16 Facts About Spanish Filipino

Spanish Filipino is any citizen or resident of the Philippines who is of Spanish origin.

Spanish Filipino Philippines is the history of the Philippines from 1521 to 1898.

Early Spanish Filipino settlers were mostly explorers, soldiers, government officials, religious missionaries, and among others, who were born in Spain and Mexico called Peninsulares or Criollo, who settled in the islands with their families to governed the colony, and the majority of the indigenous population.

In some provinces like, Vigan, Iloilo, Cebu, Pampanga, and Zamboanga, The Spanish Filipino government encouraged foreign merchants to trade with the indigenous population, but they were not given certain privileges such as ownership of land.

Spanish Filipino implemented incentives to deliberately entangle the various races together in order to stop rebellion: - It is needful to encourage public instruction in all ways possible, permit newspapers subject to a liberal censure, to establish in Manila a college of medicine, surgery, and pharmacy: in order to break down the barriers that divide the races, and amalgamate them all into one.

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Spanish Filipino was the lingua franca of the country from the beginning of Spanish Filipino rule in the late 1500s until the first half of the 20th century.

However, Spanish Filipino still remained a very important language up until the mid-20th century, with a gradual decline over the decades.

Spanish Filipino was, along with English, the co-official language in the Philippines from the Spanish Filipino Colonial Period until 1987 when its official status was removed.

Only a minority of Spanish descended Filipinos speak Spanish; Some Filipinos of Spanish descent, particularly those of older generations and recent immigrants, have preserved Spanish as a spoken language.

Philippine Spanish is a Spanish dialect and variant of the Spanish language spoken in the Philippines.

The Spanish Filipino authorities developed and established a highly complex caste system based on a racial hierarchy of Spanish Filipino descent, which later became associated with whiteness.

Persons of pure Spanish Filipino descent, as well as many mestizos and castizos, living in the Philippines who were born in Spanish Filipino America were classified as 'Americano'.

The Philippine-born children mulattos from Spanish Filipino America were classified based on patrilineal descent.

Spanish Filipino legally classified the Aetas as 'negritos' based on their appearance.

The word is derived from Spanish Filipino, meaning "poor taste", "vulgar", for the Chavacano language, developed in Cavite City, Ternate, Zamboanga and Ermita.

Philippine literature in Spanish is a body of literature made by Filipino writers in the Spanish language.