There is no doubt that Filipinos in general are multiracial people.You only need to walk down the streets of the Philippines and seen the diversity of facial features people have,from very east Asian oriental features,Australoid native features and European type features,many Filipinos look like one of these or some degree of mixture of these.Even within the same family you often see siblings who look like different races and have the same mother and father,one brother may have almond shaped eyes and a broad nose while another may have a narrow nose and rounded eyes,skin colour varies a lot in the Philippines too,from dark brown to olive to fair skinned and every where in between.My question is,why in such a racially mixed country are light skinned Filipinos with more European type features seen as somehow less Filipino by people?Unless one of your parents or at a push one of your grandparents was totally European then you are no different from any other Filipino (mixed heritage) Why do some Filipinos say oh im half Spanish or half white American,when what they should say is my great great great grandfather was Spanish or white American?What is you opinion?
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That's a huge lie.
most Filipinos are not mixed, and it's been proven by ANTHROPOLOGISTS. People who actually study this and not some uneducated Filipino with a colonial mentality.
most Filipinos don't look mixed. If Filipinos were really mixed with all the things they said(Japanese, Korean, White American, Spanish, Indian, Chinese), then they would be LIGHT SKINNED.
And what color are most Filipinos? Yup, that's right...they're dark.
most Filipinos look like this. Just copy and paste the links.
http://www.linkmygirl.com/images/categories/3-1-12...
http://www.foreignladies.com/files/profile/416/m_4...
http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&rlz=1C1GGGE_enUS...
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now if Filipinos WERE really mixed, they would look like this.
http://images1.fanpop.com/images/photos/2200000/Ad...
http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs132...
http://www.justcoverblog.com/wp-content/uploads/20...
that is what real mixed people look like.
The Philippines is a multi-racial country from pre-colonial period to the coming of the Spaniards people of different ethnicity(in Asia) have settled in the country, especially the Chinese. Filipinos belong to the Austronesian race, like that of Malay, Javanese, Cambodian and etc. which consist 80% of the population.
There are only few mestizos or Filipinos with Spanish/European origin, only about 1-2% of the population. Chinese cover up to 18-19% and the 80% are Austronesian.
Our culture is Asian mixed with Spanish practices. But purely dominated by American pop culture (which is killing our traditions).
Honestly, I don't really care if a Filipino is half Spanish. Some younger Filipinos have already mixed blood with foreigners, so it shouldn't really be surprising. Some Filipinos think that if a fellow countryman is light or fair-skinned, he/she would most likely be rich or have some white heritage. Many people who have Spanish roots would still carry some of those "feelings of superiority" which was prevalent during the earlier times, but such "influence" seems to be dwindling nowadays. Generally, people wouldn't really mind your (foreign) heritage nowadays.
That is not true its all lies the majority of Filipinos I've seen are 100% Filipino they look inbred they don't look mixed most Filipinos are not mixed its been proven.
Brian: You can substitute any race in the world for Filipino & the answer will be the same "YES"
Don't get all worked up & worried about it.
There is nothing wrong about being a mixed race as we all are.
May be true in Manila and other big cities(20%?),but in the countryside 99.99% people are Australoid dark skinned. So its incorrect to say Filipinos are Multiracial or mixed.
they all look alike to me. but those in the country side got darker skin, it's normal as the sun is omnipresent due to the vicinity where buildings are not compacted like in big cities; Manila example, lots of shades where people can take refuge against the burning heat of the sun.
yes...filipino is multi racial because im spanish descent in my grandfather of my mother and my father face is like american and my face is same to my father...my face is american...
The answer to your question is in your question: Filipinos are, indeed, multiracial as you have expertly described in your book report.
Americans are also multi-racial, so are Mexicans, Brazilians, and Hawaiians.