Does he look Filipino?

@jaenelle

His Mongoloid (Chinese but also seem to be some Viet and other SE Asian) ancestry seems very dominant even though its less than 50%. Very interesting.

@jaenelle

I think its either because that his Chinese side is very dominant despite being up to 50% Mongoloid at most or that his 12% South Asian/Indian and 10% African, almost 4% Middle Eastern ancestry help hides the European features.

@nenabunena

I've known a few who looks like him and they are Mestizos.  The pure Filipinos that I've seen with light skin have similar nose shape and mouth shape as he does on the pic and that's why he could never pass up as a Criollo/Castizo but only as a Mestizo. However his eyes, eyebrows and hair (although wearing a cap) are familiar to me among the Mestizos that I've met.  

@prau123 Hmmmm.... Maybe that's the reason most Filipinos think they're mestizo, because they assume you have to look like 1 way and when you don't they think they're Spaniards now.  It probably doesn't help when people tell them, they must be mixed, they'll start to believe it.

That's why I believe my friend when she says she's just a pure regular unmixed Filipina.  She's in love with everything Spanish, she watches Spanish films without subtitles to learn Spanish, she tries to study the culture, she wants to marry a Spaniards, etc and have mestizo kids yet she's adamant she's full Filipina despite you guys probably thinking she's mestiza.

Btw, the guy is pango and has a bulbous nose, that's very Filipino.  That's a characteristic found in Filipinos that isn't very common even amongst Indonesians I think.

@nenabunena

Your friend could have had Spanish ancestry during the Manila-Acapulco Galleon Trade between 1565 to 1815. It was probably only one generation where a Spaniard and Filipina had several mestizo children.  Eventually the mestizo children become adults and instead of interbreeding with other mestizos, they've decided to only interbreed with pure Filipinos. The following generation would also interbreed with pure Filipinos only and this interbreeding with pure Filipinos would only dilute the mestizo component in their offspring genes. However the parents will also pass on the story to their children that they once had a Spanish ancestry but after a few generations later of passing down this story they began to question if they ever had Spanish ancestry since each successive generation only interbred with pure Filipinos and appeared predominantly Filipinos. Instead of continuing to pass on the story of their Spanish ancestry, they began to pass on the story that they were always pure Filipinos instead.  And as you can see after several generations later, the history becomes lost for the most part and several will always question who their great great great grand parents were believing that they were always pure Filipinos.  Without a Family Tree, photographs, written documents as record, several Filipinos have already forgotten their ancestors.   Several Filipino families could only trace their family ancestry to their great grand parents which is no further back than before the turn of the 20th century.  If your friend was pure Filipina then how come she appears Mestiza?