All my life living in the philippines, I believed I was ASIAN. Geographically, the phils is a part of ASIA but culturally and socially? The philippines is very distinctive. Just being the only christian nation in ASIA already make filipinos not ASIAN.
Pacific Islanders? hmmm well Hawaiians and Samoans, Guamanians are and why would Filipinos be? What would be some major things in common?
Filipinos. Now. There's an Identity. Not to mention the fact that when you check the statistics of the population of foreigners in some countries, like the US, they categorize a ASIANS as ASIANS (chinese, japs, koreans...etc), Pacific Islanders (hawaiians, samoans...etc) and Filipinos have an independent report **not belonging to any other race.
I'm FILIPINO, and I INTEND TO KEEP IT THAT WAY. Not asian, not pacific Islander but filipino.
2007-03-16
21:54:29
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Other - Cultures & Groups