filipinos, asian or not? Options

[agirlnamed_aly]

I've always considered myself Pacific Islander, but it doesn't really matter because us Flips get our own category whenever I fill something out. :)

[PinoyOtaku]

I've always considered myself Pacific Islander, but it doesn't really matter because us Flips get our own category whenever I fill something out. :)

lol I noticed that in my HS Exit Exam and HS Proficiency Exam...

[freeflow]

even though i have alot of philipno or filipino friends they all always say that there are not asian but truthfully they are the philipines is near asia and is part of asia which makes them asian .. but to me pacific islander and asian its not a HUGE diffrent it maybe a big one but still

[belg]

in a way you can call Filipinos "pacific islander"... but yeeah.. PHILIPPINES is a HUGE part of asia... so filipinos=asians

[toodlepops.]

The Phillipines is part of Asia.
So why aren't they Asian?

[wayne]

isnt hte phillipines in asia? if not.. srry...


but if so... why wouldnt philipino's be azn?

[Kenado]

Filipino's are Filipino's and they ROCK THE SOX!!! (considering I am one)

[gOODpIRATE]

yah, i'm %50 filipino, and i do consider it asian. but, pacific islander dosn't exactly bother me.

[*iNyCxShoRT*]

hmm i always thought filps were asian as well o_O isn't the phillipines part of Asia?

[irock89]

when i was in my french class, my friend and i were talking about our ethnicity..then i said.. "oh yeah.. i'm asian!" and then this one girl responded "you're asian? i thought you were filipino...." THAT CRACKED ME UP of course, I LAUGHED and then said "FILIPINOS ARE ASIANS FOO!"... and yeah.. my other friend said that she wasn't asian, SHE WAS ARABIC..umm...o...k.. SAUDI ARABIA IS IN ASIA.. and besides.. I MEAN.. THEY ARE IN 10th grade already, IN AN INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATTE [sp?] CLASS.. I EXPECT THEM TO KNOW...

[rOckThISshYt]

I konw tis one girl, Jenna who is half Filipino. She says they're asian. So I'd assume she's correct.

[tylermonster]

Russia is part of Asia, are the Russians Asian?

Hawaii is part of America, Therefore Hawaiians are Americans, but still at the same time Pacific Islanders.

Filipinos are asians, due to geographical terms, but by culture, we are more paficic islander. Think back to the days of lapu lapu. he wore grass skirts, and g strings. no silk kungfu garments. my ancestors didn't wear rice hats. i dont use chopsticks. my eyes aren't slanty. my last name is fernandez not pang. i am an island boy.

[XoJennaoX]

Russia is part of Asia, are the Russians Asian?

Russia took over territory in Asia. Thats doesn't mean Russia is a part of Asia, it only means that part of Asia became part of Russia.


Well i am American, I'm not Mexican or Canadian, but I am certainly North American along with them. So why can't Filipinos be Pacific Islanders and also Asian? they go together logically.

[emazing]

I think they're Asian. (; Filipinos are awesome, too.

[*Statistik*]

ummm i think dey are asians because they HAVE SMALL PENISES~!@

[Saeglopur]

Russia is part of Asia, are the Russians Asian?

Hawaii is part of America, Therefore Hawaiians are Americans, but still at the same time Pacific Islanders.

Filipinos are asians, due to geographical terms, but by culture, we are more paficic islander.  Think back to the days of lapu lapu.  he wore  grass skirts, and g strings. no silk kungfu garments. my ancestors didn't wear rice hats. i dont use chopsticks. my eyes aren't slanty. my last name is fernandez not pang.  i am an island boy.

Dude, Fernandez is soo spanish. I hope you realize that. Anyway, I think ... if the spanish didn't come and take over the Philippines, the Philippines would be like most asian countries because a lot of asian people had inhabited the Philippines even before the Spanish came. These people came to the Philippines through ice bridges.

Also it doesn't really matter if he wore grass skirts or not - because we live in the same climate of those polynesia and micronesia and etc. thus we would wear the same clothing. But also, you can't label races/nationalities by what they wear.

[Ujio]

There were ice bridges that went to the Phillipines?

I believe Filipinos are Pacific Islanders. Only geography makes it seem like we're Asian.

[xquizit]

ummm i think dey are asians because they HAVE SMALL PENISES~!@

and you know this how?

[Spirited Away]

in a way you can call Filipinos "pacific islander"... but yeeah.. PHILIPPINES is a HUGE part of asia... so filipinos=asians

If the Phillippines is huge, what is big to you? Maybe you mean a huge part of SE Asia?

[*kryogenix*]

These people came to the Philippines through ice bridges.

You're kidding right?

It's possible that the sea level was lower, and there was a LAND bridge, but certainly no ice bridges at the equator.

Actually, there is a theory that the Philippines was settled by Malaysians a long time ago when they came over in canoes.

[Mileep]

Filipino is definitely Asian! If they're not asian, then they're not part of Asia.

[xlauren73x]

uhmm.. they are.. my best friend is filipino and although you can classify it as pacific islander it's still asian.. the philipines are in asia! it would be like saying someone was middle eastern.. they are still asian if the country they are from is in ASIA.

[Unpredictable]

Im Filipino..
We ( my family ) consider ourselves Pacific Islanders..
*shrug* its how i was raised..

[lakerfever2476]

Just because Filipinos don't have the small eyes doesn't mean that they aren't Asian. People often generalize that what makes you Asian are your eyes. That is not necessarily true. Look at Indians. India is part of Asia. They don't have the chinky eyes. Please realize that Asia is not just full of Japanese, Korean, and Chinese people. I am Filipino myself. To erase any confusion, I just consider myself as a Pacific Islander. Although, I do know that I am Asian because the Philippine Islands are in the continent Asia. Our ancestors were mostly from Malaysian descent. (again, not many Malaysians have chinky eyes although they are in fact, Asian.) We acquired our Spanish surnames when the Spaniards colonized the Philippines. We also got our primary religion, Catholicism, from the Spaniards. Before they colonized, we were mostly of Malay-Polynesian dialect. Think about it. Here's an example. In Tagalog, eye is mata. In Hawaiian, it is maka. In Tongan/Samoan, it is mata. But also, in Tagalog, shoe is sapato. In Spanish, shoe is also sapato.

[d00d00br0wn]

i too am filipino, and its disheartening to find people who do not know anything about your culture and automatically label you as something you are not. i've had friends who thought i was latino because of my spanish looking name. i have big eyes and pretty fair skin. when announcing that i was filipino (cause you know AzN pride and all...), i was met with, "what i thought you were Mexican! i still consider filipinos not as asians tho...more of a pseudo latino kind of people." They did put forth their ignorance however when i told them i generally consider myself asian.