If you are talking about Filipino’s being mixed in terms of we are all a mix of Spanish, the indigenous people here, Chinese, etc. no we aren’t. There are more than 100 different ethnic groups in the Philippines with their own history and cultures and only a very small percentage is of actual Spanish descent who are mainly found in the Tagalog and Cebu regions, and then we have our Filipino-Chinese who are either descendants of the already settled Chinese from before the Spaniards arrived or new families from families recently coming from Mainland China.
So we as a people aren’t mixed (in terms of Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, etc.) and we all are not the same. So if you hear the term Filipino’s (which isn’t what we should be calling ourselves anyway), you are talking about the diverse ethnicities in the country under one name. A Tagalog is different from a Kalinga. A Cebuano is different from a Kapampangan, etc. Before the Spaniards arrived we saw each other as different communities and kingdoms. It wasn’t until under the colonization of Spain that we were unified. We go by the name Filipino (colonial as it is and much to my and many others dislike), when referring to all of us as a whole, but individually we refer to each other based on our ethnic group.
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