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Filipinos of mixed ethnic origins are still referred today as mestizos. However, in common popular parlance, mestizos usually refer to Filipinos mixed with Spanish or any other European ancestry. Filipinos mixed with any other foreign ethnicities are named depending on the non-Filipino part.
1 Απρ 2013 · Early in my research on the Filipino urban middle-class mentality, my host asked: “Niels, what is a Filipino?” Answering his own question, he characterised the Filipino as a Roman Catholic, English-speaking Malay with a Spanish name and a predilection for Chinese food.
19 Νοε 2020 · During the Philippine-American War, U.S. soldiers called us “gugus,” a racial epithet that preceded the slur “gook.” Those same soldiers killed hundreds of thousands of people in the Philippines, and called us “niggers” for resisting.
‘The Making of the Other: Orientalism and the Filipino Identity’ revolved around the richness of Philippine culture and ethnic diversity, with a robust discussion on how might we, as Filipinos, rethink the Orientalist perspectives and in turn create a self-determined identity that challenges external and internal prejudice.
For example, the word “race” as used by British enumerators first appears in their 1891 census, and as per the advice of the census author in 1901, it was mandated to replace “nationality” as a wider and more exhaustive expression; such that notably, in 1891, “Manilamen” (presumably Filipinos) were placed under the racial category ...
A grouping of “Filipino” emerges in some of the ethnological works of ilustrados that deal most explicitly with ethnology and race. “Filipino” was not the only or even predominant grouping of these texts, but its meaning was changing and its content contested.
3 Ιαν 2020 · The complex racial and ethnic backgrounds of Filipinos illustrate diversity from pre-colonial to contemporary Philippines, an outcome of combinational factors such as frequent geographic mobility, intermarriage, and four centuries of colonial experience.
