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==Influence of Spain== |
==Influence of Spain== |
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Spain's influence to her former colonies in Asia ans Oceania are unabatable, and to this day, the Philippines, Guam, Marianas Islands, and Palau are Roman Catholic countries and have numbers of ''Mestizo'' population. |
Spain's influence to her former colonies in Asia ans Oceania are unabatable, and to this day, the Philippines, Guam, Marianas Islands, and Palau are Roman Catholic countries and have numbers of ''[[Mestizo]]'' population. |
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==Influence of the Philippines== |
==Influence of the Philippines== |
Revision as of 12:37, 23 March 2006
Spanish East Indies is a term to describe Spanish possessions in Asia and Oceania. Primarily, it is used to describe the Philippines (Luzon, Visayas, and northern fringes of Mindanao) and the latter's dependencies, Guam, Marianas Islands, Palau, and Micronesia. The present king of Spain use the name King of the Spanish East Indies, and since the colonization of the Spanish East Indies, this term has not been relinquished.
Influence of Spain
Spain's influence to her former colonies in Asia ans Oceania are unabatable, and to this day, the Philippines, Guam, Marianas Islands, and Palau are Roman Catholic countries and have numbers of Mestizo population.
Influence of the Philippines
During the Spanish Colonial Era, political prisoners are all those who were convicted of treason were deported to both Guam and Marianas Islands, in so doing this, the Spanish significantly influenced both the bloodline and the culture of its inhabitants. In Guam and Marianas Islands, the Philippine influence had been strong. The native people of Guam, the Chamorro, are of mixed Austronesian, Spanish, and Filipino blood, while due to the influx of immigrants from the Philippines, three in ten Guamanians have a direct Filipino ancestor. Chamorro's nearest language relatives are found in the Philippines, and many Filipinos and Chamorros have word cognates. In Palau, 16% of the population is composed of Filipinos, who are primarily descendants of exiled political prisoners. Also, Filipinos now constitute the majority in the Northern Mariana Islands, the second most numerous in both Guam and Palau, and a minority in the Caroline Islands.