Filipino Mestizos

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About Filipino Mestizos

This is a group for Filipino ( Filipina ) Mestizos ( Mestizas )

During the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines, the term "Mestizo" referred only to those of mixed indigenous Filipino with Spanish ancestry. The term soon became generic and synonymous for "mixed race".

The term has since been freely used to refer to all Filipinos of mixed ancestry, irrespective of racial combination or ratio, but typically including an ethnic Filipino base stock.

Types of Filipino mestizos

* Spanish mestizos, (in Filipino, Mestisong Kastila or Kastilaloy): a combination of native Filipino with Spanish and Mexican.

* Chinese-Spanish, (in Filipino, Mestisong Kastila-Intsik): a combination of Spanish and Chinese, or of Spanish, Chinese, and Filipino.

* Chinese mestizos, (in Filipino, Mestisong Intsik or Tsinoy): a combination of Filipino and Chinese.

* Japanese mestizos, (in Filipino, Mestisong Hapon): a combination of native Filipino with Japanese or Okinawan.

* American mestizos, (in Filipino, Mestisong Amerikano): a combination of Filipino and American (regardless of race). They are also known as Amerasians.

* Indian mestizos: called Bumbay (Filipino for Indian) or "Sepoy" (along with more recent unmixed South Asian immigrants), their ancestors arrived with the British between 1762 and 1764 during the various Anglo-Spanish wars. Though "Bumbay" would imply India, the term is generic and implies any other South Asian as well (Pakistani, Bangladeshi, etc).

* Other types of mestizos from unions of Filipino citizens with other nationalities may also exist, including those with Australians, Germans, Italians, Arabs, and Poles, among others.