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Demographics Of The Philippines By Other SourcesIn an effort to avoid constant conflict and disputes, other data compiled from a source which as yet remains unnamed will be mentioned. This unnamed source has placed the Malay component of the demographics of the Philippines to a reduced 70% of the population from the 95% agreed upon by Filipino government sources, recent Filipino census data and international static agencies. The remaining 30% is then claimed to be distributed by people of the following ancestries; - Spanish 3% (c. 2.5 million)
- Indian 5% (c. 4.3 million)
- Arab 3% (c. 2.5 million)
- Chinese 10% (c. 8.6 million)
- Americans of any race 1% (c. 860 thousand)
- Aboriginal Negrito 1% (c. 860 thousand)
- Japanese 1% (c. 860 thousand)
- Other non-Malay tribal populations 5% (c. 4.3 million)
- All others 1% (c. 860 thousand).
On another account, an American Anthropologist, Otley H. Beyer divided the Filipinos racial makeup into: The breakdown gives a total of 90% and it is safe to conclude that 10% constitute "Others" depending on each individual's stock or breed. The figure was indicated in Zaide's book Philippine History and Government and the University of Texas education website. Another historical fact worth mentioning is Austin Craig's book The Philippines Thru Foreign Eyes, published at the University of the Philippines, Manila on March 11, 1916 and reprinted by the Gutenberg.net project which states the following information regarding the Demographics of Luzon in the late 1700 and early 1800 obtained from the Magazine entitled People and Prospects of the Philippines. Blackwood's magazine released in August 1818, has an account of conditions in Manila and the Philippines from data given by an English merchant who left the Islands in 1798 after twenty years' residence in which he accumulated a fortune. Your first question, with respect to the Spanish population, must refer to native Spaniards only; as their numerous descendants, through all the variety of half-castes, would include one third at least of the whole population of Luconia (i.e., Luzon—A. C.) Of native Spaniards, accordingly, settled in the Philippine Islands, the total number may be stated at 2,000 not military. The military, including all descriptions, men and officers, are about 2,500, out of which number the native regiments are officered (page 551)These last, in 1796–7, were almost entirely composed of South Americans and were reckoned at 5,000 men, making a military force of about 7,500. The castes bearing a mixture of the Spanish blood are in Luconia alone at least 200,000. The Sangleys, or Chinese descendants, are upwards of 20,000, and Indians, who call themselves the original Tagalas, about 340,000, making a total population in that island of about 600,000 souls. What may be the respective numbers in the other Philippine Islands I never had any opportunity of learning.” (This opinion, of a day when it was not desired to disparage the people, gives an idea of the mixed blood of the Filipinos which, in the opinion of the ethnologists, like Ratzel, is a source of strength. It classes them with the English and Americans. One danger of the present appears in over-emphasizing the Malay blood, just as in Spanish times a real loss seems to have come from the contempt toward the Chinese which led to minimizing and concealing a most creditable ancestry. Prejudice in the past called all trouble makers mestizos, but today's study is showing that trouble maker meant man who would stand up for his rights; one must not forget that mestizo was used as a reproach, that the leaders of the people were really typical of the people. By the old injustice those who were mediocre were called natives and whoever rose above his fellows was claimed as a Spaniard, but a fairer way would seem to be to consider Filipinos all born in the Philippines.
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