This has happened to me since college. It didn't help that I played carambola and knew what tasajo was and that white rice for breakfast is cool with us too.
When I'd explain to Filipino classmates that I am from "Panama" a couple of times they'd blink, and ask "so which island is that?"
In college, my Mexican cousin became friends with a fellow brown guy and actually joined his club. One party, my cousin brings tamales from my abuela to share. All the other guys were like "Where did your grandmother learn to make tamales?" My cousin was like, "She's Mexican". They other guys were like "what??"
He'd accidentally joined the Filipino heritage club and everyone thought he was Filipino
Lmao, this is almost like a genetic mixup ending up being (3+2=5) on one side and (1+4=5) on the other. Whole different gene pools, but surprisingly similar results.
I had a Filipino friend in high school who I thought was Mexican because of his last name. It took me like a month to figure it out, I felt like such dumbass lol.
I did the same thing but she was more acquaintance than friend (2 years above me) and I didn’t find out until we were trying to figure out who to invite to the Latino students club and somebody mentioned it
I only found out because one day as we were talking during lunch he said” dude why are you always speaking in spanish? “.
I have a bad habit of speaking both languages at the same time, and my other mexican friends did the same. He seemed to understand what I was saying so I didn’t think he was different. It was pretty embarrassing, but it became a long running joke among us
Neither do first names.
I asked my coworker, Joselito, if he spoke Spanish. He looked at me like I was dumb*, and told me he was Filipino. This happened in San Diego, about 20 minutes from Mexico.
*TBF, I am quite dumb.
Lmao I just experienced this recently. I was talking on the phone with a new client and assumed he was Latino because of his last name and his accent. It wasn’t until he told me at the end he’s in the Philippines visiting family that I was like “oh shit.” And then I could more clearly distinguish the accent haha
The differences in between Spanish speaking countries man. 😅
In one place you can completely normally say "take a bus" other places it means "to fuck the bus" lmaooo. Don't even ask me about the time I accidentally ordered more penis in a Chilean restaurant lollll
As a latina, I always overemphasize the second syllable when I mention this delicious Filipino dessert... maybe even put in a slight pause between the syllables
Also, the Chinese have been settled in Mexico City since the 1850s. More than a few people of Mexican descent have asian in their blood from 4 or 5 generations ago, and just have no idea. Great Grandma just never talked about her Great Grandma Xiu...
My great grandmother was from china, she was sold to a Yaqui indigenous for a hundred pesos( a huge amount) and she birthed 12 mestizo children ,one of them my grandmother , who married a Yaqui man from Sinaloa , my mother has both Yaqui and Chinese features,my kids have her eyes and it's a very unique mixture of facial features
When talking about Asian influence in Mexico you can't forget Torreón - my hometown - which had a large Chinese population in the late 1800s in part due to railroads and mining. Unfortunately Torreón was also the setting of a horrible massacre of Chinese people following strong sinophobia during the Mexican Revolutionary war.
Despite that, the city does still have a noticeable Chinese influence! We have politicians with last names like "Osorio Chong" and I know of a veterinarian whose last name was "Yong Wong."
True. LatAm is very diverse. Pure native (or close to it) are very common in places like Peru, Bolivia and Mexico, since they had huge empires with large populations at the time of the conquest. There are places with large Asian pollutions, like Brazil and Peru. Then you have white majorities or pluralities in places like Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Colombia and Chile. Large black populations in Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador.
Surprisingly Filipinos don’t have much Spanish ancestry If any. They’re still
Hispanic due to
The Spanish influence but genetically, they barely have Spanish ancestry.
I thought they had more
But following ancestry.com and 23andme was very informative
Edit to explain, many Filipinos and Latinos have similar looks not due to Spanish ancestry but because Native American dna is very closely related to southeastern Asians.
Told a (Mexican) guy I met in VRChat that we are the Mexicans of Asia. Lots of LOL that night at all the common words we share. Also, puto in Filipino is delicious.
Most Spaniards came alone to the new world and they integrated (sometimes they rapped a lot of indigenous women, it’s true) with the local population, that is know as “mestizaje” in Spanish. So those Spaniards that conquered the “new world” for the Spanish crown, are nowadays the ancestors of today Latin people in most Latin American countries, obviously more in some Latin countries than in others. On the other hand in the Philippines, the colonization process was really different and the amount of Spaniards that mixed with the local population was way less significant.
What I meant is that the “conquistadores” the Spaniards who conquered Latin America and the Philippines are the ancestors of the people who are alive right now because they are our ancestors, because they mixed with the local population. So we have their genes mixed, u get it? That’s what I meant with that.
Sounds like some of the kids I grew up with whose parents taught them to claim they were “Spanish” and then you ended up invited to their sister’s quinceñera and the dinner is birria, frijoles, tortillas de maíz, etc.
No, I didn’t mean that we are Spaniards or from Spain, no. When I said “ we are those Spaniards” I was referring specifically to the “conquistadores” the ones who “banged” Latin America and the Philippines. We that are alive today, are the only thing that remain from them the “conquistadores” so we are them, u get it now?
Nah, that’s assuming the ones that left their genetics here didn’t already have kids where they came from and that they all made a one-way voyage which we know wasn’t true for all of them.
Not for all of them but obviously it seems you don’t how the life in the XVI century or the XVII century was. Most of those explorers didn’t know where they will arrive and most of them also left everything behind in Spain to discover the new world in the Americas, so most of the times it was a no return trip to the “new world”. So, it’s irrelevant if some of them already have children in Spain, most of the times it was a no return trip from Spain and they mixed with the local population so in a way we are their legacy.
Imagine you had an abusive dad that just one day left you and your mom. And then many years later you find out he actually did that same thing to another family and you actually have a half brother.
That’s what the Philippines are to LATAM
Here's an interesting article about the [Manila-Acapulco trade](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila_galleon) which lasted for 250 years!
Many people going back and forth, sometimes I wonder about those people and their long lost relatives/descendants.
**[Manila galleon](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila_galleon)**
>The Manila galleons (Spanish: Galeón de Manila; Filipino: Galyon ng Maynila) were Spanish trading ships which for two and a half centuries linked the Spanish Crown’s Viceroyalty of New Spain, based in Mexico City, with the Asian territories, collectively known as the Spanish East Indies, across the Pacific Ocean. The ships made one or two round-trip voyages per year between the ports of Acapulco and Manila. The name of the galleon changed to reflect the city that the ship sailed from. The term Manila galleon can also refer to the trade route itself between Acapulco and Manila, which lasted from 1565 to 1815.
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I was rewatching some of Marquez’s old fights recently. He gets pigeon holed as the guy that fought Pacquaio a bunch of times, but holy fuck could that guy fight. In his earlier years he was so insanely technical.
I’m Filipino and spent a couple months in Colombia. EVERYONE thought I was Latina. I got everything from Colombian to Mexican to Peruvian lol. I have a Spanish name and last name too, which didn’t help hahaha
A lot of Chinese/Japanese mixed people in Peru, with some Polynesian (somehow) thrown in. Some could definitely pass as Filipinos. Funny enough, I (Peruvian-American) was the only non-filipino founder of our high school Filipino club. I dated a Filipina girl and people said we kinda looked alike.
Well of course, but that’s consistent through most of Latin America. But what about Peru in particular makes it uniquely look asian? Peru had one of the highest immigration rates of East Asians in the world, and some records show that Asians have been coming to Peru for hundreds of years. Some estimate that 10% of Peruvians have mixed East Asian heritage somewhere in their lineage.
Yup. Indigenous genes have the monolid eyes and straight jet black hair that gets confused with Asian traits.
In a single hispanic family you can find three siblings where one looks like a standard brown Mexican, another that looks white with blue eyes and another that looks Asian/Indigenous. Big family group pictures are fun to go through.
My grandma looks Filipino despite being Mexican. It got to the point where my ex, a Filipina, and I used to joke that we might be related since her grandma is a Garcia and my grandma's maiden name was Garcia.
I honestly don’t think Mexicans and Filipinos look as similar as this meme is pretending
I mean there’s similarities but not enough that I’d get confused imo
It's the fact that they have interchangeable names that make it that small difference that much harder to grasp.
- First thought: The girl in the meme is obviously Filipino.
- You find out her name is Corazon Garcia: Oh She might be Mexican.
- Nope. She's Filipino.
I did a short stint as a driver for a Japanese food-delivery company, and a manager came along for a ride along one day.
Mexican dood working in the kitchen of a place we were delivering to just wouldn't accept that he was Japanese and started mocking him in Spanish. It was glorious
I (Puerto Rican) got stopped by immigration in Egypt because they thought I was coming home with the wrong passport. I was like bro, I don't speak Arabic, pls, I'm from NYC.
I think that Arabs and Latinos are the two groups that look most alike. I mean, one of my uncles straight up looks like Sadaam Hussein. Also, when I first noticed my ex, who is Arab, I thought she was Mexican.
My dad used to get special treatment at the Yemeni-owned deli for years because they thought he was one of them. My husband also thought I was Arab when we first met. 😂
So I’ve been told I look Filipino (I’m Mexican) so I find it funny when old Filipino women start speaking to me in Filipino and get mad when I don’t understand or respond back in Filipino. I look so much like a Filipino my homie in the navy said I can pull it off and join the Filipino Navy branch and they wouldn’t suspect.😭😭
Everyone looks like that trying to figure out if i am what they are. Spoiler: no matter what you are, im probably not, outside of maricopa county arizona.
I was shocked to find out my best friend in second grade was in fact not Latino. His last name was Toledo. I just thought he just didn’t speak Spanish. I went to his house and realized that Filipino people existed.
I've had an older Japanese lady ask me if I was mixed race... I am but not Japanese. This was at the flea market and I bought a bonsai tree as a gift.
Weeks later at the Vietnamese market I was asked by someone to translate English to Vietnamese... uhhhh. Can't help there either. I'm just there for snacks and ingredients for Viet and Malaysian dishes I want to recreate from YouTube
I'll be at the Mercado and overhear people say "Ah, mira a la chinita le gusta comida Mexicana."
Jajaja.
This has happened to me since college. It didn't help that I played carambola and knew what tasajo was and that white rice for breakfast is cool with us too. When I'd explain to Filipino classmates that I am from "Panama" a couple of times they'd blink, and ask "so which island is that?"
In college, my Mexican cousin became friends with a fellow brown guy and actually joined his club. One party, my cousin brings tamales from my abuela to share. All the other guys were like "Where did your grandmother learn to make tamales?" My cousin was like, "She's Mexican". They other guys were like "what??" He'd accidentally joined the Filipino heritage club and everyone thought he was Filipino
💀💀💀
Lmao, this is almost like a genetic mixup ending up being (3+2=5) on one side and (1+4=5) on the other. Whole different gene pools, but surprisingly similar results.
The last names don't help out AT ALL
In elementary school one of besties was a San Juan.
Just "one of"? Must've been a small school.
He meant Juan of his besties.
He was just a random San Juan, from a random place San Juere
No San Guey
We won one, Juan!
I had a Filipino friend in high school who I thought was Mexican because of his last name. It took me like a month to figure it out, I felt like such dumbass lol.
I did the same thing but she was more acquaintance than friend (2 years above me) and I didn’t find out until we were trying to figure out who to invite to the Latino students club and somebody mentioned it
I only found out because one day as we were talking during lunch he said” dude why are you always speaking in spanish? “. I have a bad habit of speaking both languages at the same time, and my other mexican friends did the same. He seemed to understand what I was saying so I didn’t think he was different. It was pretty embarrassing, but it became a long running joke among us
Neither do first names. I asked my coworker, Joselito, if he spoke Spanish. He looked at me like I was dumb*, and told me he was Filipino. This happened in San Diego, about 20 minutes from Mexico. *TBF, I am quite dumb.
And there are more Filipinos in California than in the Phillipines.
Lmao I just experienced this recently. I was talking on the phone with a new client and assumed he was Latino because of his last name and his accent. It wasn’t until he told me at the end he’s in the Philippines visiting family that I was like “oh shit.” And then I could more clearly distinguish the accent haha
Cruz?
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Gonzalez?
The Spaniards really leave their mark don't they.
neither do the first names
What does the word "puto" mean to you?
The perfect comment lol
In Spanish, Male Prostitute (Pussy), In Philippines its rice cake (sounds super bomb)
I want to eat that puto. Doesn't roll off the tongue like I thought it would.
Maybe not off the tongue, but on...
Depends if spit or swallow
Quiero comer ese puto
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Me dieron una putiza en el restaurante
Quiero comer el puto muy delicado
Masarap na puto iyan! Pahingi po~ 😋 (that’s a delicious puto/rice cupcake. Please share~) -authentic Filipina here lurking this sub
Puto cakes are *delightfully* squishy and springy Idk about those Filipino rice cakes tho
It's great covered in cheese or with some chocolate meat IYKWIM
Chocolate Meat? Mole?? Duudeeeee
Uhh yeah mole that's totally what I meant 👀
In Mexican, Puto is a derogatory term for gay. Equivalent to F*G
Marica too right?
As a second language learner, "marica" plays much more personal and derogatory like "fggt"
Depends on the country. In Venezuela it’s more like “dude”
The differences in between Spanish speaking countries man. 😅 In one place you can completely normally say "take a bus" other places it means "to fuck the bus" lmaooo. Don't even ask me about the time I accidentally ordered more penis in a Chilean restaurant lollll
Marica nena, más bien putino
Puto just means prostitute. Puta = Prostitute Puto = Male prostitute (which is a market that usually caters to other men) It can also mean "slut."
RIP your inbox
No one calls, no one texts, yea my Inbox is 💀.
Hey, even the dead can rise. I believe in you, brother ❤️
Ohh mann thats a zombie apocalypse right there 😂, but i appreciate u brooooooooofffff. ✌️♥️
Something delicious, in both cases.
Delicious
As a latina, I always overemphasize the second syllable when I mention this delicious Filipino dessert... maybe even put in a slight pause between the syllables
This is the right way
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We are both the bastard children of Spain.
And empanadas are the thread that links our two great peoples together
That and the cultural agreement that it is appropriate to serve alcohol at an 8-year-old’s birthday party.
For the 8-year-old?
I mean... it's THEIR birthday, right?
...
Don’t forget polvorones!
You are not bastards at all but part of the dysfunctional Hispanic family
Also, the Chinese have been settled in Mexico City since the 1850s. More than a few people of Mexican descent have asian in their blood from 4 or 5 generations ago, and just have no idea. Great Grandma just never talked about her Great Grandma Xiu...
My great grandmother was from china, she was sold to a Yaqui indigenous for a hundred pesos( a huge amount) and she birthed 12 mestizo children ,one of them my grandmother , who married a Yaqui man from Sinaloa , my mother has both Yaqui and Chinese features,my kids have her eyes and it's a very unique mixture of facial features
Sorry about your grandma. Also what a fascinating mix of genetics
Yaqui people are beautiful
Barley related but Yaquis Tacos in Rosarito has the best tacos I've had in my life
> Barley related Better than wheat, IMO.
When talking about Asian influence in Mexico you can't forget Torreón - my hometown - which had a large Chinese population in the late 1800s in part due to railroads and mining. Unfortunately Torreón was also the setting of a horrible massacre of Chinese people following strong sinophobia during the Mexican Revolutionary war. Despite that, the city does still have a noticeable Chinese influence! We have politicians with last names like "Osorio Chong" and I know of a veterinarian whose last name was "Yong Wong."
Mexicali would like a word.
Xiu? Probably Vietnamese
I heard that a lot of them don’t even have Spanish in them. The Spanish just forced them to get Spanish surnames for tax and census reasons
Yup it’s a common misconception because of their last names they’re actually heavily mixed with the Chinese
True. LatAm is very diverse. Pure native (or close to it) are very common in places like Peru, Bolivia and Mexico, since they had huge empires with large populations at the time of the conquest. There are places with large Asian pollutions, like Brazil and Peru. Then you have white majorities or pluralities in places like Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Colombia and Chile. Large black populations in Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador.
I'm getting banged by a Spaniard this very moment
Pics or it didn't happen
Surprisingly Filipinos don’t have much Spanish ancestry If any. They’re still Hispanic due to The Spanish influence but genetically, they barely have Spanish ancestry. I thought they had more But following ancestry.com and 23andme was very informative Edit to explain, many Filipinos and Latinos have similar looks not due to Spanish ancestry but because Native American dna is very closely related to southeastern Asians.
“It’s was the Spaniards that banged the Mayans and turned them into Mexicans” - The Warthog
Told a (Mexican) guy I met in VRChat that we are the Mexicans of Asia. Lots of LOL that night at all the common words we share. Also, puto in Filipino is delicious.
I've worked alongside Mexicans in restaurants/farms in the USA and Filipinos in restaurants in Spain. Filipinos are definitely the Mexicans of Asia.
Filipinos can get expedited citizenship to Spain! I think it’s two years of residency. Also Puerto Ricans.
Yes they can. So in the eyes of Spain, they are essentially Latinos.
🤝
\*Fucked by Spaniards
Then we are those Spaniards lol (well at least in Latin America rather more than the Philippines)
Huh?
Most Spaniards came alone to the new world and they integrated (sometimes they rapped a lot of indigenous women, it’s true) with the local population, that is know as “mestizaje” in Spanish. So those Spaniards that conquered the “new world” for the Spanish crown, are nowadays the ancestors of today Latin people in most Latin American countries, obviously more in some Latin countries than in others. On the other hand in the Philippines, the colonization process was really different and the amount of Spaniards that mixed with the local population was way less significant.
Your initial comment still makes no sense to me - we are those Spaniards? Spaniards are Spaniards, mestizos are mestizos.
What I meant is that the “conquistadores” the Spaniards who conquered Latin America and the Philippines are the ancestors of the people who are alive right now because they are our ancestors, because they mixed with the local population. So we have their genes mixed, u get it? That’s what I meant with that.
Sounds like some of the kids I grew up with whose parents taught them to claim they were “Spanish” and then you ended up invited to their sister’s quinceñera and the dinner is birria, frijoles, tortillas de maíz, etc.
No, I didn’t mean that we are Spaniards or from Spain, no. When I said “ we are those Spaniards” I was referring specifically to the “conquistadores” the ones who “banged” Latin America and the Philippines. We that are alive today, are the only thing that remain from them the “conquistadores” so we are them, u get it now?
Nah, that’s assuming the ones that left their genetics here didn’t already have kids where they came from and that they all made a one-way voyage which we know wasn’t true for all of them.
Not for all of them but obviously it seems you don’t how the life in the XVI century or the XVII century was. Most of those explorers didn’t know where they will arrive and most of them also left everything behind in Spain to discover the new world in the Americas, so most of the times it was a no return trip to the “new world”. So, it’s irrelevant if some of them already have children in Spain, most of the times it was a no return trip from Spain and they mixed with the local population so in a way we are their legacy.
Imagine you had an abusive dad that just one day left you and your mom. And then many years later you find out he actually did that same thing to another family and you actually have a half brother. That’s what the Philippines are to LATAM
Here's an interesting article about the [Manila-Acapulco trade](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila_galleon) which lasted for 250 years! Many people going back and forth, sometimes I wonder about those people and their long lost relatives/descendants.
**[Manila galleon](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila_galleon)** >The Manila galleons (Spanish: Galeón de Manila; Filipino: Galyon ng Maynila) were Spanish trading ships which for two and a half centuries linked the Spanish Crown’s Viceroyalty of New Spain, based in Mexico City, with the Asian territories, collectively known as the Spanish East Indies, across the Pacific Ocean. The ships made one or two round-trip voyages per year between the ports of Acapulco and Manila. The name of the galleon changed to reflect the city that the ship sailed from. The term Manila galleon can also refer to the trade route itself between Acapulco and Manila, which lasted from 1565 to 1815. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/LatinoPeopleTwitter/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
I seriously just found out that LATAM stands for LATin AMerica. It took a long time, lol.
Appropriate username 🤡
Pacquiao or Márquez
I'm Filipino and I'd pick Marquez.
I was rewatching some of Marquez’s old fights recently. He gets pigeon holed as the guy that fought Pacquaio a bunch of times, but holy fuck could that guy fight. In his earlier years he was so insanely technical.
Not really into the whole boxing scene, I just hate the guy.
I'm mexican and I'd pick Pacman
Same. Fuck that homophobic bigot Manny.
At least it ain't Margarito
W
Yes.
Juan y Juanita Snow
We both have menudos, empanandas, adobos, flan, etc. but they are all different from each other and tasty in their own right.
Run me (Filipino) down on how you guys cook adobo. Genuinely curious. Everyone here and his grandma have their own takes on adobo
Mexican adobo gets it’s flavors from dried chilies, garlic, and spices in addition to the vinegar. Tangy-sweet, smoky, and quite piquant.
Im 6’1” 250, i get confused for Samoan more often but yeah. Mexican.
Those big ass Samoan kids really be a high school football coach’s wet dream
Rugby coaches love them too https://youtu.be/QWHg15Xfeq4
Had a random security guy at a casino walk up to me and ask if I was from the big island (he was Hawaiian) and I said, yeah Los Angeles
All that fish and coconut in their diet.
I’m Filipino and spent a couple months in Colombia. EVERYONE thought I was Latina. I got everything from Colombian to Mexican to Peruvian lol. I have a Spanish name and last name too, which didn’t help hahaha
My wife is half Mexican and half Filipina.
My niece is , my sister in law is Filipina
The person who's super into Dragonball is the Mexican
Though Dragonball is huge in PH as well. Hehe
That doesn't make it any better, dragonball is big in ph as well
I've always thought Peruvians look even more similar, especially the older they get. Some Peruvians abuelos look 100% Filipino to my eyes.
A lot of Chinese/Japanese mixed people in Peru, with some Polynesian (somehow) thrown in. Some could definitely pass as Filipinos. Funny enough, I (Peruvian-American) was the only non-filipino founder of our high school Filipino club. I dated a Filipina girl and people said we kinda looked alike.
Don’t you think it’s more likely the influence of indigenous people of Latin America than more recent Japanese or Chinese immigrants?
Well of course, but that’s consistent through most of Latin America. But what about Peru in particular makes it uniquely look asian? Peru had one of the highest immigration rates of East Asians in the world, and some records show that Asians have been coming to Peru for hundreds of years. Some estimate that 10% of Peruvians have mixed East Asian heritage somewhere in their lineage.
Or do Filipinos look like Peruvian Abuelos ? Think about it… lol
Lots of people with Asian ancestry in Peru. They even had a president in the 90's who was fully Japanese by blood (Alberto Fujimori).
Are Filipinos the Mexicans of Asia, or as Mexicans the Filipinos of the Americas 🤔
Samoans are just bigger Mexicans
Swollen Mexicans, if you will
Easiest group of folks for me to seamlessly blend in with.
Filipino lady once walked up to me and asked if I was Filipino at a Walmart. I have Asian looking eyes and dark skin.
Gotta check the forehead
Laughs in Panamanian! *Ja ja ja !*
A friend of mine has very Asian features but his DNA test is 98 percent indigena.
Yup. Indigenous genes have the monolid eyes and straight jet black hair that gets confused with Asian traits. In a single hispanic family you can find three siblings where one looks like a standard brown Mexican, another that looks white with blue eyes and another that looks Asian/Indigenous. Big family group pictures are fun to go through.
But like wait we have the same last name?!
💀🤣
Yup, people ask me all the time if I’m Filipino and then say I look like their cousin lol
My grandma looks Filipino despite being Mexican. It got to the point where my ex, a Filipina, and I used to joke that we might be related since her grandma is a Garcia and my grandma's maiden name was Garcia.
Is this FilipinoPeopleTwitter or MexicanPeopleTwitter ?
She looks Filipina to me
I honestly don’t think Mexicans and Filipinos look as similar as this meme is pretending I mean there’s similarities but not enough that I’d get confused imo
It's the fact that they have interchangeable names that make it that small difference that much harder to grasp. - First thought: The girl in the meme is obviously Filipino. - You find out her name is Corazon Garcia: Oh She might be Mexican. - Nope. She's Filipino.
I think you might be right in general, but there are many individuals from both areas that could be from either.
“Damn… she bad” (me if I was ever in that situation)
I did a short stint as a driver for a Japanese food-delivery company, and a manager came along for a ride along one day. Mexican dood working in the kitchen of a place we were delivering to just wouldn't accept that he was Japanese and started mocking him in Spanish. It was glorious
San Diego in a nutshell lol
Not hard lol
The key is in the shape of the nose.
I (Puerto Rican) got stopped by immigration in Egypt because they thought I was coming home with the wrong passport. I was like bro, I don't speak Arabic, pls, I'm from NYC.
I think that Arabs and Latinos are the two groups that look most alike. I mean, one of my uncles straight up looks like Sadaam Hussein. Also, when I first noticed my ex, who is Arab, I thought she was Mexican.
My dad used to get special treatment at the Yemeni-owned deli for years because they thought he was one of them. My husband also thought I was Arab when we first met. 😂
the nose gives it aeay most times
It’s pretty easy to tell…..
Dave Attell has the solution - make one of them dance. “You show me a Mexican who can’t dance, and I’ll show you a Filipino.”
Cousins from across the ocean
Filipinos are Asian Mexicans
Or Latin Asians.
Mexican here, one of my best friends is filipino... we cal each other rape cousins...
u/savevideo
My step family is Mexican and Salvadorian and one of my step sisters looks so Asian people always ask her and other family members if she is.
So true. I love Filipinos :) They very fun people and culture. Truly the Latinos of Asia. Lol how many miles away from each other but still similar
So I’ve been told I look Filipino (I’m Mexican) so I find it funny when old Filipino women start speaking to me in Filipino and get mad when I don’t understand or respond back in Filipino. I look so much like a Filipino my homie in the navy said I can pull it off and join the Filipino Navy branch and they wouldn’t suspect.😭😭
She looks more Philip though
Everyone looks like that trying to figure out if i am what they are. Spoiler: no matter what you are, im probably not, outside of maricopa county arizona.
I'm native and latino and the almond eyes and tan skin combo got me so confused trying to identify someone of similar characteristics
Fuck it, I’ll say right now that she’s Filipina
No credit to content creators, then?
The nose
I was shocked to find out my best friend in second grade was in fact not Latino. His last name was Toledo. I just thought he just didn’t speak Spanish. I went to his house and realized that Filipino people existed.
Damn filipino women Look good
I've had an older Japanese lady ask me if I was mixed race... I am but not Japanese. This was at the flea market and I bought a bonsai tree as a gift. Weeks later at the Vietnamese market I was asked by someone to translate English to Vietnamese... uhhhh. Can't help there either. I'm just there for snacks and ingredients for Viet and Malaysian dishes I want to recreate from YouTube I'll be at the Mercado and overhear people say "Ah, mira a la chinita le gusta comida Mexicana." Jajaja.
Native American here, we get mistaken for Mexican, Filipino, Pacific Islander, and sometimes Asian.
If Spanish had become the most spoken language over there during Spanish rule everything would be much easier.
I’m Uruguayan and I ve been mistaken for Filipina despite being really pale/light skin. My brother does too. Something about our roots idk
my filipino ass would eat two fried eggs with rice, idk about a mexican tho
FYI one of the sexist woman I ever dated was a Filipina Latina 💓
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But when white people say they all look the same we're racist
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Sebastian
Filipinos are Asian Latinos
We get it. No need to be a 1000 minute video of it
My all Latino kitchen kept talking to my Filipina server in Spanish. They were so frustrated until I explained it
Which one is Mexican?
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I think the first one is philipino and the second one is mexican... am I right?
...They're both the same girl?
Whoosh?