In the early 1900s, the Philippines was much developed than China. This is why most of them (at least those from Fujian province) migrated in the Philippines to seek better life. But the it is now the other way around. China is more advanced now than Philippines. The Philippines was really left behind
Great documentary and very inspiring. My grandmother moved to Taiwan with my grandfather during WWII, while her brother moved to the Philippines. I would love to connect with his family someday. I believe my great grandfather also relocated to the Philippines and started a family there. This world really is connected by 6 degrees of separation.
My father is a Chinese from Fujian, his name is Dy Kiam, he migrated to Philippines when he was still young & started a family there with 3 kids ( 2 sons & a daughter), and never went back to China since then, but he has one sister in China older than him, and they never met each other since then, only by sending mail to each other...and I am his second son....maybe we are your relative here in the Philippines that you're looking? Pls reply, to thanks.
Great documentary. Thank you Barnaby Lo for your small meaningful contribution for our Chinese Diaspora world wide. You made me inspired as a Chinese diaspora myself.
@@mokumoku6492 I ‘m a Chinese diaspora too, not from the Philippines but from an ASEAN country. There is nothing wrong with rediscovering your family roots, be they from China or Africa, Europe or Brazil etc. The point here is to reconnect family ties , no matter which country yr relatives live in presently. This family relationships transcends political , economic , social boundaries that each one of us live by, & to take the time & interest to reconnect with someone of your own family circle, living on the other side of the world, is gratifying personally.
Barnaby Lo you did a superb and moving job on connecting with one's roots. It was enlightening and powerful and I hope more will find time to connect with their roots. Ed, thank you too. for your vision and effort. A big shut out to all in this video from China and the Philippines.
Ni Hao Zhong Guo! 😘😍😇 My Two Grand Grand Father is from China. They are best friends. They left china and went to the Philippines. In the Philippines, they both married a Filipina. Their respective children married each other. That is my Grand Father (Lolo) and Grand Mother (Lola) from my Father Side. God Bless China and Philippines. I wish both will be Peaceful, Prosperous and Joyful.
I am fortunate enough to be able to visit my grandmother’s relatives in fujian province before she passed away. Since she never lost contact with them so it was easy to reconnect, we went there with my aunts uncle and grandmother. It was really an awesome experience to see where your roots are.
I have a little Chinese blood too in me. My grandfather was from Fujian province. His last name is Ching. His uncle and aunt brought him to the Philippines when he was young when his parents where murdered during a robbery in their shop. I still remember as a kid 40 years ago seeing my Chinese aunt bringing us tea and "tikoy". It would be cool to see where my grandfather's ancestors live. Someday probably, GOD willing I can be able to accomplish it, just like Mr. Barnaby Lo.
not during ancient times.. Austronesian people were ancient seafarers who dominated in pacific, southeast asia, indian ocean and madagascar region and also suspected reach in central america during ancient times.
Austronesians came from China. The Hemudu, Liangzhu, Majiabang cultures are all purported to be the original source of Austronesians, who came to Taiwan independently of each other to form the modern Austronesians. Then they went throughout all the islands from Madagascar to Hawaii, Rapa Nui, and New Zealand. The language is also the most widespread prior to the European Colonial Era.
The concept of Chinese is a recent geographical and historical or cultural evolution. The China today is Han centric. Any non dark skin Asians are indeed came from mainland Asia it's just that these people are different people back then that somehow lived in the geographical location of what's now called China today.
@@FlyingSpaghettiMonsterFollower I'm just stating the facts. It also doesn't take away the fact that modern humans originated in the continent now known as Africa, yet people outside of Africa are no longer known as African.
Well that's because they migrated to the Philippines during Chinese revolution. They migrated to Taiwan. Some during the Spanish colonial they were trading, they ended up staying.
Ancestors of Filipinos immigrated from Fujian southern China of the Liangzu culture and from Borneo/Malaysia/Indo as proven by genetic testing and extensive research for thousands of years.
Filipinos ancestors came from Taiwan not Borneo! Most Filipinos have connections with Southern Chinese tribes, dna that is not present in most Indonesian and Malaysian can be found in Northern Tais, North Vietnamese, Taiwanese Aboriginals, North and Central Filipinos
Ako nga facial feature ko parang Indonesian brown skin bilog mata at pero nagtataka ako bakit Yung mga kapatid ng papa ko at mga 1st cousins ko iba din feature nila may maputi na singkit..same story sa mother side ko may mga singkit at mga mukhang mexicano na brown skin..hahahha
My great grand ancestors left China many decades ago, like many poor mainland descendants who lived and became rich in the Philippines, at the height of communist leadership. Where freedom is suppressed, and most remained poor. They crossed the rough ocean with small boats to evade suppression. Economy has changed, but governance is still despicable. It is crazy wanting to a Chinese citizen again even though China is developing fast, life would still be awfully unhappy.
Thanks for this video. It’s wonderful to see people being able to connect with their relatives in China. I’m Teochew, my grand father & my dad came to Singapore from China, to work & saved money to remit to China for their family. My dad was only 12 years old when he arrived in Singapore. It must have been tough for him to leave his mother (my grandmother) & his younger siblings at this young age. With the blessing from God we had a successful business. We went to China in 1948 when I was 5 years old. Eventually my dad brought his siblings to Singapore & my grandmother came in 1951. I’m planning a trip to China to visit our relatives. Our roots are in Swatow (Shantou in Mandarin).
its nice to know that you had keep in touch with your relatives in china. china used to be poor country but now China is more progressive than singapore. its now easy to travel to all parts in china .
My parents have both of Chinese blood in them. My grandfather on my father's side is full-Chinese, but he was born and raised here in the Philippines, but he is likewise unaware of his ancestors. Meanwhile, on my mother's side, my great-grandmother is Chinese as well. My grandmother told me that her mother, my great-grandmother, used to travel back and forth here in the Philippines to see her relatives until she met my great-grandfather. My great-grandmother never mentions where she came from in China or even her Chinese name. Even though this information is insufficient, I still hope that one day I will be able to trace my Chinese roots.
Your paternal grandma reminds me so much of my paternal grandma.. Although I was born & spent my early childhood (till 11 yrs old) in the Philippines & left for USA, I've always believed that most Filipinos have historical ancestry from China. I was very close to my grandma since my grandparents took care of me in my infancy. They had passed since but the moment I saw your grandmother's picture, the striking similarity reminded me of my grandma & nostalgia just took over. Although political territories draw boundaries between people, family/blood line will forever be boundless.
China was not our enemy But US does... mas tratratohin tayong kaaway pag kaalyado natin US... tsaka Sa tingin niyo ba proprotectahan tayo nang US against China? think again... Relationship with China would be the best thing when it comes through peace give them rice nalang for our support total dami nang nagugutom doon at plastic na mga pagkain... kaya kahit papaano kailangan din naman tulong natin eh ...tutulungan naman tayo sa Modernization at Pagpapalakas nang Military Forces
My grandfather was only 6 years old when he and his father arrived in the Philippines from Amoy (now Xiamen), China in 1906. It would be nice if I could also go to Xiamen to trace my ancestry.
廈門 was one of the main ports that people from Hokkien province left 大清 from for the Philippines. My great grandparents left from 廈門 but generally came from 晉江, 泉州, and 南安 area. Definitely talk to older people in your family. Most of my family forgot their roots and have assimilated but a few branches kept in touch still with our relatives in 唐山/中國。Because of this, we were able to establish contact and were finally able to pay respect to our ancestors and forefathers. We were welcomed with open arms.
To all who doesn't know. Fujianese comes from the group of Han Chinese sub groups called " Hakka". Hakka people was originally comes from the Han Chinese. During the fall of the Han dynasty, some of the Han Chinese people migrated to other part of china and one of those Han Chinese established their own groups which was the Hakka.
Not everyone who is Fujian person （福建人）is Hakka （客家人）. Hakka dialect group is only one group of displaced people who spread over China's southern provinces. There are Hakkas in Guangdong province as well.
My Greatgrandfather was from Beijing and after WW2 he went to the Philippines specifically in the region of Bikol where his had some business, I know that his name was Insiong (sorry I don't know how to spell it) and the family name is Li, so I think that his name was 李英雄 (Yingxiong as hero, I currently study at school Chinese). He married a Filipina and had 10 children, the oldest was my grandma who married a Filipino, from them they got my dad who married a Filipina (my mom) and here I am. I know that my Chinese blood is very little but I really want to rejoice with that far part of family. I still need to ask more to my family about the story cause I only know part of it through my auntie. P.s. I also remember that my grandma once went to China to see the Chinese relatives with other family members
My father is a half chinese, and he and his siblings didn't got the chance to trace their relatives in china. My angkong "chinese term for grandfather" name Si Kim Yu who is pure chinese migrated here in the philippines in 1930's, settled and married my filipina grandmother, i can remember and feel pity to my angkong, as what i have remembered he cant speak bisaya and barely understand us my father told me when my angkong is still alive that he wants us to trace our roots in china, but my aunts and uncle are no longer interested since my angkong died 😢, i felt sad for my angkong because he died and never given the chance to go back to china where he belongs to. I hope one day i can visit the place of my grandfather in china and if possible meet my distant relatives there. 😢
i envy them a lot. i ask my mom since she knows only a little about her background. i would ask my dad but refuses to say anything. i really hope in the future i get the opportunity to know my relatives in china.
USA supply Aid in the Philippines but the money they sent is for the politicians , Oligarchs, and Terrorist , but China brought us Economic growth development , Big Yes for China, From Philippines
I considered myself as full blooded Filipino but I look like Chinese, others were saying bcoz of my eyes. And little did I know that the grandfather of my grandfather is a chinese
@@sakuragihanamichi1042 it`s true if you research 22% of Filipinos have chinese ancestry but they dont recognize it. Filipino who recognize their chinese ancestry is around 1.5m to 2M only
@@loisseluis4169 both of my parents came from US continent 140 years ago from the victorian era I don't think i have Chinese ancestry since they only migrated 100 years ago.
Pangasinan (1405 - 1580) is the only area along with Binondo which is founded by China in 1405. To Chinese: Please go to Pangasinan. They are building the Limahong Channel (Lin Feng who fought the Filipino and Spanish armies from Manila to Pangasinanin 1574) tourism and cultural center in the Lingayen (pangasinan capitol.
Yep pre colonial Philippines and Taiwan have same fate before both occupied and raided by some Chinese pirates or the wukou pirates if Spain didn't interfere the Luzon island will probably a province of China like Taiwan was, the Visayas and Mindanao maybe it'll be annex of Malaysia and Brunei
My ancestors came from Fujian..... Xiamen as well......immigrating to Bali.... Indonesia.... in the 18 th century...... luckily we still have our ancestral house there.....and still visiting them once a while......
philippines also have territory problems with other countries such as Malaysia,Vietnam,Taiwan(since Philippines think Taiwan is not part of China),etc. but the only one they insult are chinese/ filipino-chinese. They must have forgot that Chinese and Filipinos have been friends for centuries such a shame
@@notoracism5425 i think because the chinese peoples in past is kind but now the chinese people is most of them are acts high whenever they go to other country even their government already warn them when going outside there country they must behave...
currently working here in Qatar and most non Filipino's as well Filipino's that I interact with always starts conversation with me like "are you Chinese?" well then my uncles needs to answer a lot of question when I visit Philippines next year.,
Yeah, we have roots in China but we love to be Filipinos! 😃 but Filipinos not only have Chinese blood but also Indonesian, Malaysian and other races! Oh it's amazing we have all the world's blood in our body!😱😱😱😱😱
@@filipino437 Malays, Indonesians, and Filipinos are different from each other. Though, Malays and Indonesians are more closer to each other than Filipinos. Malays are Austronesians in Malaysia and they have more Melanesian and Austroasiatic admixture. Austronesian group in Indonesia on the other hand, are Balinese, Sundanese, etc. and they also have more Austroasiatic admixture. Meanwhile, In the Philippines, the Austronesian groups are Tagalog, Visayan, etc. and the admixture is more on Southern China than Austroasiatic.
Sad, because people around me always say that "I'm chinese" or half chinese but do we ever think about our Filipino roots? Mostly our Filipino ancestors that lived in our country way before the chinese, All of the focus is always on the "Foreign" roots.
It's quite hard to trace, actually. Governor-General Narciso Claveria ordered all Filipinos to change their surnames in 1843, hence making the process of finding relatives and clans way harder (unless you have a sonewhat unique surname).
We are Austronesian. Look it up it’s interesting. The Austronesian people migrated out of what is now southern China to Taiwan in the Iron Age to the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and all of the Pacific Islands. We are not Chinese. We share a common ancestor with Chinese people, but we are not racially Chinese. We are the Austronesians of Southeast Asia. That’s why Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines have similar languages and we look the same. We come from the same place.
We are Austronesian. Look it up it’s interesting. The Austronesian people migrated out of what is now southern China to Taiwan in the Iron Age to the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and all of the Pacific Islands. We are not Chinese. We share a common ancestor with Chinese people, but we are not racially Chinese. We are the Austronesians of Southeast Asia. That’s why Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines have similar languages and we look the same. We come from the same place.
Odell Mateo I didn’t say all Asian look Chinese buddy. All I said was most Filipinos look Chinese. You think the Filipinos are the only Asians? There are also other Asians buddy. I didn’t intend to discriminate, I only expressed my opinion. You’re very disrespectful and you sound very stupid buddy. Please stop talking because you’re too dumb for me
My great grandfather from my mother's side is Chinese-Spanish. Sometimes I also wonder where are our far relatives from China are doing now. It's hard to find roots especially if you never met anyone from them. My mom mentioned that the surname is Haoshan (not sure of the spelling)
.chines and pilippins should sign aggrements of free acces in all chines families/relatives between pilippins and china w/o restrictions or visa to obtain...by chance im happyto come and look for my ancestors too....
Thank you Barnaby for doing this, because it has inspired me to connect with my maternal grandfather someday. His name is Bawa Kiat Cheng, and my mother told me that he also came from Fujian province in china and migrated to Manila for a better life. I have his pictures and some info... Where can I go to ask for professional help and help me trace family back in China? Thanks!
I hope I could also trace my roots in China. My Yéyé said that his mother is Chinese and their family name is ANG. I pressumed they are hokkien origin as well.
This is really inspiring. Unfortunately, my family relocated to Hong Kong before eventually settling in Indonesia. So Hong Kong is as far as my living ancestors go. I already visit them regularly so somehow it doesn't feel as special as travelling into the mainland. Thank you Barnaby. One day I'll go to Guangdong to visit my great-grandparents' homeland. Hopefully with other relatives rather than alone. I'm considering using the My China Roots service, though I'm not sure how useful it will be considering any connection may even be too distant for my relatives in Hong Kong to know about. Btw, is that the Confucius Institute in the video?
Mostly Chinese during Spanish times converted to Catholicism and assimilated with spanish and filipinos. We are now divided by religion and not by races and we now consider ourselves as Filipino. Even people from the Philippines who bear the surname Lim, Ng, Ching, Go etc didn’t consider themselves as Filipino Chinese. They’re just Filipino. Only 1st -3rd generation Chinese immigrants considered themselves as Fil-Chinese. But those who have Chinese roots from Spanish to American occupation seen themselves as just Filipino. Even their surname is Chinese.
When China gets fully developed, more and more people will claim to have Chinese blood. Take note that it will probably happen in our lifetime. An average Chinese in the Mainland now earns 10500 USD. Their capital, Beijing, people there earn more 24000 USD per year, to compare, an average Taiwanese earn the same amount, the Koreans isn't so far ahead with 32000 USD. Even with the ridiculous amount of anti-Chinese sentiment in the Philippines right now, that is just in the surface. People will naturally gravitate towards admiration of a rich country and flock there. Soft power will come later. Right now, uso ang KPop, but in a decade (at most), baka CPop naman.
@@Ivan-bg1jp Totally agree. Chinese Malaysian here have been brain washed by Western media to think China is backward for decades. To us China is HK, Taiwan, and American Chinatown. But ironically all the fear mongering by the Western media on the "danger" of Chinese technology, economy and military prowess have gravitate us to look and to discover the REAL China. All the anti Chinese rhetoric by the West have instead bring forth the Chinese in us.
Many people only want to be identified with winners, not losers. Especially so if their elders never tell them about their roots and to take pride in where they really come from so their descendants will live in ignorance.
Before Spanish Occupation, Chinese already in the Philippines. They taught filipinos on how to trade and commerce. That is why lot of filipinos has chinese name but can't speak chinese.
No, chinese did not teach filipinos to do trading and commerce. In fact it was the ancestors of the filipinos who introduced the maritime silk road to China around 6th century AD.
Not sure if Abra went through naturalization. He must have. My father was born in 1937 to a Chinese father and a Filipino-Chinese mother. He was an ACR-holder up until age 21 when he had to elect Philippine citizenship. Abra should not have had any trouble getting a PH passport had he been able to present his naturalization papers at the onset. Abra is lucky. They kept contact with their relatives in China--unlike in our case. My grandfather came to PH in the early 1930s with his brother and their uncle (and his family). It was like they totally uprooted themselves and never looked back. Ed's story and his advocacy was I think not effectively presented though. Has an all-over-the -place feel to it.
According to my DNA test I am more Chinese than Filipino. I don't know any great grandparents who are Chinese. So much intermarriages in the past that we dont know heheh
most of Filipinos are actually look chinese and are chinese descent actually but many dont have any idea about it... many filipinos last names are in chinese.. aside from one syllable chinese last names like Go, Tan, Lim etc, Chinese immigrants have two or three syllables before like quezon, cojuangco, vinzon, lachengco, catalan, gatchalian and many more.. many filipinos dont know about these because the curriculum in school dont give a f*ck about it.. it focuses more on americans and Spanish touched.. filipinos may wont admit that most of them are Hokkien chinese but the appearance wont lie.. but the philippines is a mixture of austronesians and chinese, taiwanese aborigines and a little percentage of western people.. another interesting fact and cant be denied is that Japanese and filipinos shared same genetic code according to studies..
WTF WE WERE? ARE YOU GENERALIZING FILIPINOS? IF YOU ARE A CHINA MAN YOURSELF KEEP IT TO YOURSELF FILIPINO IS A CULTURE FILIPINO IS A NATIONALITY IF CHINA HAS ONLY ONE RACE NOT THE PHILIPPINES FILIPINO IS A MELTING POT IN ASIA NO PURE MALAY,SPANISH,AMERICAN,CHINESE ETC DONT GENERALIZE YOU'RE OWN RACE TO YOUR COUNTRY CHINA MAN CHINESE DONT REPRESENT THE PHILIPPINES PLS BE EDUCATED AND WE ONLY CAME FROM ONE RACE THE HUMAN RACE STOP THIS RACE BULLCRAP I DONT KNOW WHEN WILL THE DAY COME PEOPLE WOULD STOP TALKING ABOUT RACE NON SENSE WE ARE JUST VISITORS IN THIS EARTH AND WE GONNA TALK ABOUT OUR OWN LIFE ABOUT RACES? LIKE WTF IF YOU ARE PROUD ABOUT BEING A CHINESE DESCENT IN THE PHILIPPINES KEEP IT TO YOURSELF THE WORLD IS BIG YOU DONT REPRESENT COUNTRIES DUMNASS
Even us we never meet our family live in Shanghai according to the story.. LIM family are also many in Philippines. But since my grandma died, no one is interisted to know our ancestors.
Philippine has relatives to Hokkien ancestors and Cuba to Guangdong like my grandfather ...➡️ Hi immigrate with the age of 18 year old to Cuba...➡️🇨🇺➡️👍
Filipinos w Chinese ancestry have peacefully blended well in Phil society over so many generational years. Sad that China's now belligerent claim in Phils' territory & EEZ sea may affect it.
Great video. I'd like to research my family's Chinese Connection. My Mother, Maria Laquindanum Tsangsun dela Concepcion, told me my Great-Great Grand Father was from Macau, China. I'd like to find out more about him. He was a successful Shoe Factory Owner in Pampanga, PI. I think in the town of Macabebe? He returned to Macau because his grandsons had started wasting his fortune on gambling in the Philippines. I don't know if he left before or after WWII in the Philippines. If you could help with my research, I would be grateful for any assistance. Thanks, Rod
my grandfather is Yee from Guangzhou(Canton) .. but my grandmother is Half Japanese she did not know her father due to the war during japanese occupation
Disappointing, I have always thought that being Chinese in the Philippines is an advantage, but, nowadays, it seems that it is a problem due to the fact that you will be insulted and chastised because of your race. As a Chinese, who has business operationing between the two countries, I have always love Filipinos and I also love my motherland, China, and also Chinese people nowadays, if you love China and Chinese, you will be verbally abused and face criticisms such as land grabbers, virus carriers and other hurtful words, even though you are not directly influencing the decisions of the Chinese government or powerful enough to do so. I am not generalizing here, there are some Filipinos who are very amicable despite your love for your own country and they seem to understand the predicament, on the other hand, there seem to a lot of Filipinos who have hidden ire towards being a Chinese, that have just came out a few weeks ago. #notoracism
same I'm also a pure chinese born and raised in the Philippines racism here is rampant they must have forgot that Chinese fought with them against Japan and that their National Hero is Chinese
Filipinos are not against chinese until the south china sea dispute. that started the hate. Even chinese filipino are being discriminated with that. I highly doubted it will end because of the growing of anti china in the Philippines. Anyway racism is everywhere and you can't cure ignorance.
WTF WE WERE? ARE YOU GENERALIZING FILIPINOS? IF YOU ARE A CHINA MAN YOURSELF KEEP IT TO YOURSELF FILIPINO IS A CULTURE FILIPINO IS A NATIONALITY IF CHINA HAS ONLY ONE RACE NOT THE PHILIPPINES FILIPINO IS A MELTING POT IN ASIA NO PURE MALAY,SPANISH,AMERICAN,CHINESE ETC DONT GENERALIZE YOU'RE OWN RACE TO YOUR COUNTRY CHINA MAN
Its true...mostly from Fujian or Fukien China, I went with my HK boss once there at sinabi nya, dont you know that all the Chinese in the Philipinnes came here...aba marunong din ah...now I know....super mababait sila,,,,
@Lanz Edaño hello nice, actually i have small chinese blood. my mothers middle name is actually from chinese which means " eldest as son/ grandson" . But, it was hispanicized to tuazon.
China have their own family clans and most Chinese who immigrated in Singapore bring that culture of clan lineage. If you live in the Philippines or Chinese Filipino. There's a Chinese association associated to every Chinese surnames and they have list of all Chinese immigrants who migrate in the Philippines during the Chinese civil war. They documented it all the clans of Chinese
Its just long time of evolution filipino people adopt the Philippine environment just like the other south east asian people which is original roots is from china..
Philippine Hookien is the best, still original from its roots in Fujian, unlike Malaysian, Indonesian, Taiwan, Singapore Hokkien are now evolves and merging with other dialects
My grandfather's side has a chinese ancestry. His father is a chinese and married a filipina. But my grandfather never thought us anything about Chinese culture.
My grandmother's surname is Solapco (which I think is Chinese) and it seems she has a Chinese blood as well (maybe her grandmother) but I dunno if I can still contact them, it has been several generations.
Leon Rowe Not sure but some Chinese families adopted suffixes and affixes on their surnames. For example: cakTIONG, GOkongwei, which isn't so far off from solapCO
My family name is Tay, my father was fron fujian province, I have Half brother and sister in HK, Shanghai. Lost touch with them. I'm holding on to my last name Tay.
I think same with my grandfather...Chinese are hardworking people and probably as i assume, the grandparents of my grandfather came somewhere from China and till the land in our hometown with great devotion. No wonder, my grandfather's parents have a wide land in my hometown and they are one of the wealthiest there. World War II ruined the life of my grandfather's family. May he rest in peace. My grandfather is a great storyteller and a book reader...he inspired me to love History subjects!😃😃😃😃
I want to find my far relatives too from my great grandfather side pero ang hirap haha. His surname was Go and that's the only thing I know. I think he purposely migrate here in the Philippines kasi nagka drought at giyera noon ang China tas pinatay pa noong world war 2, malabo ng ma trace. As far as I know, my grandmother taught me chinese numbers that I didn't even know it was Hokkien😅
My both parents are 25% Chinese, my great grand mother from my grandmother side of my father (YU) came from northern China i don’t know where, so they left china because of the “one child policy” and for my great grand father from my grandfather of my mother side came from somewhere in Beijing (JAO) but sadly i didn’t know the reason why they left china i wish that someday i’ll know if we still have relatives in china sooner or later
@Noddy Vane-Arbuthnot most of them were Fujianese who worked for the Spaniards. The Cantonese came first hundreds of years prior to Magellan, it's just that they were overwhelmed by the later.
We are Austronesian. Look it up it’s interesting. The Austronesian people migrated out of what is now southern China to Taiwan in the Iron Age to the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and all of the Pacific Islands. We are not Chinese. We share a common ancestor with Chinese people, but we are not racially Chinese. We are the Austronesians of Southeast Asia. That’s why Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines have similar languages and we look the same. We come from the same place.
Even what you guys love the most and it the most your guys favourite restaurant JOLIBEE Is owned and invented and ran by Chinese people if you guys hate us so much why don’t you guys stop going to eat jolibee and stop going to SM mall and all those other businesses that was invented in the operation is still running by Chinese people All I’m saying is we Chinese people love Philippine please don’t be on the white people Side and go against your best friend your Asian brother !!!! WE CHINESE GAVE A LOT TO THE FILIPINO ASIAN STAND TOGETHER 🇨🇳🇵🇭❤️
@@youtubeyoutube6695 That’s a stúpïd way to put it. Those businesses are not only run by Filipino-Chinese, but it’s a board with most members are full Filipino. Not only that, but the employees, managers, and store keepers are mostly full Filipino. Even the flavors of the dishes are based on Filipino palate. Try to check the history of that restaurant again so you won’t sound ignorant. By the way, Mainland Chinese are different from Filipino-Chinese. Most Filipino-Chinese are already half, 3/4, or 1/4 and they’re Filipinos, not Chinese. They’re not the same as those mainlanders who like to stole territories.
Kung austronesian ka eh ikaw lng yun. Huwag mo ng ipilit yun sa iba. Maaraming klaseng tao naninirahan sa Pilipinas, at isa na doon ay ang lahi ng mga Tsino. Doon ka na manirahan sa Indonesia, dahil pinipilit mo na sila ang mga kamag anak mo. Mura lng ang pamasahe patungo dun.
This is telling more on a supportive documentary made by Chinese Mainland effort to link those missing Chinese lineages by the Filipino-Chinese not at the recognised tracks Me; I'm a track at a lost generation and a stateless
In the early 1900s, the Philippines was much developed than China. This is why most of them (at least those from Fujian province) migrated in the Philippines to seek better life. But the it is now the other way around. China is more advanced now than Philippines. The Philippines was really left behind
Actually 90% ng mga Chinese sa PH dumating na nung American era and pre japanese occupation pa.
@6packter Phillippines doesn't even have an American base anymore
Kaya nga dapat mga pinoy mag aral ng Mandarin language aside ftom English kc mas malapit tayo sa China
Rich chinese went here because of one child policy.
@Zerkion 101 What's the use of Bahasa Indo? is it easy to learn?
Great documentary and very inspiring. My grandmother moved to Taiwan with my grandfather during WWII, while her brother moved to the Philippines. I would love to connect with his family someday. I believe my great grandfather also relocated to the Philippines and started a family there. This world really is connected by 6 degrees of separation.
My father is a Chinese from Fujian, his name is Dy Kiam, he migrated to Philippines when he was still young & started a family there with 3 kids ( 2 sons & a daughter), and never went back to China since then, but he has one sister in China older than him, and they never met each other since then, only by sending mail to each other...and I am his second son....maybe we are your relative here in the Philippines that you're looking? Pls reply, to thanks.
This is my reply to Amy Cho's inquiry above. Pls reply .... Amy Cho... maybe we are the family you're looking here in the Philippines.
Great documentary. Thank you Barnaby Lo for your small meaningful contribution for our Chinese Diaspora world wide. You made me inspired as a Chinese diaspora myself.
Nice try, propagandist. I belong to a Chinese diaspora family, and no, you're not convincing me. Leave the Philippines alone.
@@mokumoku6492 I ‘m a Chinese diaspora too, not from the Philippines but from an ASEAN country. There is nothing wrong with rediscovering your family roots, be they from China or Africa, Europe or Brazil etc. The point here is to reconnect family ties , no matter which country yr relatives live in presently. This family relationships transcends political , economic , social boundaries that each one of us live by, & to take the time & interest to reconnect with someone of your own family circle, living on the other side of the world, is gratifying personally.
@@Wbliss Well, CGTN is a state media but this documentary about this reunification isn't a propaganda, it's a personal one.
Barnaby Lo you did a superb and moving job on connecting with one's roots. It was enlightening and powerful and I hope more will find time to connect with their roots. Ed, thank you too. for your vision and effort. A big shut out to all in this video from China and the Philippines.
Ni Hao Zhong Guo! 😘😍😇 My Two Grand Grand Father is from China. They are best friends. They left china and went to the Philippines. In the Philippines, they both married a Filipina. Their respective children married each other. That is my Grand Father (Lolo) and Grand Mother (Lola) from my Father Side. God Bless China and Philippines. I wish both will be Peaceful, Prosperous and Joyful.
I am fortunate enough to be able to visit my grandmother’s relatives in fujian province before she passed away. Since she never lost contact with them so it was easy to reconnect, we went there with my aunts uncle and grandmother. It was really an awesome experience to see where your roots are.
Saying Hello from Singapore. I am a Teochew. Your hokkien is good. We should never forget our roots.
@@RollerBladingSuxs Yes. "潮州“ （Chao Zhou in Mandarin , Teochew in Teochew and Hokkien).
I have a little Chinese blood too in me. My grandfather was from Fujian province. His last name is Ching. His uncle and aunt brought him to the Philippines when he was young when his parents where murdered during a robbery in their shop. I still remember as a kid 40 years ago seeing my Chinese aunt bringing us tea and "tikoy". It would be cool to see where my grandfather's ancestors live. Someday probably, GOD willing I can be able to accomplish it, just like Mr. Barnaby Lo.
Chinese actually are the travellers of the world.
Name any country, and there's always Chinese there.
Same as Filipinos hehe
next to the pilipino 😁
Indians too
not during ancient times.. Austronesian people were ancient seafarers who dominated in pacific, southeast asia, indian ocean and madagascar region and also suspected reach in central america during ancient times.
@@ColoniaMurder20 agree
Austronesians came from China. The Hemudu, Liangzhu, Majiabang cultures are all purported to be the original source of Austronesians, who came to Taiwan independently of each other to form the modern Austronesians. Then they went throughout all the islands from Madagascar to Hawaii, Rapa Nui, and New Zealand. The language is also the most widespread prior to the European Colonial Era.
Agree.but we are mongoloid race bfore not Chinese.
The concept of Chinese is a recent geographical and historical or cultural evolution. The China today is Han centric. Any non dark skin Asians are indeed came from mainland Asia it's just that these people are different people back then that somehow lived in the geographical location of what's now called China today.
@@FlyingSpaghettiMonsterFollower I'm just stating the facts. It also doesn't take away the fact that modern humans originated in the continent now known as Africa, yet people outside of Africa are no longer known as African.
@@islandvibez Yeah, what's the problem. I'm just adding facts, so no one will misunderstood and create misconception from your comment.
@@islandvibez Austronesian are the original ruler of mainland china (Yue people) before Han people invaded.
Well that's because they migrated to the Philippines during Chinese revolution. They migrated to Taiwan. Some during the Spanish colonial they were trading, they ended up staying.
That's not one of the oldest Chinatown in the world, that is THE oldest Chinatown in the world.
Yes 👍
@@IloveTS13haha yes I agree. The oldest china town...there is. In the Philippines."Binondo"
Ancestors of Filipinos immigrated from Fujian southern China of the Liangzu culture and from Borneo/Malaysia/Indo as proven by genetic testing and extensive research for thousands of years.
My chinese side is from fujian
Filipinos ancestors came from Taiwan not Borneo! Most Filipinos have connections with Southern Chinese tribes, dna that is not present in most Indonesian and Malaysian can be found in Northern Tais, North Vietnamese, Taiwanese Aboriginals, North and Central Filipinos
I want to say false
I take DNA test and finds out that i have Han Chinese
@@uglybepis3571 Thats why Philippine population only have 0.5% Malay ancestry,
Here in Mindanao there are many Filipinos with Chinese blood ancestry there last name Ang ,Go, Uy (Huang) , Lim , Liang a lot more
Sa lahat ng nabanggit mo parang yang Liang lang ata di ko naririnig😂😂
Ako nga facial feature ko parang Indonesian brown skin bilog mata at pero nagtataka ako bakit Yung mga kapatid ng papa ko at mga 1st cousins ko iba din feature nila may maputi na singkit..same story sa mother side ko may mga singkit at mga mukhang mexicano na brown skin..hahahha
i mean yeah almost 1/3 of Filipinos has Chinese ancestry or east Asian.
yung lola ko from Negros pero singit at sobra puti yung half mga sister nya hindi naman maputi at singkit
The Chinese surnames in Philippines also similar to those in Malaysia. Ang (Hong), Goh (Wu), Ooi/Wee (Huang), Lim (Lin).
Wow! Philippine Hokkien is mutually intelligible with China's Hokkien. Cool!
My great grand ancestors left China many decades ago, like many poor mainland descendants who lived and became rich in the Philippines, at the height of communist leadership. Where freedom is suppressed, and most remained poor. They crossed the rough ocean with small boats to evade suppression. Economy has changed, but governance is still despicable. It is crazy wanting to a Chinese citizen again even though China is developing fast, life would still be awfully unhappy.
@@mokumoku6492 STOP PREJUDICE. have a trip to feel China.
@@mokumoku6492 You must relearn history. Seems like you know nothing about it.
Chinese were already in the Philippines before the Islams did
@Troa gil There's also old Chinese settlement in Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia since Ming Dynasty (1400).
Thanks for this video. It’s wonderful to see people being able to connect with their relatives in China. I’m Teochew, my grand father & my dad came to Singapore from China, to work & saved money to remit to China for their family. My dad was only 12 years old when he arrived in Singapore. It must have been tough for him to leave his mother (my grandmother) & his younger siblings at this young age. With the blessing from God we had a successful business. We went to China in 1948 when I was 5 years old. Eventually my dad brought his siblings to Singapore & my grandmother came in 1951. I’m planning a trip to China to visit our relatives. Our roots are in Swatow (Shantou in Mandarin).
its nice to know that you had keep in touch with your relatives in china. china used to be poor country but now China is more progressive than singapore. its now easy to travel to all parts in china .
My parents have both of Chinese blood in them. My grandfather on my father's side is full-Chinese, but he was born and raised here in the Philippines, but he is likewise unaware of his ancestors. Meanwhile, on my mother's side, my great-grandmother is Chinese as well. My grandmother told me that her mother, my great-grandmother, used to travel back and forth here in the Philippines to see her relatives until she met my great-grandfather. My great-grandmother never mentions where she came from in China or even her Chinese name. Even though this information is insufficient, I still hope that one day I will be able to trace my Chinese roots.
Your paternal grandma reminds me so much of my paternal grandma.. Although I was born & spent my early childhood (till 11 yrs old) in the Philippines & left for USA, I've always believed that most Filipinos have historical ancestry from China. I was very close to my grandma since my grandparents took care of me in my infancy. They had passed since but the moment I saw your grandmother's picture, the striking similarity reminded me of my grandma & nostalgia just took over. Although political territories draw boundaries between people, family/blood line will forever be boundless.
Philippines and China will always have a good relationship and it will become stronger as time goes.
Mike Perez always????
@@taeyeonjjang5120 not always china is invading philippines lands.
Huh?
@@philipreyes7536 huh.? maybe US??
China was not our enemy But US does... mas tratratohin tayong kaaway pag kaalyado natin US... tsaka Sa tingin niyo ba proprotectahan tayo nang US against China? think again... Relationship with China would be the best thing when it comes through peace give them rice nalang for our support total dami nang nagugutom doon at plastic na mga pagkain... kaya kahit papaano kailangan din naman tulong natin eh ...tutulungan naman tayo sa Modernization at Pagpapalakas nang Military Forces
I am Filipino-Spaniard and I am fascinated with Filipino-Chinese culture.
My grandfather was only 6 years old when he and his father arrived in the Philippines from Amoy (now Xiamen), China in 1906. It would be nice if I could also go to Xiamen to trace my ancestry.
its now easy to travel in china. shanghai has many routes to different parts of the country because of bullet trains.
廈門 was one of the main ports that people from Hokkien province left 大清 from for the Philippines. My great grandparents left from 廈門 but generally came from 晉江, 泉州, and 南安 area.
Definitely talk to older people in your family. Most of my family forgot their roots and have assimilated but a few branches kept in touch still with our relatives in 唐山/中國。Because of this, we were able to establish contact and were finally able to pay respect to our ancestors and forefathers. We were welcomed with open arms.
To all who doesn't know. Fujianese comes from the group of Han Chinese sub groups called " Hakka". Hakka people was originally comes from the Han Chinese. During the fall of the Han dynasty, some of the Han Chinese people migrated to other part of china and one of those Han Chinese established their own groups which was the Hakka.
Not everyone who is Fujian person （福建人）is Hakka （客家人）. Hakka dialect group is only one group of displaced people who spread over China's southern provinces. There are Hakkas in Guangdong province as well.
My father is Hakka from Hong Kong, my mother is English, I was born in the UK.
My Greatgrandfather was from Beijing and after WW2 he went to the Philippines specifically in the region of Bikol where his had some business, I know that his name was Insiong (sorry I don't know how to spell it) and the family name is Li, so I think that his name was 李英雄 (Yingxiong as hero, I currently study at school Chinese). He married a Filipina and had 10 children, the oldest was my grandma who married a Filipino, from them they got my dad who married a Filipina (my mom) and here I am.
I know that my Chinese blood is very little but I really want to rejoice with that far part of family.
I still need to ask more to my family about the story cause I only know part of it through my auntie.
P.s. I also remember that my grandma once went to China to see the Chinese relatives with other family members
Both my maternal grandparents, and my father’s maternal side have Chinese ancestry. And so yes! ”There’s a little Chinese in me”. 😊
My father is a half chinese, and he and his siblings didn't got the chance to trace their relatives in china. My angkong "chinese term for grandfather" name Si Kim Yu who is pure chinese migrated here in the philippines in 1930's, settled and married my filipina grandmother, i can remember and feel pity to my angkong, as what i have remembered he cant speak bisaya and barely understand us my father told me when my angkong is still alive that he wants us to trace our roots in china, but my aunts and uncle are no longer interested since my angkong died 😢, i felt sad for my angkong because he died and never given the chance to go back to china where he belongs to. I hope one day i can visit the place of my grandfather in china and if possible meet my distant relatives there. 😢
i envy them a lot. i ask my mom since she knows only a little about her background. i would ask my dad but refuses to say anything. i really hope in the future i get the opportunity to know my relatives in china.
USA supply Aid in the Philippines but the money they sent is for the politicians , Oligarchs, and Terrorist , but China brought us Economic growth development , Big Yes for China, From Philippines
Facts.
I considered myself as full blooded Filipino but I look like Chinese, others were saying bcoz of my eyes. And little did I know that the grandfather of my grandfather is a chinese
So that would be your great great grandfather.
😱😱😱😱😱
There's no pure filipino
Chinese in filipina is happier than in Indonesia .
jelas lah, indo kacau gini
Sounds very sexual
fun fact: 1/3 of Filipinos has Chinese ancestry or east Asian.
BLUFF.
Well we hate the nationalities that look like us lol
@@sakuragihanamichi1042 it`s true if you research 22% of Filipinos have chinese ancestry but they dont recognize it. Filipino who recognize their chinese ancestry is around 1.5m to 2M only
@@loisseluis4169 both of my parents came from US continent 140 years ago from the victorian era I don't think i have Chinese ancestry since they only migrated 100 years ago.
More Filipinos have chinese blood
Pangasinan (1405 - 1580) is the only area along with Binondo which is founded by China in 1405. To Chinese: Please go to Pangasinan. They are building the Limahong Channel (Lin Feng who fought the Filipino and Spanish armies from Manila to Pangasinanin 1574) tourism and cultural center in the Lingayen (pangasinan capitol.
There is history of the Song Dynasty being involved in occupying the Island of Luzon during 1224 to 1276 AD way before the Spanish arrived in 1545.
@@maxdiana hahahaha animal na mga tsekwa!!!
Yep pre colonial Philippines and Taiwan have same fate before both occupied and raided by some Chinese pirates or the wukou pirates if Spain didn't interfere the Luzon island will probably a province of China like Taiwan was, the Visayas and Mindanao maybe it'll be annex of Malaysia and Brunei
My ancestors came from Fujian..... Xiamen as well......immigrating to Bali.... Indonesia.... in the 18 th century...... luckily we still have our ancestral house there.....and still visiting them once a while......
Hi guys is there any filipino chinese organization I can join and connect with? I am eager to know my roots more deeply
-蔡尚仁
If There's No Territories Problems China And Philippines Gonna Be Good Friends For Sure... 🇨🇳🇵🇭
philippines also have territory problems with other countries such as Malaysia,Vietnam,Taiwan(since Philippines think Taiwan is not part of China),etc. but the only one they insult are chinese/ filipino-chinese. They must have forgot that Chinese and Filipinos have been friends for centuries such a shame
@@notoracism5425 i think because the chinese peoples in past is kind but now the chinese people is most of them are acts high whenever they go to other country even their government already warn them when going outside there country they must behave...
Are you sure about that?
@@ricechopsticktempura may galit toward Chinese?
@@maemae8542 one Chinese doesn't represent the whole Chinese...rmb that in your mind
currently working here in Qatar and most non Filipino's as well Filipino's that I interact with always starts conversation with me like "are you Chinese?" well then my uncles needs to answer a lot of question when I visit Philippines next year.,
Yeah, we have roots in China but we love to be Filipinos! 😃 but Filipinos not only have Chinese blood but also Indonesian, Malaysian and other races! Oh it's amazing we have all the world's blood in our body!😱😱😱😱😱
😂😂😂natawa ako sa"in our body"blood na nga body pa
Lol Indonesian and malaysian are one race
@@missplainjane3905 no
@@filipino437 Malays, Indonesians, and Filipinos are different from each other. Though, Malays and Indonesians are more closer to each other than Filipinos.
Malays are Austronesians in Malaysia and they have more Melanesian and Austroasiatic admixture.
Austronesian group in Indonesia on the other hand, are Balinese, Sundanese, etc. and they also have more Austroasiatic admixture.
Meanwhile, In the Philippines, the Austronesian groups are Tagalog, Visayan, etc. and the admixture is more on Southern China than Austroasiatic.
This is just awesome! Excellent story.
Sad, because people around me always say that "I'm chinese" or half chinese but do we ever think about our Filipino roots? Mostly our Filipino ancestors that lived in our country way before the chinese, All of the focus is always on the "Foreign" roots.
It's quite hard to trace, actually.
Governor-General Narciso Claveria ordered all Filipinos to change their surnames in 1843, hence making the process of finding relatives and clans way harder (unless you have a sonewhat unique surname).
DNA never lies
We are Austronesian. Look it up it’s interesting. The Austronesian people migrated out of what is now southern China to Taiwan in the Iron Age to the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and all of the Pacific Islands. We are not Chinese. We share a common ancestor with Chinese people, but we are not racially Chinese. We are the Austronesians of Southeast Asia. That’s why Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines have similar languages and we look the same. We come from the same place.
90% of Filipinos look Chinese in my opinion. I rarely see Filipinos who don’t look Chinese.
We are Austronesian. Look it up it’s interesting. The Austronesian people migrated out of what is now southern China to Taiwan in the Iron Age to the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and all of the Pacific Islands. We are not Chinese. We share a common ancestor with Chinese people, but we are not racially Chinese. We are the Austronesians of Southeast Asia. That’s why Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines have similar languages and we look the same. We come from the same place.
Not me, I got mexican mestizo blood which isn't surprising...
Odell Mateo I didn’t say all Asian look Chinese buddy. All I said was most Filipinos look Chinese. You think the Filipinos are the only Asians? There are also other Asians buddy. I didn’t intend to discriminate, I only expressed my opinion. You’re very disrespectful and you sound very stupid buddy. Please stop talking because you’re too dumb for me
Odell Mateo I bet you’re a terrible person in real life. You’re not worth my time bud.
Odell Mateo haha you’re laughable 😂 you just depend on stereotypes to back up your info even if it doesn’t make sense. You’re ridiculous man shut up
My great grandfather from my mother's side is Chinese-Spanish. Sometimes I also wonder where are our far relatives from China are doing now. It's hard to find roots especially if you never met anyone from them.
My mom mentioned that the surname is Haoshan (not sure of the spelling)
.chines and pilippins should sign aggrements of free acces in all chines families/relatives between pilippins and china w/o restrictions or visa to obtain...by chance im happyto come and look for my ancestors too....
What a great documentary! My paternal's grandfather and grandmother were also from China.
Let President Duterte do his best to maintain good relations with Philippines and China. Mabuhay! 🇨🇳🇵🇭
Thank you Barnaby for doing this, because it has inspired me to connect with my maternal grandfather someday. His name is Bawa Kiat Cheng, and my mother told me that he also came from Fujian province in china and migrated to Manila for a better life. I have his pictures and some info... Where can I go to ask for professional help and help me trace family back in China? Thanks!
I suggest search that guys name who helped them, Eduardo dela Cruz Jr. Maybe he can help you too. And may you reconnect with your family soon. 🙏
What a nice advocate Sir, please continue and excited to more families connect each other. Just found this channel only today.
I hope I could also trace my roots in China. My Yéyé said that his mother is Chinese and their family name is ANG. I pressumed they are hokkien origin as well.
❤Touching event to see. Congratulations and thanks to all those that helped in the reunion.
This is really inspiring. Unfortunately, my family relocated to Hong Kong before eventually settling in Indonesia. So Hong Kong is as far as my living ancestors go. I already visit them regularly so somehow it doesn't feel as special as travelling into the mainland. Thank you Barnaby. One day I'll go to Guangdong to visit my great-grandparents' homeland. Hopefully with other relatives rather than alone. I'm considering using the My China Roots service, though I'm not sure how useful it will be considering any connection may even be too distant for my relatives in Hong Kong to know about. Btw, is that the Confucius Institute in the video?
Mostly Chinese during Spanish times converted to Catholicism and assimilated with spanish and filipinos. We are now divided by religion and not by races and we now consider ourselves as Filipino.
Even people from the Philippines who bear the surname Lim, Ng, Ching, Go etc didn’t consider themselves as Filipino Chinese. They’re just Filipino. Only 1st -3rd generation Chinese immigrants considered themselves as Fil-Chinese. But those who have Chinese roots from Spanish to American occupation seen themselves as just Filipino. Even their surname is Chinese.
When China gets fully developed, more and more people will claim to have Chinese blood. Take note that it will probably happen in our lifetime. An average Chinese in the Mainland now earns 10500 USD. Their capital, Beijing, people there earn more 24000 USD per year, to compare, an average Taiwanese earn the same amount, the Koreans isn't so far ahead with 32000 USD. Even with the ridiculous amount of anti-Chinese sentiment in the Philippines right now, that is just in the surface. People will naturally gravitate towards admiration of a rich country and flock there. Soft power will come later. Right now, uso ang KPop, but in a decade (at most), baka CPop naman.
@@Ivan-bg1jp Totally agree. Chinese Malaysian here have been brain washed by Western media to think China is backward for decades. To us China is HK, Taiwan, and American Chinatown. But ironically all the fear mongering by the Western media on the "danger" of Chinese technology, economy and military prowess have gravitate us to look and to discover the REAL China. All the anti Chinese rhetoric by the West have instead bring forth the Chinese in us.
Many people only want to be identified with winners, not losers. Especially so if their elders never tell them about their roots and to take pride in where they really come from so their descendants will live in ignorance.
Before Spanish Occupation, Chinese already in the Philippines. They taught filipinos on how to trade and commerce. That is why lot of filipinos has chinese name but can't speak chinese.
Pangasinan will the center of China influence in the Philippines not Binondo.
No, chinese did not teach filipinos to do trading and commerce. In fact it was the ancestors of the filipinos who introduced the maritime silk road to China around 6th century AD.
According to some Chinese chronicles, filipino came first to china to trade before china came to the islands ( modern day Philippines) to trade...
That’s why there are more Filipinos with Chinese ancestry
Not sure if Abra went through naturalization. He must have. My father was born in 1937 to a Chinese father and a Filipino-Chinese mother. He was an ACR-holder up until age 21 when he had to elect Philippine citizenship. Abra should not have had any trouble getting a PH passport had he been able to present his naturalization papers at the onset.
Abra is lucky. They kept contact with their relatives in China--unlike in our case. My grandfather came to PH in the early 1930s with his brother and their uncle (and his family). It was like they totally uprooted themselves and never looked back.
Ed's story and his advocacy was I think not effectively presented though. Has an all-over-the -place feel to it.
To the comments that generalizes that all Filipinos are decendants of some Chinese ... " *NO* "
*NEVER WAS AND NEVER WILL*
@薄玉埼
That is facts. And I accepted it...
No wonder that "Philippines" is coming from the of King Philip of Spain in Europe...
According to my DNA test I am more Chinese than Filipino. I don't know any great grandparents who are Chinese. So much intermarriages in the past that we dont know heheh
Those left behind in China look better off than those who left for the Philippines and endured so much hardship.
I think that China is now wealthier and more prosperous than the Philippines, maybe their ancestors should have stayed in China instead of leaving.
most of Filipinos are actually look chinese and are chinese descent actually but many dont have any idea about it... many filipinos last names are in chinese.. aside from one syllable chinese last names like Go, Tan, Lim etc, Chinese immigrants have two or three syllables before like quezon, cojuangco, vinzon, lachengco, catalan, gatchalian and many more.. many filipinos dont know about these because the curriculum in school dont give a f*ck about it.. it focuses more on americans and Spanish touched.. filipinos may wont admit that most of them are Hokkien chinese but the appearance wont lie.. but the philippines is a mixture of austronesians and chinese, taiwanese aborigines and a little percentage of western people.. another interesting fact and cant be denied is that Japanese and filipinos shared same genetic code according to studies..
kung meron european blood ang pinoy less 2 percent kasi pang ilang generation na ang modern filipino.
Tawag jan European manipulation.. hehehe
WTF WE WERE? ARE YOU GENERALIZING FILIPINOS? IF YOU ARE A CHINA MAN YOURSELF KEEP IT TO YOURSELF FILIPINO IS A CULTURE FILIPINO IS A NATIONALITY IF CHINA HAS ONLY ONE RACE NOT THE PHILIPPINES FILIPINO IS A MELTING POT IN ASIA NO PURE MALAY,SPANISH,AMERICAN,CHINESE ETC DONT GENERALIZE YOU'RE OWN RACE TO YOUR COUNTRY CHINA MAN CHINESE DONT REPRESENT THE PHILIPPINES PLS BE EDUCATED AND WE ONLY CAME FROM ONE RACE THE HUMAN RACE STOP THIS RACE BULLCRAP I DONT KNOW WHEN WILL THE DAY COME PEOPLE WOULD STOP TALKING ABOUT RACE NON SENSE WE ARE JUST VISITORS IN THIS EARTH AND WE GONNA TALK ABOUT OUR OWN LIFE ABOUT RACES? LIKE WTF IF YOU ARE PROUD ABOUT BEING A CHINESE DESCENT IN THE PHILIPPINES KEEP IT TO YOURSELF THE WORLD IS BIG YOU DONT REPRESENT COUNTRIES DUMNASS
Japanese and Filipinos same genetic code.... Source please?
you're just delusional
Even us we never meet our family live in Shanghai according to the story.. LIM family are also many in Philippines. But since my grandma died, no one is interisted to know our ancestors.
My Surname is Uy and im from Mindanao all i know is my grandfather was Chinese. I envy those FilChinese that trace there ancestors.😢
Kudos to you! Great video👍
I was also helped by Relative finder. :)
They look alike no doubt they are relatives.
Philippine has relatives to Hokkien ancestors and Cuba to Guangdong like my grandfather ...➡️ Hi immigrate with the age of 18 year old to Cuba...➡️🇨🇺➡️👍
Filipinos w Chinese ancestry have peacefully blended well in Phil society over so many generational years. Sad that China's now belligerent claim in Phils' territory & EEZ sea may affect it.
Great video. I'd like to research my family's Chinese Connection. My Mother, Maria Laquindanum Tsangsun dela Concepcion, told me my Great-Great Grand Father was from Macau, China. I'd like to find out more about him. He was a successful Shoe Factory Owner in Pampanga, PI. I think in the town of Macabebe? He returned to Macau because his grandsons had started wasting his fortune on gambling in the Philippines. I don't know if he left before or after WWII in the Philippines. If you could help with my research, I would be grateful for any assistance. Thanks, Rod
my grandfather is Yee from Guangzhou(Canton) .. but my grandmother is Half Japanese she did not know her father due to the war during japanese occupation
Disappointing, I have always thought that being Chinese in the Philippines is an advantage, but, nowadays, it seems that it is a problem due to the fact that you will be insulted and chastised because of your race. As a Chinese, who has business operationing between the two countries, I have always love Filipinos and I also love my motherland, China, and also Chinese people nowadays, if you love China and Chinese, you will be verbally abused and face criticisms such as land grabbers, virus carriers and other hurtful words, even though you are not directly influencing the decisions of the Chinese government or powerful enough to do so. I am not generalizing here, there are some Filipinos who are very amicable despite your love for your own country and they seem to understand the predicament, on the other hand, there seem to a lot of Filipinos who have hidden ire towards being a Chinese, that have just came out a few weeks ago. #notoracism
same I'm also a pure chinese born and raised in the Philippines racism here is rampant they must have forgot that Chinese fought with them against Japan and that their National Hero is Chinese
As filipino i also get hurtfull comments from chinese when we go travel in chongqing china😟
Filipinos are not against chinese until the south china sea dispute. that started the hate. Even chinese filipino are being discriminated with that. I highly doubted it will end because of the growing of anti china in the Philippines. Anyway racism is everywhere and you can't cure ignorance.
Because of propaganda of UA-cam
Historically all Philippinos migrated from the southern part of China!
Haha wow anong history yan
Deputang tsekwa
WTF WE WERE? ARE YOU GENERALIZING FILIPINOS? IF YOU ARE A CHINA MAN YOURSELF KEEP IT TO YOURSELF FILIPINO IS A CULTURE FILIPINO IS A NATIONALITY IF CHINA HAS ONLY ONE RACE NOT THE PHILIPPINES FILIPINO IS A MELTING POT IN ASIA NO PURE MALAY,SPANISH,AMERICAN,CHINESE ETC DONT GENERALIZE YOU'RE OWN RACE TO YOUR COUNTRY CHINA MAN
@@educatingtheclosedminded7541 your***
Its true...mostly from Fujian or Fukien China, I went with my HK boss once there at sinabi nya, dont you know that all the Chinese in the Philipinnes came here...aba marunong din ah...now I know....super mababait sila,,,,
We wanted to find our relatives too in Putou Nanan Fujian 😭
This is a very good docu!
im starting to like china im filipino with spaniards names but we look more like chinese.
Spanish names in the philippines are just names. But filipino identity are more chinese or asian
@@jehgelo 100% agree. those who say otherwise are just a bunch of spanish wannabe
@Lanz Edaño really, wow nice to know very informative.
@Lanz Edaño hello nice, actually i have small chinese blood. my mothers middle name is actually from chinese which means " eldest as son/ grandson" . But, it was hispanicized to tuazon.
azi atama You're most likely Chinese. Spanish lastnames were given by the Spanish.
China have their own family clans and most Chinese who immigrated in Singapore bring that culture of clan lineage. If you live in the Philippines or Chinese Filipino. There's a Chinese association associated to every Chinese surnames and they have list of all Chinese immigrants who migrate in the Philippines during the Chinese civil war. They documented it all the clans of Chinese
I heard the Spaniards kicked out the Chinese, people would've known more Hokkien if it's widely spread
The oldest Chinatown in the world is located in Binondo, Manila Philippines 🇵🇭
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Beautiful video.
I'm inspired, thank you for sharing!
Barnaby Lo and his uncles have same foreheads. Easy spot on. 😁
Jessica Soho is a reporter of GMA 7 but her ancestors is a Chinese
according to my college professor 60% of Filipinos have Chinese descendants.
True. More actually
Tama
Bobo prof MO. Baka ibig nyang sabihin ancestors
It’s around 30-60%
Legit!
Its just long time of evolution filipino people adopt the Philippine environment just like the other south east asian people which is original roots is from china..
Philippine Hookien is the best, still original from its roots in Fujian, unlike Malaysian, Indonesian, Taiwan, Singapore Hokkien are now evolves and merging with other dialects
Kudos! Barnaby! 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳👏👏👏
8:08 Did he just say "Tiongkok"？
Tiongkok means China in Indonesian.
It's the Hokkien reading of 中國.
Never loose connection.. god job
My grandfather's side has a chinese ancestry. His father is a chinese and married a filipina. But my grandfather never thought us anything about Chinese culture.
My father's Chinese. I even went to a Chinese School in Iloilo but we can't trace our toots any longer since the elder generation has passed on.
Wow! I hope i can find my family in china also🙏
My grandmother's surname is Solapco (which I think is Chinese) and it seems she has a Chinese blood as well (maybe her grandmother) but I dunno if I can still contact them, it has been several generations.
johnmongver thats not chinese lol
Leon Rowe Not sure but some Chinese families adopted suffixes and affixes on their surnames. For example: cakTIONG, GOkongwei, which isn't so far off from solapCO
@@Ivan-bg1jp just like QUINto?
@@leonrowe5445 That is chinese, just hispanized,
many chinoy surnames ends with -co
Wow
My family name is Tay, my father was fron fujian province, I have
Half brother and sister in HK,
Shanghai. Lost touch with them.
I'm holding on to my last name
Tay.
I hope you'll find them again soon.
My great grandpa is Chinese too
I think same with my grandfather...Chinese are hardworking people and probably as i assume, the grandparents of my grandfather came somewhere from China and till the land in our hometown with great devotion. No wonder, my grandfather's parents have a wide land in my hometown and they are one of the wealthiest there. World War II ruined the life of my grandfather's family. May he rest in peace. My grandfather is a great storyteller and a book reader...he inspired me to love History subjects!😃😃😃😃
I want to find my far relatives too from my great grandfather side pero ang hirap haha. His surname was Go and that's the only thing I know. I think he purposely migrate here in the Philippines kasi nagka drought at giyera noon ang China tas pinatay pa noong world war 2, malabo ng ma trace. As far as I know, my grandmother taught me chinese numbers that I didn't even know it was Hokkien😅
chinese name and birth place.
My both parents are 25% Chinese, my great grand mother from my grandmother side of my father (YU) came from northern China i don’t know where, so they left china because of the “one child policy” and for my great grand father from my grandfather of my mother side came from somewhere in Beijing (JAO) but sadly i didn’t know the reason why they left china i wish that someday i’ll know if we still have relatives in china sooner or later
Hi! Yu family din ako but my great grandparents from Fujian city
@@julieyu8562 hello
Chinoy here😊 from mindanao, malaybalay city
Usual family name GO...is cantonese ????? He is hokkienese...???
Go is very prominent Chinese clan in Cebu island, pure Hokkien...
@@workerworker7961 #ok...
@Noddy Vane-Arbuthnot most of them were Fujianese who worked for the Spaniards. The Cantonese came first hundreds of years prior to Magellan, it's just that they were overwhelmed by the later.
Chinese were already here before the spanish even came, prior to any European colonial powers
We are Austronesian. Look it up it’s interesting. The Austronesian people migrated out of what is now southern China to Taiwan in the Iron Age to the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and all of the Pacific Islands. We are not Chinese. We share a common ancestor with Chinese people, but we are not racially Chinese. We are the Austronesians of Southeast Asia. That’s why Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines have similar languages and we look the same. We come from the same place.
Even what you guys love the most and it the most your guys favourite restaurant JOLIBEE Is owned and invented and ran by Chinese people if you guys hate us so much why don’t you guys stop going to eat jolibee and stop going to SM mall and all those other businesses that was invented in the operation is still running by Chinese people
All I’m saying is we Chinese people love Philippine please don’t be on the white people Side and go against your best friend your Asian brother !!!!
WE CHINESE GAVE A LOT TO THE FILIPINO ASIAN STAND TOGETHER 🇨🇳🇵🇭❤️
@@youtubeyoutube6695 That’s a stúpïd way to put it. Those businesses are not only run by Filipino-Chinese, but it’s a board with most members are full Filipino. Not only that, but the employees, managers, and store keepers are mostly full Filipino. Even the flavors of the dishes are based on Filipino palate. Try to check the history of that restaurant again so you won’t sound ignorant.
By the way, Mainland Chinese are different from Filipino-Chinese. Most Filipino-Chinese are already half, 3/4, or 1/4 and they’re Filipinos, not Chinese. They’re not the same as those mainlanders who like to stole territories.
Kung austronesian ka eh ikaw lng yun. Huwag mo ng ipilit yun sa iba. Maaraming klaseng tao naninirahan sa Pilipinas, at isa na doon ay ang lahi ng mga Tsino. Doon ka na manirahan sa Indonesia, dahil pinipilit mo na sila ang mga kamag anak mo. Mura lng ang pamasahe patungo dun.
@@litoola4981 Hindi yon pinipilit. Yon ay history. Ang mga Pilipino ngayon ay mostly austronesian descendants.
Agree Austronesian is not Chinese.
Well, they look rather similar ! Chinese family ties are strong indeed!
a very good programme connect chinese andPhilippine
This is telling more on a supportive documentary made by Chinese Mainland effort to link those missing Chinese lineages by the Filipino-Chinese not at the recognised tracks
Me;
I'm a track at a lost generation and a stateless
Same story of my family ,my grandfather pure chinese my family is 2nd family.until im hoping even me have a chance to go in fujian china..