What race does Filipino fall under?

brown race
Filipinos belong to the brown race, and they are proud of it.

Is Philippines a Asian country?

Philippines, island country of Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. It is an archipelago consisting of more than 7,000 islands and islets lying about 500 miles (800 km) off the coast of Vietnam.

What is considered Pacific Islander?

Pacific Islanders refer to those whose origins are the original peoples of Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia. Polynesia includes Hawaii (Native Hawaiian), Samoa (Samoan), American Samoa (Samoan), Tokelau (Tokelauan), Tahiti (Tahitian), and Tonga (Tongan).

Is Filipino an ethnicity?

Tagalog people
Tagalog language/Ethnicities

Are Filipinos considered to be Asian or Pacific Islander?

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

Who is considered a Pacific Islander?

Pacific Islanders, or Pasifika, are the peoples of the Pacific Islands. It is a geographic and ethnic/racial term to describe the inhabitants and diaspora of any of the three major sub-regions of Oceania : Micronesia , Melanesia , and Polynesia . These people speak various Austronesian languages .

Is Pacific Islander considered Asian?

Asian or Pacific Islander means persons having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, or the Pacific Islands. This area includes China, Vietnam, Japan, Korea, the Philippine Islands, and Samoa .

Are Philippines considered Asian?

The Philippines is technically an Asian country. It has its own culture (although influenced by many other countries, with most countries not from Asia) and has its own identity.