Philippines. the Philippines collectively are called Filipinos. The ancestors of the vast majority of the population were of Malay descent and came from the Southeast Asian mainland as well as from what is now Indonesia.

In the 2018 census, there were 775,836 people in New Zealand identifying as Māori, making up 16.5 percent of the national population. They are the second-largest ethnic group in New Zealand, after European New Zealanders (“Pākehā”). In addition, more than 140,000 Māori live in Australia.

At 30 June 2020: New Zealand’s estimated Māori ethnic population was 850,500 (or 16.7 percent of national population). There were 423,700 Māori males and 426,800 Māori females.

A DNA ethnicity test taken by more than 9 million people worldwide has discovered a full-blooded Māori, Native Affairs presenter Oriini Kaipara. Oriini took the Ancestry.com DNA test last year as part of a Native Affairs story on Māori identity.

Officially, of course, Filipinos are categorized as Asians and the Philippines as part of Southeast Asia. But describing Filipinos as Pacific Islanders isn’t necessarily wrong either. In fact, for a long time, Filipinos were known as Pacific Islanders.

Pinoy was used for self-identification by the first wave of Filipinos going to the continental United States before World War II and has been used both in a pejorative sense and as a term of endearment, similar to Desi.

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 185 ethnolinguistic groups in the Philippines; each with its own language, identity, culture and history.

There are 900,000 to one million ethnic Chinese in the Philippines, roughly 1.2% to 1.5% of the total Philippine population. Half of this number live in the urban area of Metro Manila; the other half is scattered in other major urban centers, such as Cebu, Iloilo, Davao, and Bacolod.

Most of the Chinese who opted to settle in the Philippines came from the provinces of Fujian and Guangdong in Southern China (Guldin 1980). They sought refuge in the islands because of the economic and political hardships in their own land.

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Filipinos belong to the Austronesian ethnic group of the Southeast Asian region. There are still a few Filipinos and prominent Filipino families today who are of pure Spanish ancestry. Nevertheless, Stanford University had stated that only 1–3% of the Philippine population had minimal degrees of Spanish blood.

However, within the US context, Filipinos are classified as Asian rather than Hispanic by including the US census.

What is ‘Filipino’? We are proud of our heritage at the rim of East Asia, the meeting point of the many Asian groups, as well as Europeans from Spain. Our culture even 100 years ago was already a mix —of Malay, Chinese, Hindu, Arab, Polynesian and Spanish, with maybe some English, Japanese and African thrown in.

According to the 2000 U.S. Census, 15 percent of the Hawaii state population – or 170,635 – identified themselves as “Filipino” (see Figure 1).