Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Philippines if FILIPINO
Anyone whose family historically is from the Philippines or lives in the Philippines is Filipino be it they negritos, full malays, Euro/Arab-Malay mestizos, Chinese Filipinos, and etc. The name Filipino was actually given to the full-blooded white Spanish criollos or colonists living in the Philippines not to the east indies malays. The malays were called either “Indios” by the Spanish Friars or “Manilamen” (for the Malay men that served as sailors on Spanish Galleon ships, mercenaries in China's wars and Mexico’s early independence, or in Louisiana in the 19th century in the America’s War of 1812 and Civil War as American soldiers and sailors). It was during the Philippine Revolution that the Philippine’s KKK group took the name “Filipino” to ecompass all the Filipinos fighting for independence. Philippines is a diverse country like their neighborsDemographics of the Philippines
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Who are the Malays?
Sorry lads, I just cannot resist myself from poking me nose into this subject. I cannot claim to be an expert but for the sake of everyone here I might as well write something that I know.
Malays are the generic name for peoples who live in South East Asia with the exception of the Thais and the Burmese. The European since Middle Ages has always fascinated by the East. Since the time when the Ottoman Empire choked the land passage (The Levant) the European have been pondering for the alternate passage to the East. Columbus took the forbidden route to the West but failed to find East. The Portuguese celebrated when Vasco De Gama circumnavigated the Cape of Good Hope and reached India.
The ancient route to the ‘Malay Archipelago’
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