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Filipnos are from ..where?
are filipinos pacific islanders? or asians? or both?
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The original inhabitants of the Phillipines were known as "Austronesian", a group of people who lived in Oceania and Southeast Asia. For several hundred years, the Phillipines was a colony of Spain, so many present-day Filipinos have some Spanish ancestry as well.
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Filipinos are from the Philippines.
In short, people say that they are Asians but specifically, Pacific Islanders. Like, for example, my friend is Asian but specifically she is Japanese. Asian is like an umbrella term and underneath you have like subcategories.
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Inhabitants of Russia's Kuril Islands, Alaska's Aleutian Islands, and the Taiwanese, Japanese, Filipino, and Indonesian islands, although technically bordering edges of the Pacific Ocean, do not fall under the definition of "Pacific Islanders" because such islands are not actually located within the Pacific or therefore any of the three regions of Oceania (Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia), and ethnicities native to the latter four among the aforementioned are thus classified as "Asians" on the U.S. Census.
Despite this, a growing number of Filipino-Americans have denied the classification of being "Asian", instead claiming to be "Pacific Islanders", which has provoked dismay among some Pacific Islanders who actually belong to the Oceanic cultures comprising the commonly accepted definition of the term, and has also prompted allegations of cultural denial from other Filipinos, the worldwide majority of whom identify themselves as being Asian (as the Filipino government has stated since its foundation that the Philippines is a part of Asia). However, it should be noted that both groups, as well as aboriginals from Taiwan, other countries of Maritime Southeast Asia (including Indonesia), and the Madagascar Malagasy are all closely related ethnically and can be grouped together under one umbrella term, the Austronesians.
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Mainly pacific islanders.
They are from the Phillipeans.
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