Original Filipinos were "Indians"

[andy]

The original people of the Philippines were called 'indios' by the Spaniards when they conquered the 7,107 islands in 1521. Magellan saw the people of the islands that looked like Indians and hence he called them 'indios'. The 'indios' became "Filipinos" when Portuguese Hernando de Magallanes or Ferdinand Magellan named the islands after King Philip II of Spain. The Philippines were originally named "Las Islas Filipinas" and the Americans changed it to "The Philippines or Philippine Islands" in 1898 after the Spanish-American War of 1897. Click the site below to understand the Indian-ness of the real Filipinos and why they were called "Filipinos" that was actually derived from the word "indio" and "felipe", king of Spain.

http://www.hinduwisdom.info/Glimpses_XV.htm

[rose]

The original Filipinos were not Indians or "Indians". Filipinos are actually a mixture of races because of colonisation and the greedy europeans. That article does not mean that they were Hindu either but may have been at one time greatly influenced by those beliefs.

[andy]

The original Filipinos were not Indians or "Indians". Filipinos are actually a mixture of races because of colonisation and the greedy europeans. That article does not mean that they were Hindu either but may have been at one time greatly influenced by those beliefs.


Hello Rose,

The old customs and traditions of the "outback" or provincial Filipinos are influenced by the Hindu - from their forebears. There is a Hindu minority in the islands. In fact, there is a Hindu temple in the heart of Manila today. The former Mayor of Manila, Mr. Ramon Bagatsing is an Indian descent.

The Indian sailed to the islands by generations commencing from the 9th century to the 13th century via Sumatra where they entered through Palawan islands and Mindanao and settled in the "Visayas" region. Hence, they named it "Visayas".

You must also read the origins of Angkor Wat where many of the Indians sailed to the islands via the South China Sea and landed in a town called "Lingayen" today. Lingayen was an Indian colony. They also landed in the north at the historic town called "Vigan" today. Many of the words from the local dialect in this town called "Ilocano" were derived from Sanskrit. I know because I speak the dialect and my maternal grandmother is a descendant of the Dravidians from the Angkor Wat. She is an Ilocano-born Indian race but distinctly "Ilocano". My grandmother would look more like a dark-skinned Indian rather than a typical "Filipino" today. I am a mixed race person myself (Indian, Spanish, Chinese, and Malay) and I am proud of my good-looking multiple gene.

Regards

[observer]

Very interesting. Indeed, thouands of years ago Indian kingdoms had established their presence in large parts of South-East Asia. Even the Malaysian and Indonesian languages have 50 % words of Sanskrit origins . For eg. they call their languages "Bahasa Malaysia" and "Bahasa Indonesia" where "Bahasa" derives from the Sanskrit word "Bhasha" which means "language".