Why do filipinos say there spanish?

Question

Most filipinos not in the philippines ,the filipino americans ive come across usa,hawai they've always told me that ohh im part spanish and bla bla bla .My filipino friend,whenever someone says filipino is asian hes like noo there hispanic or spaniards they even look like spaniards.Im just like omg what the h**l is this guy on about..he doesent know anything...ive even met filipinos (dark skinned,chinky eyes) who have actually said they were spain (full blooded spaniard) and 2 to 3% actually have spanish ancestery where today .i know that if i ask filipinos what nationality are u?i know they will say ohh im part spanish and bla bla bla.On the chat site bebo i looked up filipinos and really all of them write things on there profile claiming there spanish even half spanish and again (the brown native look) and whenever i write something like spanish it always comes up with filipinos saying stuff about if there spanish or not and claiming spanish ancestery from there surnames( i dont even think that they know those surnames are not pure and were given to them from a book called the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos) there are so many questions on yahoo answers relating to my question.I really want to know why amigos? Im half spanish myself and its just a disgrace. :(

LIKE..U dont see veitnamese people claiming there french or malaysian people claiming there dutch...you wont even see much latin americans claiming there spanish(even tho most of them are ) because they are ashamed of the spanish act of cruelty towards colonization..filipinos know nothing about there history or about spaniards..

I dont even think they know what spaniards look like.. and filipinos loook nothing in common to spaniards.. these are spaniards. http://www.hector624.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/diada2.jpg

Answer 1

Everybody knows all filipinos where muslims before the Spanish era. Be you were colonized and became Christians! You still have the circumcision though. Only muslims and jews are circumcized.....  Today Spain is very well developed country with the 6th strongest economy in the world. Viva Espana!

Answer 2

They could say they are hispanics, but who would beleave that if their asian faces say other things, no one in the world (except filipinos)would consider them another thing rather than chinese or asians, or anything from taht part of the world.