In Italy I was mistaken for a Japanese. Then, an Arab once told me I could pass for a Saudi. In the US, some people thought I was Mexican or Hispanic. I am proud to be ethnically Filipino.

I'm a Filipino who went and traveled to France and was mistaken as Latino. Went to Spain and mistaken as Japanese because of my squinty eyes. Only in Malaysia and Singapore I was correctly recognized as Filipino.

I'm an Anglo-Saxon Canadian married to an amazing Filipina I met at the University of British Columbia during our graduate studies. She has a Ph.D. in Food Science while mine is in Engineering. I think the bottom line here is to treat people with respect and dignity, regardless of their nationality, religion, gender, and physical features.

A Filipino here. I was in Bangkok and was always mistaken for a Thai. I was in Rome and a Mexican couple were taking to me in Spanish. I was in Austria and a gentleman from Chile kept taking to me in Spanish. In Athens, a gentleman from the Dominican Republic invited me for lunch. I can speak a little Spanish but am not a fluent Speaker. Funny thing is that I don't think I look like a Latino. I guess it's just because of my Spanish family name.

i've always wondered why most people in batanes are taller than average filipinos until i realized that seafood is very accessible to them that it's been an important part of their diet, hence, seafood calcium helping develop their skeletal growth. their age-old tradition of drying fish is so important because they experience the most number of typhoons in the philippines. and what better way to enjoy those crunchy fried dried dorado and flying fish than during rainy/stormy days. batanes has always been in my bucket list.

Filipino people are beautiful!

Philippinnes are diversity country.. and im proud of my pilipino aeta brother and sister

Mabuhay Philippines Welcome And God Bless Every One

Im Filipino but I have French and Cherokee ancestry. Ever since my teen years and my young adult life, I grew out and had long hair. Whats interesting is that people that doesnt really know my bakground would compliment my hair and say things out of the blue like, your hiar is so nice, its like native american hair. Then they try and guess my age and they are at the range of 35 to under 40. When I tell them that im 51, they immediately go to the skin features on how healthy and young my skin are. Thank you for this insightful video. Reason ive been looking is because 2 weeks ago, a colleague ask 'what are real Fiilipinos?'. He is of Koren and Japanese ancestry that also lived and worked in China for 10 years... I had a long explanation. 😅..

We love you beautiful all people, in and out. Welcome to our country where all the fun in the world is. Take care always, lez go!!!

One word only. FRIENDLY....❤❤❤

Filipinos are Beautiful

Nelly your skintone is now amazing

thank you most of Filipinos are pretty ❤️😘most filipino long hair

Common Filipino are Moreno (Brown), Meztizo (White), Chinito (more of a chinese japanese)

Hmmnnn!!".. very interesting facts for us" Filipinos!"...

Embrace eveeything as we are! ❤

I myself could say that Filipinos are very diverse.

Hi Nelly good to hear from you here again! Enjoy.

Filipinos are a mixed of different races. I was in Malaysia to buy a slipper in a mall store and I was mistaken for a Japanese. In college, I was mistaken for a Chinese. Many of the present crap of Filipinos are mestizos, meaning half-foreigner like Fil-Am e.g. Ms. World Megan Young; Fil-Spanish e.g. Actress Marian Rivera, Family actors Gutierrez; Fil-German e.g. Ms. Universe Pia Wurztbach, Family actors Eigenmann; Fil-Japanese e.g. Actor Akihiro; Fil- Jordanian e.g. Yasser Marta; Fil-Polish e.g. Basketball player Robert Jaworski; Fil-Chinese e.g. Magnates Cojuangcos, Gotuacos, Gotianums, Sys, Yuchengcos, Angs, Tans, etc.; Fil- Russian e.g. Family actors Kookoritchin; Fil-Swedish e.g. Actress Cristine Reyes; Fil-Nigerian e.g. CJ Perez. AJ Edu; Fil-Indian Ms. Universe 3rd runner up Venus Raj.

The origin of the Filipinos are the Austroloids , whose descendants are the Aeta( black skin) and the Austronesians , whose descendants are the Malay( brown in color).The Aeta migrated to the Philippines 30,000 years ago while the Malay migrated 14,000 years ago.The Malay dominates the country and constitutes the ancestry of majority of the Filipinos today. Then the Spaniards colonized the country hence you have the mestizas and mestizos (half Spaniard half Filipino). After the Spaniards, the Americans colonized the country and that’s how the FilAm ( half American half Filipino) was borne. Of course before the Spaniards , the Chinese were already trading in the country hence you have the Tsinoy ( half Chinese half Filipino). Since the Filipinos are adventurous, some of them married Europeans , Africans, other Asians countries, Middle Easterners, Australians, British and so on. In short, the Filipinos are diverse which contradicts the Korean gentleman , who said the Filipinos are not diverse.

You can identify a Filipino not by how they look but how they sound when you let them sing karaoke! They may have Asian accents but when they sing English songs they leave the accent behind 😁 Filipinos are incredible singers!

Filo here, have 7 siblings. An older sister and I both brown skin, 2 sis have fair to light skin. 2 bros almost fair Chinese skins. The point is diversity is not uncommon among us filos.

Hello Nelly how are you? #ProudFilipino 💖❤👈☝️👌 I just got married with Swedish man but surprisingly his first impression to me as we see and met in person for the very first time here in the Philippines for our marriage,he can't believe as he said that I dont look like a typical Filipino😁 well,basically with my skintone actually, I have a fair white complexion....because I always told him during on our video calls dont trust all my photos because now days this phone camera is insanely crazy even I dont use those beauty apps😂.. I just have basic cheap and normal smartphone i said....My husband tells me I look like I have some kind of European blood especially after looking my mothers photos in black & white old photo, how my mother look like too, #nose and facial feature to be specific..not a single chance to be pure Filipino blood my husband said...Once again, Im proud Filipino being bisaya/Cebuano roots genes both parents!

We all have our beautiful uniqueness be it asian, european etc...love watching this channel. Thanks for this feature nelly.

Pretty good video, Nelly! I am glad that you love it in the Philippines.

I am always mistaken Indonesian. When I went to Europe I was mistaken as Italian, in Scotland 3 guys came to me and start talking in Italian. Here in Canada sometime mistaken as a Mexican or European

my grandparents on both sides came from different races. From my father, we have a Chinese grandpa and a Spanish grandma. From my mom's we have Japanese Abuela and Spanish Abuela. I don't have Filipino blood. But I am Filipino. 😍😍😍😍

I have a brown skin filipino being always in the sea when i was young. But when i moved to Manila i became lighter skin. And when I stayed in Germany to work several years my skin became like of european not perfectly white but very light skin.

The diversity in the looks of Filipinos comes from their varied ancestry: Southeast Asian, Polynesian, Chinese, Muslim, Spanish, and American.

NICE NELLY! UNITY in DIVERSITY! that is FILIPINO NATIONALTY!

My filippino wife has kinda darker skin and I just love it . Reminds me of a chocolate chip cookie and those are good to eat .

When I went to Singapore, I greeted the immigration with "Good afternoon". . It's unusual, it's Malaysian..

They are nice looking easygoing people!👍🏽

hahaha you're correct Nelly , You really know and meet some of us filipinos.

I live in Canada, I came here in my teens; 9 times out of 10 people think I'm Spanish. When i get darker in the summer some East Indians think I'm East Indian. I guess i could past for a Spanish or Latina. An older lady from Argentina thought I was Spanish and couldn't believe that I am not she even grabbed her husband and asked him what he thinks. She said she never made a mistake before and I' m the first. I look and sound ambiguous enough that when i went to the Philippines with my husband i have to speak English to him because he couldn't understand Filipino and people would speak Filipino about us and not realized that i can understand them. When i went to Divisoria the ladies would say that I am a foreigner and i would tell them I am not a foreigner and should not charge me higher than the locals.

Madeline shares my perspective. In our local context, distinguishing foreigners is often challenging due to a lack of exposure. We typically perceive them solely as foreigners, relying mainly on information from social media and mainstream media. This doesn't amount to discrimination (for us). For instance, when I encounter a white person, the first individuals who come to mind are often figures like Maria Carey and Britney Spears. Similarly, when I encounter black Americans, I may associate them with artists like Nicki Minaj or Cardi B. My initial impression of you is that you resemble a well-known personality that i admire so i might treat you like one. However, this isn't discriminatory. It's merely our limited ability to differentiate or recognize foreigners, especially when we've just met them once, in contrast to fellow Filipinos, whom we can often identify at a glance or by the tone of their voice, we can easily identify what their region of origin in the Philippines.

Filipinos’ majority distinct look is Malay race look (Malays in Malasia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar ) The other Filipino “looks” are mix of Chinese, Caucasian and Middleeastern (Including Indian) but still there are some pure blood Filipinos who look like mixed Caucasian, middle eastern or Chinese. This look is common in Southeast Asian countries.

Hi.. Nelly im watching your channel from bohol Philippines ❤

Filipinos, some have fair skin, brown, some dark skinned etc. Our skin & features can be attributed to the mixture of races that colonized the Philippines: Spaniards (400yrs), Chinese(commerce), American, etc. But one thing about Filipinos is that even if our parents are old & sickly, we take care of them until death. We never send them to nursing homes. Love of family is important & extended family included.We also treat friends like family.

Filipinos are like Puerto Ricans from the West Indies, diverse with different looks, dark skin light skin blond hair blue eyes, dark eye, brown and other colors and all kinds of hair types. I was born there, raised in NYC and last place I lived was in florida, now in the Philippines.

thanks for the post Ma'am. I love it 💯%

You embrace everything you are also, Your a very Beautiful, intelligent woman, well spoken and empathetic.

When I worked in Middle East county they thought I was Chinese, when I visited South Korea and Malaysia they thought I was Japanese and when I visited Thailand & Cambodia they thought I was one of their citizen.😂 I'm Filipino but my mom great grandma was Chinese and my Dad great grandpa was Spanish.🤪

thank you so much for embracing our culture. I really appreciate it❤

FYI-INDONESIANS IS ONE OF OUR ANCESTORS THRU LANDBRIDGES. My parents ancestors were Chinese,Spanish and Germans.

I am Filipino but always mistakenly as indonesian for some reason and it's always a filipino also who ask me if i am an indonesian..😁😁😁😁 working in the middle East.. god bless miss nelly....😇😇😇😇

you're goreous too miss nelly...God bless u,more power..thanks for loving the PH. ^_^

But all in all Filipinos are , happy, loving and hospitable people and above all we love singing and dancing 😂

My three siblings and I are Filipino-American, so I can only speak to being of Filipino descent born and raised here in the U.S. (southern California). My parents were both born and raised in the Philippines...but my mom's paternal grandfather was from China...and my dad's paternal grandfather was from Spain. Us four "kids" (we're in our late-20s--early 30s) are fiercely proud of our Filipino heritage--even though we don't understand Tagalog. But we are always mistaken for Spanish, Mexican, Italian, Puerto Rican, Brazilian, or (for me) Hawaiian--because I have darker hair than my siblings. We're also fairly tall (our youngest sister is the shorty at 5'10"). We're gonna mix things up even more--we're all married to different-race spouses (a blue-eyed blonde, a Mexican-American, and a Korean-American. My kid sister did marry a fellow Filipino-American). You should see our kids! LOL!!

i showed my peruvian coworker a picture of my father and he was in awe coz my dad looks so peruvian and this peruvian coworker of mine looks a really handsome but short, like me, indonesian. oh and the the music at the of the video sounds so pilipino. i love it!

We love you Nellie! Cheers!

It is true, somehow in appearance we are different but I can’t describe how but there is a certain angle or features that Filipinos have! I can say we are diverse but a Filipino can say who are Filipinos from the crowd.

Love you ❤ Nelly, our adopted daughter ❤

You would know in our smiles, happy and very diverse people ❤🇵🇭

Im a Filipino born and raised in Hawaii, sometimes it feels like we are the majority here

Ethnically Filipinos share looks with Thai, Malay, Singh, Viet, but because the Philippines was a long time colony of Spain and the US and have traded with Chinese before that, physically our features are more diverse than our Asian neighbors.

Filipinos are brown in color kayumanggi color of our skin...im full filipino blood... Black brown hair! I have brown eyes!

Love uou guys,God bless you all❤❤❤

Hi, Lady Nelly interesting topic...

Good topic Nelly!

I'm a Chinese Filipino. Just want to say I enjoyed watching your vlog for the first time and to say thank you for loving our country and my fellow Filipinos. More power to you and your channel! God bless 🙏❤️🤗

My wife had light brown skin tone and she is so stunning filipinas are just beautiful and gorgeous

Hello, Nelly. There is a word from Dr. Myles Munroe saying that Citizenship, Race, and Ethnicity is all seen from within. No one and nobody can tell and see your Nationality, because it is from within. Filipinos for example are very diverse. Diverse in skin color, in height, in built, in ethnicity, in culture, in morale, in lifestyle, in religion, and in upbringing. But, if you ask them who they are, they will all say, they are Filipinos. The same is true for other countries. We welcome diversity and crush-out Racism.

We do have very similar features with fellow South East Asians as majority of us are of Malay descent. The Leaders of the Kingdoms before the Spanish Occupation literally have cousins from other Royals in South East Asia. And same as with other South East Asian countries, a portion of the population also look like Chinese (not East Asian in general). The Chinese people has been doin business with Filipinos since time immemorial that seeing a Chinese speaking in a different language then suddenly switching to Filipino is very common. It's honestly hard to find a Filipino who's really of Filipino or just Malay descent. A lot have a mix of Chinese blood in them. At least that's how it is in my circle. On the note that if you see a Euro-Asian person then most likely he/she is a Filipino is of course, because of the Spanish Occupation when most of these births were due to the oppressors violating our women. Some sad stories mixed into that origin of the Diverse-Filipino features.

I'm Pinoy but mistakenly as a Thai 😅 When I was in Kuwait airport waiting for my flight to Dubai an Arab lady ask me if I'm from Thailand 😊I said no! I'm from Philippines,I'm Filipino 😊and she said oh Fi li pi no? with confused reaction 😅😅😅

I know a filipina vlogger that bright white, another thats dark brown, and several in between. Most have similar noses, including my grandsons who are half Filipino..

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We love you . There are discrimination among Filipinos when it comes to the color of the skin and your status in the society. It is sad , but it is true. True to other countries , nationalities of the world. I live in USA and I have seen this kind of discrimination .

I am also Filipino, i have chinese and spanish blood hence the lighter skin tone but I don't consider myself mistizo, those are exclusive for the obviously biracial looking Filipinos in my opinion. I was mistaken a lot of times as thai or Taiwanese. My sister is much fairer than me, she looks mistiza while my bro on the otherhand has a slightly darker tone than me.

Indonesians and Malaysians are literally one of the first settlers in the Philippines so it's no surprise that we look very much like them.

Hello Ms Nelly.... Proud Filipino here😊

Best... A newly know-how-event in ph tourism... Salute you lady, nice,...

The Philippines was under Spanish rule for nearly 400 years. There’s a heavy Spanish/Caucasian influence within the genotype with diverse phenotype hence the diverse look.

It is very interesting that you have a sperate channel for Filipinos... this is cool and well thought marketing move. plus Filipinos are always online....

I’m Filipino My great grandfather in the mother side is Chinese My great grandfather in the father side is Spanish The rest in my blood could be Malaya-Irrendenta/ Maphilindo and Pacific Islander I guess Some says I look Pacific Islander like Maori NZ Some says I look like Mexican Some says I look like Vietnamese Some says I look half-white When I was younger I was lighter skinned and they call me “tisoy kano” (like someone who is a half western caucasian) So I would go outdoors more under the sun for my skin to be brownish I don’t know how I look like actually 😊 I’m just me a Filipino 😊

Thailand talaga ka mukha natin lalo na sa kulay haha 😆

You are Filipino now Nelly because of your feature and color😊

Here in Norway they mistaken me as vietnamese or a thai.......but when am in the Philippines people there sees me as a foreigner....quiet funny bcos they even starts to talk tagalog behind me saying that am from diff country , which i truly understood what they saying....they dont even have any clue that am a real PNOY- Tagalog na Tagalog.

Hi Nelly I think grey of MIHV is a very typical filipina beauty… 😮😊

In Nairobi, Kenya, I was greeted "Ni hao" at the airport. 😅😅😅 Filipinos are mostly Malay-looking but many also have Hispanic or East Asian features.

BTW my Grandmother is Filipina and my Grandfather is American so that's why my Mother was born in 1967

The Korean who wept to Cebu found that Filipino looks like korean probably he saw a korean living in Cebu

I've been indentified as chinese, latino, half black, my dad look like, half spanish and speaks spanish he is what you called a chavacano

Yeah its diverse. If a person used to see fair skinned ,they usually tease dark skinned.. Mostly, its for fun only but sometimes it could hurt, thats if the person did take it seriously.😅 Thats why whitening product are in demand in the country.

Most of us actually look almost identical to the rest of SEA. How to know if one is a Filipino? Do the famous "psssst". If they turn, then that's a Pinoy.😊

I’m Filipino by ethnicity and I always thought I have a typical polynesian island look with some bit of Spanish from my mom’s side..but was surprised to be considered Chinese-looking by the Chinese! They always talk to me in their language. In my country, the Chinese look is considered attractive, so am flattered by that comparison. I dont have mono-lids..have very big eyes, long lashes and thick eyebrows..and I have body hair unlike the mongoloid race.

Nellie I'm a new filipino new subscriber from Houston Tx USA 🇺🇸 my 2 handsome boys are both mixed oldest one german 3/4 Cherokee indian Irish + filipino 2nd one mixed 🇷🇺 Russian Ukraine 🇺🇦 slavic Scandinavian polish plus filipino both has very Europeans features.I tell you what Nellie when they were 5 years old they asked me the same question like why I'm darker and their mama is lighter really good questioned my replied was my mom put me to the oven too long.now 2 question they asked me why my nose is not like the mother my answered was the Philippines has lots of strong typhoon that can knock out coconut tree. They crack up so you know kids very smart they knew something is no right Lol just tell your viewers don't worry be happy I hope your subscriber x more.God bless Nellie

They have round faces,square, triangle, box, and oval faces. Most have beautiful long black hair, curly kinky and wavy hair. Most have full lips.

Boxing great Manny Pacquiao is quintessential Filipino. I don't see any European, Chinese, or Indian features on him. His last name is not even Spanish which lots of Filipinos have. Traits admired by Filipinos is being great yet humble. Famous singer Lea Salonga is whom I would point as a typical Filipino woman.

Yes Indonesian and Filipinos look similar. Understandably, because Indonesians are our ancestors. They are the second wave of people who came to the Philippines very long time ago. First were the Aetas then Indonesians then the Malays. That resulted to the skin tone that varies from very dark to lighter ones. Mix that with the blood of Chinese and Arab traders of the distant past and later migration of Chinese and other Asians. To add to this mixing, are the Spanish and American colonization and Japanese invasion.

Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia had common ancestry, the Malay race.

Thank you so much ms nelly!

Reacting to 8:13 where they say filipino have nice hair thats ok but the acne I think I would have to disagree cause it’s always warm and humid here and acne is actually normal in the Philippines. I wish I could be as clear skinned as koreans and europeans in general 😊 never the less I love being Filipino and I love my country. I travelled a little bit and I can say nothing compares with the warmth that we have (figuratively and literally 😂)

Proud beautiful Filipina here ❤❤❤

1:32 that’s very true even other way around, I saw Thai people at least on films, I could mistaken them as Filipino. Also met a priest from Thailand in person, he doesn’t loom so different

Not being biased, but we are a race wrapped in diversity that always smile at the face of adversity. God bless us all!!!(*_*)

I love your videos

Belated 37 th birthday Ms. Nelly godblss ur other channel more.

Filipino's are a vast mix Race but mostly are mix with Latinos or Spanish we called them mestisa mestizo me I came from spsnish ancestor my heritage are pure Spanish great grandfather is Spanish soldier and grand dad pure Spanish married to filipina my aguela or Lola