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Subject: Chinese heritage in the Philippines Author: Conching [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 08/30/04 4:26am PDT In reply to: margarette si 's message, "i am more than half chinese, a quarter of filipina and spanish" on 07/15/04 7:11am PDT Actually, the statistics are wrong. Filipinos have more Chinese blood than stated. Particularly, because during Spanish times, Chinese were not allowed to own property so they had to marry "indigenas" and put it in their name. Also, because Chinese mestizos had to pay higher taxes, they simply registered themselves as "Indios". Jose Rizal's family did this in the time of his grandfather even though he was a 5th generation Chinese mestizo. I can attest to this many of my Malaysian friends tell me that they can tell the difference between Filipinos and Malay: they are a bit lighter and look more like Chinese compared to the malays.One German Anthropologists estimates that 10% of "Filipinos" have significant Chinese blood, although 1% identify as ethnic Chinese; it was probably more but discrimination against Chinese facilitated this fact. And so what if they say they are Spanish, even if it was only 1/8 or 1/64 you can't deny those "frailes Espanoles" had their way with the elegant native women. A lot of Filipinos have at least one Spanish ancestor. In fact more so after Independence than before with the import of these Jai-Alai players and fortune seekers. I agree were are not majority Spanish but mixing did occur. Anyway, you don't want to be a Spanish mestizo. The Spaniards really look down on these people (like in Mexico) like the Whites look down on the mulatto: one drop and you're black, one drop you're Indio. In fact in Spain a group of Ecuadorian and Mexican mestizo tourists were greeted with " fuera Indios" by some racist Madrilenos.But these people have been thinking of themselves as Hispanos when they were only thought of as half breed, pseudo-Spaniards. Better one or the other than mixed; ang trato sa kanila ay parang aso sa Espanya. Pero, sa Pilipinas baliktag, mahal na mahal ang mga mestiso, maska na ang uicang kastila. Ano ba naman yan. Pero dito sa Estados Unidos ang mga katulong ay mestisa na kastila (taga South America) at ang uicang kastila ay talagang looked down on. Sabi pa nga ng isang Filipina na mas maganda daw ang trato sa kanya nung nalaman ng boss niya na Filipina siya at hindi Latina. Salamat sa Diyos (o kay Bathala) na hindi tayo masyado nahaluan ng mga conquistadores. The "Orgullo Espanyol makes" the Spaniards really keen on their blood purity and their identity. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]