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Spanish Filipino or Hispanic Filipino (Spanish: Español Filipino, Hispano Filipino, Tagalog: Kastílâ Filipino, Cebuano: Katsílà Filipino) are an ethnic and a multilingualistic group of Spanish descent, Spanish-speaking and Spanish cultured [20] individuals and their descendance native to Spain, Mexico, the United States, Latin America and the Philippines.
The "Ilustrados", pictured here in 1890, formed the first significant community of Hispanic Filipinos in Spain.The first Filipino settlements in Spain goes back to the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines between the 16th and 19th century, although most migration from the Philippines to Spain during this period was to the territories of New Spain, where some 3,600 Asians, mostly ...
Filipinos (Filipino: Mga Pilipino) [50] are citizens or people identified with the country of the Philippines.The majority of Filipinos today are predominantly Catholic [51] and come from various Austronesian peoples, all typically speaking Tagalog, English, or other Philippine languages.
Some Filipinos believe that they are mixed Filipino-Spanish because of the country’s 300-plus-year colonial history with Spain that ended in the late 19th century.
The Spanish influence on Filipino culture originated from the Spanish East Indies, which was ruled from Mexico City and Madrid.A variety of aspects of the customs and traditions in the Philippines today can be traced back to Spanish and Novohispanic (Mexican) influence.
Various genetic studies on Filipinos have been performed, to analyze the population genetics of the various ethnic groups in the Philippines.. The results of a DNA study conducted by the National Geographic's "The Genographic Project", based on genetic testings of Filipino people by the National Geographic in 2008–2009, found that the Philippines is made up of around 53% Southeast Asia and ...
Filipinos first arrived in Mexico during the Spanish colonial period via the Manila-Acapulco Galleon.For two and a half centuries, between 1565 and 1815, many Filipinos and Mexicans sailed to and from Mexico and the Philippines as sailors, crews, slaves, prisoners, adventurers and soldiers in the Manila-Acapulco Galleon assisting Spain in its trade between Asia and the Americas. [4]
Almost all Filipinos had Spanish or Spanish-sounding surnames imposed on them for taxation purposes, but a number of them have indigenous Filipino surnames. On November 21, 1849, Governor General Narciso Clavería y Zaldúa issued a decree stating that Filipinos should adopt Spanish surnames to make census counting easier.