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Without having taken a DNA test, I am probably around 18% Spanish seeing as two out of five of my recent ancestors were Spanish. Actually, I get the impression that on anthropology forums, people want me to downplay that because while it's obvious I'm mixed in real life, it somehow doesn't translate into pictures, where I only look like I'm pale because I'm part-Chinese, and let's face it, I probably look like a wannabe with that in mind. (People on anthropology forums think most Filipinos are white worshipers, but that's not the entire story. It's mostly Filipinos on forums and Filipinos abroad who are like that. Admittedly, the Philippines is not completely comfortable in its own skin, but ''white worshiper'' does not completely describe most Filipinos. Yes, many Filipinos think of light skin as good, but I think they'd settle for looking Chinese, Korean, or pale Filipino. Also, there's a jingoistic streak found in the Philippines that is not found in most overseas Filipinos. If the Philippines was so white worshiping, shaming Filipino Anglophones would not be in and the entire Philippines would be mestizo because every woman would refuse to date Filipino men like many overseas Asians do. Damn, that was one tangent I went on.)
BTW, I went to school with someone who could pass as Chinese in her pictures. And yet, she has photographic proof that she had a Spanish grandfather which she posted last year. When I knew her, I didn't know that she was mixed. She had her dyed red at the time, and she did use to get mistaken for white back then. But I merely attributed that to her being really pale and having red hair.
European ancestry in Western controlled parts of Asia is not as common as in Latin America.
Well of course. I don't think anyone thinks that. But the Philippines still has a surviving Spanish population living in the country since colonial times.
I don't think any other Asian country has this besides some of the smaller ones like Macau and Singapore. In the rest of Asia, the Europeans/Eurasians either fled the country or their population mixed so much with the general population that they're invisible now and don't look European at all
https://www.quora.com/If-the-Filipin...osh-Avinante-1 "It’s like this. When I lived in Singapore, most Singaporeans would say 'Ah you Filipino! I know a maid in case you need a friend!' compared to when I lived in Australia, most Aussies would say 'Ah, yes, I met some Filipino architects and film makers in Melbourne, they do look like you. Do you speak Spanish?'
So respect for Filipinos really depend on the type of work they dominate in that country. Most Filipinos in Australia are kastilaloys so Aussies then to think Filipinos are Hispanics." Might be the case in NZ too. I know someone from NZ who keeps on insisting that every Filipino he knows there looks like me and has my English accent, even though I don't think I look or sound typical here.
^^ many Filipinos who went to Australia went during the White Australia policy. So it makes sense that the older Filipino immigrants to Australia are Kastilaloys.
Opposite of Pinoy immigrants to the US - those tend to be natives. Many Kastilaloys also migrated to Spain like Luis Aute, Junior Barreto, and Isabel Preysler
European ancestry in Western controlled parts of Asia is not as common as in Latin America.
Yeah Latin America is the most powerful influence of Europe especially "Spain and Portugal" and the highest mixed blood with European compared to other nations on this earth.
the former Dutch colonial is Indonesia but here the influence is very small but the most surprising is precisely the Dutch people know most about their former colonies especially Indonesia even culture and food are not foreign to the Dutch
while Spanish only knows Latin America and is familiar with its former colony compared to the others
Yeah Latin America is the most powerful influence of Europe especially "Spain and Portugal" and the highest mixed blood with European compared to other nations on this earth.
the former Dutch colonial is Indonesia but here the influence is very small but the most surprising is precisely the Dutch people know most about their former colonies especially Indonesia even culture and food are not foreign to the Dutch
while Spanish only knows Latin America and is familiar with its former colony compared to the others
That's because Indonesia was the Netherlands' biggest colony, and almost all Dutch-Indonesians moved back to the Netherlands. It would be like if all mestizos and Spanish people in Mexico moved back to Spain. Of course the home country is going to be very familiar with the colony if they all move back.
I think Indonesia had the largest European/Eurasian population at one time. But this thread is about Euro-Asians still living in Asian countries. Unfortunately, most of the Dutch-descendants were either killed, forced to leave, or quickly assimilated (to the point where you can't even tell they're Dutch anymore).
See what I mean? The few that are left in Indonesia mostly look like regular Indonesians
Whereas in the Philippines, Spanish-looking Filipinos are still there even 100+ years after independence from Spain. A few are celebrities, but most are unknown/not famous people.
I've started watching movies from Spain and I noticed that certain Spanish actors can pass as locals in the Philippines.
They don't look Austronesian but many of them resemble local actors and prominent people.
I'm pretty sure Alvaro Morte (Professor in Money Heist), Enrique Arce (Arturo Roman in Money Heist) , Rodolfo Sancho (El Ministerio del Tiempo) and Antonio Banderas would be mistaken as locals if they were regular people and not celebs
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