I'm a half breed Filipino. People on my mom's side aren't completely pure. The skin tone on my mom's side varies from brown or yellow colored, but we all have the same Mexican like facial features because of basque blood. My father is White.
I don't look much different from your modern day Latino. I look 100% Latino. If you think of it, I basically am a Latino because of the mixed of Spanish blood and colored people blood. Filipinos are basically a type of Native American like the Aztecs, Toltecs, Apache, Navaho. At some point thousands of years ago people who were from what is now the Philippines probably inhabited the Americas. I don't believe that the Filipinos and Northern Asians are related through blood. If you look at the cultures of Filipinos to Chinese, Japanese, Koreans you'll see that we're racially separate. Calling Filipinos and Northern Asians the same race is like saying an Arabic person is the same as a European. The Filipinos and Chinese might share common blood types, slanted eyes, and similar alphabet, but they're not the same thing. There are major difference between Filipinos and Chinese. If I were to classify Filipinos, I'd say they're more related to Native Americans than to Northern Asians.
The Indonesians and Malaysians are also brothers to some degree just not the Chinese that live in those domains. I do not count the Thais as related.

Filipinos came from Sundaland, back then they called it lemuria.. The other races got jealous because our civilization was the $hit. the chinese, indians, and arabs from the north conspired against us then nuked the continent til it sunk. in 2012 during the next ice age, giant pyramids and ancient cities will be revealed underwater in indonesia

Filipinos came from Sundaland, back then they called it lemuria.. The other races got jealous because our civilization was the $hit. the chinese, indians, and arabs from the north conspired against us then nuked the continent til it sunk. in 2012 during the next ice age, giant pyramids and ancient cities will be revealed underwater in indonesia

I'm a half breed Filipino. People on my mom's side aren't completely pure. The skin tone on my mom's side varies from brown or yellow colored, but we all have the same Mexican like facial features because of basque blood. My father is White.
I don't look much different from your modern day Latino. I look 100% Latino. If you think of it, I basically am a Latino because of the mixed of Spanish blood and colored people blood. Filipinos are basically a type of Native American like the Aztecs, Toltecs, Apache, Navaho. At some point thousands of years ago people who were from what is now the Philippines probably inhabited the Americas. I don't believe that the Filipinos and Northern Asians are related through blood. If you look at the cultures of Filipinos to Chinese, Japanese, Koreans you'll see that we're racially separate. Calling Filipinos and Northern Asians the same race is like saying an Arabic person is the same as a European. The Filipinos and Chinese might share common blood types, slanted eyes, and similar alphabet, but they're not the same thing. There are major difference between Filipinos and Chinese. If I were to classify Filipinos, I'd say they're more related to Native Americans than to Northern Asians.
The Indonesians and Malaysians are also brothers to some degree just not the Chinese that live in those domains. I do not count the Thais as related.

Filipinos come from a mixture of 2/3 Mongoloid and 1/3 Australoid ancestry, so the resulting mixture gives many Filipinos a seemingly Caucasian facial feature.

There are A LOT OF Filipinos who do look Latino here in the Philippines, NOT only in the cities but also in the deep provinces. The admixture thingy explains it.

Btw, Arabs and Northern Europeans are INDEED considered to be of ONE RACE.

Native Americans are MUCH, MUCH closer to Northern Asians THAN THEY ARE to Southeast Asians like Pilipinos.

I don't know about "relation" but I have to admit I really can't tell many, if not most sometimes, Southeast Asians and Central Americans apart just on a looks basis. Nothing wrong with that though. I don't think my ethnicity affects that perception that much but I'm chinese singaporean but 1/4 white from my mom being half white and her mom (my grandma) being german. I had some southeast asian friend (like malay, filipino, khmer, indonesian, etc) say that in US many time white people confuse them to be mexican ancestry instead of southeast asian. And I heard before of mexican of the ones who are/look very indigenous ancestry (native american?) who travel to southeast asia before and talk about locals often confusing them as a fellow local. So I don't know if deep down there is an actual relation but at least on superficial level many, many southeast asians and central americans look alike which is what the thread starter was intending to say I think.

I also noticed most native americans dont have thick lips like SEA / filipinos have

your stupid

U aren't even Hispanics!

Diz iz a Hispanic:


Diz iz not:


There really isn't much going on here anyway, and what's up with all those spam posts everywhere? No moderators any more?

Who told you that we are Hispanics? Your 2nd or 3rd generation Fil Am friends who only know adobo and pansit? Even during the Spanish occupation, pure Spaniards only number in the hundreds, most Hispanics here are actually Mexicans. After the defeat of Spain by US, almost all Filipinos with Spanish blood migrated back to their motherland. Some stayed and chose to be Pinoys. So Hispanic by blood? Nah. Hispanic by culture? Maybe. Filipino? All the way.

dude, i always go to the casino at the Indian reserve. filipinos look nothing like indians. you say you look "latino" because you are a mestizo. mestizos are half white or half spanish.. basically that is what the light skin latinos are anyway..."mestizos"


side track for a bit... those eskimos look japanese to me

Pinar del Río Province

The city and province was originally founded by the Spanish as Nueva Filipinas (New Philippines) due to the huge influx of Filipinos who arrived from the Manila Galleons. They brought with them tamarind (also known as sampaloc), camisa de chinos, and arroz caldo (also known as arroz caldoso)

Known as Chinos Manila among the local population, the Filipinos worked the huge tobacco plantations much like how they did in the present provinces of Ilocos Sur, Tarlac, Ilocos Norte, Cagayan and Isabela in their home country. During that time, the Spanish colonizers had a virtual monopoly of the tobacco trade through their company, the Tabacalera.

The world renowned La Flor de Isabela cigars (named after her Royal Majesty Queen Isabella II) were first cultivated in the Philippines in the Hacienda San Fernando, Hacienda Isabel, Hacienda Antonio and the Hacienda Luisita (all of these haciendas were later purchased by the Tabacalera or the Compania general de Tabacos de Filipinas sociedad anonima). After Mexico declared independence, the trade of the Manila Galleons was broken. The Tabacalera shifted the cultivation of these cigars to Cuba since the Philippines was too far to govern without Mexico in between. The Isabela cigars achieved much fame due in part because of the American's appetite for cigars when Havana was a Las Vegas-style playground before the tenure of President Fidel Castro.

Nueva Filipinas was renamed Pinar del Río in 1774 at the same time that the old colonial capital of Guane lost its superiority(Previously, the old capital of Guane was named after the Gaane district in the Maluku Islands. During the Spanish times, the area was referred to as Las Islas Moluccas. Gaane in Indonesia is still located in the southern tip of Halmahera island. To this day, the Moluccas island group is the only area in predominantly Muslim Indonesia that has a Christian majority. The Moluccas or Spice Islands is also the scene of ongoing violent communal fighting between Christians and Muslim Jihad groups. During the 16th and 17th centuries, Ternate island was the most important of the Moluccas islands in Indonesia. Ternate island is right off the coast of nearby Halmahera island where the town of Gaane is also located. At that time, Spain, Portugal, England and the Netherlands quarreled over their claim to get hold of the monopoly of the spice trade of the world. In fact, Isabella I of Castile (for whom the city of Isabela, Basilan and Isabela (province), Philippiines was named) and her husband Ferdinand II of Aragon coveted the islands so much they sent Christopher Columbus and many conquistadores to find it. In 1655, however, the Spaniards had to withdraw from the Moluccas in order to concentrate their forces in Manila. This was to fortify themselves against the threatened attack of a Chinese warlord, Koxinga. In moving out of the Moluccas, the Spanish missionary who went with the troops took along with him some 200 Moluccas Christians, better known as Márdikas. To this band of 200 Moluccas Indonesian immigrants can be traced the origin of Chabacano or Creole Spanish in the Philippines).

Afterwards, some Filipinos moved to Havana's big Barrio Chino or Chinatown. Others jumped ship to Louisiana. Others sailed back to Sinaloa and Jalisco in Mexico. Those with money went to Spain or back to Manila (and brought with them Escabeche a la Cubana which is a favorite dish to all Filipinos which they almost always serve using fish). The rest intermarried with the Cuban population.

Those who stayed quickly lost their Filipino ties since many among the Filipinos were like the local Cubans. They can speak Spanish, they were Catholic, they have to pay taxes or tributos, and they were treated like slaves by their Spanish masters. (Back in the Philippines, entire provinces were assigned to grow tobacco and nothing more. Those caught stealing a single leaf of tobacco or caught growing the food staple, rice, were hit with sugarcane or sentenced to death by garrote). Nonetheless, their children survive to this day. That is why there are Filipino or Chinese-Filipino sounding surnames in Cuba, such as Tampico, Magalan (from Magalang or to show respect), Batunbacal (from Batungbakal), Maquilin, Sumayao (to dance), Parian, Mabolo, Pilapil, Alimoron (from Alimurung), Nacpil, Gotiaco, Piat, Singson or Singzon, Tuason or Tuazon, Hizon or Hison, Dizon or Dison, Hinojosa or Hinohosa, Gandionco, Quiambao, Salambao, Puyat, Edralin, et al.

Important Cuban-Filipinos include the Azcarraga Fessner family, whose patriarch was Marcelo de Azcarraga y Palmero, the first Prime Minister of Spain with Indian blood, whose mother was a Filipina from the Lizarrabal and Palmero families. [2]

Pinar del Rio was one of the last major cities in Cuba founded by the Spanish
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The reason they look similar is because of relatively recent separation from the "Asian" line.



Native Americans are Q, P is a now nearly non-existant "Siberian" line still found at very low frequencies in central Asia and eastern Europe. Through isolation and/or selection certain tribes have likely just developed similar skin tone and features to certain Southeast Asians. Even then I can tell that they aren't Asian. I encounter Mexicans who look almost completely Amerindian and still know they aren't Filipino. It's extremely rare that one can "pass."

Would it be something like this?

East Asians:



Amerindians:

Some years ago archeologists found the remains of an ancient settlement in Chile. They were surprised to find that it was 12,500 years old. This is much more ancient than the Clovis People! Also, the skeletons found in this site resemble more the people of Polynesia than the inhabitants of Siberia.

There was a recent incident of a Mexican archeologist claiming that the ancient remains of woman found on the Mexican Caribbean Coast looked like an Indonesian.

Mexico: Ancient woman suggests diverse migration

I guess the Muslim Malay in Asia could start by creating ties with the Muslim Amerindians in Chiapas. Which, curiously enough, were converted by Muslim Spaniards in the 1990's - 2000's.

Mexico's Tzotzil Indians convert to Islam

Wasn't a native Indonesian pig of some sort found in Central or South America like Peru?

Wasn't a native Indonesian pig of some sort found in Central or South America like Peru?

I never heard that one. Do you have a link to the article?

A 2007 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of chicken bones at El Arenal near the Arauco Peninsula, Arauco Province, Chile suggested Oceania-to-America contact. Chickens originated in southern Asia and the Araucana breed of Chile was thought to have been brought by Spaniards around 1500. However, the bones found in Chile were radiocarbon-dated to between 1304 and 1424, well before the documented arrival of the Spanish. DNA sequences taken were exact matches to those of chickens from the same period in American Samoa and Tonga, both over 5000 miles (8000 kilometers) away from Chile. The genetic sequences were also similar to those found in Hawaiʻi and Easter Island, the closest island at only 2500 miles (4000 kilometers), and unlike any breed of European chicken.[4][5][6] Although this initial report suggested a Polynesian pre-Columbian origin a later report looking at the same specimens concluded:

A published, apparently pre-Columbian, Chilean specimen and six pre-European Polynesian specimens also cluster with the same European/Indian subcontinental/Southeast Asian sequences, providing no support for a Polynesian introduction of chickens to South America. In contrast, sequences from two archaeological sites on Easter Island group with an uncommon haplogroup from Indonesia, Japan, and China and may represent a genetic signature of an early Polynesian dispersal. Modeling of the potential marine carbon contribution to the Chilean archaeological specimen casts further doubt on claims for pre-Columbian chickens, and definitive proof will require further analyses of ancient DNA sequences and radiocarbon and stable isotope data from archaeological excavations within both Chile and Polynesia.[7]

Oops I misread what nenabunena typed, I meant chicken.

It's pretty controversial I guess whether Austronesians were there before Amerindians though.

Let's change the name of the thread then... Are Native Americans related to Filipinos? Hmmm....

Oops I misread what nenabunena typed, I meant chicken.



It's pretty controversial I guess whether Austronesians were there before Amerindians though.

Just come down here to Texas and you will see Indonesian looking faces among the Mexicans.

In any case, genetics don't always correlate with physical appearance. Negritos look like Africans but they are actually the most genetically distant from the African races. I also heard the Ainu looked more Caucasian but had more genetic similarities with Southeast Asians.

Just come down here to Texas and you will see Indonesian looking faces among the Mexicans.

In any case, genetics don't always correlate with physical appearance. Negritos look like Africans but they are actually the most genetically distant from the African races. I also heard the Ainu looked more Caucasian but had more genetic similarities with Southeast Asians.

Yeah, I do think that the Amerindians that may look like Asians look more like Indonesians instead of Filipinos. Even though both South East Asian groups would be really distant to the Amerindians, genetically speaking.

Yeah, maybe some Amerindian Tribes are descended from Austronesians, who knows? Would be cool to find that out though.

People thought both the Kalash tribe and the Ainu tribe were lost tribes of Caucasians but actually both look that way due to genetic drift and isolation. People thought Papuans were black too etc.

I'm not sure but I think the environment is what influences physical appearance.

- The Mongoloid look is adaptation to a very cold tundra climate.
- The Caucasian look is due to a cool climate that isn't as cold as that of tundra.
- The African look is from a warm tropical climate.

This is probably why some people say Bjork the singer from Iceland looks East Asian despite the fact she doesn't have Asian ancestors. It probably explains why Eskimos and North American Amerinds look East Asian despite being genetically different. The same goes for Negritos and Melanesians being compared to African Negroids.

Maybe it's why the Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon look like white people since they also lived in modern day Europe.