Why do many Filipinos claim to be Spanish?

[jsctan]

Some are pah ceng. Not exactly spanish.

 

[True Believer]

Some are pah ceng. Not exactly spanish.

The Spanish colonial govt assigned Spanish surnames to all Filipinos for taxation and admin purposes. Therefore, a family name like Fernandez or Martinez indicates historical imposition rather than any Spanish heritage. Filipinos ended up with Spanish surnames, assigned by the colonial administrators. In fact, only around 3% of Filipinos have a European ancestor.

 

[jsctan]

The Spanish colonial govt assigned Spanish surnames to all Filipinos for taxation and admin purposes. Therefore, a family name like Fernandez or Martinez indicates historical imposition rather than any Spanish heritage. Filipinos ended up with Spanish surnames, assigned by the colonial administrators. In fact, only around 3% of Filipinos have a European ancestor.

Some of their tagalog has malay words. Basically they and the aborigines are like all the neighbouring countries
Austronesian, orang asli.

 

[True Believer]

Some of their tagalog has malay words. Basically they and the aborigines are like all the neighbouring countries Austronesian, orang asli.

You hit the nail on its head! That is why I am flabbergasted whenever my Filipino colleagues claim that they have Spanish blood because they have a surname like Garcia, Campos, Montez, Serrano etc. Even the Eurasians in S'pore and Melaka claim to be "Portuguese" or "Dutch" because they had an European great great grandfather during the Colonial days in the Straits Settlements.

 

[jsctan]

You hit the nail on its head! That is why I am flabbergasted whenever my Filipino colleagues claim that they have Spanish blood because they have a surname like Garcia, Campos, Montez, Serrano etc. Even the Eurasians in S'pore and Melaka claim to be "Portuguese" or "Dutch" because they had an European great great grandfather during the Colonial days in the Straits Settlements.

Just ignore them bah... they really think highly of themselves and dont know their place here with sinkies.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Many Indians claim to be Eurasians or Anglo-Indians because of an intermarriage between a British, Portuguese or Dutch colonist and an Indian ancestor during European colonialism. In spite of looking 100% Indian, the present day descendants have a distinct cultural tradition and heavily Indian-accented English as their mother tongue. I heard that many such families hang the Union Jack at their home and even support the England cricket and football national teams when they play against India. In fact, some "Anglo-Indians" even yearn for the British to return to India to re-colonise the country! Absolutely shocking!

But the UK Royal Family is Indian..




Except Charles

 

[Timerty]

You go lawyer pay 50 dollar can change to any name you want, even call yourself Ho Ching also can

 

[A Singaporean]

I have come across many S'porean and Malaysian Chinese girls who adopt Japanese names like Sakura, Miko, Yoko, Himari etc.

Yes. One CAQ calls himself Yumiko. A Jepunese girl's name.

 

[True Believer]

Under President Suharto, assimilation was encouraged so Chinese families adopted Indonesian-sounding surnames by merging their original Hokkien, Teochew or Hakka family names with multi-syllabic titles. Some view their Indonesian surnames as a proud symbol of their heritage, while others believe these names hide their ethnic roots. However, unlike the Filipinos, Indonesian Chinese do not claim to have exotic or royal blood because of their exotic surnames!

 

[True Believer]

Ironically, Shay Mitchell claimed to be part Irish and part Spanish many years after this interview:

 

[True Believer]

 

[True Believer]

During the Spanish Colonial era in the Philippines, the colonists did not actively procreate with local women, since only 3% of present day Filipinos have a Spanish ancestor. Yet there seems to be self-loathing among Filipinos for their Asian heritage, which is why they pretend to be "Spanish".

 

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[True Believer]

There are many Eurasians in S'pore and Malaysia who continue to claim to be "Portuguese" or "Dutch" even though they look Malay.