57 Facts About Chinese Filipino

Generally, Chinese Filipino mestizos is a term referring to people with one Chinese Filipino parent.

Ethnic Han Chinese Filipino sailed around the Philippine Islands from the 9th century onward and frequently interacted with the local Austronesian people.

Since Song dynasty times in China and precolonial times in the Philippines, evidence of trade contact can already be observed in the Chinese Filipino ceramics found in archaeological sites, like in Santa Ana, Manila.

Chinese Filipino was refused and a plan to massacre the Spaniards quickly spread among the Chinese inhabitants of Manila.

Many immigrants converted to Catholicism and due to the lack of Chinese Filipino women, intermarried with indigenous women and adopted Hispanized names and customs.

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The children of unions between indigenous Filipinos and Chinese were called Mestizos de Sangley or Chinese mestizos, while those between Spaniards and Chinese were called Tornatras.

Three decades later, Chinese Filipino traders built a new and bigger Parian near Intramuros.

Thousands of Chinese Filipino veterans are interred in the Shrine of Martyr's Freedom of the Filipino Chinese in World War II located in Manila.

Virtually all Chinese schools were ordered closed or else to limit the time allotted for Chinese language, history and culture subjects from four hours to two hours and instead devote them to the study of Filipino languages and culture.

Chinese Filipino community have expressed concerns over the ongoing disputes between China and the Philippines, which majority preferring peaceful approaches to the dispute to safeguard their own private businesses.

Use of Hokkien as first language is seemingly confined to the older generation, as well as in Chinese Filipino families living in traditional Chinese Filipino centers, such as Binondo Chinatown in Manila and Caloocan.

Many Chinese Filipino schools are founded by Protestant missionaries and churches.

The Chinese Filipino community established indigenous religious denominations like Bell Church, which is a syncretic religion with ecumenical and interfaith in orientation.

Many Chinese Filipino schools are sectarian, being founded by either Roman Catholic or Chinese Protestant Christian missions.

Chinese mestizos, as well as some Chinese who chose to completely assimilate into the local Filipino or Spanish culture during Spanish colonial times adopted Spanish surnames, just as any other Filipino, either as per christening of a new Christian name under Catholic Christian baptismal under the Spanish friars or through the 1849 decree of Gov-Gen.

Many Filipinos who have Hispanicized Chinese surnames are no longer pure Chinese, but are Chinese mestizos.

The Chinese Filipino have been known to vote in blocs in favor of political candidates who are favorable to the Chinese Filipino community.

Chinese Filipino are mostly business owners and their life centers mostly in the family business.

The Chinese Filipino have developed unique customs pertaining to weddings, birthdays and funerary rituals.

Chinese Filipino is tasked to deliver the wedding gown to his bride on the day prior to the wedding to the sister of the bride, as it is considered ill fortune for the groom to see the bride on that day.

Chinese Filipino organizations have discouraged the mainstream Filipino public from being discriminatory, particularly against Chinese nationals amid the global spread of COVID-19.

Entire posh Chinese enclaves have sprung up in major Filipino cities across the country, literally walled off from the poorer indigenous Filipino masses guarded by heavily armed, private security forces.

The Chinese Filipino community is economically influential owing to their business and investment prosperity, acculturation into mainstream Filipino society, and maintaining their sense of community, social, and ethnic cohesion and distinction through clan associations.

Long before the Spanish conquest of the Philippines, Chinese Filipino merchants carried on trading activities with native communities along the coast of modern Mainland China.

Under Spanish rule, the Chinese Filipino were willing to engage in trade and venture into other business activities.

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Filipino entrepreneurs of Chinese ancestry were responsible for introducing sugar refining devices, new construction techniques, moveable type printing, and bronze making.

The Chinese Filipino provided fishing, gardening, artisan, and other such trading services.

The implementation of a free trade policy between the Philippines and the United States allowed the Chinese to capitalize on a burgeoning Filipino consumer market.

Filipinos of Chinese ancestry are estimated to control 60 to 70 percent of the Philippine economy.

Filipinos of Chinese ancestry are involved in the processing and distribution of pharmaceutical products.

Filipinos of Chinese ancestry are prominent players in the Philippines mass media industry, as they control six out of the ten English-language newspapers in Manila, including the one with the largest daily circulation.

Filipinos of Chinese ancestry are estimated to control over one-third of the Philippines 1000 largest corporations with the Chinese controlling 47 of the 68 locally owned public companies.

Filipino entrepreneurs of Chinese ancestry are responsible for generating 55 percent of overall Filipino private business across the country.

Besides sharing a common ancestry, cultural, linguistic, and familial ties, many Filipino entrepreneurs and investors of Chinese ancestry are particular strong adherents of the Confucian paradigm of interpersonal relationships when doing business with each other, as the Chinese believed that the underlying source for entrepreneurial and investment success relied on the cultivation of personal relationships.

In 1940, Filipinos of Chinese ancestry were estimated to control 70 percent of the country's entire retail trade and 75 percent of the nation's rice mills.

The Chinese Filipino had controlled 40 percent of the retailing imports with substantial controlling interests in banking, oil refining, sugar milling, cement, tobacco, flour milling, glass, dairying, automobile manufacturing, and consumer electronics.

The Chinese Filipino increased their role in the domestic commercial sector acting as an intermediary of connecting producers with the consumer in the exchange of goods.

The domestic Filipino economy began to broaden by the expansion of business activities long held by the Chinese ushered in new forms of entrepreneurship by directing their corporate energies and capital into fostering new industries and growth areas.

Two Chinese Filipino-owned beverage companies, namely Lucio Tan's Asia Brewery and John Gokongwei's Universal Robina, along with a couple of lesser-known beverage providers are now competing with each other to capture the largest share in the Filipino food and beverage market.

Since the 1950s, Filipino entrepreneurs of Chinese ancestry have controlled the entirety of the Philippines' retail sector.

Filipino entrepreneurs of Chinese ancestry began to expand their business activities in large-scale retailing and Filipino retailers that were Chinese-owned emerged as one of the largest department store owners in the Philippines with one prominent example being Rustan's, which is one of the most prestigious department store brands in the Philippines.

In terms of industry distribution, small and medium size Chinese Filipino-owned retail outlets account for half of the Philippines retail trade sector, with 49.

Chinese Filipino entrepreneurs were dominant in wood processing, and accounted for over 10 percent of the capital invested in the lumber industry and controlled 85 percent of it as well as accounting for 40 percent of the industry's annual output and controlled nearly all the sawmills in the nation.

Filipinos of Chinese ancestry have dominated the Philippine financial services sector and have had a presence in the country's banking industry since the early part of the 20th century.

Today, the overwhelming majority of the Philippines' principal banks are now owned by Filipinos of Chinese ancestry, including Philippine Savings Bank, the Philippine National Bank which is owned by taipan, Lucio Tan, controlled through his conglomerate LT Group, Inc, and most notably Metrobank Group which was owned by banker and businessman George Ty, which is the country's second-largest and most aggressive financial services conglomerate.

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The lone exception of a non-Chinese owned Filipino bank was the Spanish Filipino Lopez-owned Philippine Commercial International Bank, which has since been taken over by Henry Sy's holding and investment company SM Investments Corporation during the mid-2000s, and reemerged itself as a subsidiary of Banco de Oro in 2007.

In terms of industry distribution, Chinese Filipino-owned companies account for a quarter of the financial services sector.

Filipinos of Chinese ancestry have cornered the Philippine real estate investment markets, land, and property sectors which for a long time had been controlled by Spanish Filipinos.

Filipinos of Chinese ancestry pioneered the Filipino shipping industry which eventually germinated into a major industry sector as a means of transporting goods cheaply and quickly between the islands.

Filipino entrepreneurs of Chinese ancestry have remained dominant in the Philippines's maritime shipping industry and in sea transport as it was one of the few efficient methods of transporting goods cheaply and quickly across the country, with the Philippines geographically being an archipelago, comprising more than 1000 islands and inlets.

Prominent shipping companies owned by Filipinos of Chinese ancestry include Cokaliong Shipping Lines, Gothong Lines, Lite Shipping Corporation, Sulpicio Lines which was associated with a tragedy that led to the deaths of hundreds and Trans-Asia Shipping Lines.

One enterprising and pioneering Chinese Filipino entrepreneur was William Chiongbian, who established William Lines in 1949, which by the end of 1993, became the most profitable inter-island Filipino shipping line ranking first in terms of gross revenue generated as well as net income among the country's seven biggest shipping companies.

Currently, the Filipino inter-island shipping industry is dominated by four Chinese-owned shipping firms led by William Chiongbian's William Lines.

The Chinese Filipino government has dealt with this wealth disparity by establishing socialist and communist dictatorships or authoritarian regimes while pursuing a systematic and ruthless affirmative action campaigns giving privileges to allow the indigenous Chinese Filipino majority to gain a more equitable economic footing during the 1950s and 1960s.

The rise of economic nationalism among the impoverished indigenous Filipino majority prompted by the Filipino government resulted in the passing of the Retail Trade Nationalization Law of 1954, where ethnic Chinese were barred and pressured to move out of the retail sector restricting engagement to Filipino citizens only.

The increased economic clout held in the hands of the Chinese has triggered suspicion, instability, ethnic hatred, and anti-Chinese hostility among the indigenous native Filipino majority towards the Chinese minority.

Similarly, as the cultural divide between Chinese Filipino and other Filipinos erode, there is a steady increase of intermarriages with native and mestizo Filipinos, with their children completely identifying with the Filipino culture and way of life.