Philippine Identity Crisis

The worst kind of crisis is not knowing exactly who you are.

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[lycanthrope55]

FOR ALL THE MIS-INFORMED WHO THINK FILIPINOS ARE A PURE RACE ... OR THAT THEY ARE PURELY MALAY ... Please get you facts straight once and for all ... look-up "Filipino Race" in Wikipedia if you haven't got the academic initiatives to read actual books.

[shapeshifter2007]

@lycanthrope55 - At least someone around here knows his Pre-Hispanic Philippine history.

[pushyourluck]

ive done my research shapeshifter. thank you very much.... and the notion that filipinos are not pure and that we are all mixed is just colonial mentality working and the poor philippine education system teaching false notions. Majority of filipinos are of pure malay blood. only a handful of us have any chinese or spanish blood. intermarriages were not common during colonial times.

[shapeshifter2007]

@pushyourluck - I wouldn't want to know where you got educated...

[RitzJB]

filipinos think they're all part spanish.... in reality, the majority of filipinos are of pure malay blood. intermarriages were not that common during colonial times unless you were of status.

[shapeshifter2007]

@RitzJB - It is probably helpful for you to know that Filipinos are really a by-product of inter-marriages of MANY races (Malay, Chinese, Indonesians, Indians, Spanish, etc.). THERE ARE NO PURE FILIPINOS unless you descended from the indigenous pygmies that originally occupied the islands.

Research on pre-Hispanic Philippine history ... it may help you to understand.

[oseanic1980]

The Filipinos shall learn to refine their adoption of other cultures by not having amnesia of who they really are, yes I agree with the views of others regarding pro colonial bias on our pre - Spanish history that depicts Filipinos as savages and lacking civilization, Filipinos are a great people even in the ancient period, they have their written language, religion that has much in common with it's Asian neighbors. Philippine history shall be reformed and cleansed.

[bb89670]

Filipinos don't really think they're spanish. yes they were hispanized but Americans came & changed everything, schooled them, taught them the english language so they became americanized, westernized that's why they think the way they do because they were born knowing only American also because it was an American colony, US instilled in them the american way of life even in the Philippines so for those who thinks otherwise read their history so you don't be ignorant. People are of mixed race.

[destroyxeverything]

No filipinoys are NOT closely to Malays. U guys look more of a hybrid between chinese n spanish. Malays look more resembling to the Polynesians than filips. That's why native hawaiians used to refer themselves as Malaysians when filing out job application or birth cert as there WERENT "pacific islanders" option yet.

And us Malays CAN 100% distinguish filipinoys from a fellow Malay or Indonesian. Because malays n indonesians r more related than we r to filipinoys.

[destroyxeverything]

No filipinoys are NOT closely to Malays. U guys look more of a hybrid between chinese n spanish. Malays look more resembling to the Polynesians than filips. That's why native hawaiians used to refer themselves as Malaysians when filing out job application or birth cert as there were "pacific islanders" option yet.

And us Malays can't 100% distinguish filipinoys from a fellow Malay or Indonesian. Because malays n indonesians r more related than we r to filipinoys.

[MarkSamurai5]

@RitzJB You do realize that English is the second language of the Philippines right?

[joricofernandez]

Another fact. Dr.Jose Rizal in search for proof that indeed the Filipinos had an identity before the Spaniards came in the Philippines on 1521, found and annotated Antonio de Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, a historical account about the Philippines from 1493 to 1603. In this book, Morga proved that the Filipinos had an identity before the colonizers came.

[joricofernandez]

All of your researches are incorrect and misleading. I am a professor in History, Philippine and World. The concept of purity in blood, as to one particular country depends greatly on your time-frame. The farther you dig deep into the annals of history, you would be able to understand that, once there was one mass of land called Pangaea and one body of water called Pantalasa, from these facts, we would be able to infer, that all nationalities at present descended from one aborigination.

[sunade143]

filipinos were of malays but this malays belongs to the mongoloid race such as chinese,koreans,japs,thailande­rs,vietnamese,malaysian and indonesian, it is in their genes!!! those from south east asia are of type B mongoloid and those from the east asia are of A mongoloid! as what i also read on the wikipedia philippines has the most eurasian population in the whole world.... eurasian are of those products of intermarriage bettween the europeans especially spain and americans!!....

[sunade143]

ME EVEN THOUGH IM 1/4 OF OTHER RACES IM STILL PROUD TO BE WHERE I WAS BORN! AND IM PROUD TO BE PINOY!