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Are there Mexicans living in the Philippines?
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Are there Mexicans living in the Philippines?
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Interestingly, there has been Mexican settlement in the Philippines for a couple of centuries!! I learned this because I learned of Filipino settlement in Mexico during Spanish colonial times, so I knew the same must have happened in reverse. Here’s some information on Mexican settlement in the Philippines.[1] The immigration of Mexicans to the Philippines dates back to the Spanish period. In the Philippines there are a Couple of Million Mexicans currently residing. The Mexican community has been established in those islands many years ago. Migration from Mexico has been important since the Spanish period and when the Philippines was trading with this country during the Viceroyalty of New Spain, Mexican mestizos mixed with the inhabitants of the islands, similar to the amount of Spain and the United States, numbering up many names of Spanish origin. I heard that there have been Filipino-Mexican descendants in Mexico, sometimes you can find Filipino last names such as “maganda” in Mexico. Here is a list of Mexicans of Filipino descent: Notable Mexicans of Filipino descent (from Wikipedia) [I removed the Vicente Guerrero when I saw his entry was deleted rom the Wikipedia page]Isidoro Montes de Oca – Mexican General and Lieutenant commander of Vicente GuerreroFrancisco Mongoy – Military commander of Vicente GuerreroAlejandro Gómez Maganda – Governor of Guerrero (1951–1954)Lili Rosales – Representative of Mexico in the Reina Hispanoamericana 2011 beauty contestFYI, here is an interesting book: Manila Men in the New World: Filipino Migration to Mexico and the Americas from the Sixteenth Century: The Filipino diaspora is at least four hundred years old. For two-and-a-half centuries, Filipinos by the hundreds traveled yearly to Mexico and the Americas, with many electing to stay and find a new life. The chief means for migration was the Manila galleon that sailed between the Philippines and Mexico to carry on a lively trade in Asian goods in exchange for silver from the Americas and the trappings of civilization from the West. The end of the galleon trade in 1815 did not stop the exodus of Filipinos to foreign lands as they began to discover the lure of other exotic ports in Asia and Europe. This book attempts to answer the question often asked: What happened to those Filipinos who started the diaspora? The answers are important because they fill a gap in the long history of this adventurous race. The Spanish colonizers, as a punishment, would move natives of the Americas to the Philippines and vice versa. The matriarchs of my family have mentioned that one of their ancestors was an american native who came off of a Spanish galleon. Because this happened so long ago, during times when there were no legal papers and birth certificates, our family only has oral history of this. See also Did Filipinos come to Mexico during Spanish colonization? Footnotes[1] Mexican settlement in the Philippines – Wikipedia
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Absolutely. Mexican men and Filipino Men (i state men however some women also share this) however often look very similar and by other ethnicities are commonly mistaken for each other. The languages are very similar (more so in areas like Zamboanga/Cavite), the names are similar, the gangster culture in the Philippines is modeled after the gangster culture of Mexicans in California a great deal. As Gary Santos mentioned, checkout the mexican Embassy in the Philippines if you are specifically looking to meet other Mexicans in the Philippines, otherwise you might pass one and not even know they are mexican…