Are Filipinos Asians or pacific islanders?

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Lushbabe4ever

We are Asians, darling. (--,)

chocwookie

They're Asians, or also, Austronesians.

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Inhabitants of the Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese, Filipino, and Indonesian islands, although technically bordering the Pacific Ocean, do not fall under the definition of "Pacific Islanders" because such islands are not located in any of the three regions of Oceania (Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia), and are therefore classified as "Asians" on the U.S. Census. Despite this, a growing number of Filipino-Americans have denied the classification of being "Asian", instead claiming to be "Pacific Islanders", which has provoked dismay among some Pacific Islanders who actually belong to the Oceanic cultures comprising the commonly accepted definition of the term, and has also prompted allegations of cultural denial from other Filipinos, the worldwide majority of whom identify themselves as being Asian (as the Filipino government has stated since its foundation that the Philippines is a part of Asia). However, it should be noted that both groups, as well as aboriginals from Taiwan, other countries of Maritime Southeast Asia (including Indonesia), and the Madagascar Malagasy are all closely related ethnically and can be grouped together under one umbrella term, the Austronesians.

not_ez_2bme

SINCE THE PHILIPPINES IS IN ASIA...THEN THEY ARE ASIAN....ALSO..THE PHILIPPINES IS AN ISLAND OR A PENINSULA SITUATED IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN....THEREBY....THEY ARE CALLED PACIFIC ISLANDER, PACIFIC OCEAN IS IN THE CONTINENT OF ASIA, ....USA IS IN THE CONTINENT NORTH AMERICA...THAT WHY THEY ARE CALLED AMERICAN,

psychenellie

actually, the philippines is located in the SE Asia...so ...ASIANS.

Lilkryptonite

Filipinos born in the Phillipines are asians.

Filipinos,Guamanian, Chinese, Japanese,(any asian country in the far east) born in Hawaii are Pacific Islanders.

The phrase Pacific Islander is the term the U.S. Govt. adopted
for any "American Citizen" that has any asian descent. Another way of saying your from Hawaii since Hawaii has many asian people living there that moved to different states in the U.S.

tin2

Filipinos are Asians because our country is in the continent of Asia. Pacific Islanders are the inhabitants of the many, many islands (e.g., New Guinea, Fiji, Cook Islands, etc.) that dot the Pacific Ocean.

â™¥Sakura

We are ASIANS.... =)

NONAME

asians

Leander

Pacific Islanders is theterm. most popular term. For some reason, they consider people from Japan, China, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, and Vietnam to be true Asians rather than Filipinos. The term Pacific Islander seems to say something about the geographical location. I guess that they believe that we are more of a Hispanic race rather than "true Asians" even if a lot of Filipinos have blood relations from different races especially with the Chinese and Japanese. Filipinos are Asians but I guess that they usually use Pacific Islanders whenever you have to fill out an official survey form. Beats me what it means.

Sirrah is correct: Filipino's are Asian not Pacific Islanders.
Even though the Philippines is located in the Pacific Ocean its people are not deemed to be Pacific Islanders.

The Pacific Ocean contains an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 islands; the exact number has not been precisely determined. These islands are also sometimes collectively called Oceania (although Oceania usually also includes Australia and New Zealand), and are traditionally grouped into three: Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Inhabitants are sometimes referred to as Pacific Islanders.

Melanesia means black islands. These include New Guinea (the largest Pacific island, which is divided into the nation of Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Irian Jaya), New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, and the Solomon Islands

Micronesia means small islands. These include the Marianas, Guam, Wake Island, Palau, the Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, and the Federated States of Micronesia.

Polynesia means many islands. These include New Zealand, the Hawaiian Islands, Rotuma, the Midway Islands, Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, the Cook Islands, French Polynesia, and Easter Island.

There are also many other islands located within the boundaries of the Pacific Ocean, but these are not considered part of Oceania. These islands include the GalÃ¡pagos Islands of Ecuador; the Aleutian Islands in Alaska; the Russian islands of Sakhalin and Kuril Islands; Taiwan; the Philippines; the South China Sea Islands; most of the islands of Indonesia; and the island nation of Japan, which includes the Ryukyu Islands. However, it should be noted that the inhabitants of these islands are not considered to be Pacific Islanders and are usually identified with their nearest continent.

The Philippines is in Southeast Asia.

Geographically, Filipinos are Asians.
Culturally, Filipinos are Hispanics.

girl bastos

of course ASIANS

or southeast asian.......to be clearer

trojan_glory

first of all who ever ask this question is need to go to school again,PHILIPPINES is a country and locate in southeast asia,those islanders are like fiji,samoa,guam,papua new guinea,eetc etc!

Cristinasarus

"Asian. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, the Philippine Islands, India, Malaysia, Japan, Cambodia, China, Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam."[6]

FILAMUSA

Both.

We live in Asia & live on Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Jerick B

well, if you're speaking to an aeta (aboriginal filipinos),then you are a pacific islander. but if you're speaking to the majority (malays, chinese-filipinos, and even those mixed white-filipinos), they're asians. like me, i'm a filipino with both spanish and chinese origins. i'm an asian and am proud to be one.

Subic

The Ayeta would best be describes as Pacific Islanders, since they did not mix with the influx of settlers from the Asian mainland and other islands - therefore retaining their own bloodlines.
Other Filipinos are Asian, as they are descended from Malay,Chinese etc settlers.

Geographically, I suppose you could say they are either. But biologically, Asian.

mizzhy

filipinos are asians.. it's just that the country is in south east asia and the ocean that sorrounds the philippines is the pacific ocean,,

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asiannnnsss.. most definitely

chief8

Asian. No doubt whatsoever. No need for you to do any more research; that's been done. We are Asian.

art_wur

Filipinos are asians because of its mixed races from the native we known in gradeschool as Ita's or the negritos, by invasion or expansions of kingdoms from the nearby teritories, the Indons people can and sort of pushed away the Ita's on the scene and to their local teritories. Later on with changes and some fights along with the continouos trade the Malay's came and soon pushed back the Indon's.

This all happen before the Americans, Japanese, Spaniards, Chinese came to us. I dont think there are pacific Islanders mentioned in the History. Generally, Filipino's are mixed asian races and as more colony occupied Philippines it turns out to be another Fil-Hispanic-American Race or something like that.

By that time there is no such thing as Pacific Islanders nor Pacific Ocean. I believe they called us as the Oriental or Eastern. Pacific was only used YEARS AFTER the expeditions of magellan wherein he ruled out that the world is round.

carinyosa99

Most of my Filipino friends say they are Asian.

purple tactics

Filipinos are really eskimos who moved down to the equator line because Helly Hansen jackets were just too damn expensive!

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