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Yes, I have. America never colonized the Philippines, Spain did.
For 300+ years the Philippines was a Spanish colony from 1568 until 1898 when it was handed over to the USA by Spain as a peace settlement after their defeat in the Spanish American War. Then the Philippines became an USA territory (not the same thing as a colony) until it was granted independence in 1946. America also took the Spanish colonies Guam and Puerto Rico from Spain after 1898.
Yes, it's not a question of places being identical to American cities, but of finding those that are the closest thing. In order to "qualify" they don't have to be exactly the same. Just more similar than any others.
When I think about an american city, I think about a relatively small city centre with very high skyscrapers and a very huge area with wide streets and large houses surrounded by green lawns. It should have also a stadium for baseball and american football matches, american food and drink establishments (like Starbucks, KFC, Häagen-Dazs, etc.), and an Apple Store helps to make the "american" landscape. The only places coming to my mind with all of these features combined are located in Canada.
People speak american English - check
Signs are in English - check
Presence of American franchises - check
Love for NBA - check
Love for Hollywood music / movies / TV's - check (tune in to your radio and it feels like you are in America)
When I think about an american city, I think about a relatively small city centre with very high skyscrapers and a very huge area with wide streets and large houses surrounded by green lawns. It should have also a stadium for baseball and american football matches, american food and drink establishments (like Starbucks, KFC, Häagen-Dazs, etc.), and an Apple Store helps to make the "american" landscape. The only places coming to my mind with all of these features combined are located in Canada.
Well my impression of American cities is of grid patterns, strip malls, skyscrapers and unfortunately many homeless people in some areas. Yes, Starbucks etc and wide streets.
Definitely not like Australian cities and especially not like Sydney. Which was unplanned so has narrow roads, is crossed by four major waterways in the metropolitan area, has mixtures of all types of housing and if anything feels more like a British city. Which it was for the first part of its history. By the way Starbucks has all but failed here, Apple stores are found in almost ALL cities around the world and (referring to a different post) anywhere I have been the past few years has people glued to their mobile phones. In actual fact less so in the US and France and more so in China and other Asian cities.
Maybe a few Canadian cities are similar, but not all.
People speak american English - check
Signs are in English - check
Presence of American franchises - check
Love for NBA - check
Love for Hollywood music / movies / TV's - check (tune in to your radio and it feels like you are in America)
Many Filipinos are fluent in English but doesn't make the cities like US cities. If I visited Manila or Cebu, I certainly wont feel like I am in the US. Too much poverty, congestion and people speaking to each other in their own languages that are not English.
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