It's nice to be a Filipino

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Filipinos (Filipino: Mga Pilipino) are the people who are native to or citizens of the country of the Philippines. Filipinos come from various Austronesian ethnolinguistic groups. Currently, there are more than 175 ethnolinguistic groups, each with its own language, identity, culture and history. The modern Filipino identity, with its Austronesian roots, was mainly influenced by China, the United States and Spain.

 

The name Filipino was derived from the term las Islas Filipinas ("the Philippine Islands"), the name given to the archipelago in 1543 by the Spanish explorer and Dominican priest Ruy López de Villalobos, in honour of Philip II of Spain (Spanish: Felipe II).

During the Spanish colonial period the term Filipino was used as the name to the indio natives of the Philippine archipelago, especially when it was necessary to distinguish the indios of the Philippines from the indios of the Spanish colonies in the New World. Hence the usage of the word Filipino to refer to the natives in many Spanish-era works and writings, such as in the Relación de las Islas Filipinas (1604) of Pedro Chirino, in which he wrote chapters entitled "Of the civilities, terms of courtesy, and good breeding among the Filipinos" (Chapter XVI), "Of the Letters of the Filipinos" (Chapter XVII), "Concerning the false heathen religion, idolatries, and superstitions of the Filipinos" (Chapter XXI), "Of marriages, dowries, and divorces among the Filipinos" (Chapter XXX), while also using the term "Filipino" to refer unequivocally to the non-Spaniard natives of the archipelago like in the following sentence:

 

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[aldrin75 0]

 @farhanmpro613  im a Filipino . thank you for good impression to us.  we are very hospitable person. that is why we always take good care our guest , we friendly too. we love to entertain stranger people.   from now on i will consider you as my friend . keep in touch 🙂

 

[Mi2 5]

People all over the world have all their good traits, but if you have visited the philippines, you will feel the close family ties that even you are a stranger, filipinos will take care of you and would even be smiling at you or greet you with their local language.

Edited December 18, 2019 by Mi2

[Ms.o 3322]

Hearing the word filipino makes me feel proud,beacuse filipinos are great and nice among other countries,even how they suffer in different problem the smile on their face cannot be erase.