kuya. Mindanao and cordillera is still very asian. We have a type of martial art and keris, kudyapi and all that
Guys, factly & historically, the very first members of the Spanish expedition to circumnavigate the world looking for spices were Portuguese led by Fernando Magallanes (Ferdinand Magellan) who was AUTHORIZED by the King of Spain, King Philip II, after the King of Portugal denied him of his request to do the same. Only the next 4 ships that followed were purely Spaniards who were all imprisoned criminals.
Southeast Asian, East Asian, South Asian, Spanish and African, in that order, according to 23 and Me. I can relate to my Malaysian and Indonesian friends as much as I can with my Latino friends, but in different ways, and I'm sure Malaysians and Indonesians won't be able to relate with Latinos. Oh, I also relate with Americans in a way that's different from how I relate with the others. So, when I speak the little Bahasa I know, Indonesians will assume I'm one of them, when I speak Spanish, Latinos will assume I'm Latino, and when I speak English, Americans assume I'm American. Now that I'm in Holland, people assume I'm Surinamese, a former Dutch colony in South America inhabited by Indonesians, South Asians, and African descendants.
actually Indonesians are more influenced by Dutch food language culture but Indonesians don't admit that it's Dutch influence, meanwhile, Filipinos are less influenced by Spanish food language culture but Filipinos admit they are Hispanic 😁😁
Filipinos had more direct link with Mexico than Spain. Philippines was administered by Mexico (for Spain) from 1565 until Mexican Revolution (1820?) then that was the time Spain directly administered Ph until 1898. According to a history website I saw, interchange of people from both Mexico and Ph are significantly high due to Manila - Acapulco Galleon Trade. I know there are 10% Nahuati loan words are included in the many Philippine languages. The way we celebrated All Saints/Souls Day in November is similar with how Mexico does it. There is a place in Pampanga called Mexico, historically, a huge of Mexican migrants settled in that area. I also learned that during colonization, migrants from Mexico's ratio that settled in Central Philippines became 1:1 and intermarried with the locals. Same thing happened also with the Chinese, hence the massacre happened because the colonizers were worried that the Chinese would influence the locals on rebellion against Spain. Less people from Spain, but more people from Latin America, Southern China and the rest of Southeast Asia. Pacific island connection was established because PH was used a a corridor for people exchanges throughout the centuries from mainland Asia to Pacific islands and vice versa. According to studies, Pacific Islanders Austronesian roots are Filipinos.
At the same time it makes folks who are Papuan, Rapa nui, Kiribati etc even more non existent by that logic...We real pacific islanders are beautiful dark, olive, brown skin people. If your Melanesian, Micronesian or Polynesian your just soo damn fine ugh 💕
@six bullet is bad at destiny we real pacific islanders didn't had a choice to be called pacific islanders and the fact some of you guys wanna be called pacific islanders it just rubs us the wrong way
@six bullet is bad at destiny you guys are Asians not pacific islanders...no Filipino or Filipina in the Philippines consider themselves pacific islander.
@six bullet is bad at destiny Tongans, Fijians and Samoans have deep history and genetic connections... Maori is Polynesian but they separate and isolate themselves from the rest of Polynesia.
Why are you crossing Hispanic? Being hispanic is not something to BRAG ABOUT but definitely Filipinos are Hispanic since we have a huge influence since the Spanish Era until now. when we say Filipinos are Hispanic, it doesn't co-relate to being Latino/Latina, NO! that's a different thing, search it on Google, Filipinos are definitely Hispanic due to the ties and being under Spain for hundreds of years.
@@HumanSagaVault it was colonized but tracing back the genes we are AUSTRONESIAN TRIBES from Southern Mainland. If all of you study back the ancient Yue you will know the history of our ancestors has body tattoos on their bodies.
No disrespect to Filipinos but it’s pure cringe when you guys pretend to be Hispanics 😐😐😐you guys try too hard You may be Hispanic in terms of religion but not heritage or blood, unlike true Hispanics or Spanish 😐😶
nope. people evolve. places evolve. heard the term human migration? It's not always going to be the same. Tens of thousands of years before the islands were inhabited by Austronesians there were already australoid people in the islands. but of course it is no longer just austronesians but also Hans and Hokkien Chinese from Huaxia people. You know humans move from one place to the other. humans are not stuck on the land and they multiply. And this is how every corner of the globe got populated.
The Old Philippines before the Spanish Colonial period have ties with the Chinese there's even a monument in China for a Datu(a Datu is like a governor) there but ultimately shared the same Kingdom with Guam and Hawaii it is called "Maharlika" and their Family apparently still have the rights to the whole Philippines I don't know about the other pacific islands but they "own" the whole Philippines while in the Spanish colonization they just make us change our names and Spanish-Filipino's are a minority today so we are Pacific Islander with a sprinkle of Asian and has toppings of Spanish but ultimately that what makes us who we are Filipinos
Honestly, if you really visit the Philippines, you will notice that the majority of us look typical Southeast Asian - like Malay and Indonesians. I think the “Pacific Islander” term applies to Polynesians (like Hawaiians, Samoans, etc). You will rarely see Filipinos looking like that.
My great grandfather on my dad's side is Portugese but my grandfather on my mom's side is Chinese. Hispanic people thinks I'm Mexican but I love to eat Chinese food 😆 ...very cool to experience both sides of the DNA 😆
So I have a question for you Filipino Americans. Do your parents not talk to you about your homeland? How do you guys not know your islands are part of maritime Asia? How?! I am Samoan and my homeland is never mentioned in the schools here in America. But I know my country is in Polynesia. I knew this not from my teachers, but from my parents! Why are Filipino American parents not teaching their kids crap?!
There are many others of mixed race, who grew up in other countries, yet are half Filipino, some even award winning, Hollywood celebrities, Miss Universe also and some World famous music celebrities, so that question can be answered by DNA.
not all Filipinos have Spanish blood as it was claimed by most, sometimes ppl from outsiders still confused, bcoz our way of comercialism will always represented by most HALFIE poeple,and if you have that you will be more qualified in terms of employment etc....aside from that who would buy a certain products that was commercially recommended by a pure austronesian?unless a popular one. Filipino is not latin ,yes some latin in thier langue but not all by blood..unlike Mexico which is the land of the mestizos about 86% while Filipinos consist about 3% only. more on malays/Indonesia.
Lol Filipinos has so much similarity with other Countries even languages. My other half or the person I am with right now for 12 years is Mexican/ Italian and I'm Spaniard/ Filipino. But some people seems can't accept the truth. Size wise in Samoans are what the food they eat and the mixture of Samoans people are maybe has Europeans that's why they are tall. We have some tall people in the Philippines too who plays basketball. Not all Filipinos are shorts. I'm proud to be Filipino Asian/American and at least Asian or Filipinos are hard workers too.
After Spain colonized the Philippines and Mexico, Spain established the galleon shipping trade between Mexico and Manila selling products made from China, India, and the spices. They also took and traded some Filipinos as slaves to Mexico. Spanish rulers in the Philippines came from Mexico (Spanish born in Mexico) The galleon trade ended in 1898 after the Spaanish-American war. Filipinos who committed crimes and rebellion in the Philippines are sent or shipped to Guam, also a Pacific island colony of Spain.
You wrong regarding what you said thar spanish american because their not fighting at all thet just making a fake war because when the american arrived in the philippine the spaniard are weaken they just hold the wall city the intramuros when the pilipinos told to spaniard to surrender but they are not to do that not to surrender to the pilipinos because of their pride and when the american arrive the spaniard make a secret negotiation to the american and they ask $ 20 million for their exit in our country and after their negotiation they spanish fleed without a blood shed and the american made a check point in the part of manila to fake that they won against spanish that is why our katipunero on that time are angry to american and that is the start of philippine american war because u.s. is steal our country .and when they won because their is a lot of pilipinos are traitor to our country because of how much they recieve a bribe money from american and after the war american collected some tribe in our country like igorot and some other aetas and they bring to america and tell their citizen that philippine is not a civilised country ang their people are not wearing a cloth just what you can see in the igorot tribe and they put in a place like a carnival and feed like an animal in the u.s. they didn't say that the pilipinos are educated before they arrive in the philippine.and they say that they liberated them from the spanish rule but it is big liar because they are not fighting is just our countrymen who fought for our freedom from the spanish rule they just making a fake war after their secret negotiation with spanish with money involved for the exit of the spanish .
In other words, the ethnicity of the citizens of the Philippines or any Countries for that matter, depends on who is asking. As I said in my preceding posts, for example, the U.S. Federal Government recognized the ethnicity of the citizens of the Philippines as Filipinos, period. If you will ask a Demographer(s), they may come up with different answers when it comes to the ethnicity of the citizens of a given Country. For example, Barack Obama, yes Obama the former President of the U.S. is considered Black although his mother was white. Kamala Harris, yes Harris the current Vice President of the U.S. is considered as Black, although her mother is Indian (from India) therefore brown, and her father is part white, part black.Weird, isn't it?
DNA ancestry testing is not really a thing to do in the Philippines coz it's very expensive. Filipinos would rather spend their money on their daily needs.
Who cares, anyways, right? If you're mestiza, then obviously, you have foreign blood in you. For sure you can easily trace who gave you that beautiful features. I look very Filipina, so nothing foreign in me..as simple as that. :)
It is a Pacific Islander because it is a group of island as well it is not physically attached to Asian continent preferably. Therefor, it is literally Pacific Islander but close to Asia.
That's what I say. Filipinos who came from the Philippines suddenly became Asians. Geezzzz! They're filipinos, now the filipinos really think they're Asians, because that's what happens when you come to America, lol, it's been planted to their psyche, it's insane. According to a doctor who did research in New York U. filipinos has Portuguese dna too.
@@bb89670 So Taiwan, Indonesia, people from borneo are not asian? because your definition clearly says that people from islands that are NOT part of the mainland asia are not asian. You should really educate yourself before saying anything because you're making a fool out of yourself.
As a Pacific Islander theres a debate on where we originate from. Most have heard of Taiwan but no actual confirmation or timeline. Kind of like saying we all from Africa, known but no longer relevant as we've had generations after generations with our own identity. Also about our size, its genetics now but apparently its from our voyager days. They are at sea on canoes for so long their bodies adapted to holding more food to last that time period. We still have the body capacity but unfortunately we aint as active as our ancestors so you see alot more chunkier pacific islanders 😂
Basically, most of Tagalog has simmilarity to Malay too, include Samoan. Try to denied this fact. Also, The President Of Philippines right now, had claim before Spanish Invasion & Christian, Philippines is part of Tanah Melayu & Most Of Philippines are Islam lead by Sultan Lapulapu. But due for a long Invasion of Spanish, the Conversion of Philippines Citizen to Christian Become Like A Must Law, & who still Islam, being separate & called as Bangsamoro, or in my Country, Bangsa Moro which means, "Bangsa"- Races & "Moro" - is the name of that Races. Same goes Hawaii, King Kalaukaua on 1881once admit, that Hawaii Native People is Part Of Malay & He is Part of Malay Royal Blood & Almost Joinning Tanah Melayu.
Before the Spanish came to our land, Manila was a Muslim City ruled by Rajah Sulaiman and the Tondo district ruled by his cousin Lakandula. Aman-illah was the original name of Manila but the Spaniards concocted a different story to erased our true identity as a Bangsa.
@@enricobalangatan91 Assalamualaikum My Brother. Glad to get reply by the Muslim Community from Philippines. I hope i can get a chance to visit Philippines & get to know the Muslim Community there.👍
@@enricobalangatan91 By The Way, you know Mark Adam? He is Originally a Philippines Musician & Artist, but now he live in Malaysia & we Malaysia like him so much.
I can say that the Filipinos is a Mixture of many blood and races. We have Chinese blood, Japanese blood, Filipino native blood, American blood, Spanish blood too. We have been occupied by the Spanish people for more than 500 years, the Americans colonized us too, the Chinese were the first people who traded with us, and they stayed on, also the Japanese people wad there too, during World war 2, In general, we have a mixture of many blood in us, that is why, we dont look the same. We are full of diversity.
Its not the spaniards from mainland spain who mixed with some of the filipinos, its actually the mexican mestizos who mixed with us cuz only mexican families immigrated in the philippines not spanish from spain. There's always difference between spanish from mainland spain and mexican
This video was way off when it said that Spaniards and Filipinos mixed a lot. Not true. An extremely small minority of Filipinos have a small mixture of less than 5 Percent Spanish
ACCORDING TO OTHER THEORY, FILIPINOS ARE AUSTRONESIAN ETHNIC, AND THE AUSTRONESIAN WAS THE ONE WHO FIRST REACHED SOUTH AMERICA, THEY BASED THEIR ASSUMPTION ON THE COCONUTS, SWEET POTATOES, AND CHICKENS IN SOUTH AMERICA THAT ARE NATIVE TO THE PHILIPPINES. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian_peoples
for me the question is: Are Pacific Islanders Filipino? yes we share a lot of DNA with them. In any case, the question is obsolete after taking into account the shared genetics and vocabulary. as for the Spsnish, they too were mixed arab, germanic, viking, gypsies and locals long before reaching the Phils. These ethnic questionnairs really do not make sense.😮
Are white Americans living in the U.S., European Americans?, or White Americans? British Americans? What are they???? What do you really call them??? Seriously!! Just curious!! Please tell me!
I think the U.S. Fed Government identified the citizens of the Philippines today NOT as Asian, Hispanic nor Pacific Islanders. They are Filipino for the purpose of classifying ethnicity. You can see in some Federal and States' documents.That is, if the document ask for ethnicity among other listed in the questionnaire "are you White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, Native American, Pacific Islanders, Filipino." t
Spanish is a term related to Spain, and people from the Philippines are Latinos, who come from the Italian province of Lazio. Respect your Asian ancestors rather than trying to hide them, because you are entirely Asian despite your adopted Spanish surnames, Catholic faith, and even Castilian terms that you have incorporated into your own language. There are no drawbacks to being Asian, so embrace your identity. You are the only ones who worship, revere, and hold positive attitudes toward your oppressive invaders; other Asian nations were conquered by Europeans, but they do not identify as Dutch, French or Portuguese.
The Philippines is a melting pot of western and eastern culture and due to our geographical location, our country became a favorite target of colonizers aka Portuguese, Spanish, Americans and Japanese and the silent colonizers, Chinese, while our ancestors during the precolonial era intermarried, traded and migrated from balangay to balangay (barangay or city-state) and to our neighboring countries. Studies shows that we can trace our ancestry to the Indomalayan race but since we've been colonized for almost four centuries; our genetics, languages and cultures are a mix of that from the west and east, and it actually depends on the family that you came from. I, for one, often get asked a lot if I'm Chinese or Korean because I have smaller eyes (which I always find weird because I am not monolith). I'm not sure if there's a Chinese blood in my DNA but my maternal great grandfather from my mom's father's side has Chinese inscription on his tombstones. My maternal grandmother was also partly Spanish (I'm not sure of the percentage tho) and my mom would often say that their mom raised them the Spanish way. My Lola was super strict which was a common stereotype for the Spaniards due to the tyrant Spanish friars and I noticed that my mom and her siblings uses Spanish words for left and right (I don't even know how to spell it because it wasn't as common as Filipino words derived from the Spanish language) and my cousins who lived in their ancestral home also uses those words (my siblings and I don't because we rarely go to our Lola's house). I'm not even sure if we have our roots from the indigenous people especially that my grandparents were also migrants. My maternal grandmother was from Dumaguete while my paternal grandfather was born in Leyte but grew up in Basilan and moved to Dipolog (which is my hometown). Meanwhile, the families of my maternal grandfather and paternal grandmother owned several properties in the oldest developed areas in our place which could mean that they were among the first settlers or they were rich enough to purchase properties there post-war. My paternal grandmother was also related to a lot of the original settlers in our province that could mean that if your family is from Dipolog or Dapitan, there's a possibility that we can be distant relatives whether by blood or by intermarriage. Language is also dynamic especially the Filipino languages. A significant percentage of Filipinos are multi-lingual (mother tongue + Filipino based on Tagalog + English, in my case, my mother tongue is Visayan). First, Filipino although mainly based in Tagalog accepts words from other Filipino languages and borrowed words from foreign languages. They said the Filipino language belongs to the Austronesian family, I'm not really sure what that is. I hated Linguistics in college. But I noticed similarities of the words we use from the Spanish, Latin, Chinese, Malaysian and Indonesian languages. I used to think it was closer to Spanish but when I took Spanish class in college, I was totally wrong. The Filipino language is not even close to the Spanish language structurally and grammatically speaking. If you think about it, this is also the same with the Japanese, Chinese and Korean languages. I was amazed how the word "promise" in the respective languages sounded the same but then, their languages are similar but different. The problem with people who traces their ancestry back to the Philippines but are born and raised in the US is that they have historical and cultural disconnect with their Philippine heritage because they were raised with western culture and mentality and at the same time, racism forces them to identify with their Filipino heritage instead of the citizenship they hold. Since most of them never set foot in the Philippines, let alone experienced our culture firsthand, they have stereotypical views on our culture, same with the Asian culture, in general. With how poor a lot of Americans are in geography and world history, I'm not even shocked if they have little knowledge on the Asian culture and how close the Philippine culture is to the cultures of our Asian neighbors especially the Southeast Asians. Our racial and cultural ambiguity confuses them because their views on Philippine culture is unfortunately dismal. What they don't know is that Filipinos are more than our local cuisine, our strong accent, the use of taboo, honorifics and even the "mano", "po and opo." Within the Philippines alone, we have a diverse culture depending on the region you are from. Even people in some regions have diverse culture and ethnicity within the region lol. In my province, they call it tricultural because it is home to the lumad (native tribe) called "Subanen", then the Muslims (which have different tribes of their own and Christians. A lot of Filipinos like me who do not belong to any tribe or have dominant foreign blood can look similar to the Chinese, Malays, or Indonesians but not quite. Like I said, a lot of people would ask me if I was Chinese because of my eyes but my nose, height and skin is that of any typical Filipino; flat, short and brown (but I don't also fall into the morena category). I also don't use Ate and Kuya to my siblings (although I use it for older people and people I don't know). I only use po and opo when I speak Filipino and, dude, I probably ate more burgers than lechon. I find it weird how these mfs say we are Pacific Hslander because of "coconuts" and how similar our culture is with them, lol. I love buko juice but I don't fckin live like an islander much less, a Pacific Islander. I only go to the beach to swim and unwind. The Philippines do not have a homogenous citizenry neither we have same genetic make up; we developed and still developing our unique culture by embracing modernity and our cultural heritage. We can be distant relatives with the Pacific Islanders by DNA but we are not one of them. Our culture and history will forever have Spanish influence that we share with the Hispanics but due to our geographical location and being an archipelago, we were able to retain a lot of our native culture when the natives had to flee to the far-flung mountains and rural areas to evade Spanish tyranny. Not to mention, fewer migration from Spain to the Philippines compared to other countries and only the mestizo and the middle/upper middle class could afford higher education at that time whereas the US introduced public school system and taught the Filipinos their language. I used to be very sympathetic of the discrimination and racism they went through growing up in the US, but I am really getting annoyed on this Pacific Islander, Hispanic or Asian debate. Please spare us with your identity crisis. Filipinos are Southeast Asians, get it?!
It's crazy because it's so simple to find out the answer to this dumb debate but these Filipino Americans love to ignore the simple fact that the Philippines is part of Southeast Asia and therefore, logically, with all the common sense in the world, Filipinos are Asian. I guess some people want to be blind.
Im 68% european 52% spanish 5% italian and rest european...24% chinese 2percent native indian american 8% asian..but i wanna be more asian or american than spanish
The Philippines is a Colonized by Spain for 333 Years and Ceded to Americans In a Treaty of Hongkong then the Philippines American War Ensued after it.
Filipino are you can say ORIENTAL to be specific ORIENT means east, or you can say Aupirian from Aupir based on recent facts, Filipino is the oldest bloodline, Ancient blood.
If look all the way back before Spaniards came, Filipinos are MALASIAN decent, like Lapu Lapu was our national hero, Spaniards, American, Japanese came, they love the resort, food, women that's why they stayed there for awhile
@Koko martin Here's the history of the Philippines before Spaniards came, study our history, ruclips.net/video/D01xKvBbRgA/видео.html, ruclips.net/video/RooranPbD6Y/видео.html,
@Koko martin Filipino was declared Pacific Islanders in the 80s, Hawaiian, Samoan, Figi, wanted their own ethnic agenda, that's why when your question I was referring to now, but Philippines are really Asian, you're probably too young to experience when we were in school they wanted us to check Pacific Islanders instead of Asian ethnicity,
Try to watch and react on 21 reasons you should retired in the Philippines. I am a new subscriber i watch your show for month's now and i like how you guys tried filipino fast food jollibee. Stay awesome and be positive all the time 😀
@@TheCommodity HAPPY 4TH OF JULY......I am proud being a filipina a foreign person have high respect in our country and culture as well. Some countries have misconception on us thank you so much guy's with your positive comments . Check out cebu city too its a place were i live a nice place and friendly people more places to explore ,white sand resorts, safari if you want more adventure we have caves, falls and mountains . Its more fun in the Philippines
Philippines were under by Spaniard for 300 hundreds years then under by American for almost 50 years, the Japanese and some korean soldiers wanted to invaded the Philippines during the Second World War , Philippines were under by Japanese for almost 5 years and they very cruel to.Pilipino people , again Americans save the Philippines from the slavery of Japanese and Korean soldiers. After American helped the Philippines they proclaimed the friendship of the Philippines and Americans on July 4,1946 , so the Philippines got their independence..Philippines is very rich in natural resources that why they like to invade the Philippines ..American is our savior from these countries who wanted to invaded Philippines. A lot of Pilipinos have Spanish blood because Philippines were under by Spaniard for 300 years. Some Pilipinos have Chinese blood because Chinese were every where and some Pilipinos have American blood too. These what I know to our Philippines history. Americans are always there for Pilipinos people. Now they celebrate the Philippines independence on June 12..
I just wanna add, there's a really big misconception for a lot of Filipinos about being Hispanic and being Latino/Latina, they thought it means the same thing, NO it does not! Being Latino/Latina only applies to anyone born in or with ancestors from Latin America and living in the U.S. That's it, it would only apply to people in Latin America in the U.S. while the term Hispanic broadly refers to the people, nations, and cultures that have a historical link to Spain. It commonly applies to countries once part of the Spanish Empire, particularly the countries of Latin America, the Philippines, Equatorial Guinea, and Spanish Sahara. with this being said, definitely Filipinos are Hispanic, but never Latino/Latina. and also I just wanna add, being called Hispanic is not something to brag about, why would we? its just the reality and the fact that we have been under the Spanish Empire for hundreds of years, AGAIN, Being HISPANIC is not something to brag about, just say We are hispanic because of the Spanish traditions and cultures that we still practice up until this day. what can we do? that's just the reality of us Filipinos. accept it.
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Only Filipino who lives in the US call themselves Pacific Islanders. Filipinos living in the PH only know the term Asian. So we are Asian. Period.
Totoo yan at makikita mo sa IG nila half american half islander kuno
american people always categorized everything
@@tykobrayderintergalacticmo1856 Mga american ayaw sa asian pero gustong gusto naman nila mag asawa ng asian women
I'm Filipino but think that the reality is the Pacific Islanders are actually Asian, through our Filipino ancestors who literally populated their islands (Austronesian).. We should be prouder of being one of the most ancient Asian people who gave birth to the Polynesians and Micronesians, not seek validation the other way around.
I heard one person (Filipino) on one of the youtube videos here that say “I think Pacific Islander sounds cool, so I used that term” and I’m like, the heck with you stupid. I think the video is called “Geography, Philippines” and the host's name is Ken.
Filipino should be proud as Asian 💪👌..be original and authentic and preserve the custom and cultures.
but we did share the same kingdom with Hawaii the Kingdom of Maharlika from 9th century to 15th century is surprisingly big
It's rubbish, FYI, filipinos were lumped in with the asians, in the 60's the chinese students were protesting in Berkley, to gain attention, they invited other asians including the filipinos to join them. That's how the filipino became asian suddenly, the filipinos who came to the U.S. were surprised to hear they are asians because all along since birth they always considered themselves pacific islanders, situated in the Pacific after all. I'm filipino I say to people when they ask me, Im filipino not asian. My grandfather and my father happened to be of spanish descent who knows maybe they have american dna for they both have light skinned, straight nose. So I cannot say I'm asian. Philippines is not in Asia. When I think of Asian, I think of chinese, Thais, Singaporians, Malaysian.
@@bb89670 You counted Malaysia but not Philippines they're 2 out of 3 Malay countries and if Ph is not in Asia then why is it part and founding member of ASEAN which also includes Thailand Malaysia and Singapore also Indonesia as it's founding members looks that are past down in Gene do indicate where you're from like originally there are more dark skins in near the middle of the earth cause they received more sun light than when you're more north or south but it's just a past down gene that helps people survive to the environment and Asians don't just compose of those countries you list Russian are Asian Indians are Asian and in the Asian map Philippines is one of the countries that are near in the Middle beeing sandwich in it
Phillipines are part of the Malay race of south east asia, mostly brown (lightest to darkest) tan skin. Same DNA. Went my dad went to quezon city manila years ago for a course, he could easily blend with locals cos we look the same. We have similar words too like selamat, murah and mahal.... cheers.
@@marinaau8551 langit and mata too are Malay words. Salamat pok are also Malay words.
First and foremost, as a proud filipino, i consider myself as a proud southeast asian, we do share the same culture with spain and mexico, but that doesnt mean we are "asian mexicans" only those who are ignorant label the filipinos as such. I do not have problems with hispanic cultures as i think it is a colorful culture and i am looking forward to learn it! but the philippines is a country that is much diverse with ALOT of languages and colors, we do not have a single culture, we are diverse. I am not hispanic, I am not chinese, I am not american, but i am a FILIPINO!
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Us filipinos are technically Hispanic Southeast Asians. Much like how Mexicans are Hispanic North Americans.
¿In which sense Castilian speakers share the same culture as Filipinos? Explain, please.
Filipinos come from various Austronesian ethnolinguistic groups. Currently, there are more than 185 ethnolinguistic groups in the Philippines.The Spanish recruited thousands of Chinese migrant workers called sangleys to build the colonial infrastructure in the islands. Many Chinese immigrants converted to Christianity, intermarried with the locals, and adopted Hispanized names and customs and became assimilated, although the children of unions between Filipinos and Chinese that became assimilated continued to be designated in official records as mestizos de sangley.
but nowadays their descendants just identify themselves as Filipinos. Many of the politicians and rich families in the Philippines are Chinese descent but they just identify themselves as Filipinos. Cory Cojuanco Aquino, Heart Evangelista, Chavit Singson, even Rodrigo Duterte, even Charice Pempengco, Alodia Gosengfiao. These are people who descent from Hans and Hokkiens of China (mostly). There are countless of them. Including the Jose Rizal and his descendants.
Austronesian tribes originally from Southern Mainland now (China) they're not Chinese natives but YUE tribe.
I thought it was Austranesian-Malay connection. PH 1600's wayback has no written history. Migration happened during Ice Age. Thats what i read briefly and hard to strenthen many factual data since the OP said 1600's wayback history was lost.
The Chinese also brought their culture in the Philippines even before Spanish colonization
Yeah long story the important is our culture to remain and forget about the Religion it just separate all of us that is the purpose, Just follow Jesus.
The Philippines geographically is a part of Asia because it sits on top of the eastern edge of the Eurasian landmass and the Asian continent. The Austronesian peoples came from Asia to Taiwan and then to the Philippines before they spread out to Borneo, Indonesia, Guam, Palau, Hawaii, Micronesia, and Polynesia. The Austronesians who settled in the Philippines and became the Filipinos are Asian and the Philippines is a part of Asia just like Japan, Okinawa, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, and Vietnam.
Pacific Islanders live on countries that are not part of Asia but are included in Oceania.
Lol nobody said pacific people came from the Philippines only Filipinos themselves
I’m Mexican and Mexico is part of the Amelricas the word Latin was just added by USA our people are tribal people but we where raped by the Spaniards that is why many of us Mexicans can pass as a Spaniard but not all the Spanish it seems really mixed there blood a lot more in soo called latin America we have high Spaniard dna in us up to 50 and even 65 percent but I know what my real ansestors are really but during colonial times yes sad to say even the Philippines would be labeled a latin Asian country if Mexico South America Cuba etc are called latin countries soo would the Philippines regardles of geography
*My boyfriend's DNA test results (he's Filipino) showed he's 60% Spanish, around 17% Indigenous Filipino, and the rest (around 23%) is East Asian.*
Mine was a mixed of Filipino, Spanish and Chilean ancestry.
We were Spanish-Filipino since 1600's when a Spanish friar r*ped a Filipina. Only until my maternal abuelo married my half Taiwanese half Filipino (Kapampangan) grandmother did we have Chinese blood. Not really.. because my mom married and my dad, who's of Chinese (mainland China), Spanish, and Filipino (Baguio) descent. My maternal great grandparents were the last of the line to ONLY SPEAK SPANISH, because my grandfather's generation learned Tagalog and English. My grandfather was also one of the people who translated the bible from Spanish to Tagalog and copies of it are in the Philippine library in Manila and the original copy is in our ancestral home in Ilocos.
Diba, and kulay?
Is it something to be proud of..getting conquered by Spanish and u know what happened next to the poor natives including your great great grandparent
@@sarad4077
Yes, because we feel loved. Past is past. And if it didn't happen.. I probably wouldn't have been born in my family.
What happened in the past was horrible, but that's not how it was for my great grandparents and so on.
Stop lying
Then, I works as quantity sourveyor in UAE. I meet people that he Filipino. He say he not from Philppines but he born over there. WOW, so special your brothers, Philippines. 🇵🇭❤🇲🇾
On my dad’s side, they have mixed Filipino/Spanish DNA. On my mom’s side, they have Indian/Chinese DNA. Philippines is such a diverse country, but what sets it apart from other Asian countries, is that it has a blend of traditional Filipino and Spanish Catholic traditions, which is deeply rooted in our way of living. Please, react to Sinulog Festival and the Mexican and Filipino Connection. Thanks
Same.
Agree
Stop name dropping Mexico. We don't want to be compared to Filipinos. Mexicans are NOT Asian.
@@telltruth7027 Stop Trolling and stop hating! LOL! 😂 I never said Mexicans are Asians and Filipinos are Mexicans. You clearly don’t know the history between Nuevo Espana (Mexico) and Las Islas Filipinas (Philippines). We were governed by the Viceroyalty of Mexico for a very long time. We shared foods, language-Nuhuatl (ancient Aztec language), philosophy, and religion (Catholicism). What is your problem by the way? Are you a racist? Do you have something against Asians or what? Or do you pretend to be a Mexican because you’re just jealous that Philippines had a special connection with the Spanish culture? We have the best of both worlds. That’s what makes Philippines so special.
@@mt7754 still NOT similar
I’m from the states. I am proud to be Filipino thats a fact and I don’t deny being Asian. I don’t try to claim that I’m Polynesian , nor do the people from the states claim they’re are. They may say Pacific Islander but lol they never say Polynesian out here, that I know! So please take that factor out.
I would also like to say this…. Cause alot of these comments are real hypocritical. I’m not one of those Filipinos who like to bleach my skin white to have a status or cause people think it looks dirty,ugly and don’t want to look down on or poor. This is real and is problematic.
A lot of people who live in the PI even some in the states seem to be disgusted of being slightly tanned,tanned or dark! I am ilocano and I am proud to be tanned cause that is who I am . I love my people! And I am from the states. the ones who say they’re proud to be Filipino , I hope you also embrace how you suppose to look like. Cause we aren’t Korean or Japanese, Chinese. We are our own people.
What’s sad to see is , I would watch Filipino movies or tv shows, music videos and I see a lot of people in the entertainment industry trying to look like them. Especially Korean pop 🤦🏽♀️. Or highly praising people who are mixed with another race and rather show them on Tv cause it’s more suitable for society? This blows my mind.
People should sit on that than worried about claiming being Asian or Pacific Islander. Cause racism is real in the Philippines to its own people, roots! Talking about identity crisis”…. On alot of these comments I’m reading , That’s real hypocritical.
I’m not saying all Filipinos are like this but to the ones who are embarrassed how the way we look but claim to be proud…Not only be proud to be Filipino , also BE proud to LOOK Filipino! Real talk🙄smh .
No don’t take it out. Some Filipinos I know told me they are Polynesians. So don’t take that out, trust me I’m from California and traveled all over the states while I was in the military. But I corrected them and educated that them they are Asian
We are Austronesian Asians in Origin admins. (filipina here with fair features) We are not Pacific Islanders. Pacific Islanders are Polynesians.
Pacific islanders: Micronesians, Melanesians and Polynesians
We're living in the Philippines which is part of South East Asia , so we are Asian.
Lebanon and Iran are part of West Asia, Do you consider them Asians too?
@@joselitopalacio2770 no but still how the hell that we filipinos are not considered asians when we look so asian lmao yes there are people that look spanish but most of us are quite looking asian (try living here and you'll see) like whenever we go to another country, people will ask if we're chinese,japanese or korean so that means we look asians and we eat a lot of rice and our culture share the same as to other asian countries as well so how the hell we're not considered asian to you? Vjsjnfvjsinefndnek
As for the size, I think it's all about the diet over the centuries, they adapted to their environment.
I have Spanish blood coz my great grandfather was a Spanish.
Filipino-Spanish 🇵🇭 🇪🇸
Hahahah my father is from Aragon, Spain. Im half Filipino/Spanish.. gracias
As a Pinay, I see myself as a Southeast Asian.
I was born in the Philippines and lived here in the US since I was eleven years old. Thanks for sharing this video since I learned a lot about my birth country❣️All I know is that my dad’s side is Spanish (Cortes). His mother (my grandmother) her last name was (Cesar) before marrying my grandfather. I remember she even spoke the “Latin” language growing up. My mom’s side is part Chinese, Filipino, and Indian, so I'm also a “mutt,” like you said, and I own it❗❤️😄
Lol, that's Filipino Spanish, Chinese, american and indian
Filiinos are like SM Malls. We got it all for you. haha. Just kidding.
That’s funny. 😂
Yeah, and they're like BDO's as well. We find ways to identify ourselves as other races as well.
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We will forever be Asians. Proud of it! 😁🤘
Yes!!!
Yes but we're Hispanic to we're just long lost brother from Spanish family
Yes!
@@kyleneri10 In your dreams. It was colonized but the origins of the Tribes are from South China known as Southern Han Tribes. Austronesian tribes migrated thousand years ago to Taiwan to Ancient Philippines then they travel to Borneo before Stop with your Spanish brainwashing that we have spanish blood brother. ✌🏻
@@strawberryshortcake_1994 the Spaniards like çolonize us for 300 years what u expect that's why alot of filipino look like Mexicans
I am a Filipino. Philippines is in the heart of Asia. That makes Filipinos Asian. Not all Filipinos have Spanish blood. I don't.
True
7:09 Spain could only occupy a small part of the Philippines and this is why the Philippines was able to retain most of its cultures and more than 150 dialects unlike Mexico that lost everything
We do have a huge Spanish Influence but we didn’t lose everything. Many people in the country still know their dialect language even if they know Spanish, The day of the dead is still celebrated all over the country which an indigenous holiday/celebration, many women still wear huipiles (indigenous dresses), people still learn the Aztec Folk Dance to this day. Thankfully we still have our pyramids to remind us for our ancestors. Though we did lose a lot of our culture unwilling, we didn’t lose everything.
Spaniard cannot control the muslims in Mindanao.
My DNA result was Scottish, Irish, Norwegian from my father side. From my mother side who was born in Zamboanga City is Spanish, Indonesian and Malay.
My mother's grandfather is a half Spanish. He possessed a Spanish characteristics vocally & had a handsome look which a Spanish possessed too. Philippines is a country of diversities from food, talents, nature, etc.
Somebody, I forgot who, somehow summed up what the Philippines is/are quite nicely - "The Philippines is the most Americanized Hispanic Asian country" :)
Spanish was one among the subjects from elementary to college in the year 60's, until the Department of Education removed it in school curriculum because not all countries speak spanish but English. So English was the second language for Filipinos to learn to speak English. Now, there are little Filipino could speak spanish n one certain place in Zamboanga, Mindanao region/island, speaks spanish. Owner of a big mall here named "Ayala" is the ancestry of Zobel from spanish businessman.
Lucio Tan too
Pacific island
Before Spanish came we have own language spoken called BAYBAYIN we can read and write and before our country given a name as Philippines the name our country is MAHARLIKA AND THE PEOPLE ARE MAHARLIKANS MEANS ROYAL
In my DNA Chinese/Spanish/Filipino, born & raised Filipino now CANADIAN migrated since 1990
The fact Filipino's liked it when we are being mentioned.. don't lie kapwa kabayan alam ko may iilan atleast Dyan pa like at reply Naman
Spaniard Spanish Language (from Spain) is different than Mexican Spanish (a lot of similarities but not the same). My friend who speaks Mexican Spanish went to Spain and they couldn't understand her. A lot of Pilipinos still speak Spanish (at least in my family), but they are Spaniard Spanish, NOT Mexican Spanish.
@Michelle yah, and?
Similar to Mexico, there are several Spanish accents in Spain. Which Spanish accent do you mean, from Spain?
Don’t ask an American or any western people what we are cuz they will say whatever they want without thinking about what you feel as a Filipino. I have nothing against other cultures or ethnicity but when you start telling Filipino’s what you want them to be, you’re not going to get a good result especially if you are a foreigner. We are Asians, I am Asian! And we are proud of it. Period.
Actually, Philippines is not only GEOGRAPHICALLY asian because some of our customs are still asian like "mano", asian food, asian honorifics like ate and kuya. Mindanao and cordillera is still very asian. We have a type of martial art and keris, kudyapi and all that
We don't speak Chinese
Guys, factly & historically, the very first members of the Spanish expedition to circumnavigate the world looking for spices were Portuguese led by Fernando Magallanes (Ferdinand Magellan) who was AUTHORIZED by the King of Spain, King Philip II, after the King of Portugal denied him of his request to do the same. Only the next 4 ships that followed were purely Spaniards who were all imprisoned criminals.
Additionally, my last name Catao is if Portuguese origin. Lots if Brazilians have this last name.
My mom is Filipino/Spanish , Chinese. My father side is Filipino/American, and Spanish.
Southeast Asian, East Asian, South Asian, Spanish and African, in that order, according to 23 and Me. I can relate to my Malaysian and Indonesian friends as much as I can with my Latino friends, but in different ways, and I'm sure Malaysians and Indonesians won't be able to relate with Latinos. Oh, I also relate with Americans in a way that's different from how I relate with the others. So, when I speak the little Bahasa I know, Indonesians will assume I'm one of them, when I speak Spanish, Latinos will assume I'm Latino, and when I speak English, Americans assume I'm American. Now that I'm in Holland, people assume I'm Surinamese, a former Dutch colony in South America inhabited by Indonesians, South Asians, and African descendants.
Filipinos are only Asians by location but they are Hispanic by culture.
actually Indonesians are more influenced by Dutch food language culture but Indonesians don't admit that it's Dutch influence, meanwhile, Filipinos are less influenced by Spanish food language culture but Filipinos admit they are Hispanic 😁😁
My grandma looked like Spanish and my Grandad more on Chinese side. My eldest sister looks like Chinese, me and my bro look like Spanish
Happy 4th of JULY guys!
I am learning def taking NOTES on this Thanks so much!! 🙏🙏
Filipinos had more direct link with Mexico than Spain. Philippines was administered by Mexico (for Spain) from 1565 until Mexican Revolution (1820?) then that was the time Spain directly administered Ph until 1898. According to a history website I saw, interchange of people from both Mexico and Ph are significantly high due to Manila - Acapulco Galleon Trade. I know there are 10% Nahuati loan words are included in the many Philippine languages. The way we celebrated All Saints/Souls Day in November is similar with how Mexico does it. There is a place in Pampanga called Mexico, historically, a huge of Mexican migrants settled in that area. I also learned that during colonization, migrants from Mexico's ratio that settled in Central Philippines became 1:1 and intermarried with the locals. Same thing happened also with the Chinese, hence the massacre happened because the colonizers were worried that the Chinese would influence the locals on rebellion against Spain. Less people from Spain, but more people from Latin America, Southern China and the rest of Southeast Asia. Pacific island connection was established because PH was used a a corridor for people exchanges throughout the centuries from mainland Asia to Pacific islands and vice versa. According to studies, Pacific Islanders Austronesian roots are Filipinos.
Yes we are Asian, Hispanic.. We are mix race. 🇵🇭
Nobody thinks Filipinos pacific islanders but themselves the rest of the world knows them as asian
Its only a big deal when I'm in America, everyone seems to be an expert where I'm from. lol...
At the same time it makes folks who are Papuan, Rapa nui, Kiribati etc even more non existent by that logic...We real pacific islanders are beautiful dark, olive, brown skin people.
If your Melanesian, Micronesian or Polynesian your just soo damn fine ugh 💕
@six bullet is bad at destiny we real pacific islanders didn't had a choice to be called pacific islanders and the fact some of you guys wanna be called pacific islanders it just rubs us the wrong way
@six bullet is bad at destiny you guys are Asians not pacific islanders...no Filipino or Filipina in the Philippines consider themselves pacific islander.
@six bullet is bad at destiny poly meaning many...just because there's a connection with 1 or 2 islands it doesn't mean the WHOLE Polynesia
@six bullet is bad at destiny Tongans, Fijians and Samoans have deep history and genetic connections... Maori is Polynesian but they separate and isolate themselves from the rest of Polynesia.
@six bullet is bad at destiny where are you getting your source from
HAPPY 4TH OF JULY.AND PHILIPPINE AMERICAN FRIENSHIP DAY HERE🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
PHILIPPINES....
ASIA. ✔️
HISPANIC ❌
PACIFIC ISLANDERS❌
No we're asian and Hispanic were just the long lost brother of Spanish family were geographically in Asia but culture and identity were Hispanic
Why are you crossing Hispanic? Being hispanic is not something to BRAG ABOUT but definitely Filipinos are Hispanic since we have a huge influence since the Spanish Era until now. when we say Filipinos are Hispanic, it doesn't co-relate to being Latino/Latina, NO! that's a different thing, search it on Google, Filipinos are definitely Hispanic due to the ties and being under Spain for hundreds of years.
@@HumanSagaVault it was colonized but tracing back the genes we are AUSTRONESIAN TRIBES from Southern Mainland. If all of you study back the ancient Yue you will know the history of our ancestors has body tattoos on their bodies.
@@strawberryshortcake_1994 Austronesian is not race, 1d1ot, But a Language, Haha you are kinda 1d1ot.
No disrespect to Filipinos but it’s pure cringe when you guys pretend to be Hispanics 😐😐😐you guys try too hard
You may be Hispanic in terms of religion but not heritage or blood, unlike true Hispanics or Spanish 😐😶
Native Americans are Asians too, they crossed from Alaska
Filipino, Malaysian, Indonesian, Polynesian, Micronesian, Malagasy...they all Austronesian, they're from the same language family...
Native Malaysian use Malay instead of Malaysian because Malaysia is multiracial country
"How did they get so big in size?"
Centuries of diet based on (something).
nope. people evolve. places evolve. heard the term human migration? It's not always going to be the same. Tens of thousands of years before the islands were inhabited by Austronesians there were already australoid people in the islands. but of course it is no longer just austronesians but also Hans and Hokkien Chinese from Huaxia people.
You know humans move from one place to the other. humans are not stuck on the land and they multiply. And this is how every corner of the globe got populated.
The Old Philippines before the Spanish Colonial period have ties with the Chinese there's even a monument in China for a Datu(a Datu is like a governor) there but ultimately shared the same Kingdom with Guam and Hawaii it is called "Maharlika" and their Family apparently still have the rights to the whole Philippines I don't know about the other pacific islands but they "own" the whole Philippines while in the Spanish colonization they just make us change our names and Spanish-Filipino's are a minority today so we are Pacific Islander with a sprinkle of Asian and has toppings of Spanish but ultimately that what makes us who we are Filipinos
Honestly, if you really visit the Philippines, you will notice that the majority of us look typical Southeast Asian - like Malay and Indonesians. I think the “Pacific Islander” term applies to Polynesians (like Hawaiians, Samoans, etc). You will rarely see Filipinos looking like that.
My great grandfather on my dad's side is Portugese but my grandfather on my mom's side is Chinese. Hispanic people thinks I'm Mexican but I love to eat Chinese food 😆 ...very cool to experience both sides of the DNA 😆
So I have a question for you Filipino Americans. Do your parents not talk to you about your homeland? How do you guys not know your islands are part of maritime Asia? How?! I am Samoan and my homeland is never mentioned in the schools here in America. But I know my country is in Polynesia. I knew this not from my teachers, but from my parents! Why are Filipino American parents not teaching their kids crap?!
Phezz would definitely pass for an everyday filipino or malaysian.
There are many others of mixed race, who grew up in other countries, yet are half Filipino, some even award winning, Hollywood celebrities, Miss Universe also and some World famous music celebrities, so that question can be answered by DNA.
not all Filipinos have Spanish blood as it was claimed by most, sometimes ppl from outsiders still confused, bcoz our way of comercialism will always represented by most HALFIE poeple,and if you have that you will be more qualified in terms of employment etc....aside from that who would buy a certain products that was commercially recommended by a pure austronesian?unless a popular one. Filipino is not latin ,yes some latin in thier langue but not all by blood..unlike Mexico which is the land of the mestizos about 86% while Filipinos consist about 3% only. more on malays/Indonesia.
Lol Filipinos has so much similarity with other Countries even languages. My other half or the person I am with right now for 12 years is Mexican/ Italian and I'm Spaniard/ Filipino. But some people seems can't accept the truth. Size wise in Samoans are what the food they eat and the mixture of Samoans people are maybe has Europeans that's why they are tall. We have some tall people in the Philippines too who plays basketball. Not all Filipinos are shorts. I'm proud to be Filipino Asian/American and at least Asian or Filipinos are hard workers too.
Latinos are from the region of Lazio, Italy; and Spanish are people from Spain. Filipinas is located in Asia; therefore, Filipinos are Asians.
Is the Philippines in Asia? Yes. Is it in the Pacific Islands region? No. The End.
My father's grandma and grandpa both Spanish- filipino.
We are Asians!
After Spain colonized the Philippines and Mexico, Spain established the galleon shipping trade between Mexico and Manila selling products made from China, India, and the spices. They also took and traded some Filipinos as slaves to Mexico. Spanish rulers in the Philippines came from Mexico (Spanish born in Mexico) The galleon trade ended in 1898 after the Spaanish-American war. Filipinos who committed crimes and rebellion in the Philippines are sent or shipped to Guam, also a Pacific island colony of Spain.
You wrong regarding what you said thar spanish american because their not fighting at all thet just making a fake war because when the american arrived in the philippine the spaniard are weaken they just hold the wall city the intramuros when the pilipinos told to spaniard to surrender but they are not to do that not to surrender to the pilipinos because of their pride and when the american arrive the spaniard make a secret negotiation to the american and they ask $ 20 million for their exit in our country and after their negotiation they spanish fleed without a blood shed and the american made a check point in the part of manila to fake that they won against spanish that is why our katipunero on that time are angry to american and that is the start of philippine american war because u.s. is steal our country .and when they won because their is a lot of pilipinos are traitor to our country because of how much they recieve a bribe money from american and after the war american collected some tribe in our country like igorot and some other aetas and they bring to america and tell their citizen that philippine is not a civilised country ang their people are not wearing a cloth just what you can see in the igorot tribe and they put in a place like a carnival and feed like an animal in the u.s. they didn't say that the pilipinos are educated before they arrive in the philippine.and they say that they liberated them from the spanish rule but it is big liar because they are not fighting is just our countrymen who fought for our freedom from the spanish rule they just making a fake war after their secret negotiation with spanish with money involved for the exit of the spanish .
Filipino-spanish here
In other words, the ethnicity of the citizens of the Philippines or any Countries for that matter, depends on who is asking. As I said in my preceding posts, for example, the U.S. Federal Government recognized the ethnicity of the citizens of the Philippines as Filipinos, period. If you will ask a Demographer(s), they may come up with different answers when it comes to the ethnicity of the citizens of a given Country. For example, Barack Obama, yes Obama the former President of the U.S. is considered Black although his mother was white. Kamala Harris, yes Harris the current Vice President of the U.S. is considered as Black, although her mother is Indian (from India) therefore brown, and her father is part white, part black.Weird, isn't it?
Geographically, we are part of Asia, Southeast Asia.
Our ancestors on father side is spanish.
DNA ancestry testing is not really a thing to do in the Philippines coz it's very expensive. Filipinos would rather spend their money on their daily needs.
I think all Asians would rather spend money on their daily needs
Who cares, anyways, right? If you're mestiza, then obviously, you have foreign blood in you. For sure you can easily trace who gave you that beautiful features. I look very Filipina, so nothing foreign in me..as simple as that. :)
It is a Pacific Islander because it is a group of island as well it is not physically attached to Asian continent preferably. Therefor, it is literally Pacific Islander but close to Asia.
That's what I say. Filipinos who came from the Philippines suddenly became Asians. Geezzzz! They're filipinos, now the filipinos really think they're Asians, because that's what happens when you come to America, lol, it's been planted to their psyche, it's insane. According to a doctor who did research in New York U. filipinos has Portuguese dna too.
So Japan is a Pacific Islander country? You should look up the term Pacific Islands.
@@bb89670 So Taiwan, Indonesia, people from borneo are not asian? because your definition clearly says that people from islands that are NOT part of the mainland asia are not asian. You should really educate yourself before saying anything because you're making a fool out of yourself.
So Japanese are not asian? they are pacfic islander? what are you on about
PHILIPPINES = Islands discovered in HONOUR of Philip II King of SPAIN
As a Pacific Islander theres a debate on where we originate from. Most have heard of Taiwan but no actual confirmation or timeline. Kind of like saying we all from Africa, known but no longer relevant as we've had generations after generations with our own identity. Also about our size, its genetics now but apparently its from our voyager days. They are at sea on canoes for so long their bodies adapted to holding more food to last that time period. We still have the body capacity but unfortunately we aint as active as our ancestors so you see alot more chunkier pacific islanders 😂
My family have done a DNA test like my GREAT GRANDMA and GRANDPA (they speak spanish) and it turns out im 30% Spanish
My last name is De La Fuente
Basically, most of Tagalog has simmilarity to Malay too, include Samoan. Try to denied this fact. Also, The President Of Philippines right now, had claim before Spanish Invasion & Christian, Philippines is part of Tanah Melayu & Most Of Philippines are Islam lead by Sultan Lapulapu. But due for a long Invasion of Spanish, the Conversion of Philippines Citizen to Christian Become Like A Must Law, & who still Islam, being separate & called as Bangsamoro, or in my Country, Bangsa Moro which means, "Bangsa"- Races & "Moro" - is the name of that Races. Same goes Hawaii, King Kalaukaua on 1881once admit, that Hawaii Native People is Part Of Malay & He is Part of Malay Royal Blood & Almost Joinning Tanah Melayu.
Yes bro we are part of a great Melayu-Polynesian family of Asia-Pacific Region.
Before the Spanish came to our land, Manila was a Muslim City ruled by Rajah Sulaiman and the Tondo district ruled by his cousin Lakandula. Aman-illah was the original name of Manila but the Spaniards concocted a different story to erased our true identity as a Bangsa.
@@enricobalangatan91 Assalamualaikum My Brother. Glad to get reply by the Muslim Community from Philippines. I hope i can get a chance to visit Philippines & get to know the Muslim Community there.👍
@@enricobalangatan91 By The Way, you know Mark Adam? He is Originally a Philippines Musician & Artist, but now he live in Malaysia & we Malaysia like him so much.
@@luketakumi1m876 Alaikum- Salam
juga, brother.
I can say that the Filipinos is a Mixture of many blood and races. We have Chinese blood, Japanese blood, Filipino native blood, American blood, Spanish blood too.
We have been occupied by the Spanish people for more than 500 years, the Americans colonized us too, the Chinese were the first people who traded with us, and they stayed on, also the Japanese people wad there too, during World war 2,
In general, we have a mixture of many blood in us, that is why, we dont look the same.
We are full of diversity.
500 years is a lie. Next Filipinos will say 1000 years the Spanish colonized us. What a joke
Its not the spaniards from mainland spain who mixed with some of the filipinos, its actually the mexican mestizos who mixed with us cuz only mexican families immigrated in the philippines not spanish from spain. There's always difference between spanish from mainland spain and mexican
Hispanic are mixture of Spaniards, European, Filipino no longer Aztec and Incas looking people, they are now good looking because of the mixture
@Michelle Catholics and Hispanics too, it is not a matter of blood, New Hispanics were called in times of conquest.
Hi, we have a city here in the 🇵🇭 which is Zamboanga who speaks only in Spanish.
Keep safe guys 😷
Spanish Creole
This video was way off when it said that Spaniards and Filipinos mixed a lot. Not true. An extremely small minority of Filipinos have a small mixture of less than 5 Percent Spanish
We are a mix race. ❤
ACCORDING TO OTHER THEORY, FILIPINOS ARE AUSTRONESIAN ETHNIC, AND THE AUSTRONESIAN WAS THE ONE WHO FIRST REACHED SOUTH AMERICA, THEY BASED THEIR ASSUMPTION ON THE COCONUTS, SWEET POTATOES, AND CHICKENS IN SOUTH AMERICA THAT ARE NATIVE TO THE PHILIPPINES. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian_peoples
Filipinos never made it to South America LOL
@@polyso5123Shared ancestry and its not fair to call Austronesians filipinos since they are the shared ancestors for many nations.
Filipino-Malaysian here
for me the question is: Are Pacific Islanders Filipino? yes we share a lot of DNA with them. In any case, the question is obsolete after taking into account the shared genetics and vocabulary. as for the Spsnish, they too were mixed arab, germanic, viking, gypsies and locals long before reaching the Phils. These ethnic questionnairs really do not make sense.😮
Yes.. my family roots are Japanese American Spanish and I look like japanese 😂
Are white Americans living in the U.S.,
European Americans?,
or White Americans? British Americans?
What are they???? What do you really call them???
Seriously!! Just curious!! Please tell me!
I think the U.S. Fed Government identified the citizens of the Philippines today NOT as Asian, Hispanic nor Pacific Islanders. They are Filipino for the purpose of classifying ethnicity. You can see in some Federal and States' documents.That is, if the document ask for ethnicity among other listed in the questionnaire "are you White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, Native American, Pacific Islanders, Filipino."
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you'll blend in really well here in the Philippines Phezz don't worry, cab drivers won't rip you off.. lol
My great grandpa is American white or 1/8 in me, I'm taller than average filipino at 6"1 and dark skin tone.
Spanish is a term related to Spain, and people from the Philippines are Latinos, who come from the Italian province of Lazio. Respect your Asian ancestors rather than trying to hide them, because you are entirely Asian despite your adopted Spanish surnames, Catholic faith, and even Castilian terms that you have incorporated into your own language. There are no drawbacks to being Asian, so embrace your identity.
You are the only ones who worship, revere, and hold positive attitudes toward your oppressive invaders; other Asian nations were conquered by Europeans, but they do not identify as Dutch, French or Portuguese.
The Philippines is a melting pot of western and eastern culture and due to our geographical location, our country became a favorite target of colonizers aka Portuguese, Spanish, Americans and Japanese and the silent colonizers, Chinese, while our ancestors during the precolonial era intermarried, traded and migrated from balangay to balangay (barangay or city-state) and to our neighboring countries.
Studies shows that we can trace our ancestry to the Indomalayan race but since we've been colonized for almost four centuries; our genetics, languages and cultures are a mix of that from the west and east, and it actually depends on the family that you came from.
I, for one, often get asked a lot if I'm Chinese or Korean because I have smaller eyes (which I always find weird because I am not monolith). I'm not sure if there's a Chinese blood in my DNA but my maternal great grandfather from my mom's father's side has Chinese inscription on his tombstones. My maternal grandmother was also partly Spanish (I'm not sure of the percentage tho) and my mom would often say that their mom raised them the Spanish way. My Lola was super strict which was a common stereotype for the Spaniards due to the tyrant Spanish friars and I noticed that my mom and her siblings uses Spanish words for left and right (I don't even know how to spell it because it wasn't as common as Filipino words derived from the Spanish language) and my cousins who lived in their ancestral home also uses those words (my siblings and I don't because we rarely go to our Lola's house). I'm not even sure if we have our roots from the indigenous people especially that my grandparents were also migrants.
My maternal grandmother was from Dumaguete while my paternal grandfather was born in Leyte but grew up in Basilan and moved to Dipolog (which is my hometown).
Meanwhile, the families of my maternal grandfather and paternal grandmother owned several properties in the oldest developed areas in our place which could mean that they were among the first settlers or they were rich enough to purchase properties there post-war. My paternal grandmother was also related to a lot of the original settlers in our province that could mean that if your family is from Dipolog or Dapitan, there's a possibility that we can be distant relatives whether by blood or by intermarriage.
Language is also dynamic especially the Filipino languages. A significant percentage of Filipinos are multi-lingual (mother tongue + Filipino based on Tagalog + English, in my case, my mother tongue is Visayan). First, Filipino although mainly based in Tagalog accepts words from other Filipino languages and borrowed words from foreign languages. They said the Filipino language belongs to the Austronesian family, I'm not really sure what that is. I hated Linguistics in college. But I noticed similarities of the words we use from the Spanish, Latin, Chinese, Malaysian and Indonesian languages. I used to think it was closer to Spanish but when I took Spanish class in college, I was totally wrong. The Filipino language is not even close to the Spanish language structurally and grammatically speaking. If you think about it, this is also the same with the Japanese, Chinese and Korean languages. I was amazed how the word "promise" in the respective languages sounded the same but then, their languages are similar but different.
The problem with people who traces their ancestry back to the Philippines but are born and raised in the US is that they have historical and cultural disconnect with their Philippine heritage because they were raised with western culture and mentality and at the same time, racism forces them to identify with their Filipino heritage instead of the citizenship they hold.
Since most of them never set foot in the Philippines, let alone experienced our culture firsthand, they have stereotypical views on our culture, same with the Asian culture, in general. With how poor a lot of Americans are in geography and world history, I'm not even shocked if they have little knowledge on the Asian culture and how close the Philippine culture is to the cultures of our Asian neighbors especially the Southeast Asians. Our racial and cultural ambiguity confuses them because their views on Philippine culture is unfortunately dismal.
What they don't know is that Filipinos are more than our local cuisine, our strong accent, the use of taboo, honorifics and even the "mano", "po and opo." Within the Philippines alone, we have a diverse culture depending on the region you are from. Even people in some regions have diverse culture and ethnicity within the region lol. In my province, they call it tricultural because it is home to the lumad (native tribe) called "Subanen", then the Muslims (which have different tribes of their own and Christians.
A lot of Filipinos like me who do not belong to any tribe or have dominant foreign blood can look similar to the Chinese, Malays, or Indonesians but not quite. Like I said, a lot of people would ask me if I was Chinese because of my eyes but my nose, height and skin is that of any typical Filipino; flat, short and brown (but I don't also fall into the morena category). I also don't use Ate and Kuya to my siblings (although I use it for older people and people I don't know). I only use po and opo when I speak Filipino and, dude, I probably ate more burgers than lechon.
I find it weird how these mfs say we are Pacific Hslander because of "coconuts" and how similar our culture is with them, lol. I love buko juice but I don't fckin live like an islander much less, a Pacific Islander. I only go to the beach to swim and unwind.
The Philippines do not have a homogenous citizenry neither we have same genetic make up; we developed and still developing our unique culture by embracing modernity and our cultural heritage. We can be distant relatives with the Pacific Islanders by DNA but we are not one of them. Our culture and history will forever have Spanish influence that we share with the Hispanics but due to our geographical location and being an archipelago, we were able to retain a lot of our native culture when the natives had to flee to the far-flung mountains and rural areas to evade Spanish tyranny. Not to mention, fewer migration from Spain to the Philippines compared to other countries and only the mestizo and the middle/upper middle class could afford higher education at that time whereas the US introduced public school system and taught the Filipinos their language.
I used to be very sympathetic of the discrimination and racism they went through growing up in the US, but I am really getting annoyed on this Pacific Islander, Hispanic or Asian debate. Please spare us with your identity crisis. Filipinos are Southeast Asians, get it?!
It's crazy because it's so simple to find out the answer to this dumb debate but these Filipino Americans love to ignore the simple fact that the Philippines is part of Southeast Asia and therefore, logically, with all the common sense in the world, Filipinos are Asian. I guess some people want to be blind.
Before Spain colonized the Philippines, Chinese already a traders , a buy and sale trade.
Excuse me, china never invaded us considering their size and their location near the Philippines but Europeans did.
Im 68% european 52% spanish 5% italian and rest european...24% chinese 2percent native indian american 8% asian..but i wanna be more asian or american than spanish
The Philippines is a Colonized by Spain for 333 Years and Ceded to Americans In a Treaty of Hongkong then the Philippines American War Ensued after it.
Filipino are you can say ORIENTAL to be specific ORIENT means east, or you can say Aupirian from Aupir based on recent facts, Filipino is the oldest bloodline, Ancient blood.
There are many spainish military from spain went to zamboanga spraid all over mindanao
I believe there was a successful petition of Fil-Ams in the United States to identify citizens coming from the Philippines as Filipino.
If look all the way back before Spaniards came, Filipinos are MALASIAN decent, like Lapu Lapu was our national hero, Spaniards, American, Japanese came, they love the resort, food, women that's why they stayed there for awhile
@Koko martin Here's the history of the Philippines before Spaniards came, study our history, ruclips.net/video/D01xKvBbRgA/видео.html,
ruclips.net/video/RooranPbD6Y/видео.html,
LAPU LAPU was our first hero who fought Ferdinand Magellan, did you finished University in the Philippines
@Koko martin Filipino was declared Pacific Islanders in the 80s, Hawaiian, Samoan, Figi, wanted their own ethnic agenda, that's why when your question I was referring to now, but Philippines are really Asian, you're probably too young to experience when we were in school they wanted us to check Pacific Islanders instead of Asian ethnicity,
As of now I'm chinese and filipino
Try to watch and react on 21 reasons you should retired in the Philippines. I am a new subscriber i watch your show for month's now and i like how you guys tried filipino fast food jollibee. Stay awesome and be positive all the time 😀
Thank you!!!
@@TheCommodity HAPPY 4TH OF JULY......I am proud being a filipina a foreign person have high respect in our country and culture as well. Some countries have misconception on us thank you so much guy's with your positive comments . Check out cebu city too its a place were i live a nice place and friendly people more places to explore ,white sand resorts, safari if you want more adventure we have caves, falls and mountains . Its more fun in the Philippines
Yess...filipino girls is amazing ❤️❤️,..how can i get them as mygirl 😁😁❤️❤️
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oh, no, you don't
Philippines were under by Spaniard for 300 hundreds years then under by American for almost 50 years, the Japanese and some korean soldiers wanted to invaded the Philippines during the Second World War , Philippines were under by Japanese for almost 5 years and they very cruel to.Pilipino people , again Americans save the Philippines from the slavery of Japanese and Korean soldiers. After American helped the Philippines they proclaimed the friendship of the Philippines and Americans on July 4,1946 , so the Philippines got their independence..Philippines is very rich in natural resources that why they like to invade the Philippines ..American is our savior from these countries who wanted to invaded Philippines. A lot of Pilipinos have Spanish blood because Philippines were under by Spaniard for 300 years. Some Pilipinos have Chinese blood because Chinese were every where and some Pilipinos have American blood too. These what I know to our Philippines history. Americans are always there for Pilipinos people. Now they celebrate the Philippines independence on June 12..
I'm Filipinos we are Austronesian Asian
Philippine girl is Soo much pretty face ang cute very nice skin
Not Asian,Hispanic or Pacific Islander….
FILIPINO
FILIPINO
FILIPINO
I just wanna add, there's a really big misconception for a lot of Filipinos about being Hispanic and being Latino/Latina, they thought it means the same thing, NO it does not! Being Latino/Latina only applies to anyone born in or with ancestors from Latin America and living in the U.S. That's it, it would only apply to people in Latin America in the U.S. while the term Hispanic broadly refers to the people, nations, and cultures that have a historical link to Spain. It commonly applies to countries once part of the Spanish Empire, particularly the countries of Latin America, the Philippines, Equatorial Guinea, and Spanish Sahara. with this being said, definitely Filipinos are Hispanic, but never Latino/Latina. and also I just wanna add, being called Hispanic is not something to brag about, why would we? its just the reality and the fact that we have been under the Spanish Empire for hundreds of years, AGAIN, Being HISPANIC is not something to brag about, just say We are hispanic because of the Spanish traditions and cultures that we still practice up until this day. what can we do? that's just the reality of us Filipinos. accept it.