Three of my friends who have no caucasian mixture have American last names. David, Summerfield, and Collins are their last names. My old high school teacher was a Filipino man who's last name was Paulson. My coworker's last name is Ferry, my friends bf's last name is Conklin. My ex's last name was Bucini, which sounds Italian, and my cousin married a Filipino man who's last name is Hansen. I know alot more but I'm too lazy. Anyways, does anyone know why their last names are so American-sounding? My guess is their family changed their names or something...What do you guys think?

really? never really heard of that...those names are too blatantly English

Cristiano_Ronaldo(AF member not the player ) have an Italian Surname

why black people in america have white names (ecept for those name shaniqua and reyshawn)

idiot

lol, a lot of filipinos have white names too, but not much have white surnames(r spaniards white?, cuz if they r that means the spanish surnames filipinos have r white surnames......)

no spanish are mexican

?__? what?

the spanish who came to the philippines during colonial times were from mexico, are u suggestiing only the pure spanish sail from mexico to the philipipnes? so if a filipino going to claim filipinos are part spanish, they should really say mexican

Idiot

i dont think the spaniards who ruled the Philippines are Indian mestizos

why not? only the pure spanish were screened before stepping on the ship to the long trek to the philippines?

......I'm so confused............

What the....

Someone clarify all of the above posts. They are messing with my head.

^You know why your head is messed up? Because you keep on listening to a non-Filipino named dalawapo. If the topic is about Filipinos - you should listen to Filipinos. You see this dalawapo animal claims he is non-Filipino but he is most active in Filipino Chat - in other words he probably is an ugly Filipino who tries to justify his ugliness by claiming he is Pacific Islander. Now don't react right away there dalawapo. Relax baby. I want to make sure that morons like you don't react right away and write down their emotions into scattered ramblings without coherence nor direction. The keyword I used is "probably" because I have no way of proving the existence of this creature named dalawapo... as he is just hiding behind his computer posting stupid threads... therefore how would anybody really know his race? Nobody would ever know what his face would look like unless someone would literally go to where he lives, sit side-by-side with him as he logs-in to AF using the dalawapo account. Now having said the above facts, since we really could not prove how dalawapo looks like (i.e. whether he looks like a polynesian wrestler or not) - we could only make deductions about him through his postings. Now assuming that dalawapo is honest and that what he claims himself as a Pacific Islander is true, then heres the first question: Why is a non-Filipino pacific islander so active in Filipino Chat? What are his hidden agenda in being active in Filipino Chat?

^....Huh?

so youre thinkin that if he's ugly than he just gotta be a pacific islander? thats not fair.

No. If you could please follow this logic:

If he is pacific islander and his name is dalawapo then he is ugly.

I was thinking maybe that man was a Tsinoy

Yeah, we have these different surnames that originate in many places but that doesn't mean we're Italian/British/Spanish or whatever..., albeit I don't know the question to your answer.

i have a non-filipino last name too......when people ask why i have a greek last name i like to make up a story that my fathers ancestors where criminals and that he had to change it.

The Philippines for the longest time was ruled by a Mexican viceroy in the name of Spain until Mexico gained it's independence.

maybe when the Americans came there's still Filipinos who didnt have any surnames so they gave them one just like the Spaniards gave us Spanish surnames

I have never heard of anyone here who has an English last Spanish yes.

you forgot to mention shiniqua and sheneyney and luqrisha 2


wow hanep..American last name..hmmm
the only explanation i can come up with at the moment
is they must have changed it
i knew a few people who changed their last names due to
sex change 2 seriously oh divah!

Maria Esperanza Smith 2 \formerly known as Maria Esperanza Sipagan

I used have two black friends named Asia & China who doesnt have any Asian blood in them.

And how come our dogs have American lastnames? One we named "Tom Brown".... and another "Lady Robinson"... by the way, both dogs have been eaten.

my Dog's name is Brownie he probably has an american blood in him.

I had a tagalog friend back in elementary whose last name was "BROWN" lol and yes indi sila tisoy.

I used to have a b!tch(female dog) named blackie
she probably has negro(spanish4black) blood on her

haha yea. anything that ends in -son -zon -són or -zón and anything that ends in -co while you're at it.

They could have grown up in America? &as their grandparents decided to let them have an American last name, since after all, they are american citizens? arent they?

i'm startin to think its not american surnames, its British surnames.........cuz american surnames are from a bunch different countries

I got a french middle name .. but my greatgrandpa kept our family tree so I knew that I had this french and spanish ancestors. but I considered myself 100% Filipino and proud of it!

some people asks me everytime I fill up a form with write your full name including middle name always asked me how do they pronounced it and some of them knew it was french.

My last name is Faber, pronounced as Paa-ber. You don't believe me? Click on one of my videos.
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my middle name is Roux pronounced it as (Rou with silent x) if you search it on yahoo lolz roux is a french sauce. LOL

not a surprise. there are many French that gone to Spain. There are parts of Spain and France where miles apart they speak different language. ie Catalunia.

also there are many Portuguese and Basque last names in Filipino, ie gamboa, pacheco etc.

yeah, only my grandpa and my grandpa's sister got blue eyes... but lol they got the filipino height and the nose and the rest of us are more filipinos although one of my uncle mistaken not a filipino. because he looks mestizo.

u should ask them lol
maybe they changed their name themselves

my last name is a native pinoy name

Hmmmm...Faber sounds German. Perhaps you descended from someone who was a native of Deutschland.

BTW, I've seen a lot of half Germans/Austrians back home, especially at the Catholic school I attended. There were Frankenberger, Sternberg, Frantzen, Becker to name a few, nevertheless they were all fluent in Filipino. This one guy Frankenberger, he looked really white, and we used to tease him by calling him ASO as in German Shepard. We treated him well though, except for the occasional teasing.

My last name is Spanish, but that doesn't mean I am of Spanish descent.

The story goes like this. My great great grand father joined a rebel group during the Spanish occupation, so he changed his last name to a Spanish sounding name, so he wouldn't be as conspicuous to the Spaniards tracking him down. Obviously it worked, but nobody is certain what his Filipino last name really was.

I guess it's a long story, but no matter, I've only claimed to be pure-blooded Filipino and nothing else. My father's boss, Fabian Ver have a bit of an odd last name, too.

Most likely those people have mixed blood somewhere down the line even though they don't look that mixed. It's very rare for Filipinos to have American sounding last names unless they're somehow mixed.

there are a few filipinos who have German names because a few native Filipinos took up the name when they travel in Europe and changed their names to escape persecution from Spanish when they come home. Ie Tirol, from "Tyrolia".

This is why

my name is cabot. that's english. the reason why is becuase the english was in the PI's too.

cabot is also italian, i think northern italian.

is the last name mafori italian?

not sure. sounds kinda samoan to me.

Maybe their adopted.

I find this photo very disturbing. (the one with the caucasian man pointing the gun to the head of the young Asian girl) ................I hate to think of the number of Filipinos and others from SE Asia, suffered at the hands of Euros for barbaric reasons. I have many friends who have, themselves, suffered unimaginable fates and have been forced to witness the demise of loved ones.






The answer could be any one of a number of reasons. Unfortunately, history is full of groups of people who invaded the Philippines. It's like the Native Americans here in the US. Many of them were forced to take Spanish sirnames in order to survive (those on the west coast---east coast NA's suffered worse fates by the hands of Euros).

Every part of the planet is, in some way, shape or form, influenced by the British, French and later the US.

It's a scene taken from the movie Platoon.