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Why does it seem like Filipinos show much more interest in Spanish/Hispanic and American culture than in their precolonial culture and history?

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Bacano G
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Filipinos have a sense of belonging in the Hispanic world in which they used to belong. The problem with the filipinos is their chunk of East Asian blood. Filipinos can  assimilate in South America as long as they don't look too Chinese. 

 

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Rene B. Sarabia Jr
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The Hispanic world has mostly forgotten about the Philippines though.

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Bacano G
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@selurong 

It's mostly us in America who have contact with Filipinos but South America as a whole has very little knowledge of Filipinos outside of Duterte and Pacquiao. If you kept the Spanish language then you guys would have our interest. 

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Rene B. Sarabia Jr
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@jose 

Which is a shame since Latin America really influenced the Philippines. For example, we took the Sun in our Flag from the Inti Incan Sun God after we patterned that after the flags of Paraguay and Argentina. The First Philippine Republic's Constitution was also word for word copied from the Cuban Constitution.

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Bacano G
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@selurong let me see the Philippines constitution. Do you have the historical source that proves the Philippine sun was modeled from the Incan God.

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Rene B. Sarabia Jr
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Bacano G
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@selurong 

 

oh shit, you guys are like orphan that was forgotten. 

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donnie
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The entire website is dedicated to learning the history of South East Asia. So, I don't know what the Op is talking about.

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