Telling differences between a Chinese and Japanese in WW2

According to a recent study, the malays can be further cathegorized into subgroups. I suspect this too applies to the majority original philipinos.

The Philippines is unique contry in Asia. It was one of the first to be colonized and therefore, all semblance of the native culture died out or became latinized. The Philippines, culturaly, has more in common with Latin America than the rest of Asia. As a result, the majority of Filipinos are mixed. In the Philippines, these are called mestizos.
The Philippines has the largest number of Eurasians in the world.

Spanish Mestizos (3% of the population)


One of the richest families in the Philippines are the AYALA clan (Spanish Mestizo)


Chinese Mestizos "tsinoy" (11.5% of population is pure Chinese)
98 percent of them came from Fujian Province


The top 2 richest men the Philippines are Henry Sy and Lucio Tan (Chinese)



Japanese Mestizos


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It is not uncommon to find Filipinos with both Malay, Spanish, and Chinese mix.

IDonT is so correct. In fact most Filipinos are of mixed race. My ex-wife is part Filipino,Japanese, white American and European Spanish.

It's really hard to tell a Chinese from a Japanese.

A few weeks ago I crossed a NHK site refered in Japan News about the root of Japanese. The biggest gene factors in Japanese gene pool are, surprisely

Chinese(~25%) and Korean(~21%)

SteelBird said:

Crobato:

I don't understand why you group the Vietnamese together with with Khmer/Thai? Just because they are all located in South-East Asia? I'd say the pure Khmer and pure Thai look alike; dark yellow skin (we call it black), big eyes, curved hair. While the Vietnamese are light yellow skin (we call it white) and straight hair. They look very different to the Khmer/Thai and much like Chinese, thus they have similar tradition to the Chinese.

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My mistake. Vietnamese are sometimes referred to as Austroasiatic by anthropologists. Khmer/Thai are sometimes referred to as Austrotai. From what I read before, there are basically five austroasian groups.

bd popeye said:

This is intresting....I'm one of the very few Black people that can tell, most times , the diffrent Asian races apart. clothing, language, manerisims have a lot to with it.

Here is a quiz for you gents. below is a 5 year old or so picture of my ex-wife. She was born in the Philippines. What other nationalities do you think she may be?

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With the photo of the lady above, you said she's your ex-wife. I heard somewhere in this forum that you're going to get married soon (or already get married).

Well, with her big eyes, wide mouth and entire face shape, and you said that she was born in the Philippines, I think she's quite possible a mixed blood or from some country in South America, maybe Mexico. Just my guess.

SteelBird said:

With the photo of the lady above, you said she's your ex-wife. I heard somewhere in this forum that you're going to get married soon (or already get married).

Well, with her big eyes, wide mouth and entire face shape, and you said that she was born in the Philippines, I think she's quite possible a mixed blood or from some country in South America, maybe Mexico. Just my guess.

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Yes I did get remarried. in June of 2006.

Shes is of mixed race. As I pointed out previously, Filipino, white American , Japanese and Spanish European.