For people in the Philippines, do you consider Filipinos Asian or Pacific Islanders?

Question

My parents told me that in the Philippines, every says they're just Asian. But here, there's Pacific Islanders or just Filipino on its own.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Filipinos are Asians. The people who live on Tonga, Samoa are Pacific Islanders.

Answer 3

( This must be a university homework assignment....this is the second time it has been posted)
By definition Filipinos are "Asian" not "Pacific Islanders"
FIRST Asia is bordered on the east by the Pacific Ocean. The Philippines is bordered on the east by the Pacific Ocean....ergo part of Asia.
SECOND To be a Pacific Islander you must be from an island " IN " the Pacific Ocean ( actually it is even more specific....Pacific islanders are from Oceania ...a great distance from the Philippines) The Philippines is NOT in the Pacific Ocean.....ergo can not be a Pacific Islander country
THIRD The Philippine government acknowledges that the Philippines is an "Asian country".
FINALLY: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Islander
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia

Answer 4

It depends on what the question ask for. If regional to categorize races, then Asian is correct answer. If one of those in islands in Pacific ocean then islander is casual answer. But to be specific, Filipino is the right answer.

Answer 5

Asians. I just heard filipinos being called or categorized as pacific islanders only here on Yahoo answers. I found this surprising. That's better than the last one i heard on a different website. Filipinos were called the "mexicans of asia". That would be a more troubling title if it stuck.

Answer 6

Filipino.

Answer 7

I'm Filipino and I consider myself Asian. There are Filipinos that consider themselves Pacific Islanders because well, the Philippines is a bunch of islands located in the Pacific. Remember, though, that these are just labels that try to lump together rich and vast cultures together into one group.

Answer 8

I am a Filipino and I consider myself to be an Asian.....? I already answered a question like this before and almost all of the answers were from filipinos and they said that they consider themselves to be Asian..... Look at it this way is there a place actually called Pacific Islanders.....? Not on any globe I ever looked at..... Hope this answers your question....

Answer 9

its just been recently that i've heard about Filipinos being considered "pacific islanders". & i bet a bunch of the people i know(that would mean about 99% of them) would just like to be considered as asian.

Answer 10

Im half Filipino. anyway i consider my self Filipino side asian

Answer 11

Asian.

Think of it this way.

There are 7 continents in the world.

North America
South America
Africa
Europe
Asia
Antarctica
Australia

The Philippines is not anywhere else but Asia.

Ergo the Filipino people are Asian.