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  2. Genetic studies on Filipinos - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Filipinos - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Ethnic groups in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Traditional homelands of the Indigenous peoples of the Philippines Overview of the spread & overlap of languages spoken throughout the country as of March 2017. There are several opposing theories regarding the origins of ancient Filipinos, starting with the "Waves of Migration" hypothesis of H. Otley Beyer in 1948, which claimed that Filipinos were "Indonesians" and "Malays" who migrated to ...

  5. Filipinos of Malay descent - Wikipedia

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    Although the modern Philippines does not have a huge majority or minority of Ethnic Malays today, (Filipinos who identified as Ethnic Malay make up 0.2% of the total population), the descendants of Ethnic Malays have been assimilated into the wider related Austronesian Filipino culture, characterized by Chinese and Spanish influence, and Roman ...

  6. List of naturalized Filipino citizens - Wikipedia

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    Origin nation Naturalized Notes Andray Blatche: 1986 United States: 2014 (Republic Act No. 10636) American-born player who played for the Philippines men's national basketball team. Justin Brownlee: 1988 United States: 2023 (Republic Act No. 11937) American-born player who played for the Barangay Ginebra San Miguel of the Philippine Basketball ...

  7. Indigenous peoples of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Chapter II, Section 3h of the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997 defines "indigenous peoples" (IPs) and "indigenous cultural communities" (ICCs) as: . A group of people or homogenous societies identified by self-ascription and ascription by others, who have continuously lived as organized community on communally bounded and defined territory, and who have, under claims of ownership since ...

  8. Culture of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The culture of the Philippines is characterized by cultural and ethnic diversity. [1] Although the multiple ethnic groups of the Philippine archipelago have only recently established a shared Filipino national identity, [2] their cultures were all shaped by the geography and history of the region, [3] [4] and by centuries of interaction with neighboring cultures, and colonial powers.

  9. History of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    According to sources from Southern Liang, people from the kingdom of Langkasuka in present-day Thailand were wearing cotton clothes made in Luzon, Philippines as early as 516–520 CE. [61] The British Historian Robert Nicholl citing Arab chronicler Al Ya'akubi, had written that on the early years of the 800s, the kingdoms of Muja (then Pagan ...