I belong to a community of Asians called Rice Bowl Journals. There are Koreans, Japanese, Chinese, Malaysians, Indonesians, etc and they think nothing about Filipinos not being Asian. We're all in the same region of the world, though we all have our differences in culture and heritage. We share a common staple… rice.

Yes, Filipinos like any other ethnicity, are UNIQUE. No denying that.

But it's important to note that Filipinos SHOULD accept their place in the region of Southeast Asia. All I have to say is, your negative comments regarding Filipinos being Asian simply proves your bias.

And for Filipinos to be denying their own government's website that acknowledges that the Philippines is in fact a part of Southeast Asia… I really don't know what to say to that.

Now the Philippines being recognized as a Latin Country? That's denying our heritage and influences that the Chinese and other neighboring countries have had on us. Filipinos, like the Chinese, Malaysians and Indonesians, were all maritime traders. How could the Philippines be so isolated and not come into contact and not be influenced by other Asian countries? China, Taiwan and Malaysia are, in fact, only a few hundred miles away. The Latin American countries, Mexico and Spain are thousands of miles away.

I belong to a community of Asians called Rice Bowl Journals. There are Koreans, Japanese, Chinese, Malaysians, Indonesians, etc and they think nothing about Filipinos not being Asian. We're all in the same region of the world, though we all have our differences in culture and heritage. We share a common staple… rice.

Yes, Filipinos like any other ethnicity, are UNIQUE. No denying that.

But it's important to note that Filipinos SHOULD accept their place in the region of Southeast Asia. All I have to say is, your negative comments regarding Filipinos being Asian simply proves your bias.

And for Filipinos to be denying their own government's website that acknowledges that the Philippines is in fact a part of Southeast Asia… I really don't know what to say to that.

Now the Philippines being recognized as a Latin Country? That's denying our heritage and influences that the Chinese and other neighboring countries have had on us. Filipinos, like the Chinese, Malaysians and Indonesians, were all maritime traders. How could the Philippines be so isolated and not come into contact and not be influenced by other Asian countries? China, Taiwan and Malaysia are, in fact, only a few hundred miles away. The Latin American countries, Mexico and Spain are thousands of miles away.

THE PHILIPPINES DON'T NEED THE IDENTITY OF ASIANS. We are Filipino and we are unique.

so do not impose arguments to support that Filipinos are asians! We don't need the hell asian identity!

In high schools across the US, there are student organizations for every ethnicity present at each school. In mine, Filipinos could be found in BOTH the Pacific Islander Union and the Asian Student Union.

At that time I found this to be disconcerting, who are we? What was even worse was that I began to realize that I wasn't even TRULY Filipino, since I wasn't born in the Philippines and I didn't speak the national language of Filipino (Tagalog) or the dialect of my parents (Bisaya).

Today, im still at odds about this, but it helps to hear different opinions such as those here in the forum you've created, albeit a fiery one!

50 years from now, your children, my children, and the children of these trolls will be debating whether a Chinese Muslim or a Filipino atheist should be president of the newly created United States of Eurasia.

That's a debate I really look forward too!

The Spanish example seems to be repeated time and time again, as if no other Asian nation…or specifically SE ASIAN nation has never been colonized. Let's look at one example: Vietnam was colonized by the French, their alphabet was changed to a Latin-based alphabet system, their foods influenced by the French in Vietnamese cuisine, there's also mixed Vietnamese, as well as Catholic Vietnamese. Are we going to now stress and question if Vietnamese are no longer “Asian”? just like all these Fil-Ams are trying very hard to see the differences, yet fail to see any other kind of history with other Asian nations?

Countries like Singapore, also have English has one of their main languages, should Singapore now be considered as not “ASIAN”?

If I received a dollar for every time a Fil-Am brings up the similarities between them and their “Mexican” friends, I would be a millionaire.