when asked on a resume or questionaire which do you pick

is there a reason why some wish to indicate pacific islander rather than admit asian

Filipino?
I heard Filipinos have their own box to check.

i never seen that

why would filipinos have there own category

I don't know. I haven't seen any, but that's what I have heard.

because philippines was under the u.s. and had a different relationship like guam and puerto rico.

why not?

I tell them Im part of the Aryan Race

wasnt the phillipines colonized by the spaniards

what would the us be doing there besides aiding manila when they got bombed by the nips

being a filipino can be confusing.

Filipinos are Asians. This topic has been discussed in my sociology class. According to my professor, the idea that Filipinos are Pacific Islanders are based on the American perspective, not on Filipinos themselves. Also, as a Filipina living in the Philippines, I've never met a Filipino (living in the Philippines) who does not consider himself/herself as an Asian.

Filipinos living abroad might have a problem in identifying themselves due to differing information. Some Filipinos consider themselves Asians while some believe they Pacific Islanders. In America, the term Asian usually refers to East Asians (Japanese, Korean, Chinese, etc.) while in the UK, Asian refers to South Asians (Indians, Pakistanis). Southeast Asians (especially us Filipinos) are caught in the middle. Differences in religion, language, and culture (Spanish and American influences in our case )with our fellow Asians also become factors as to why despite many similarities, Filipinos fail in the "Asian Test" for some.

Different opinions are welcome.

$hit I remember back in the days when there was no Pacific Islander category, or if there was it was followed by and example list of Hawaiian, Samoan, Guam) and Filipino was bunched up in the Asian category. For some reason they changed that, and I have a feeling it was some white government beurocracy that affected that. I still think Asian but sometimes they don't provide that option.