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To: Moominoid who wrote (68019)	8/23/2005 9:08:55 PM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Moominoid Re: "Filipino Elite" It is a VERY interesting story. Some 6000 years ago their ancestors left the Asian mainland, probably from Indo China and set out for the central Pacific, bypassing the larger islands of Borneo and the Philippines, and first colonizing the tiny islands of Micronesia in the Central Pacific. Then as the legends go, after thousands of years of isolation in Micronesia, there arose among the people the idea to RETURN into the West from where they came. And return they did, wave after wave and over the years colonizing the 7000 large and small islands of the Philippines. Others went in differnt directions, north to Hawaii and south to New Zealand and others as far as Ceylon and Madagascar. They went east also, to the coast of South America and named it "the great wall at the end of the world" for it stopped their progress. The last of this "return" was still in progress 1000 years ago so there is preserved considerable detail of how it happened. The smallest governmental subdivision in the Philippines is the Barangay, the actual word meaning the ship and its passangers that actually brought the ancestors of a village to the Philippines from the east. As these people had evolved for several thousand years in isolation on different small islands in the central Pacific, they came to have different physical characteristics. That probably explains a great deal about the variations in appearance island to island. Some isalnds have small delicate folk; some like my wifes Mindanao (Maranao origin) people are large strong and tall people. When the Filipino arrived the islands were already inhabited by a Negroid race of the Melanesian type like most of the large islands of the South Pacific. The arriving Malays chased these folks into the high mountians, where the live today as the Igorots and other mountain tribes. There appears to have been little inter marriage, even among the lowland tribes. Later came the Spanish colonial peroid which lasted 300 years. Spain handled the Philippines very carefully, apparently happy with subjects who were willing converts to Christ and were neither cannibals like the Melanesians or human sacraficers like the Mexicans. There never was a large Mestizo class like in most of Latin America. Filipinos are a mixed lot, but according to anthropologists this is mostly a result of their long isolation in Micronesia. Slagle