Why are there white filipinos?

Question

If the filipinos are considered to be "brown" people, why do many filipinos like me have white skin? I almost have all the filipino features: my eyes are filipino, my nose and lips are filipino, and my hair is also filipino. The only thing that's not filipino in me is my white skin... How can anthropologists explain this?

Answer 1

I apologize but this is one of the most stupidest questions I've ever stumbled across.

People get confuse with 'Filipino' as a supposedly ethno-racial term and 'Filipino' as a national term (which it should always be properly used as). Filipinos are a very multi-racial people. There are the majority Austronesians (or 'Malays' as the old-school people like to say), Chinese, Mestizos (or mixed race), Whites (mainly Spanish whites, American whites), aboriginal Negritos, etc. The multiracial composition of Filipinos is akin to that of the Brazilians, Mexicans, Americans, and other multiracial countries that have experienced immigration and contact of people from diverse parts of the world.

So to put it simply, you have 'whiter' skin due to many probable reasons and there is no single Filipino phenotype, except in a satire world of national/racial stereotypes where all Africans are black, all Americans are white, and all Filipinos are brown.

I hope this has enlightened you and to anyone else reading this.