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Originally posted by leebug
Is this even true? Philippines was after all colonized by the Spaniards for 200 years. To say only 4% have Spanish blood is quite a stretch. I learned something from a Philippine history textbook years ago about a typical Filipino being a mix of different races including Spanish. Many Filipinos are confused with Mexicans, that should at least tell you something.
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It's true. The study was done in the Philippines by Stanford University with actual DNA testing. They found that only 3.6% of the population had Spanish blood. Yes, a typical Filipino is a mix of different blood (like most countries in the world), but Spanish blood isn't usually one of them. Just because a country was colonized doesn't mean they're heavily mixed with colonists. India and Hong Kong were colonized by the British, but British mixing is almost non-existent in those areas too. And many Filipinos are confused with Mexicans, but so are a lot Southeast Asians because they all have the Malay-Polynesian look. The natives of the Americas originally came from Asia, remember?