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Filipino people of Spanish ancestry

Filipino people of Spanish ancestry

Marian RiveraManuel Quezon Carlos Loyzaga

Paulino Alcantara

Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala

José María of Manila Isabel Ramírez

Trinidad Pardo de Tavera

Jaime Fabregas

Francisca del Espíritu Santo Fuentes

German Moreno

Total population

The total number of historical immigrants is unknown, but the National Statistics Office of Spain reported that Spanish nationals residing in thePhilippines numbered 3,110 as of January 1, 2012.

Popular Filipino surnames with Spanish ancestry: Infante, Malonda, Garchitorena, Jacob, Cuenca, Centenera, Imperial, Toral

Regions with significant populations

Metro Manila, Cebu City, Iloilo City, Naga City, Tigaon City, Iriga City

Languages

Mostly Filipino and English, some Spanish-speakers still exist

Religion

Roman Catholicism

Related ethnic groups

Spanish people, Filipinos, Filipino mestizos

Demographics ofthe Philippines

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Peoples

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•• Filipino•• Aeta•• Bicolano•• Gaddang•• Ivatan•• Ilocano•• Igorot•• Ibanag•• Pangasinan•• Kapampangan•• Sambal•• Tagalog•• Mangyan•• Palawan•• Visayan•• Ati•• Chavacano•• Lumad•• Moro•• Bajau•• Mestizo

•• Chinese•• Spanish

•• Africans•• Americans•• Arabs•• Europeans•• Indonesians•• Japanese•• Jews•• Koreans•• South Asians•• Spaniards

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Spanish Filipinos are Filipino people whose ancestral make-up is either fully or partially of Spanish ancestry. TheseFilipinos are mostly descendants of the migrants to the Philippines during the colonial period, mixed with otherFilipino ethnic groups such as Tagalog or Cebuano, among others.Today, the actual percentage of Filipinos with Spanish ancestry is unknown, as is that of all other types of mestizos(Asian, American, Hispanic, etc.) that reside inside and outside of the Philippines. This is because past governmentsand the modern National Statistics Office do not account for the racial background or ancestry of an individual.

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History

BackgroundAdmixture has been an ever present and pervading phenomenon in the Philippines as early as the arrival of theSpaniards on the late 16th century. The arrival of Spanish abruptly halted the spread of Islam further north into thePhilippines and intermarriage with Spanish people later became more prevalent after the Philippines was colonizedby the Spanish Empire.Wikipedia:Citation neededA Japanese, Indian, and Chinese presence had been recorded in the Philippines since the 9th century that mixedextensively with the local population.[2][3][4] During the Spanish colonial era, large-scale migrations of Chinese tothe Philippines resulted in even more intermixing.

Spanish colonization

A Filipina of Spanish ancestry, in the19th century.

The Spanish colonization in 1565, prompted the establishment of Spanish ruleover the Philippines that lasted for about 333 years. Spanish people camemainly from Mexico and Spain, and the Philippines was ruled as part of theViceroyalty of New Spain, with its capital in Mexico City until Mexico'sindependence in 1821, when the Philippines started to be governed directlyfrom Spain.

Early Spanish who were born in Spain (Peninsulares) and Mexican settlers(Criollos), the latter being mostly of either European or Mestizo heritageknown as Americanos (Americans), were mostly explorers, soldiers,government officials, and religious missionaries, among others. Many of themsettled in the islands and eventually married or inter-bred with the indigenouspopulation.

In some provinces in Luzon, Mindanao and the Visayas, the Spanishgovernment encouraged foreign merchants to trade with the indigenous

population, but they were not given certain privileges such as ownership of land. From this contact, socialintercourse between foreign merchants and Filipinos resulted in a new ethnic group. These group were calledFilipino mestizos (mixed-race individuals). Some of their descendants, emerged later as an influential part of thePhilippine society, such as the Principalía (Nobility).

Between 1565 and 1815, Hispanics from Mexico and Spain sailed to and from the Philippines as governmentofficials, soldiers, priests, settlers, traders, sailors and adventurers in the Manila-Acapulco Galleon, assisting Spain inits trade between Europe and Latin America (Spanish America) and Latin America and the Philippines.People of other ethnicities, such as Amerindians (Mexican Indians) and Africans, also settled in the Philippines afterserving as members of the crew on Spanish ships. Some of these individuals married Filipinos of different ethnicgroups and classes and integrated into Philippine society. This contributed to the assimilation of the Hispanics intoeveryday society and according to an 1818 census, about 1/3rd of the inhabitants of the island of Luzon were mixedwith varying degrees of Spanish ancestry and that the vast majority of military personnel have Latin-Americanorigins.[5]

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Racial integration

As opposed to the policies of other colonial powers such as the British or the Dutch, the Spanish colonies weredevoid of any anti-miscegenation laws. Moreover, the Catholic Church not only never banned interracial marriage,but it even encouraged it. The fluid nature of racial integration in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial periodwas recorded by many travelers and public figures at the time, who were favorably impressed by the lack of racialdiscrimination, as compared to the situation in other European colonies.Among them was Sir John Bowring, Governor General of British Hong Kong and a well-seasoned traveler who hadwritten several books about the different cultures in Asia, who described the situation as "admirable" during a visit tothe Philippines in the 1870s.

“"The lines separating entire classes and races, appeared to me less marked than in the Oriental colonies. I have seen on the same table,Spaniards, Mestizos (Chinos cristianos) and Indios, priests and military. There is no doubt that having one Religion forms great bonding. Andmore so to the eyes of one that has been observing the repulsion and differences due to race in many parts of Asia. And from one (like myself)who knows that race is the great divider of society, the admirable contrast and exception to racial discrimination so markedly presented by thepeople of the Philippines is indeed admirable."[6] ”

Another foreign witness was English engineer, Frederic H. Sawyer, who had spent most of his life in different partsof Asia and lived in Luzon for fourteen years. His impression was that as far as racial integration and harmony wasconcerned, the situation in the Philippines was not equaled by any other colonial power:

“"... Spaniards and natives lived together in great harmony, and do not know where I could find a colony in which Europeans mixes as muchsocially with the natives. Not in Java, where a native of position must dismount to salute the humblest Dutchman. Not in British India, wherethe Englishwoman has now made the gulf between British and native into a bottomless pit."[7] ”

Language and Culture

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Spanish people

Regional groups

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•• Andalusian•• Aragonese•• Asturian•• Balearic•• Basque•• Canarian•• Cantabrian•• Castilian

•• Leonese•• madrileños•• manchegos

•• Catalan•• Ceutan•• Extremaduran•• Galician•• Melillan•• Murcian•• Navarrese•• Valencian

Other groups

•• Mercheros• Romani (gitanos)•• Sephardic•• Migrants, expats and refugees

Diaspora

•• Argentina•• Belgium•• Brazil•• Chile•• Cuba•• France•• Germany•• Mexico•• Switzerland•• UK•• US•• Uruguay• Venezuela, etc.

Languages

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• Spanish (aka Castilian)•• Basque•• Catalan•• Galician•• Occitan

Other languages

•• Aragonese•• Asturian•• Fala•• Portuguese•• Iberian Romani

•• Caló•• Erromintxela

•• Quinqui•• Arabic•• Romanian•• English•• French•• Ladino (Judaeo-Spanish)• Rif Berber, etc.

Religion

•• Roman Catholicism•• Judaism•• Islam

Spain portal

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Main article: Spanish language in the PhilippinesMain article: Spanish influence on Filipino cultureMost common languages spoken today are Tagalog (with many words borrowed from Spanish), and English, whichis used in the public sphere. Many other Filipinos also speak other Philippine languages.Today, only a minority of Filipinos speak Spanish, only some mestizos from older generations, those with links withSpain, America or other Spanish-speaking areas and recent immigrants, have preserved Spanish as a living spokenlanguage, although many Spanish cultural traits still remain, most notably the adoption of Christianity among themajority of Filipinos. Thanks to Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, a Spanish-speaking filipina the Philippine governmenthas reinstated the instruction of Spanish at schools with a view to generalising its instruction nationally.In addition, Chavacano (a creole language based largely on Spanish vocabulary) is spoken in the southernPhilippines and forms one of the majority languages of Zamboanga Peninsula and Basilan.

Notable peopleIn the Philippines, there are some people who trace their roots back to the first Spanish settlers of the countrythrough their surnames. Due to the introduction of the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos in the mid-19th century, ithas become increasingly difficult to validate ancestral claims made by those who hold Spanish surnames. Today,some of those with precise ancestral ties can be found in politics, commerce, arts, entertainment industry andprofessional sports. Others have emigrated and later returned or settled down in another country.Among the most notable Filipinos with direct Spanish ancestry are:

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• Manuel Quezón, first President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines• José Ozámiz, Senator and Governor of Misamis Occidental• Francis E. Garchitorena, Former Sandiganbayan Presiding Judge• Pilita Corrales, singer and song-writer• Marian Rivera, actress and model• Paulino Alcántara, footballer and manager of Club de Futbol de Barcelona• Enrique K. Razon, head of International Container Terminal Services, Inc.• Jon Ramon Aboitiz, member of Aboitiz clan• Francis Arnaiz, former player of Toyota and Ginebra San Miguel basketball team, from 1975-1986• Eddie Garcia, film actor and director• Maggie dela Riva, movie actress

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