Do you consider the Philippine people Hispanic? (crime, culture, speaking)
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I actually know very little about Filipino genetic history. Indigenous Filipinos were of the 'Negrito' variety, found also in Formosa (Taiwan), Indonesia and Malaya and, a long time ago, Cambodia and southern Vietnam. Polynesians are an off-shoot, largely composed of people of mixed Negrito/Astraloid and Asian/Mongoloid phenotypes. All ultimately have their origins in Asia of course.
I actually know very little about Filipino genetic history. Indigenous Filipinos were of the 'Negrito' variety, found also in Formosa (Taiwan), Indonesia and Malaya and, a long time ago, Cambodia and southern Vietnam. Polynesians are an off-shoot, largely composed of people of mixed Negrito/Astraloid and Asian/Mongoloid phenotypes. All ultimately have their origins in Asia of course.
The Philippines population now is a mix though...
There's only 1 tribe in Taiwan Aborigines that speak the Malayo-Polynesian, the "Yami Tao" tribe and this tribe came from the Philippines from Itbayat Island of Batanes, Northern luzon. The rest of the Taiwan Aborigines speak Formosan, Now, scientist were still checking where the malayo-polynesian language which is a subgroup of Austronesian started.
What i understand with Malayo-Polynesian (Malayo came from Malay Archipelago which is now Maritime Southeast Asia or Island Southeast Asia which consists of Malaysia, Brunei, East Timor,Indonesia and Philippines) and (Polynesian from Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia). but the Malayo-Polynesian language expand till Madagascar and Maori in New Zealand.
We are like separated with the Polynesian due to our geographic location as part of Asia. Our linguistic evidence and some scientific evidence shows that we actually shared something with the rest of our fellow Island Southeast Asians & Pacific Islander neighbors.
As a Latin American, I don't consider them Hispanic. I know they had had Spanish rule for a long time and everything, but at least at first impression, Philippine people seem to me so distant and exotic in almost every sense. Nothing to do with Latin America. It's just my impression, at least (and I guess that of most Latin Americans). There hasn't even been a considerable amount of immigration (or none at all, perhaps) from there to Latin America, AFAIK.
Hispanic is a culture, not a race. Iberian ancestry....they might have more Iberian ancestry that Bolivia for all that matters, Of course they are Hispanic, Cavite included.
If the Philippines isn't Hispanic at all and completely foreign to Hispanics, then a Hispanic wouldn't be able to see a news clip like this and understand any of it...
The Philipines shares many important traditions with Latin American countries. First and foremost, it's the Catholic Religion. Catholicism in not just a religions but a way of life full of traditions, it is something many protetants can not understand. ie. That by itself makes the Philipines and Latin American countries share some very basic social, traditional and historical similarities.
If the Philippines isn't Hispanic at all and completely foreign to Hispanics, then a Hispanic wouldn't be able to see a news clip like this and understand any of it...
Point is, whether Filipinos are Hispanic or not, I don't believe that they're completely foreign to Hispanics.
An english speaker can get a jist of the news article from the visuals and the use if English derived words, so they're not completely foreign to Americans as well
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