I don't understand why this would ever be in doubt. Yes, there are some Spanish descendants due to the colonization by Spain. But most Filipinos have little, if any, Spanish blood. By ancestry, they are primarily Malays. So they would have a shared ancestry with countries in South East Asia like Malaysia or Singapore (some of them). There is never a question that these countries are Asian, so why the big fuss? Yes, culturally, there are Spanish influences, but the Philippines is an Asian country. Asians don't look alike, so that is not a good excuse. Features vary region by region.

look at a map. you will see the philippines is located off the coast of spain

It is. It's the extremist EA's like DR that don't think so.

wait I thought the phillippines was a state in America
I had no idea it was an asian country
dang

American wannabe of Asia

every country in asia

is a fu-kn asian country!!!!

you mean we aint messican? wtf?

why do u need to made this thread
we have a lot of issues already like this one in FILIPINO CHAT
try visiting there...

u didn't have to spread the good news...
LOL

now look what you've done...
THANKS A LOT
NOT...

seriously...

now everyone is gonna star hating on us...

Most Asians Hate Us

most asians can't understand us...
LOL

probably coz we've had so much influence from different countries...
that we've come to be the outcast
LOL

Not..

this one too..

+2

And youre one of those starting all the issues bending over to receive some spanish.
Philippines is Asian... truth hurts huh?

^

We cant just blame Filipinos for this confusion because other Asians help to add to it too. Just the other day, this Vietnamese dude was trying to tell me that Filipinos aren't Asian becuase we dont do "traditional Asian things" like use chopsticks, the Philippines is "way out there in the Pacific Ocean", we dont "look Asian", and we have Spanish last names.

Even after I offered an explanation for each thing, he still wasn't convinced. See, some other Asians have this idea of what Asians are suppose to be, and they feel like Filipinos dont qualify. Most Filipinos I know identify themselves as Asian. So there should be no debate about it.

+3

Alot of other se asians dont use chopsticks.

err
ur kidding right...
I never said we were Spanish..

Philippines is the mexico of asia so that makes them mexicans not asians

Filipinos are definitely Asian, even though some Filipinos look more Hispanic or Mestizo by appearance. One of my best friends is Filipino, but he looks absolutely Mestizo by appearance and everybody thinks he's Mexican (even me when I first met him)!

East Asians don't consider filipinos to be Asian in much the same way they don't consider Indians to be Asian.

It's because to East Asians, the only people who can be considered "real" Asians are those who are of Mongoloid ("Oriental") descent.

Wow. Sounds like us Texans think we're in the South, while probably y'all up in Memphis don't think so.

Asian pride yo!!

+4

for reals? Most of the Fillipinos I've met said they were pacific islanders.

kekekeke

Asian or Pacific Islander, I take whatever the Filipino person identifies them self with. Few that are my friends are Asian, while most are Pacific Islanders.

first of all if they (these EA) want to get technical they aren't even Asians to begin with. they're Oriental.



Persians are the true Asians.

so STFU already.

and what we consider Asian here is different in Europe.





he has the most post in spanish philippines thread and if was his myspace it mexicaned out.

Persians aren't Asians just because they are on the Asian continent. Then, that would mean Russians are Asians. By your logic, then Mexicans and Canadians would be Americans. They are North Americans. Europeans don't have the most accurate views on race. We can see that by your classification of Asians as Orientals. So you STFU and leave if you don't like this thread. Persians are Middle Easterners.

interesting!
What criteria do we have to use for this, majority closest genetic or geographical?

Latin Americans consider themselves Americans (because they're on the American continent) and resent the fact that the term "American" is used only to describe people living in the US.

I'm not sure what Canadians consider themselves. Just North Americans?

tell that to first person that created that word to DESCRIBE Persians.

Southeast Asia

The whole Asian/Pacific Islander debate never really bothered me when I was growing up because I always saw Asian and Pacific Islander together on forms and stuff like that, so I thought that they were basically the same. I think alot of Filipinos still think that way because I know lots of Filipinos who have Pacific Islander as their ethnicity on myspace, but then when I ask those same ppl if they're Asian, they say yes. So i guess some Filipinos dont see a difference b/t the 2 groups.

philippine locates in asia right? so they are asian too.

really??


what about narra and his plagiarism posts in spanish philippines
and a bunch of other people...

filipinos are cool peoples

hella funny

That's how most Non-Asians think.

you have a total of 274 posts there.

you post the same copy and paste crap as Narra do.

anyone who does not know the philippines is an asian country needs to be slapped.

yeah so it's an asian country, everyone knows that
so what?

...apparently, everyone does know.

Each country has its own perception of what is "Asian". Some countries classify them by where they're from. Some classify them by customs and culture. What one person considers Asian might be something totally different to the next person.

Orientals are:

Turqs / Arabs / Persians

All the filipinos I know can use chopsticks. - shrug

I'm one of them. I don't use it often, but I certainly know how to eat chopsticks.

^Eat chopsticks? All the filipinos I know need to have rice with every meal too.

Then karaoke afterwards.

Some Filipinos don't think we are Asian. They prefer Pacific Islander or Hispanic. These Filipinos are usually the American born ones who don't know sht about their actual heritage.

hey your one of the people in Filipino chat that glorifying the spanish. the FIl-AMs gets it from Filipinos from home.