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How would you classify these "white" Filipinos?

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Rene B. Sarabia Jr
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What general phenotypes do they have, and where would they pass as a group? (Both parents in each family are Filipino)













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Rene B. Sarabia Jr
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There are a lot more Spanish who are mixed with Filipinos, and they look noticeably different:





























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. They're from famous families: Ayala, Aboitiz, Preysler, and Elizalde, and some lesser-known families like Gonzalez, Cabarrus, and Cardenas. They're the small minority that remained white by marrying other Spanish-Filipinos or other Europeans that came to the Philippines. In the 1800s, British, French, Swiss, and German businessmen and even whole families moved the Philippines and mostly married the Spanish. Spanish-Filipinos also married Americans when the Philippines was a US territory, but I dont think any of the families in the first post have married Americans. They're mostly just Spanish descent.

This is Paola Zobel's family. They still live in the Philippines.


Isabel Preysler looks mixed with native Filipino, but her sister Victoria looks completely white



She still lives in the Philippines. I've actually seen her and thought she was a foreign tourist

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they look like Americans because they're mixed with different types of European, as most Americans are. As I mentioned in a previous post, during the 1800s, various Europeans came to the Philippines for business opportunities and most ended up marrying into Spanish-Filipino families. So these people aren't just straight Spanish.

The Zobel de Ayala family has an ancestor who left Germany and brought his whole family to the Philippines in the early 1800s. They assimilated into Spanish-Filipino society. Here are their descendants- one of the wealthiest families in the Philippines. They use the surnames Zobel (German) and Ayala (Spanish) but most people think they're just Spanish.

The Abotiz family also has some non-Spanish ancestors. One of their ancestors was a British woman whose father had a firm in the Philippines. Also, the lady in the middle (not Aboitiz, but married in) has the maiden name "Cabarrus" which is actually French. Her ancestor was a French man who moved to Spain and then to the Philippines


The Lhuillier family had an ancestor from France who moved to the Philippines. Now the family is all intermarried with Spanish-Filipinos



Same with Hagedorn family, except their ancestors came from Germany

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A family of Spanish & Dutch-descent who have been living in the Philippines for several generations. They still live there to this day





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