I think there must be some mistakes in that Harvard research I looked into it and the data was taken by surveys asking people how they personally classify themselves, I think a flaw would be if the people didn't understand what ethnicity means because we have so many diverse social groups and cultural traditions. also that map is based on a research published in 2002 so the data could be more than 20 plus years old. also another flaw is it just looks at the people inside the country and counts diaspora population as diversity for rich countries that overseas workers live in.
@@Fealnographs1 No worries! I was aware that the data was 20 years old, but it's the most relevant one we can find so far with regards to the topic. I was supposed to place a line in the script saying "However, the data must have changed in the recent years" but it would be too big of a claim without evidence. ☺️ In the end as a Filipino person who's lived in the Philippines and abroad, the video's takeaway of Filipinos being diverse, yet having a big percentage of decendants from Austronesian-speaking migrants was a clear and true enough statement.
Diversity is differences in racial and ethnic, socioeconomic, geographic, and academic/professional backgrounds. People with different opinions, backgrounds (degrees and social experience), religious beliefs, political beliefs, sexual orientations, heritage, and life experience ---- spain,america,korea,chinese,japanese,india, etc pilipino tend to practice and follow some of those when it comes to religious beliefs, life experience so.. i can say its a diverse
@@KnH07 common sense😑, you can tell whether someone who has english name and a spanish surname as Filipino when it has asian features (Or at least mostly)😐
Hi im emil from Mt. province.. i just wanna let you know that pure Filipino and native Filipino are white skin small eye similar to korean Japanese Chinese. They are called igorots.. people from manila and other province are mixed with foreigners.. they are not pure...
Madeline is actually smart, precisely her theory is actually called the "own-race effect", people with the same ethnicity or race can identify their own people much more than other kin, Madeline you are not wrong this theory came from psychology, (Coming from a psychology student :))))
We are diverse and we look diverse but somehow Filipinos can tell if someone is a Filipino. I don't know how, maybe it's intuition? I also can tell if someone is a Filipino... it's not the face but I just feel it haha
I agree with Natty. I'm a Filipino, and I went to tour Thailand. From the airport I kept mistaking some Thai women as FIlipinos because of the similarities in our physical appearance.
Where have you been all your life? Mistaking Thais as Filipinos? So hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣 It's so basic that SEAsians have almost the same physical attributes as we belong to the same Malay race
@@snowprince24 I know this in theory for a long time...but it hits you different when you are there and seeing it personally. Lol Because I've been to different countries and it was never really like, "oh I know I look like them," or "oh this is how they look like." It's more like "Is that a Filipino?" because it's human nature to try and recognize something familiar in a non-familiar place.
@@sinneriam423 ok. I wont invalidate your experience. But, when I travelled to SEAn countries before, i never had this feeling. I mean, it's a conscious knowledge that, our brothers and sisters in SEA look the same as I do.
The Spanish German girl is really true, ive asked alot of europeans including my classmates here in sweden and they said filipino guys is handsome, i showed them the local filipinos, and they also said filipino girls are pretty and sexy.
Any Filipino who struggles with self-confidence should watch this, learn to appreciate and love who you are. a Filipino :) Also nice to know that 95% are Ethnic Filipinos from the study made :)
@min.j anong study that Filipinos are 95% ethnic? That's propaganda, there has never been a study. They just classified the population into Cebuano, Ilocano, etc. ethnicities but didn't classify the bloodlines of the Filipinos. There are no racial censuses in the Philippines, forbidden by the American & Filipino governments. Only the Spaniards has THE ACTUAL CENSUS because they classified the population according to race. In 1798, 50% of the Philippine population then were Spanish hybrids. You can see this in the Cebuano ethnicity, the reason many foreigners are camping in Cebu because they believe the Cebuanos are the most Hispanic looking among Filipinos (meaning, most attractive), the pure natives are not really that attractive
0:40 I'm Filipino and I totally agree with everything that she said. Thai and Filipino are closely same, that's why we considered Thailand as our sibling country.
@Odious Fan right ! i think people just think thais have more “east asian features” because their celebrities tends to look chinese or koreans. same lang dito sa Pilipinas, people think we look like this and that kasi madalas half blood mga sikat na celebrities natin pero diverse talaga tayo
Filipinos looking physically similar to Indonesians, Malays, and some Pacific islanders shouldn't come as a surprise by now, since we all share the same Austronesian ancestors. Culturally and Linguistically, all 4, plus the non-African natives of Madagascar, are grouped under the Austronesian language family. Take note that the "Malay race", which Filipino students have been taught that Filipinos belong to, is no longer an accepted term, as "Austronesian" is the updated and expounded term, thus more appropriate. In the case of Mestizos (take note that "Mestizo" originally referred to any Biracial Filipino, which includes but not limited to Spanish and Chinese mestizos), I think the actual amount of mixing with the natives that happened in the PH during colonial times is OVERESTIMATED. One has to remember that the Philippines isn't actually a white settler colony, and that mixing of the Natives with the Spanish only happened at the higher portion of the upper class society. Nevertheless, those families who remained here until independence still had undeniable influence until today (e.g. the Zobel de Ayalas, the Aranetas, the various political dynasties established by old money rich Mestizo families, etc.) So yeah, Filipinos with Mestizo heritage dating from the Colonial times(except for the Fil-Chinese), would NOT be a common sight in any streets you go to in the Philippines. They are more commonly seen on TV, in big businesses, and in Politics.
Mestizo only means biracial-European to indiginous who are your asian ancestors. Austronesians mix or pure are not indiginous they came from Guam, Fiji that originated from PNG & Australian aborine hence the name "Austro". PH indiginous are the East Asians since the Ice Age when East Asia/SEA was 1 island Taiwan-PH & Filipinos had their own ancestors from the oriental realm
Hmm... I thought that the origin of Austronesians came from the island of Taiwan then the migratory direction were to head south first to the nearest Lands which is Northern part of the Philippines then further downwards south to the Visayan Islands and eventually scattering to IndoChina, Indonesia and the Polynesian island chains. Correct me and clarify if I am wrong.
All you said was correct. To add, many Filipinos (although not the majority) have Chinese ancestry due to intermarriages that happened even before the Spanish colonization. Also, there were many Chinese (not all) that migrated to PH who chose to adopt Spanish or locally derived surnames during Spanish colonization.
@@randomcarrot7970 Yes, I agree. although it is also interesting to note that much of the Chinese weren't allowed (or instead were imposed harsh restrictions) by the Spanish government to settle outside Manila until the second half of the Spanish occupation. And once they were finally allowed to thrive into the Provinces like Pampanga, Cebu, Iloilo etc., this coincided with the rise in influence of the Chinese Mestizos, that they managed to acquire swathes of lands from the failing Native Principalia by either buying from or intermarriaging with them. They surely worked their way up! 😁
Some Filipinos look like Japanese tho..even some japanese say that some filipinos look the same as them..it just really shows that they are diverse which is really cool..
I'm a Filipino that gets often confused as someone from an east asian country. To me, it's diversity depends on its location, just like with any diverse countries. If you look into the more populated areas you will see the different looks but if you go to the provinces (especially on the secluded ones) then you will see a lot more of the native Filipino look.
South Japanese people have some Austronesian features most likely from the Yayoi tribe from the olden days. 1 subgroup of the Yayoi tribe went south for the warm climate. We’re all related just VERY distant. The region is called East Asia and South East Asia for a reason. Mixing over the years happened and how much of that depends on proximity/trade routes. People just deny because they’re ethnocentric
It may be true because most of the filipinos mix with other blood especially american are actually beautiful but there are still pure filipinos who are so handsome and beautiful like christine reyes, Sanya lopez, Jak Roberto, Jericho rosales, fino Herrera, and many others
Here in Malaysia, Locals thought I was Chinese. I experienced it most of the time with Chinese people. When I go buy on Chinese store, they will speak to me in Chinese Language. But When I start to speak. They will say... You are a Filipino- that is because of the Accent.
The 1st one the Thai girl was correct, Filipinos are diverse because it is only a Nationality not ethnicity, There are more than Hundreds or even thousands ethnic groups in the Philippines and each one of them has a unique culture and appearance.
@@randomcarrot7970 but austronesiand mixed with anything else becomes diverse and dissimilar take for example did you know that TAUSUG tribes in SULU PHILIPPINES LOOKS LIKE A MIXTURE OF ARAB AUSTRONESIAN SPANISH AND CHINESE ORIGINS.
Thousanda of ethnicities is an exageration. We are a homogenous country. I don't know why people think we are very "diverse" just because of small differences in features.
@@randomcarrot7970 At least almost 30% of the population have East Asian genes noticeable enough on their physical features (lighter skin and monolid eyes but not as glowingly pale as North Chinese, Japanese, or Koreans maybe due to the Philippine weather). At least a total of 50% of the population have East Asian genes/ancestry but the other 20% in this 50% have unnoticeable physical features (mostly with natural tanned skin and double lids but can still be mistaken as Chinese in China or by untrained foreign eyes since other Chinese, especially Southerners, can have the same features). Whenever I’m in China, I get treated as a local. Many local strangers come to me to ask for directions thinking I’m a local too. I sat beside a group of white people, a Chinese staff spoke to them in English but that same Chinese staff spoke to me in Mandarin. And then we both laughed when I told her I do not speak Chinese. In Japan, I sat beside Filipinos with a Japanese tour guide. I didn’t reveal to these Filipinos that I’m also Filipino. The Japanese tour guide talked to me in Japanese whenever he asks me to fall in line first before them. Maybe it was technically not because I look Japanese, but instead since the Japanese tour guide was clueless about my nationality, and since I look East Asian, she spoke to me in Japanese. And the rest of staff from different stores did the same. They suddenly became silent the moment I started speaking English. In Taiwan, I thought that a woman sitting in front of me was a Taiwanese local. She was wearing a trench/overcoat which is common for Taiwanese women to wear during winter. She is monolid and her skin is fair. When I heard her speak Tagalog, that was the only time I knew she’s also a kababayan (fellow countryman). In Malaysia, same thing, they spoke to me in Malay. In Singapore, I once ate in a restaurant around Marina Bay. I didn’t know that the waitress is Filipina (she’s fair skinned Malay looking) although I had a guess because of her accent. I wanted to ask her nationality but it will be too awkward and unprofessional. Regardless, she spoke English to me. When I paid using my credit card issued by a Philippine bank, that’s the only time she asked and knew that I’m Filipino. Finally, in the Philippines, they just talk to me in Tagalog. Maybe because I wear clothes the Filipino way whenever I’m here and technically, Manila has many chinitos and chinitas that’s why they just assume I’m Filipino based on my clothes and actions. Some staff in Jollibee have mistaken some Chinese migrants as Filipinos. I’ve noticed that if you are chinky and your skin is pale but not as smooth and glowy as those of typical Korean’s or Chinese’s, they’ll just assume you are Filipino chinito, especially if their eyes are trained enough to distinguish the fashion styles of East Asian migrants from Filipino chinitos. Same in Visayas, they just talk to me in Cebuano without knowing I’m from Luzon. It’s like comparing North Europeans and South Europeans, Scandinavian Whites and Meditteranean Whites, and to a greater extent, Whites, Arabs, and Indians too. An English Man going to France without speaking a single English word might be mistaken as a local. A meditteranean looking woman from Sweden might be mistaken as a local in Italy or Spain. It’s the same thing within East and Southeast Asia. You cannot generalize that a certain nationality has a specific feature because just like the example above, they are all caucasians, their physical features also overlap. If the Indian is light skinned enough, he can be mistaken as an Arab or White too. Same with Asians. Both East Asians and Southeast Asians are in Mongol race. If the Asian is fairer and monolid, you may assume he is East Asian even if some SEAs look the same. If the Asian is tanned and monolid, you may assume he’s also from China, Japan, or somewhere in SEA. If the Asian is dark skinned and not monolid, you may assume he’s from Southeast Asia, but dark skinned Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans also exists. I’ve seen a significant no. of North Koreans with dark skinned and monolid eyes. Does that mean they do not have East Asian ancestry just because they’re dark? They might even be the purest since North Korea has remained untouched by foreign influences for half a century. Nationality, even ethnicity, is not generally based on race or appearance because they overlap. Humans are natural nomads. Once they migrate and settle, generation 3 and up will just forget that their ancestors were migrants and assume that they are pure blooded regardless of their appearance.
Filipinos are really accepting culture especially if you speak the language. You don't just see full blooded PINOYS like ROBI DOMINGO as tv hosts or especially models. Many Biracial Pinoys part british like Edward Barber & Enrique Gil is German/Spanish on his dad side etc with alot of the beauty queens etc. And since Philippines were colonized by USA over 50 years ago they have been more English influenced which you can see or detect in pinoy slang, neibor Asian countries come to PH to learn English and most pinoys 1st names are English sounding (:
Filipinos are very diverse. Some may look like Chinese, Korean, from Arab countries, etc and some have light complexions & others have dark complexions. And about the nose, they differ. It's hard to tell. I'm a filipina and that is based on what I observed.
Austronesian blood that came from Guam, PNG & Fiji etc. is (where most predominantly) Pinoys, Malaysians & Indonesians got the wider/button nose and darker skin tones.
I’m Filipino and even Filipinos here in Japan can’t tell I’m Filipino. They assume I’m American, either Hawaiian or Mexican. Then they get surprised when I start talking in Tagalog lol. They’re not wrong. When I was working in a fast food restaurant surrounded by Mexicans, many thought I was Mexican. Specially when I spoke Spanish with them since then I was very fluent in Spanish. When I was living in Hawaii, Hawaiians thought I was a local also so I usually get kama’aina discount which is a discount for local people. I didn’t take advantage of it cuz I was getting the same discounts anyway by either proving I’m a service member or that I have resident ID. So yah, if fellow Filipinos can’t tell if I’m Filipino or not, it’s easy to say that our look is very diverse.
I am hispanic bro and you look nothing like us, more Cambodian or Viet. Here in America in street gangs, Jail & politics you guys side with the Asian Boyz and in politics ANTI-Asian Hate protests with all of them bc Filipinos have been targets too of racism in US. It's great to see you guys united to your Asian race out here. But overseas you guys seem to have identity crisis.
@@tnazealot2143 your ignorance is why you didn’t understand my comment. There’s nothing there where I claimed I look like you people. It’s your own dumb people who assumed that, just because I spoke Spanish. Filipinos actually have more sense of community overseas than hispanics. You people cling to black people like you’re their mistress. No wonder many latinas date black people nowadays rather than their own kind.
@@tnazealot2143 yeah we definitely look nothing like you, you look weird. It doesn't matter if we look nothing like hispanics, the features are our benefits tho. As what he said, people mistaken him as hawaiian, mexican, and american we can get opportunities from that but when someone saw you you're automatically hispanic in their eyes with no acknowledgement or compliments given. Sad reality for ignorant pure blooded.
@@lovmae mexicans doesn't look anything diversed, we'll know you're mexican. But if you have every features from nations all over the world and people talked to you like "you look like this, you look like that" but you speak filipino fluently and you have a flat nose, you're a filipino.
Living here in the US, many have thought that I was Hispanic. It was ok at first but as I repeatedly get asked and refered to as one, telling me I didnt look like Filipino, I felt offended as if my nationality connotes inferiority.
There is so much confusion with the terms "Hispanic" and "Latino". Latinos are those who speak a language that descended from or was heavily influenced by Latin. So Italians, French, Romanians are also considered Latinos. Hispanic refers to those whose culture was influenced by Spain, so by this definition, yes we Filipinos are also hispanic. He estado estudiando español y aprendiendo mucho también sobre nuestro identidad, herencia, y cultura. Espero que algún día, español sería una idioma oficial de Filipinas como inglés.
If there is a group of Asians from different countries talking together, the one laughing a lot and telling jokes is the Filipino. The one person who gets to befriend almost everyone easily is the Filipino. Filipinos simply have outgoing and relaxed personality. Of course there are exceptions but I am talking about the majority here.
For me I think it varies, Filipinoes don't have those distinct features similar to each other that you can directly identify them as Filipinos and they tend to have similar features which can be associated with other race unlike homogenous countries. There are stereotypes but when you meet a lot of them you begin to realize that its more diverse specially with the eyes, skin tone and hair textures, but most Filipinos do have round small faces, I don't if its only me but i notice as well, its Filipino genes to have rounder thighs despite their weight.
If we are talking purely about physical features, I would say we are diverse. I’m a Filipino who now resides overseas and there are instances that I have mistaken other Filipinos for being from other Asian Country. When I was in the Philippines I have fairer complexion than what it is now but I still considered myself “kayumanggi” back then however, during my college years there were two separate instances but both events happened while I was in the bus. I was asked by both Filipino guys if I’m “Chinese”. My features are way too far at least from majority of Chinese features we know but for some reason I was mistaken for being a Chinese and these happened while in the Philippines.haha
Hi im emil from Mt. province.. i just wanna let you know that pure Filipino and native Filipino are white skin small eye similar to korean Japanese Chinese. They are called igorots.. people from manila and other province are mixed with foreigners.. they are not pure..
Same experienced here when i was in Panglao, Bohol i was mistaken as korean by the live band in the resto and mistaken as chinese at the airport. They talked to me in english and they laughed when i answered back in tagalog. 🤣
That's very possible. Even before the Spanish came to Philippines, many Chinese traders already married Filipinos. Many Filipinos (although not the majority) have Chinese ancestry. The rest of the foreign ancestry like Spanish were pretty low.
Hi let me correct maybe you have Igorot ancestors, not Chinese because Igorot their looks similar to korean Chinese and Japanese, Igorot are the pure Filipino they are singkit small eyes white skin and makinis...
@@emilflores7400 That's possible. Although Igorot people reside in the Luzon mountains. That made them less likely to intermarry with Filipinos living in lowlands and/or outside Luzon. That's also a huge reason why even until now, they have still preserved their culture.
If you look to kpop group they tend to have similar features and their we’re times that its hard to know who’s who but if you look to ppop Like Sb19 you can easily guess who’s who.. they are all filipino but they have very distinct features Justin can easily pass as korean/east asian look.. he categorized as a chinito Josh looks can be chinito/mestiso, it depends on his makeup Ken has the very typical handsome filipino look he is the moreno one Stell can pass as a mestiso he had a sharp features especially his jawline and his eyebrow Pablo is the somewhat complicated but he lean more on east asian look.. he doesn’t have the typical small eyes but he had cute round eyes, small nose and small lips.. but he had a very thick eyebrow..so he’s still count as a chinito.. I think the features they share together are their eyebrows and hair .. its thick and dark
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It's so nice to know that the Philippines is more ethnically homogenous so it means we Filipinos have our own unique beauty. Well it's not just the beauty wise, we're all have different beauties what's more important is the beauty of the heart.
Yes. We're really ethnically homogeneous. Kaya nga nagsstand out agad yung mga non-Asian foreigners since hindi naman natin common nakikita sila. That's also why colorism exists more instead na racism. Since we're already ethically homogeneous.
We're not ethnically homogenous. The lower classes look different from the lower classes, the Pinoy look more mixed as you go up the economic scale. Only the lower class look Malay, nothing homogenous at all
The Harvard study is absolute BS. 95% "Filipino" doesn't make sense because Filipino is a nationality, not ethnicity. There are 180 different ethnic groups in the Philippines, each with their own language.
There are indeed many ethnic groups in the Philippines but most are actually Austronesians (who more or less look the same). It is definitely not a shame if we aren't actually as "diverse" as what we think. South Korea is even far from diverse but they are still very proud of their own identity. That's something we should learn from them.
@@randomcarrot7970 Austronesians aren't all the same ethnic group. That would be like saying a Maori and a Filipino are the same ethnic group just because they're both Austronesians. And most Filipinos have varying degrees of Negrito ancestry, which contributes to our diversity. You can look full black and still be Filipino. You can look full Chinese. You can look full Spanish.
@@randomcarrot7970 You're completely wrong. Look at this new study called "Multiple migrations to the Philippines during the last 50,000 years" It found that all the groups of Filipinos they tested had Negrito ancestry EXCEPT Igorots- who remained pure Austronesian. The reason is because the Igorots settled high in the mountains. Negritos are all over the country, not just Luzon (Agta, Dumagat, Aeta tribes). You can find them in the Visayas (Ati tribes), Mindanao (Mamanwa), Palawan (Batak). Also, Negritos didn't preserve their culture as much as you think. They don't even speak their original languages anymore. They all adopted Austronesian languages. So they weren't as isolated as you think. They were absorbed into the Austronesian population, which is why their numbers are low now. But most Filipinos have their admixture. Negrito admixture is why Filipinos have diverse looks. You have someone who looks like chef Sheldon Simeon who is 100% Filipino but looks completely different from Filipino actor Manny Jacinto. And they both look different from Filipino chef Jordan Andino. Put them all side by side and they have completely different features. But they're all 100% Filipino
@@randomcarrot7970 "Moreover, formal tests using f3 admixture and f4 statistics provide direct evidence that Central Cordillerans retained to be the ONLY ethnic groups within the Philippines who did not receive gene flow from Negritos"
I’m Filipino and I could easily identify someone who is Filipino. I don’t really think it’s the physical features that give it away but the way we carry ourselves. I could tell by the way someone walks or dresses up. There’s just something in the way we move and there’s something in our demeanor that is very familiar and unique. There’s a level of looseness and nonchalant way about us that makes it obvious in my eyes.
I used to hear it from friends I don't know anymore from 10 years ago but I encounter it again and again and can distinguish it against Spanish and Amerindian languages.
Very true although it's also important to note that at least 65% are the moreno/as, at least 30% are the chinito/as, and at most 5% are the Spanish mestizo/as.
@Katja Wilkinson yeah asian and south east asian. East asians have small eyes and have a very pale skin while south east asians have slighly round eyes and tan.
I’ve been mistaken as Mexican, Korean, Japanese, Indonesian, Hawaiian, Chinese Jamaican lol but only other Filipinos can easily identify that I’m Filipino. It’s odd
They are all from around the different world but they say They're all have filipino friend. Because we filipinos are approachable very friendly and easy to udjust in any circumstances. Thats why..
You should watch some YT Channel that documented the migration of Filipinos since the early days of the Spanish colonialization. It was not only the Manila- Acapulco Galleon trade that brought an exchange of Filipinos -Mexicans vis-a-vis to PH and Mexico but the Spanish Galleon brought Filipinos to occupy lands as colonies in what is now known as Los Angeles and Texas in the U.S.A. Amand this has been historically documented. Likewise, Filipino communities have been brought to other Latin American countries by the Spanish Galleons. Presently, the Filipino OFW has seeded other countries globally with their presence that most countries Will have a Filipino presence or Community there.
based on personal experience neither asians hispanics or pacific islanders consider us part of their groups lol thats why a lot of filipinos have huge identity crisis. might aswell just be our own continent lol
i think identity crisis started from living at America since I think they had those test on what race u r. I remembered it had pacific islander on one of the options. So maybe there are so many Filipino Americans who don't really know who they are.
You’re wrong mate. Most people considered Filipinos as Asian. Filipinos in Canada and Australia knows that they are Asian and people there considered them as one. In Europe Filipinos are considered as “Orientals”. In US, it’s quite unique. The reason why some Americans considered Filipinos as Pacific Islander is because Filipino-Americans themselves are claiming that they’re part of that group which is very wrong. Filipino-Americans will claim anything like (Latina that they have Spanish blood, Pacific Islander, etc.), but they will never call themselves as “Asian” because of negative stereotypes and discrimination that Asian people experienced there.
@@smoothie4448 oh is that so? Im not sure if ur reply is meant for me or op but I'm just gonna reply anyways xD. Tbh back then I was confused if I am supposed to identity myself as pacific islander since I moved to America at 5 years old. Plus I never went to school at Ph so I lacked a lot of knowledge about my identity.
@@smoothie4448 you didnt understand the comment. i was saying Asians dont consider us asians. latinos consider us chinese . while islanders considers us just plain Asian. LIKE I SAID NOBODY WANTS US IN THEIR "GROUP" i have met a lot of chinese or other asian people who does not associate filipinos as asian. and Hispanic People call filipinos "Chinos" . of course europeans will say filipinos are asian. what im saying is not even the group we identify to be part of consider us one of them . also asian is not a race just like hispanic!
We are mixed,.different asian groups blended together, each individual is an uneven mix that confuses the foreigners but in our eyes we don't even see it unless we talk about it.
Philippine looks are pretty diverse. Different regions have different face composition due to different ancestral tribes and races here in the Philippines.
There's a lot of myths being a "Filipino". Unlike Chinese, Japanese or Koreans that can be both a race and a nationality, "Filipino" is not a race. It's just a nationality. Just like being "American" is not a race. It's just a nationality.
Not true Filipino became their own culture just like all the other SEA countries are who have similar ancestors. More diverse yes but still their own culture not anyone else's anymore. Philippines is independent. Many countries in Asia have also been colonized by Europeans (mainly British and French) if not by other Asians. Koreans & Chinese mostly by the Japanese.
@@thinkpositive3667 No Filipinos are asian bc they are in Asia! That is their race just like the other nationalities you mentioned that are less diverse. You are trying to one trying to tear down & belittle Pinoys who I am defending. Here in America there are a multiple of races & creeds. We identify ourselves as Mexican-American (as Latino), Filipino-American (who identify as Asian) and either are born here or just have a Visa. But in PH full blooded Pinoys have similar or close to similar descendents. Pinoys are in the census here and are listed as Asian/asian islander.
We are a race though? Just that our blood has gotten mixed with others a lot. Native filipinos are more prominent in tribes like Aetas and Igorot tribes~
If you think about it. If a foreigner lives in Japan, they would not be called 'Japanese' because Japanese meant "of Japanese descent", which is somehow similar to Filipinos. As opposed to a country like America, doesn't matter where you're from or what you look like, if you are a citizen, you'd be American. That means that while we have diverse appearances, we still have a homogenous Filipino culture.
Philippines is made out of different ethnic groups like Bisaya, Tagalog, Ilocano, etc. but these races are still Philippine races unlike in America where it’s made out of people from different countries and race. Filipinos can be both nationality and ethnicity.
Filipinos are just shapeshifters but I think what someone told me fits perfect when describing the Philippines: "The Philippines is too Asian to be Hispanic, too Hispanic to be American and too American to be Asian" And what Mogi said about some Filipinos looking like Koreans, THAT's actually true because I know someone who actually looks like Korean but none of her family was Korean.
Philippines is the land of multicultural and diverse identity towards of our neighbours in South East Asian Nations. Because we were colonized by Spaniards for more than 300 years. At the same time, they are contributed our language, culture and traditions as well as now. I consider that Filipino are consider as Asian - Hispanic features with Mestizo, Chinese, Malaysian, Indonesian, Japanese and American decent. 🏯😁❤️🇵🇭👏💯
Oh guys Filipino are very friendly that's why any kind of race or foreign can be with us can live anywhere anytime any how every where it's mean we are survivor in any kind
My maternal grandmother was a Filipina-Spanish Mestiza, maternal grandfather is of Indian-Ati descent, paternal grandmother is very mixed (Spanish-Ati-Malay-Arab), paternal grandfather is ¼ Mexican and also of Chinese descent. Me and my cousins are of different sizes and colors 😂
@@randomcarrot7970 what's really interesting is I can be an East Asian, Afro, Latino or Caucasian based on angles and how people classifies races... Filipinos are really unique, genetically and culturally.
@@ericbrenpelayocarpio3360 We're kinda the same then. My father's side had various ancestries with Spanish ancestry from my grandma and East Asian and American ancestry from my grandpa. Most of my cousins, siblings, and I (on my father's side) definitely inherited the naturally light skin tones + high nose bridges but only a few of us have the pronounced Spanish mestizo/as look.
Spanish? Filipinos are genetically Asian, speak Asian languages , and eat asian food. You can drop a Spaniard anywhere in Latin America and he or she will get along just fine; and the same is true if you drop a Latin American in Spain. That, however, is most certainly NOT the case if you drop a Spaniard in the Philippines or a Filipino in Spain completely Alien cultures. Despite being Catholic, The Philippines has an overwhelmingly strong South East Asian vibe ... the philippines looks and feels exactly like any other South East Asian country.
@@annetan3583 I dont think so lol The phillipines is somewhat different than any other southeast asian country. Their behavior and culture is more spanish latin america
Is it just me or when you go to northern part of philippines, they look more partly chinese and korean, when you go to capital manila, they look thai, korean and vietnamese, when u go to visayas, they look spanish or latinos and when you go to southern philippines, they look like indonesians
@@theguywhoasked-r7e mostly pinoy look like pacific islander and some mixed latin. While western indonesian look like southern chinese and thai than pinoy..
@@myphotoisme.iammalaysian.2286 Lol I said the philippines is much nearer in the east of indonesia that the west, I never said they look like the west indonesians
Filipinos are very diverse because we didn't seek ourselves to a certain race but for a heart, everyone can be a Filipino no matter what kind of race they are as long they believe in their selves that they are Filipino by heart. Everyone is welcome to our country and Nationality. ❤️😊
ellgi: filipinos like dont have acne, like there flawless skin me: (crying in the inside.maybe because im not filipino that's why i havr so many acne😭)
When I was living in Thailand, some Europeans I got acquainted with would tell me I have more similarities with native Mexican than Asian. Then my American friend when he first visited Philippines, he said that we look more like Latinos having almond shaped eyes.
I'm Filipino and I remember my classroom having people who look more Japanese, Chinese, Latin, Indian and then there's me depending on my skin tone I go from Japanese/Chinese to SEA
As a Filipino Myself.. Philippines is a very diverse country... Filipinos have many different versions☺️ I guess its because many people have mixed and many have chinese ancestors
Indo Chinese different ethnicity than chinese and are ancestors of the SEA people including Indo-Malay that is absent in Thai. Borneo's people look very Pinoy.
natty was right.. filipinos looks like,thai,indonesian,or malaysian.. working in middle east with people from this sout east asian nation..it is really hard to tell..the only thing for you to recognize a filipino here aside from asking them or making them talk is what we call the OFW starter pack..the basketball jersey and slide slippers and a baseball cap..
Majority of Filipinos are hispanic af, a lot of them out there celebrates hispanic stuff. And of course the opposition will say they are not cause they are either atheist or just have the heart of a Katipunero
We do have many faces and we have striking similarities with neighboring Asian countries such as Indonesians, Malaysians and Thais but I am always almost sure the most genuine smile in the room belongs to a Filipino. 😁
Filipinos are definitely diverse. Its kind of funny how we can look SEA or East Asians. As I live in Scandinavia and grew up here, people tend to either guess I am half-Filipino, or Half-Thai. Though tourists such as Japanese would mistake me for Japanese at times.
The Harvard study cited doesn't really tell you much about the diversity in looks, it's a measure of formal genetic diversity. According to the same study most of Africa, as well as Indonesia, are more ethnically diverse than Brazil. That may very well be true genetically, but does anybody really think Brazilians are have a narrower range of looks than Africa or Indonesia? The study is also skewed towards countries with high immigration.
Genes are what bring the looks so of course, genetic diversity is a pretty good measure for diversity of looks. Africa is definitely diverse yes. If you look at the north of it, you'll find a lot of white people. Black people who are in the majority of Africa are also pretty diverse themselves. As an example, the oldest tribe members in Africa are very different from the stereotypical dark skinned person. They actually have much lighter skin tone and also have East Asian looking eyes. I'm not sure about Indonesia but looking at their culture, it's pretty diverse. I was surprised by this because most Indonesians I've seen look most Filipinos. But yeah, their culture is pretty diverse (much diverse than in the Philippines) so that's a sign that there were a lot of genetic mixing between them.
@@randomcarrot7970 You clearly have no clue as to the difference between phenotype and genotype. I'm sorry but white people in Africa? Where? We're talking about subsaharan Africa here. Your evidence for diversity in looks is random people with "East African eyes"? Seriously? You think that makes them more diverse in physical features compared to Brazil? There's not a lot of genetic mixing in Indonesia, certainly not more than the Philippines. I have no idea how you can logically conclude diverse culture = genetic intermixing. What a ridiculous statement. You seem extremely ignorant, no offense.
To me it doesnt matter how we look like to others because true beauty comes from the inside besides were all human beings in an infinite expanding universe +RESPECT +SUB from Phillipines
Not surprising, we have ~2000 inhabited islands. There were completely separate tribes in history. Some aboriginal filipinos look nearly black with curls. Some latino from the colonial times. Some more asian probably due to migration from Taiwan. Most of my family is light skinned with freckles even, while my cousins are deep tan. Very cool seeing the complex range.
I am Filipino and I love to gain more friends in different races. And when i sing my foreign friend saying you are truly Filipino because i sing well and my job is singing. But i tell them there are alot of people in my country cannot sing. but most filipino can sing because Filipinos when sad we sing and if we are happy we sing too... i have brown skin they always ask me if i am a mexican because of my last name Diaz. I told them i am not my country adopted spanish last names.
Filipinos tend to had multiple facade.meaning we're mixed by many foreigners.and the nice thing is we could easily adapt in any cultures so as a pinay(Filipina)I'm proud tobe.im proud we're I'm from(Philippines 🇵🇭💗❣️
I agree that Filipinos looks diverse of face features maybe because historically, we became the melting pot country in Asia like Singapore. We can be look like Indonesian, Malaysian, Thai, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Mexican, even some of us looks like Indians (from India, although not too many Filipinos look Indians). Heck, I went to a Chinese restaurant here in the US and waiter started to speaking to me in Mandarin. I went to a Vietnamese store, they started to talk to me in Vietnamese. And I don't even have any of those descents. Even some of my Filipino friends, they look like Mexicans and South Americans. Unlike if you go to the countries I mentioned, their face features are consistent throughout the entire population (especially Chinese, Koreans, Japanese and Indians/Pakistanis). Take one Filipino and line up with Indonesian, Malaysian, Thai and Vietnamese, I bet you you're going to have a hard time identifying which country they're from.
Agree except for your point about Singapore. They're more of a mosaic than a melting pot since the separate ethnicities in their country are pretty segregated.
Not stereotypical Mexicans bc they are Aztec & Apocalypto tribes we are more mestizo or full native american. There are Asians in Mexico or Asian Latino, that yes.
Agree with Eriel and Sari, specially with Eriel. Having the chance to visit on some SEA countries, I kinda get what she meant by the Eurocentric features. We have this feature on majority of the population that’s quite unique from other SEA even to people from Indonesia whom I think we’re more closely related to.
This is very interesting! Of course, the average Filipino will have the Indo/Malay look. We're, in a stereotypical sense, Southeast Asian islanders with romantic Spanish tendencies.
Sir EL, the origin of Pinoy, Thai, Malaysian & Indonesia's ancestry is Asian indiginous that predate the Austronesians going back further than the Ice Age before the islands shifted. SEA ancestors are Indo-Chinese (different ethnically than Modern but share proto-ancestry) & Indo-Malay (more so early PH, Malaysia & Borneo's people) 1 or the other if not both by locality. There is diversity among Austronesians vs Australo-Melanesians both that migrated from Guam, Fiji & PNG/Aus. The Aeta & Batak people "negritos" are similar. And arrived during colonization but said to be left alone by the Spanish who ultimately were driven out. Most Asian countries were colonized or influenced by other cultures religions & other language. Filipinos have their own unique culture that I find fascinating.
I love how smart the uk girl is, she definitely described whatever she had in mind, but I like how she explained herself first and tackled a few facts/ theories of her about identfying a person's race/ethnicty specifically filipino people.
Its not the official language. But that doesn't mean that people stop speaking it. Like all other Filipino language theyre not official but they EXIST ✊🏼
@@timmylargo9166 they are just loanwords that are already integrated into Philippine languages. Filipinos cannot speak Spanish because it is not taught in public and private elementary and secondary schools nationwide. TBH, Spanish should be reinstated as one of the official language in the Philippines and make it one of the options for pupils who want to learn how to speak, read, write, and understand Spanish starting preschool.
Para sa amin na mga taga-Mexico, ang mga Pilipino ay ating mga kapatid mula sa Asya, marami kaming ibinabahagi, kami ay mga kolonya ng imperyo ng Espanya, gusto mo ang Mga Bansa, kami ang mga Katoliko, magkatulad ang aming lutuin. mabuhay ang Pilipinas mabuhay ang mga kapatid na bansa sa Mexico🇲🇽&🇵🇭👏🌹👏🌹👏
At least almost 30% of the Philippine population have East Asian genes noticeable enough on their physical features (lighter skin and monolid eyes but not as glowingly pale as North Chinese, Japanese, or Koreans maybe due to the Philippine weather). At least a total of 50% of the population have East Asian genes/ancestry but the other 20% in this 50% have unnoticeable physical features (mostly with natural tanned skin and double lids but can still be mistaken as Chinese in China or by untrained foreign eyes since other Chinese, especially Southerners, can have the same features). Whenever I’m in China, I get treated as a local. Many local strangers come to me to ask for directions thinking I’m a local too. I sat beside a group of white people, a Chinese staff spoke to them in English but that same Chinese staff spoke to me in Mandarin. And then we both laughed when I told her I do not speak Chinese. In Japan, I sat beside Filipinos with a Japanese tour guide. I didn’t reveal to these Filipinos that I’m also Filipino. The Japanese tour guide talked to me in Japanese whenever he asks me to fall in line first before them. Maybe it was technically not because I look Japanese, but instead since the Japanese tour guide was clueless about my nationality, and since I look East Asian, she spoke to me in Japanese. And the rest of staff from different stores did the same. They suddenly became silent the moment I started speaking English. In Taiwan, I thought that a woman sitting in front of me was a Taiwanese local. She was wearing a trench/overcoat which is common for Taiwanese women to wear during winter. She is monolid and her skin is fair. When I heard her speak Tagalog, that was the only time I knew she’s also a kababayan (fellow countryman). In Malaysia, same thing, they spoke to me in Malay. In Singapore, I once ate in a restaurant around Marina Bay. I didn’t know that the waitress is Filipina (she’s fair skinned Malay looking) although I had a guess because of her accent. I wanted to ask her nationality but it will be too awkward and unprofessional. Regardless, she spoke English to me. When I paid using my credit card issued by a Philippine bank, that’s the only time she asked and knew that I’m Filipino. Finally, in the Philippines, they just talk to me in Tagalog. Maybe because I wear clothes the Filipino way whenever I’m here and technically, Manila has many chinitos and chinitas that’s why they just assume I’m Filipino based on my clothes and actions. Some staff in Jollibee have mistaken some Chinese migrants as Filipinos. I’ve noticed that if you are chinky and your skin is pale but not as smooth and glowy as those of typical Korean’s or Chinese’s, they’ll just assume you are Filipino chinito, especially if their eyes are trained enough to distinguish the fashion styles of East Asian migrants from Filipino chinitos. Same in Visayas, they just talk to me in Cebuano without knowing I’m from Luzon. It’s like comparing North Europeans and South Europeans, Scandinavian Whites and Meditteranean Whites, and to a greater extent, Whites, Arabs, and Indians too. An English Man going to France without speaking a single English word might be mistaken as a local. A meditteranean looking woman from Sweden might be mistaken as a local in Italy or Spain. It’s the same thing within East and Southeast Asia. You cannot generalize that a certain nationality has a specific feature because just like the example above, they are all caucasians, their physical features also overlap. If the Indian is light skinned enough, he can be mistaken as an Arab or White too. Same with Asians. Both East Asians and Southeast Asians are in Mongol race. If the Asian is fairer and monolid, you may assume he is East Asian even if some SEAs look the same. If the Asian is tanned and monolid, you may assume he’s also from China, Japan, or somewhere in SEA. If the Asian is dark skinned and not monolid, you may assume he’s from Southeast Asia, but dark skinned Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans also exists. I’ve seen a significant no. of North Koreans with dark skinned and monolid eyes. Does that mean they do not have East Asian ancestry just because they’re dark? They might even be the purest since North Korea has remained untouched by foreign influences for half a century. Nationality, even ethnicity, is not generally based on race or appearance because they overlap. Humans are natural nomads. Once they migrate and settle, generation 3 and up will just forget that their ancestors were migrants and assume that they are pure blooded regardless of their appearance.
Actually, all of the persons who talked in this video have a "look-alike" in the Philippines. We are just so diverse looking and very adoptive to any culture.
I'd love for you to link to the PSA surveys that collected ethnic data because as far as I'm aware the Philippine government does not collect that sort of data at all.
Good conclusion. We have the Malay blood with brown complexion short in stature, rounded eyes, button nose, full lipped. Our diversity mixed with the white, mostly Spanish and porcelain ancestry descended from China. As we intermarried internationally our race is now so diverse in feature. But one thing remains that gives us away. We are a happy smiling laughing peaceful hardworking bunch 😉
i noticed this as well that if a filipino is mixed with other races, most of the time they have attractive facial features and this applies to all biracial pinoys.
Did you ever see the Philippines as a homogenous country or a diverse one? Or are we somewhere in between? 🤔
I think there must be some mistakes in that Harvard research I looked into it and the data was taken by surveys asking people how they personally classify themselves, I think a flaw would be if the people didn't understand what ethnicity means because we have so many diverse social groups and cultural traditions. also that map is based on a research published in 2002 so the data could be more than 20 plus years old. also another flaw is it just looks at the people inside the country and counts diaspora population as diversity for rich countries that overseas workers live in.
@@Fealnographs1 No worries! I was aware that the data was 20 years old, but it's the most relevant one we can find so far with regards to the topic. I was supposed to place a line in the script saying "However, the data must have changed in the recent years" but it would be too big of a claim without evidence. ☺️ In the end as a Filipino person who's lived in the Philippines and abroad, the video's takeaway of Filipinos being diverse, yet having a big percentage of decendants from Austronesian-speaking migrants was a clear and true enough statement.
Diversity is differences in racial and ethnic, socioeconomic, geographic, and academic/professional backgrounds. People with different opinions, backgrounds (degrees and social experience), religious beliefs, political beliefs, sexual orientations, heritage, and life experience ---- spain,america,korea,chinese,japanese,india, etc pilipino tend to practice and follow some of those when it comes to religious beliefs, life experience so.. i can say its a diverse
Philippines is really diverse. I'm not tanned skinned but I do have a big a big eyes.
I'd say diverse
The easiest way to define filipinos are by their name they have an ENGLISH First names and SPANISH Surnames.
SO TRUE 😂
@@jhoohnan19 So, Jonathan Rodriguez, a name, with an English first name and a spanish last name but he is a Mexican..
@@KnH07 common sense😑, you can tell whether someone who has english name and a spanish surname as Filipino when it has asian features (Or at least mostly)😐
Lucio TAN
Bong GO
Kim CHIU
Xian LIM
Henry SY
and so on.....
most filipinos carry spanish surnames but some have native filipino surnames ex. is bondoc
Filipinos tend to look diverse. That is why there is that Chinito, Moreno and Mestizo categories; to which, I belong on the latter.
Filipino look like north east indian. Majority of far north east Indian are also Christians, so they give same vibe.
Moreno is just skin color so you can be chinito and moreno or mestizo and moreno
More Filipinos are having Eurasian Hispanic features, especially here in Cebu city.
@@luelzone7474 I live in cebu and it's true
Hi im emil from Mt. province.. i just wanna let you know that pure Filipino and native Filipino are white skin small eye similar to korean Japanese Chinese. They are called igorots.. people from manila and other province are mixed with foreigners.. they are not pure...
Based on history?? Well, our faces are like our favorite Filipino dessert, HALO HALO.
LMAO
true lol
Lol haha
LMFAOAOAOAOAJFJG
That sums it all.
Madeline is actually smart, precisely her theory is actually called the "own-race effect", people with the same ethnicity or race can identify their own people much more than other kin, Madeline you are not wrong this theory came from psychology, (Coming from a psychology student :))))
Omg I’m a psychology student toooo yes!! Psych students unite !!! But omg I didn’t know it was REAL thank you for the information I love it !!
We are diverse and we look diverse but somehow Filipinos can tell if someone is a Filipino. I don't know how, maybe it's intuition? I also can tell if someone is a Filipino... it's not the face but I just feel it haha
lol same... i can tell also.
Aura i think😆🤦♂️
Same hahhhahha we can surely identify our own blood.
I can relate to this. We got a bit lost in Singapore but these Filipino office workers there easily identified us and talked to us in Tagalog.
there's just vibes
I agree with Natty. I'm a Filipino, and I went to tour Thailand. From the airport I kept mistaking some Thai women as FIlipinos because of the similarities in our physical appearance.
They are our bros and sis like Malay, Indo, Vietnam that's why
Where have you been all your life? Mistaking Thais as Filipinos? So hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣 It's so basic that SEAsians have almost the same physical attributes as we belong to the same Malay race
@@snowprince24 I know this in theory for a long time...but it hits you different when you are there and seeing it personally. Lol
Because I've been to different countries and it was never really like, "oh I know I look like them," or "oh this is how they look like." It's more like "Is that a Filipino?" because it's human nature to try and recognize something familiar in a non-familiar place.
@@sinneriam423 ok. I wont invalidate your experience. But, when I travelled to SEAn countries before, i never had this feeling. I mean, it's a conscious knowledge that, our brothers and sisters in SEA look the same as I do.
@@snowprince24 You'll never have the feeling if you're aware
“No acne”
Filipino teens who does not sleep: *system error cannot relate*
lol my sister's skin thrived in japan then when she went back home a few days later her skin was acting up again
The Spanish German girl is really true, ive asked alot of europeans including my classmates here in sweden and they said filipino guys is handsome, i showed them the local filipinos, and they also said filipino girls are pretty and sexy.
non sense
This comment is very very relatable
Thats what i thought so T_T
Any Filipino who struggles with self-confidence should watch this, learn to appreciate and love who you are. a Filipino :)
Also nice to know that 95% are Ethnic Filipinos from the study made :)
Only the FilAms have identity crisis. Filipinos living in the Philippines have no identity crisis at all. Though I'm not sure about the FilCanadians.
You're right.. Why are Filipinos so proud of foreign things? Don't be an inferior nation..
@@WoBuXihuan it'll be cringe when some said "Proud to be Filipino"
@@helos5079 People only say that to be sarcastic
@min.j anong study that Filipinos are 95% ethnic? That's propaganda, there has never been a study. They just classified the population into Cebuano, Ilocano, etc. ethnicities but didn't classify the bloodlines of the Filipinos. There are no racial censuses in the Philippines, forbidden by the American & Filipino governments. Only the Spaniards has THE ACTUAL CENSUS because they classified the population according to race. In 1798, 50% of the Philippine population then were Spanish hybrids. You can see this in the Cebuano ethnicity, the reason many foreigners are camping in Cebu because they believe the Cebuanos are the most Hispanic looking among Filipinos (meaning, most attractive), the pure natives are not really that attractive
0:40 I'm Filipino and I totally agree with everything that she said. Thai and Filipino are closely same, that's why we considered Thailand as our sibling country.
I will say Thai have more like chines looking people. And Filipino have more like Latinos,malaysian,indonesian looking people.
@@twentyone8899 uh no i think it’s the viets
@Odious Fan right ! i think people just think thais have more “east asian features” because their celebrities tends to look chinese or koreans. same lang dito sa Pilipinas, people think we look like this and that kasi madalas half blood mga sikat na celebrities natin pero diverse talaga tayo
@@x7869 Correct!
@@twentyone8899 no, it's just their celebrities. Once you visit Thailand, you will realize that they are much same with Filipinos
Filipinos looking physically similar to Indonesians, Malays, and some Pacific islanders shouldn't come as a surprise by now, since we all share the same Austronesian ancestors. Culturally and Linguistically, all 4, plus the non-African natives of Madagascar, are grouped under the Austronesian language family. Take note that the "Malay race", which Filipino students have been taught that Filipinos belong to, is no longer an accepted term, as "Austronesian" is the updated and expounded term, thus more appropriate.
In the case of Mestizos (take note that "Mestizo" originally referred to any Biracial Filipino, which includes but not limited to Spanish and Chinese mestizos), I think the actual amount of mixing with the natives that happened in the PH during colonial times is OVERESTIMATED. One has to remember that the Philippines isn't actually a white settler colony, and that mixing of the Natives with the Spanish only happened at the higher portion of the upper class society. Nevertheless, those families who remained here until independence still had undeniable influence until today (e.g. the Zobel de Ayalas, the Aranetas, the various political dynasties established by old money rich Mestizo families, etc.)
So yeah, Filipinos with Mestizo heritage dating from the Colonial times(except for the Fil-Chinese), would NOT be a common sight in any streets you go to in the Philippines. They are more commonly seen on TV, in big businesses, and in Politics.
Mestizo only means biracial-European to indiginous who are your asian ancestors. Austronesians mix or pure are not indiginous they came from Guam, Fiji that originated from PNG & Australian aborine hence the name "Austro". PH indiginous are the East Asians since the Ice Age when East Asia/SEA was 1 island Taiwan-PH & Filipinos had their own ancestors from the oriental realm
Hmm... I thought that the origin of Austronesians came from the island of Taiwan then the migratory direction were to head south first to the nearest Lands which is Northern part of the Philippines then further downwards south to the Visayan Islands and eventually scattering to IndoChina, Indonesia and the Polynesian island chains.
Correct me and clarify if I am wrong.
All you said was correct. To add, many Filipinos (although not the majority) have Chinese ancestry due to intermarriages that happened even before the Spanish colonization. Also, there were many Chinese (not all) that migrated to PH who chose to adopt Spanish or locally derived surnames during Spanish colonization.
@@robgianzon7427 True! That is in fact the "Out of Taiwan" Theory 😄
@@randomcarrot7970 Yes, I agree. although it is also interesting to note that much of the Chinese weren't allowed (or instead were imposed harsh restrictions) by the Spanish government to settle outside Manila until the second half of the Spanish occupation. And once they were finally allowed to thrive into the Provinces like Pampanga, Cebu, Iloilo etc., this coincided with the rise in influence of the Chinese Mestizos, that they managed to acquire swathes of lands from the failing Native Principalia by either buying from or intermarriaging with them. They surely worked their way up! 😁
Some Filipinos look like Japanese tho..even some japanese say that some filipinos look the same as them..it just really shows that they are diverse which is really cool..
I am 1/4 Japanese, Filipino, Chinese, European
I am 4/8 filipino, 3/8 Japanese and 1/8 American.
I'm a Filipino that gets often confused as someone from an east asian country.
To me, it's diversity depends on its location, just like with any diverse countries. If you look into the more populated areas you will see the different looks but if you go to the provinces (especially on the secluded ones) then you will see a lot more of the native Filipino look.
South Japanese people have some Austronesian features most likely from the Yayoi tribe from the olden days. 1 subgroup of the Yayoi tribe went south for the warm climate. We’re all related just VERY distant. The region is called East Asia and South East Asia for a reason. Mixing over the years happened and how much of that depends on proximity/trade routes. People just deny because they’re ethnocentric
Okinanawans look similar to Filipinos as well as Taiwanese aborigines too.
The only thing i know since i was a kid, if you mix Filipinos with foreigners. The kids are good looking 😂😂
Lmao thats not true, im the living evidence of that 😭😭😭
Agreed it’s always some generic looking white guy and a drop dead gorgeous Filipina couple combination 😭😭
Well it depends of the look of your parents.
@@markreyes2354 actually for filipinos all Americans look good
It may be true because most of the filipinos mix with other blood especially american are actually beautiful but there are still pure filipinos who are so handsome and beautiful like christine reyes, Sanya lopez, Jak Roberto, Jericho rosales, fino Herrera, and many others
Filipino's is an Asian version of Spanish with Latin vibes who can speak American language and loves Japanese Anime and Koreans.
American language? You mean English?
Do you really love to watch the Koreans? Our family might be in the minority because we don't watch any Korean dramas at all.
I don't think all Filipinos are obsessed with East Asian culture
*english
There's also part of the Philippines where the people there speak broken spanish. It's in Zamboanga
Here in Malaysia, Locals thought I was Chinese. I experienced it most of the time with Chinese people. When I go buy on Chinese store, they will speak to me in Chinese Language. But When I start to speak. They will say... You are a Filipino- that is because of the Accent.
The 1st one the Thai girl was correct, Filipinos are diverse because it is only a Nationality not ethnicity, There are more than Hundreds or even thousands ethnic groups in the Philippines and each one of them has a unique culture and appearance.
The Philippines indeed have a lot of ethnic groups but most of them are actually Austronesians (who more or less looked the same).
@@randomcarrot7970 but austronesiand mixed with anything else becomes diverse and dissimilar take for example did you know that TAUSUG tribes in SULU PHILIPPINES LOOKS LIKE A MIXTURE OF ARAB AUSTRONESIAN SPANISH AND CHINESE ORIGINS.
Multiracial countries such as Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia. The Philippines is a homogeneous country
Thousanda of ethnicities is an exageration. We are a homogenous country. I don't know why people think we are very "diverse" just because of small differences in features.
@@randomcarrot7970 At least almost 30% of the population have East Asian genes noticeable enough on their physical features (lighter skin and monolid eyes but not as glowingly pale as North Chinese, Japanese, or Koreans maybe due to the Philippine weather).
At least a total of 50% of the population have East Asian genes/ancestry but the other 20% in this 50% have unnoticeable physical features (mostly with natural tanned skin and double lids but can still be mistaken as Chinese in China or by untrained foreign eyes since other Chinese, especially Southerners, can have the same features).
Whenever I’m in China, I get treated as a local. Many local strangers come to me to ask for directions thinking I’m a local too. I sat beside a group of white people, a Chinese staff spoke to them in English but that same Chinese staff spoke to me in Mandarin. And then we both laughed when I told her I do not speak Chinese.
In Japan, I sat beside Filipinos with a Japanese tour guide. I didn’t reveal to these Filipinos that I’m also Filipino. The Japanese tour guide talked to me in Japanese whenever he asks me to fall in line first before them. Maybe it was technically not because I look Japanese, but instead since the Japanese tour guide was clueless about my nationality, and since I look East Asian, she spoke to me in Japanese. And the rest of staff from different stores did the same. They suddenly became silent the moment I started speaking English.
In Taiwan, I thought that a woman sitting in front of me was a Taiwanese local. She was wearing a trench/overcoat which is common for Taiwanese women to wear during winter. She is monolid and her skin is fair. When I heard her speak Tagalog, that was the only time I knew she’s also a kababayan (fellow countryman).
In Malaysia, same thing, they spoke to me in Malay. In Singapore, I once ate in a restaurant around Marina Bay. I didn’t know that the waitress is Filipina (she’s fair skinned Malay looking) although I had a guess because of her accent. I wanted to ask her nationality but it will be too awkward and unprofessional. Regardless, she spoke English to me. When I paid using my credit card issued by a Philippine bank, that’s the only time she asked and knew that I’m Filipino.
Finally, in the Philippines, they just talk to me in Tagalog. Maybe because I wear clothes the Filipino way whenever I’m here and technically, Manila has many chinitos and chinitas that’s why they just assume I’m Filipino based on my clothes and actions. Some staff in Jollibee have mistaken some Chinese migrants as Filipinos. I’ve noticed that if you are chinky and your skin is pale but not as smooth and glowy as those of typical Korean’s or Chinese’s, they’ll just assume you are Filipino chinito, especially if their eyes are trained enough to distinguish the fashion styles of East Asian migrants from Filipino chinitos.
Same in Visayas, they just talk to me in Cebuano without knowing I’m from Luzon.
It’s like comparing North Europeans and South Europeans, Scandinavian Whites and Meditteranean Whites, and to a greater extent, Whites, Arabs, and Indians too.
An English Man going to France without speaking a single English word might be mistaken as a local. A meditteranean looking woman from Sweden might be mistaken as a local in Italy or Spain. It’s the same thing within East and Southeast Asia.
You cannot generalize that a certain nationality has a specific feature because just like the example above, they are all caucasians, their physical features also overlap. If the Indian is light skinned enough, he can be mistaken as an Arab or White too.
Same with Asians. Both East Asians and Southeast Asians are in Mongol race. If the Asian is fairer and monolid, you may assume he is East Asian even if some SEAs look the same. If the Asian is tanned and monolid, you may assume he’s also from China, Japan, or somewhere in SEA. If the Asian is dark skinned and not monolid, you may assume he’s from Southeast Asia, but dark skinned Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans also exists. I’ve seen a significant no. of North Koreans with dark skinned and monolid eyes. Does that mean they do not have East Asian ancestry just because they’re dark? They might even be the purest since North Korea has remained untouched by foreign influences for half a century.
Nationality, even ethnicity, is not generally based on race or appearance because they overlap. Humans are natural nomads. Once they migrate and settle, generation 3 and up will just forget that their ancestors were migrants and assume that they are pure blooded regardless of their appearance.
Filipinos are really accepting culture especially if you speak the language. You don't just see full blooded PINOYS like ROBI DOMINGO as tv hosts or especially models. Many Biracial Pinoys part british like Edward Barber & Enrique Gil is German/Spanish on his dad side etc with alot of the beauty queens etc. And since Philippines were colonized by USA over 50 years ago they have been more English influenced which you can see or detect in pinoy slang, neibor Asian countries come to PH to learn English and most pinoys 1st names are English sounding (:
Our names are highly influenced by Spanish. Like De La Torre, Salazar, De La Cruz, Libranda, Marquez, Montecido, Monteverde and so on.
@@samlib8045 he pertains the first name :)
And that's why some Filipinos didn't know how to speak their own native language.
@@sapphire1642 kaya nga :(
Majority or all of the Filipinos be like: English First Name + Spanish Last Name
Yeah the influence is evident.
Filipinos are very diverse. Some may look like Chinese, Korean, from Arab countries, etc and some have light complexions & others have dark complexions. And about the nose, they differ. It's hard to tell.
I'm a filipina and that is based on what I observed.
Hahaha I can relate. If I have my beard on, they say I look very much Arab/Spanish; but without it, they say I look Korean/Chinese lol.
@@patrickborro2000 haha yeah. It's really hard to tell! 😂
I'm that guy who looks like someone from Arab lol. Hahaha
@@sharpnell7949 Hahaha hello kapwa Filipino! 🤭🤗
Austronesian blood that came from Guam, PNG & Fiji etc. is (where most predominantly) Pinoys, Malaysians & Indonesians got the wider/button nose and darker skin tones.
‘‘They don't have acne’’
Me: i have a acne or white/black heads every month.
So di ako pinoy? 😭
@@ShaymeOnYou parang ganun na nga hindi biro lang HAHAHAHA syempre sariling opinyon lang nila yan.
My acne is triggered ... 😂
I’m Filipino and even Filipinos here in Japan can’t tell I’m Filipino. They assume I’m American, either Hawaiian or Mexican. Then they get surprised when I start talking in Tagalog lol. They’re not wrong. When I was working in a fast food restaurant surrounded by Mexicans, many thought I was Mexican. Specially when I spoke Spanish with them since then I was very fluent in Spanish. When I was living in Hawaii, Hawaiians thought I was a local also so I usually get kama’aina discount which is a discount for local people. I didn’t take advantage of it cuz I was getting the same discounts anyway by either proving I’m a service member or that I have resident ID. So yah, if fellow Filipinos can’t tell if I’m Filipino or not, it’s easy to say that our look is very diverse.
I am hispanic bro and you look nothing like us, more Cambodian or Viet. Here in America in street gangs, Jail & politics you guys side with the Asian Boyz and in politics ANTI-Asian Hate protests with all of them bc Filipinos have been targets too of racism in US. It's great to see you guys united to your Asian race out here. But overseas you guys seem to have identity crisis.
@@tnazealot2143 your ignorance is why you didn’t understand my comment. There’s nothing there where I claimed I look like you people. It’s your own dumb people who assumed that, just because I spoke Spanish. Filipinos actually have more sense of community overseas than hispanics. You people cling to black people like you’re their mistress. No wonder many latinas date black people nowadays rather than their own kind.
@@iii898iii yah, you know who I am whether I can or can’t speak Spanish. You’re such an Einstein.
@@tnazealot2143 yeah we definitely look nothing like you, you look weird. It doesn't matter if we look nothing like hispanics, the features are our benefits tho. As what he said, people mistaken him as hawaiian, mexican, and american we can get opportunities from that but when someone saw you you're automatically hispanic in their eyes with no acknowledgement or compliments given. Sad reality for ignorant pure blooded.
@@tnazealot2143
You're right.. Filipinos always pretend to be Hispanic..
0:40 I'm Filipino, and I totally agree that Philippines have diverse faces
not really
@@lovmae it is
@@Elvimber no, mexico left the groupchat
@@lovmae mexicans doesn't look anything diversed, we'll know you're mexican. But if you have every features from nations all over the world and people talked to you like "you look like this, you look like that" but you speak filipino fluently and you have a flat nose, you're a filipino.
@@lovmae lmao so so soo true💀😭
Living here in the US, many have thought that I was Hispanic. It was ok at first but as I repeatedly get asked and refered to as one, telling me I didnt look like Filipino, I felt offended as if my nationality connotes inferiority.
Same..when I visited LA, they thought I’m Latino. Someone even asked me a question in Spanish. Lol
There is so much confusion with the terms "Hispanic" and "Latino". Latinos are those who speak a language that descended from or was heavily influenced by Latin. So Italians, French, Romanians are also considered Latinos. Hispanic refers to those whose culture was influenced by Spain, so by this definition, yes we Filipinos are also hispanic. He estado estudiando español y aprendiendo mucho también sobre nuestro identidad, herencia, y cultura. Espero que algún día, español sería una idioma oficial de Filipinas como inglés.
If there is a group of Asians from different countries talking together, the one laughing a lot and telling jokes is the Filipino. The one person who gets to befriend almost everyone easily is the Filipino. Filipinos simply have outgoing and relaxed personality. Of course there are exceptions but I am talking about the majority here.
Filipinos is Filipino and we are asian🇵🇭
For me I think it varies, Filipinoes don't have those distinct features similar to each other that you can directly identify them as Filipinos and they tend to have similar features which can be associated with other race unlike homogenous countries. There are stereotypes but when you meet a lot of them you begin to realize that its more diverse specially with the eyes, skin tone and hair textures, but most Filipinos do have round small faces, I don't if its only me but i notice as well, its Filipino genes to have rounder thighs despite their weight.
Philippines is really diverse. I'm not tanned skin but I do have a big eyes
Indonesian and Philippines are quite similarity and genuine things when it comes thier vibes rlly amazing..
filipino look more similar to cambodian than indonesian
If we are talking purely about physical features, I would say we are diverse. I’m a Filipino who now resides overseas and there are instances that I have mistaken other Filipinos for being from other Asian Country. When I was in the Philippines I have fairer complexion than what it is now but I still considered myself “kayumanggi” back then however, during my college years there were two separate instances but both events happened while I was in the bus. I was asked by both Filipino guys if I’m “Chinese”. My features are way too far at least from majority of Chinese features we know but for some reason I was mistaken for being a Chinese and these happened while in the Philippines.haha
Hi im emil from Mt. province.. i just wanna let you know that pure Filipino and native Filipino are white skin small eye similar to korean Japanese Chinese. They are called igorots.. people from manila and other province are mixed with foreigners.. they are not pure..
Same experienced here when i was in Panglao, Bohol i was mistaken as korean by the live band in the resto and mistaken as chinese at the airport. They talked to me in english and they laughed when i answered back in tagalog. 🤣
That's very possible. Even before the Spanish came to Philippines, many Chinese traders already married Filipinos. Many Filipinos (although not the majority) have Chinese ancestry. The rest of the foreign ancestry like Spanish were pretty low.
Hi let me correct maybe you have Igorot ancestors, not Chinese because Igorot their looks similar to korean Chinese and Japanese, Igorot are the pure Filipino they are singkit small eyes white skin and makinis...
@@emilflores7400 That's possible. Although Igorot people reside in the Luzon mountains. That made them less likely to intermarry with Filipinos living in lowlands and/or outside Luzon. That's also a huge reason why even until now, they have still preserved their culture.
If you look to kpop group they tend to have similar features and their we’re times that its hard to know who’s who
but if you look to ppop
Like Sb19 you can easily guess who’s who.. they are all filipino but they have very distinct features
Justin can easily pass as korean/east asian look.. he categorized as a chinito
Josh looks can be chinito/mestiso, it depends on his makeup
Ken has the very typical handsome filipino look he is the moreno one
Stell can pass as a mestiso he had a sharp features especially his jawline and his eyebrow
Pablo is the somewhat complicated but he lean more on east asian look.. he doesn’t have the typical small eyes but he had cute round eyes, small nose and small lips.. but he had a very thick eyebrow..so he’s still count as a chinito..
I think the features they share together are their eyebrows and hair .. its thick and dark
This is a fact.. from the group SB19 itself which are all full Filipinos, we can say that Filipinos are very diverse when it comes to its features..
@@hyungjom9450 thanks
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@@AsianSP wc.. I'm a fan myself☺️
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It's so nice to know that the Philippines is more ethnically homogenous so it means we Filipinos have our own unique beauty. Well it's not just the beauty wise, we're all have different beauties what's more important is the beauty of the heart.
Beautifully said!
Yes true..
Yes. We're really ethnically homogeneous. Kaya nga nagsstand out agad yung mga non-Asian foreigners since hindi naman natin common nakikita sila. That's also why colorism exists more instead na racism. Since we're already ethically homogeneous.
It's nothing special. Every race has a different face
We're not ethnically homogenous. The lower classes look different from the lower classes, the Pinoy look more mixed as you go up the economic scale. Only the lower class look Malay, nothing homogenous at all
Omg everyone opinions are so interesting I love it :) loved filming this thank you for having me 💓
Fact: Smile is what makes Filipino's unique despite of any tragedies and problems we faced, we never forget to smile genuinely.
I was raised white as a Filipino in a very abusive situation and this I still me.
The Harvard study is absolute BS. 95% "Filipino" doesn't make sense because Filipino is a nationality, not ethnicity. There are 180 different ethnic groups in the Philippines, each with their own language.
Exactly
There are indeed many ethnic groups in the Philippines but most are actually Austronesians (who more or less look the same). It is definitely not a shame if we aren't actually as "diverse" as what we think. South Korea is even far from diverse but they are still very proud of their own identity. That's something we should learn from them.
@@randomcarrot7970 Austronesians aren't all the same ethnic group. That would be like saying a Maori and a Filipino are the same ethnic group just because they're both Austronesians. And most Filipinos have varying degrees of Negrito ancestry, which contributes to our diversity. You can look full black and still be Filipino. You can look full Chinese. You can look full Spanish.
@@randomcarrot7970 You're completely wrong. Look at this new study called "Multiple migrations to the Philippines during the last 50,000 years" It found that all the groups of Filipinos they tested had Negrito ancestry EXCEPT Igorots- who remained pure Austronesian. The reason is because the Igorots settled high in the mountains. Negritos are all over the country, not just Luzon (Agta, Dumagat, Aeta tribes). You can find them in the Visayas (Ati tribes), Mindanao (Mamanwa), Palawan (Batak). Also, Negritos didn't preserve their culture as much as you think. They don't even speak their original languages anymore. They all adopted Austronesian languages. So they weren't as isolated as you think. They were absorbed into the Austronesian population, which is why their numbers are low now. But most Filipinos have their admixture.
Negrito admixture is why Filipinos have diverse looks. You have someone who looks like chef Sheldon Simeon who is 100% Filipino but looks completely different from Filipino actor Manny Jacinto. And they both look different from Filipino chef Jordan Andino. Put them all side by side and they have completely different features. But they're all 100% Filipino
@@randomcarrot7970 "Moreover, formal tests using f3 admixture and f4 statistics provide direct evidence that Central Cordillerans retained to be the ONLY ethnic groups within the Philippines who did not receive gene flow from Negritos"
I’m Filipino and I could easily identify someone who is Filipino. I don’t really think it’s the physical features that give it away but the way we carry ourselves. I could tell by the way someone walks or dresses up. There’s just something in the way we move and there’s something in our demeanor that is very familiar and unique. There’s a level of looseness and nonchalant way about us that makes it obvious in my eyes.
Language.
I used to hear it from friends I don't know anymore from 10 years ago but I encounter it again and again and can distinguish it against Spanish and Amerindian languages.
Filipinos have three general looks regardless of Ethnicity...
Morenos/as, Mestizos/as, and Chinitos/as.
Very true although it's also important to note that at least 65% are the moreno/as, at least 30% are the chinito/as, and at most 5% are the Spanish mestizo/as.
@Katja Wilkinson yeah asian and south east asian. East asians have small eyes and have a very pale skin while south east asians have slighly round eyes and tan.
"filipino likes to laugh alot" TRUEEE
Sometimes I laugh by myself LMAO
Agreee and talk alot
Too cringe kababayan.
@@andrewespino5899 Idk if this is a mental illness or my own personality 😂
I’ve been mistaken as Mexican, Korean, Japanese, Indonesian, Hawaiian, Chinese Jamaican lol but only other Filipinos can easily identify that I’m Filipino. It’s odd
We’re aliens
The Mexicans are beard. And the Filipinos no
Filipino is the representation of the world. Very diverse.
They are all from around the different world but they say They're all have filipino friend. Because we filipinos are approachable very friendly and easy to udjust in any circumstances. Thats why..
You should watch some YT Channel that documented the migration of Filipinos since the early days of the Spanish colonialization. It was not only the Manila- Acapulco Galleon trade that brought an exchange of Filipinos -Mexicans vis-a-vis to PH and Mexico but the Spanish Galleon brought Filipinos to occupy lands as colonies in what is now known as Los Angeles and Texas in the U.S.A. Amand this has been historically documented.
Likewise, Filipino communities have been brought to other Latin American countries by the Spanish Galleons.
Presently, the Filipino OFW has seeded other countries globally with their presence that most countries Will have a Filipino presence or Community there.
based on personal experience
neither asians hispanics or pacific islanders consider us part of their groups lol thats why a lot of filipinos have huge identity crisis. might aswell just be our own continent lol
They say we're too Asian to be Hispanic, but too Hispanic to be Asian.
WHAT ARE WE THEN? 😆
i think identity crisis started from living at America since I think they had those test on what race u r. I remembered it had pacific islander on one of the options. So maybe there are so many Filipino Americans who don't really know who they are.
You’re wrong mate. Most people considered Filipinos as Asian. Filipinos in Canada and Australia knows that they are Asian and people there considered them as one. In Europe Filipinos are considered as “Orientals”.
In US, it’s quite unique. The reason why some Americans considered Filipinos as Pacific Islander is because Filipino-Americans themselves are claiming that they’re part of that group which is very wrong. Filipino-Americans will claim anything like (Latina that they have Spanish blood, Pacific Islander, etc.), but they will never call themselves as “Asian” because of negative stereotypes and discrimination that Asian people experienced there.
@@smoothie4448 oh is that so? Im not sure if ur reply is meant for me or op but I'm just gonna reply anyways xD. Tbh back then I was confused if I am supposed to identity myself as pacific islander since I moved to America at 5 years old. Plus I never went to school at Ph so I lacked a lot of knowledge about my identity.
@@smoothie4448 you didnt understand the comment. i was saying Asians dont consider us asians. latinos consider us chinese . while islanders considers us just plain Asian. LIKE I SAID NOBODY WANTS US IN THEIR "GROUP"
i have met a lot of chinese or other asian people who does not associate filipinos as asian. and Hispanic People call filipinos "Chinos" . of course europeans will say filipinos are asian. what im saying is not even the group we identify to be part of consider us one of them . also asian is not a race just like hispanic!
We are mixed,.different asian groups blended together, each individual is an uneven mix that confuses the foreigners but in our eyes we don't even see it unless we talk about it.
Philippine looks are pretty diverse. Different regions have different face composition due to different ancestral tribes and races here in the Philippines.
There's a lot of myths being a "Filipino".
Unlike Chinese, Japanese or Koreans that can be both a race and a nationality, "Filipino" is not a race. It's just a nationality.
Just like being "American" is not a race. It's just a nationality.
Not true Filipino became their own culture just like all the other SEA countries are who have similar ancestors. More diverse yes but still their own culture not anyone else's anymore. Philippines is independent. Many countries in Asia have also been colonized by Europeans (mainly British and French) if not by other Asians. Koreans & Chinese mostly by the Japanese.
@@thinkpositive3667 No Filipinos are asian bc they are in Asia! That is their race just like the other nationalities you mentioned that are less diverse. You are trying to one trying to tear down & belittle Pinoys who I am defending. Here in America there are a multiple of races & creeds. We identify ourselves as Mexican-American (as Latino), Filipino-American (who identify as Asian) and either are born here or just have a Visa. But in PH full blooded Pinoys have similar or close to similar descendents. Pinoys are in the census here and are listed as Asian/asian islander.
We are a race though? Just that our blood has gotten mixed with others a lot. Native filipinos are more prominent in tribes like Aetas and Igorot tribes~
If you think about it. If a foreigner lives in Japan, they would not be called 'Japanese' because Japanese meant "of Japanese descent", which is somehow similar to Filipinos. As opposed to a country like America, doesn't matter where you're from or what you look like, if you are a citizen, you'd be American.
That means that while we have diverse appearances, we still have a homogenous Filipino culture.
Philippines is made out of different ethnic groups like Bisaya, Tagalog, Ilocano, etc. but these races are still Philippine races unlike in America where it’s made out of people from different countries and race. Filipinos can be both nationality and ethnicity.
Filipinos are just shapeshifters but I think what someone told me fits perfect when describing the Philippines: "The Philippines is too Asian to be Hispanic, too Hispanic to be American and too American to be Asian" And what Mogi said about some Filipinos looking like Koreans, THAT's actually true because I know someone who actually looks like Korean but none of her family was Korean.
Philippines is the land of multicultural and diverse identity towards of our neighbours in South East Asian Nations. Because we were colonized by Spaniards for more than 300 years. At the same time, they are contributed our language, culture and traditions as well as now. I consider that Filipino are consider as Asian - Hispanic features with Mestizo, Chinese, Malaysian, Indonesian, Japanese and American decent. 🏯😁❤️🇵🇭👏💯
Oh guys Filipino are very friendly that's why any kind of race or foreign can be with us can live anywhere anytime any how every where it's mean we are survivor in any kind
The multicultural countries in Southeast Asia are Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia
My family look like Pacific islander people but I'm Filipino
@Katja Wilkinson it depends Philippines isnt homogeneous filipinos facial features and skin color varies so idk what your talking about bro...
My cousin literally looks like a hispanic person even tho hes Filipino
Filipinos has those unique beauty some filipinos looks like chinese,korean,American,Indian and ect.
Even you come to Indonesia like jakarta ,surabaja,kalimntan barat,bangka etc mostly people's like chinese ..
@@malikathenz2310many indonesian ethnicities look like southern chinese, vietnamese, taiwanese, northern thai than filipino.
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My maternal grandmother was a Filipina-Spanish Mestiza, maternal grandfather is of Indian-Ati descent, paternal grandmother is very mixed (Spanish-Ati-Malay-Arab), paternal grandfather is ¼ Mexican and also of Chinese descent.
Me and my cousins are of different sizes and colors 😂
You look Chinese to me
@@randomcarrot7970 Yeah, a little... But moreno and big Mexican nose
@@randomcarrot7970 I didn't inherited a Spanish Mestizo look... my brother and other cousins did
@@randomcarrot7970 what's really interesting is I can be an East Asian, Afro, Latino or Caucasian based on angles and how people classifies races...
Filipinos are really unique, genetically and culturally.
@@ericbrenpelayocarpio3360 We're kinda the same then. My father's side had various ancestries with Spanish ancestry from my grandma and East Asian and American ancestry from my grandpa. Most of my cousins, siblings, and I (on my father's side) definitely inherited the naturally light skin tones + high nose bridges but only a few of us have the pronounced Spanish mestizo/as look.
I think Filipinos can be distinguish from ASEAN countris is thru their presence.. they are kind,loud and has asian hispanic culture..
On appearance no, but when it comes to culture ours is totally different
Spanish? Filipinos are genetically Asian, speak Asian languages , and eat asian food. You can drop a Spaniard anywhere in Latin America and he or she will get along just fine; and the same is true if you drop a Latin American in Spain. That, however, is most certainly NOT the case if you drop a Spaniard in the Philippines or a Filipino in Spain completely Alien cultures. Despite being Catholic, The Philippines has an overwhelmingly strong South East Asian vibe ... the philippines looks and feels exactly like any other South East Asian country.
@@annetan3583 I dont think so lol The phillipines is somewhat different than any other southeast asian country. Their behavior and culture is more spanish latin america
@@krispyseller4031"their culture and behavior is more Spanish and Latin America."
That's blatantly false.
Even during the Spanish period they spoke Austronesian languages for all purposes besides administrative.
Is it just me or when you go to northern part of philippines, they look more partly chinese and korean, when you go to capital manila, they look thai, korean and vietnamese, when u go to visayas, they look spanish or latinos and when you go to southern philippines, they look like indonesians
Almost all my classmates are so diversed, you cant guessed whose half
No.. southern pinoy dont look like western indonesian.
@@myphotoisme.iammalaysian.2286
well philippines is located in the north 'east' part of indonesia
@@theguywhoasked-r7e mostly pinoy look like pacific islander and some mixed latin. While western indonesian look like southern chinese and thai than pinoy..
@@myphotoisme.iammalaysian.2286
Lol I said the philippines is much nearer in the east of indonesia that the west, I never said they look like the west indonesians
Filipinos are very diverse because we didn't seek ourselves to a certain race but for a heart, everyone can be a Filipino no matter what kind of race they are as long they believe in their selves that they are Filipino by heart. Everyone is welcome to our country and Nationality. ❤️😊
ellgi: filipinos like dont have acne, like there flawless skin
me: (crying in the inside.maybe because im not filipino that's why i havr so many acne😭)
Same😭
Saet 🥲
When I was living in Thailand, some Europeans I got acquainted with would tell me I have more similarities with native Mexican than Asian. Then my American friend when he first visited Philippines, he said that we look more like Latinos having almond shaped eyes.
"They have really good skin. They don't get acne."
Me: HAHA not me
I live in the rural parts of the country and even here, you can't generalize how everyone looks
What comes from the heart is a lot more important than how you look in today's world, in my opinion.
Exactly. It's an identity. Not race, not based on phenotype.
I'm Filipino and I remember my classroom having people who look more Japanese, Chinese, Latin, Indian and then there's me depending on my skin tone I go from Japanese/Chinese to SEA
As a Filipino Myself.. Philippines is a very diverse country... Filipinos have many different versions☺️ I guess its because many people have mixed and many have chinese ancestors
Not so many are mixed wdym
Indo Chinese different ethnicity than chinese and are ancestors of the SEA people including Indo-Malay that is absent in Thai. Borneo's people look very Pinoy.
But even those with heavy Chinese ancestry speak Austronesian tongues 🤔🧐
Philippines is really like Brazil, literally,
we are diverse by faces but in moral we are mostly the same especially being resilient in problems, friendly,hospitable and always smiling
Eriel is giving me clear and honest descriptions of how Filipinos look to foreigners. I like her.
natty was right.. filipinos looks like,thai,indonesian,or malaysian.. working in middle east with people from this sout east asian nation..it is really hard to tell..the only thing for you to recognize a filipino here aside from asking them or making them talk is what we call the OFW starter pack..the basketball jersey and slide slippers and a baseball cap..
I’ll get that “Asian version of a hispanic person” 💙
Hell naw
Majority of Filipinos are hispanic af, a lot of them out there celebrates hispanic stuff. And of course the opposition will say they are not cause they are either atheist or just have the heart of a Katipunero
@@nadonado648 MAJORITY. Yeah flat nose, dark skin, short stature. Yeah so "hispanic"
@@nadonado648Hispano af@@nadonado648
@@nadonado648 jaja you are Malay a fact
We do have many faces and we have striking similarities with neighboring Asian countries such as Indonesians, Malaysians and Thais but I am always almost sure the most genuine smile in the room belongs to a Filipino. 😁
As you described, yes, we are simply, beautifully, and wonderfully Filipinos - PERFECT!
Filipinos are definitely diverse. Its kind of funny how we can look SEA or East Asians. As I live in Scandinavia and grew up here, people tend to either guess I am half-Filipino, or Half-Thai. Though tourists such as Japanese would mistake me for Japanese at times.
ELLGI: like their skin is so clear like no acne
Me: so I'm not Filipino?
Omggg noo~ and it doesn't mean your boy a Filipino~♡ its just the people i met ~♡ as we said its not everyone~and acne skin is still beautiful ~
@@ellgimogi_internationalcouple Nah it's fine, it was just sarcasm.
@@ellgimogi_internationalcouple, indeed. More acne, more beautiful. I strive for this. Thanks for appreciate. Yes.
The Harvard study cited doesn't really tell you much about the diversity in looks, it's a measure of formal genetic diversity. According to the same study most of Africa, as well as Indonesia, are more ethnically diverse than Brazil. That may very well be true genetically, but does anybody really think Brazilians are have a narrower range of looks than Africa or Indonesia? The study is also skewed towards countries with high immigration.
Genes are what bring the looks so of course, genetic diversity is a pretty good measure for diversity of looks.
Africa is definitely diverse yes. If you look at the north of it, you'll find a lot of white people. Black people who are in the majority of Africa are also pretty diverse themselves. As an example, the oldest tribe members in Africa are very different from the stereotypical dark skinned person. They actually have much lighter skin tone and also have East Asian looking eyes.
I'm not sure about Indonesia but looking at their culture, it's pretty diverse. I was surprised by this because most Indonesians I've seen look most Filipinos. But yeah, their culture is pretty diverse (much diverse than in the Philippines) so that's a sign that there were a lot of genetic mixing between them.
@@randomcarrot7970 You clearly have no clue as to the difference between phenotype and genotype.
I'm sorry but white people in Africa? Where? We're talking about subsaharan Africa here. Your evidence for diversity in looks is random people with "East African eyes"? Seriously? You think that makes them more diverse in physical features compared to Brazil?
There's not a lot of genetic mixing in Indonesia, certainly not more than the Philippines. I have no idea how you can logically conclude diverse culture = genetic intermixing. What a ridiculous statement.
You seem extremely ignorant, no offense.
To me it doesnt matter how we look like to others because true beauty comes from the inside besides were all human beings in an infinite expanding universe +RESPECT +SUB from Phillipines
Not surprising, we have ~2000 inhabited islands. There were completely separate tribes in history. Some aboriginal filipinos look nearly black with curls. Some latino from the colonial times. Some more asian probably due to migration from Taiwan. Most of my family is light skinned with freckles even, while my cousins are deep tan. Very cool seeing the complex range.
I am Filipino and I love to gain more friends in different races. And when i sing my foreign friend saying you are truly Filipino because i sing well and my job is singing. But i tell them there are alot of people in my country cannot sing. but most filipino can sing because Filipinos when sad we sing and if we are happy we sing too... i have brown skin they always ask me if i am a mexican because of my last name Diaz. I told them i am not my country adopted spanish last names.
Im from Philippines and i REALLY LOVE INDONESIA ❤️ i haven't been there though, i just love someone there 😅
the word diverse just reminds me of filipinas
Your channel is getting more and more interesting. Looking forward to next upload 🥰
Eriel from Singapore nailed our common features. She's the only one who mentioned the heart shaped or rounder face.
Filipinos tend to had multiple facade.meaning we're mixed by many foreigners.and the nice thing is we could easily adapt in any cultures so as a pinay(Filipina)I'm proud tobe.im proud we're I'm from(Philippines 🇵🇭💗❣️
As a Filipino, I can confirm that Eriel is on point af
I agree that Filipinos looks diverse of face features maybe because historically, we became the melting pot country in Asia like Singapore. We can be look like Indonesian, Malaysian, Thai, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Mexican, even some of us looks like Indians (from India, although not too many Filipinos look Indians). Heck, I went to a Chinese restaurant here in the US and waiter started to speaking to me in Mandarin. I went to a Vietnamese store, they started to talk to me in Vietnamese. And I don't even have any of those descents. Even some of my Filipino friends, they look like Mexicans and South Americans. Unlike if you go to the countries I mentioned, their face features are consistent throughout the entire population (especially Chinese, Koreans, Japanese and Indians/Pakistanis). Take one Filipino and line up with Indonesian, Malaysian, Thai and Vietnamese, I bet you you're going to have a hard time identifying which country they're from.
Agree except for your point about Singapore. They're more of a mosaic than a melting pot since the separate ethnicities in their country are pretty segregated.
Not stereotypical Mexicans bc they are Aztec & Apocalypto tribes we are more mestizo or full native american. There are Asians in Mexico or Asian Latino, that yes.
My parents are both filipinos, but I have been called a Nepali, Indonesian, Thai and Malaysian. Filipino would always come in as a second guess😅😅😅
i think we are so diverse, we all have different features like complexion, facial structure and hair type. i love being filipino 🥰
Agree with Eriel and Sari, specially with Eriel. Having the chance to visit on some SEA countries, I kinda get what she meant by the Eurocentric features. We have this feature on majority of the population that’s quite unique from other SEA even to people from Indonesia whom I think we’re more closely related to.
filipino look more cambodian and pacific islander than indonesian
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I loved the second person
She was rapping in british accent
This is very interesting! Of course, the average Filipino will have the Indo/Malay look. We're, in a stereotypical sense, Southeast Asian islanders with romantic Spanish tendencies.
Sir EL, the origin of Pinoy, Thai, Malaysian & Indonesia's ancestry is Asian indiginous that predate the Austronesians going back further than the Ice Age before the islands shifted. SEA ancestors are Indo-Chinese (different ethnically than Modern but share proto-ancestry) & Indo-Malay (more so early PH, Malaysia & Borneo's people) 1 or the other if not both by locality. There is diversity among Austronesians vs Australo-Melanesians both that migrated from Guam, Fiji & PNG/Aus. The Aeta & Batak people "negritos" are similar. And arrived during colonization but said to be left alone by the Spanish who ultimately were driven out. Most Asian countries were colonized or influenced by other cultures religions & other language. Filipinos have their own unique culture that I find fascinating.
I love how smart the uk girl is, she definitely described whatever she had in mind, but I like how she explained herself first and tackled a few facts/ theories of her about identfying a person's race/ethnicty specifically filipino people.
I like ELs' planet collection of friends all over the world.
After 4 mos..I found myself again here. I thought I haven't watched this video yet lmao
To foreigners particularly among non-Filipino Asians, they think that Filipinos are the Mexicans of Asia even though we don't speak Spanish anymore.
What do u mean by don't speak spanish anymore? Some Spanish words are still spoken
Some still speaks it. But it's called Phillippine Spanish. But it's rare now. Like very Rare.
Its not the official language. But that doesn't mean that people stop speaking it. Like all other Filipino language theyre not official but they EXIST ✊🏼
@@timmylargo9166 they are just loanwords that are already integrated into Philippine languages. Filipinos cannot speak Spanish because it is not taught in public and private elementary and secondary schools nationwide.
TBH, Spanish should be reinstated as one of the official language in the Philippines and make it one of the options for pupils who want to learn how to speak, read, write, and understand Spanish starting preschool.
Technically there's still filipinos who speak a very similar language to Spanish, which is Chavacano,
Para sa amin na mga taga-Mexico, ang mga Pilipino ay ating mga kapatid mula sa Asya, marami kaming ibinabahagi, kami ay mga kolonya ng imperyo ng Espanya, gusto mo ang Mga Bansa, kami ang mga Katoliko, magkatulad ang aming lutuin.
mabuhay ang Pilipinas mabuhay ang mga kapatid na bansa sa Mexico🇲🇽&🇵🇭👏🌹👏🌹👏
Besos from Filipinas ❤️
Spain never stablish Colonies, Spain went to these countries to reply itself. Spain is also diverse, from European to Greek and Indian intermarriages.
At least almost 30% of the Philippine population have East Asian genes noticeable enough on their physical features (lighter skin and monolid eyes but not as glowingly pale as North Chinese, Japanese, or Koreans maybe due to the Philippine weather).
At least a total of 50% of the population have East Asian genes/ancestry but the other 20% in this 50% have unnoticeable physical features (mostly with natural tanned skin and double lids but can still be mistaken as Chinese in China or by untrained foreign eyes since other Chinese, especially Southerners, can have the same features).
Whenever I’m in China, I get treated as a local. Many local strangers come to me to ask for directions thinking I’m a local too. I sat beside a group of white people, a Chinese staff spoke to them in English but that same Chinese staff spoke to me in Mandarin. And then we both laughed when I told her I do not speak Chinese.
In Japan, I sat beside Filipinos with a Japanese tour guide. I didn’t reveal to these Filipinos that I’m also Filipino. The Japanese tour guide talked to me in Japanese whenever he asks me to fall in line first before them. Maybe it was technically not because I look Japanese, but instead since the Japanese tour guide was clueless about my nationality, and since I look East Asian, she spoke to me in Japanese. And the rest of staff from different stores did the same. They suddenly became silent the moment I started speaking English.
In Taiwan, I thought that a woman sitting in front of me was a Taiwanese local. She was wearing a trench/overcoat which is common for Taiwanese women to wear during winter. She is monolid and her skin is fair. When I heard her speak Tagalog, that was the only time I knew she’s also a kababayan (fellow countryman).
In Malaysia, same thing, they spoke to me in Malay. In Singapore, I once ate in a restaurant around Marina Bay. I didn’t know that the waitress is Filipina (she’s fair skinned Malay looking) although I had a guess because of her accent. I wanted to ask her nationality but it will be too awkward and unprofessional. Regardless, she spoke English to me. When I paid using my credit card issued by a Philippine bank, that’s the only time she asked and knew that I’m Filipino.
Finally, in the Philippines, they just talk to me in Tagalog. Maybe because I wear clothes the Filipino way whenever I’m here and technically, Manila has many chinitos and chinitas that’s why they just assume I’m Filipino based on my clothes and actions. Some staff in Jollibee have mistaken some Chinese migrants as Filipinos. I’ve noticed that if you are chinky and your skin is pale but not as smooth and glowy as those of typical Korean’s or Chinese’s, they’ll just assume you are Filipino chinito, especially if their eyes are trained enough to distinguish the fashion styles of East Asian migrants from Filipino chinitos.
Same in Visayas, they just talk to me in Cebuano without knowing I’m from Luzon.
It’s like comparing North Europeans and South Europeans, Scandinavian Whites and Meditteranean Whites, and to a greater extent, Whites, Arabs, and Indians too.
An English Man going to France without speaking a single English word might be mistaken as a local. A meditteranean looking woman from Sweden might be mistaken as a local in Italy or Spain. It’s the same thing within East and Southeast Asia.
You cannot generalize that a certain nationality has a specific feature because just like the example above, they are all caucasians, their physical features also overlap. If the Indian is light skinned enough, he can be mistaken as an Arab or White too.
Same with Asians. Both East Asians and Southeast Asians are in Mongol race. If the Asian is fairer and monolid, you may assume he is East Asian even if some SEAs look the same. If the Asian is tanned and monolid, you may assume he’s also from China, Japan, or somewhere in SEA. If the Asian is dark skinned and not monolid, you may assume he’s from Southeast Asia, but dark skinned Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans also exists. I’ve seen a significant no. of North Koreans with dark skinned and monolid eyes. Does that mean they do not have East Asian ancestry just because they’re dark? They might even be the purest since North Korea has remained untouched by foreign influences for half a century.
Nationality, even ethnicity, is not generally based on race or appearance because they overlap. Humans are natural nomads. Once they migrate and settle, generation 3 and up will just forget that their ancestors were migrants and assume that they are pure blooded regardless of their appearance.
Actually, all of the persons who talked in this video have a "look-alike" in the Philippines. We are just so diverse looking and very adoptive to any culture.
I'd love for you to link to the PSA surveys that collected ethnic data because as far as I'm aware the Philippine government does not collect that sort of data at all.
I loved Madeline's energy ♥️♥️♥️
Good conclusion. We have the Malay blood with brown complexion short in stature, rounded eyes, button nose, full lipped. Our diversity mixed with the white, mostly Spanish and porcelain ancestry descended from China. As we intermarried internationally our race is now so diverse in feature. But one thing remains that gives us away. We are a happy smiling laughing peaceful hardworking bunch 😉
Actually most Filipinos have no Spanish blood..
The second girl, Madeline, was so sweet and message of diversity is so important and inspiring ❤️
BRILLIANT! Pretty accurate and very respectful opinions.
Philippines live in harmony, but everything changed when the japanese, spanish and Americans attacked. HAHAHAHAHA .
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Not really back in pre-colonial times there were wars between tribes too.
@@yeetah42025 I think he was trying to make a joke? You know avatar?? Lol 😆
@@cedricksia3082 Oh, right. Yes. I have seen it before, the cartoon show. lol
Philippines didnt exist before spain. They where seperated empires with their own cultures...
true! indonesians and filipinos looks really similar!
No they dont! Look alike
Eastern indonesian? Yes
Western indonesian? NO!!!
@@myphotoisme.iammalaysian.2286 as far as i know most western indonesians are mixed with indians and arab? Am i right?
@@playplayofficial3480true
@@playplayofficial3480but China makes fake narratives on history with no claims.
What a nice content El! 💜
i noticed this as well that if a filipino is mixed with other races, most of the time they have attractive facial features and this applies to all biracial pinoys.