Why do most Filipinos say they have spanish ancestry/blood??

Question

I've met filipinos who say they have spanish blood in the US , although I must admit most of them do look hispanic/even spanish and could pass for one.

Answer 1

Probably because they do. Ferdinand Magellan discovered the islands in 1521 and they were colonized by the Spanish starting a little over 40 years later and lasting over 300 years. You can find more info on Wikipedia.

Answer 2

Doh...not all of them sweetheart! Some are..because Phillipines were under Spain before so you get a lot of mix blood people there. So maybe the ones that u met in the US have Spnish blood (mix races).
It is the same thing in anohter Asia country as well: Indonesia has a lot of mix races people with Dutch blood(Indonesia was under Dutch colony for 350 years) and Vietnam has a lot of mox races people with French and American blood

Answer 3

The spanish conquistadors from spain got around to the philipines and ou know they did their usual raping and stealing like in the other countries they visited so thats why they have spanish blood and some also speak spanish.

Answer 4

The Filipine Islands were taken over by Spain during the second world war. As the the Americans reckon they have Irish family history, the Germans have Finish relations, we are all intergrated.

Answer 5

as a results of fact they have been instructed by potential of their mothers and dads that their ancestors coated some Spanish blood and for this reason sense extra suited approximately themselves having some "eu blood". purely a tiny share of Filipinos have any genuine hint of eu blood yet perchance a pair of million/2 of the inhabitants declare to have a Spanish ancestor of their relatives tree. Many Filipinos declare this falsehood and mislead themselves as a results of fact they convey a Spanish final call yet that purely potential that many Indigenous Filipinos have been purely pressured to undertake "Christian" or "Spanish" names as a results of fact the interior of sight language replaced into relatively no longer common for the Spanish colonizers to appreciate. So the respond is not any, approximately ninety seven% of Filipinos are of Asian inventory and perchance 2% could have some drop of eu blood.

Answer 6

yes we have because, if you read and know our history, the Spaniards conquered the Philippines and they were the one who intruduce the Christian faith, which is the ROman Catholic. the spaniards stay here for so long and some of them marry filipinos thats why we have spanish blood

Answer 7

They want to pass for latino.They don't think their asian side is worthy enough.

The spagnard did mixed their blood only in manilla.99% of phillipino are pure, only a fraction can trace their ancestor to spanish and other fraction come from American GI soldiers from local base who fornicated with phillipino teenager before living them with babies.

Answer 8

because they do