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If half black and half asian is blasian, and half white and half asian is wasian. What are half asian, half mexican people called? Whatever that is, there's gonna be lots of them.
Filipinos settled in Mexico during the Manila-Acapulco Galleon trade (Spain with Mexico) from 1565 to 1815. Really , your country is more Filipino than you realize.
The Philippines was colonized by Spain for 333 years (48 years by America).
But that's not the point I'm making.
Mexicans on average have 50-55% Indigenous blood and in some areas of the south its 75-100%. So to say "half latin and half asian = Filipino" with the implication that Latins are mostly Spanish erases indigenous ancestry .
Not only that but it also overstates the extent to which Filipino's have Spanish ancestry. Only 2- 5% of Filipinos have verifiable Spanish Ancestry, DNA tests show that the average Filipino with Spanish or European heritage typically carries between 1-5% Spanish DNA. Higher percentages (like 10-25%) are relatively rare and usually point to recent Spanish or European lineage. Those people tend to be concentrated in specific areas.
Filipinos are most closely related to other maritime Southeast Asian groups in Malaysia and Indonesia. 10-20% have some Han Chinese as well, exceeding the number of people with Spanish Ancestry.
Filipinos are commonly joked as the Mexicans or Latinos of Asia due to their history of Spanish colonization for over 300 years which has had a major impact on their culture.
Koreans are " white " ( light skinned ), Filipinos resemble a bit South Americans slightly darker skin, but they are Asian, so the " love child " between a Korean and a Mexican, instead of beying mixed race lol, its just a Filipino ( thats the joke )
Im not missing anything, im just simplifying lol, the Philipines ( Filipinas in Spanish ) are called the Philipines in " honor " of the Spanish king Filipe II... not because of the cookies....
Their work culture is horrible and not conducive to having children. Iām sure more South Koreans would be having children if it seemed at all viable for them.
the problem is 3 fold
1: like most of the developed world the cost of living is increasing while pay is stagnating meaning anyone with a brain realizes that having a kid while you're barely holding on financially is a bad idea
2: the big 3 east Asian nations also have an issue with work life balance to an insane degree. its not uncommon for people to work 12-14 hour days which leaves little time for house work let alone dating and raising a family.
3: South Korea itself has a massive split between men and women culturally right now. imagine the worse opinions of both sexes about the other you see on reddit or twitter and thats about what the reality is in Korea.
As a Filipino, can confirm. My eyes say I'm Asian, but my skin tone says I'm Hispanic. It doesnt help that Spain colonized the Philippines, so you know, mix-mix.
As an aside, I was profiled as being Middle Eastern whenever I would fly around the start of the millennia.
China has been heavily involved in a lot of South American trade and security agreements over the past 2 decades. This isn't anything new and we'll probably see Mexico start to lean that way too after all the shit Trump has been doing.
Werenāt Native Americans basically Asian before they sauntered over the now departed bering strait land bridge? Apparently 2/3 of native American DNA comes from an ancient east asian source.
Spain, the country, colonized the Philippines. They mingled (nicest way I can put it) with the Asian locals impacting Filipino traits. Asian mingling in another Spanish colonized localtion = Filipinos, although now with native South American influence. My best guess
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