LOL!

My closest friend is a pure isulare Spanish.

^^^What kind of educated, well-bred & non-bigoted person talks like this? My grandmother was what you call an insulare & she was the product of her time & upbringing & tbh, she was not very educated nor enlightened person. You talk of your friend, I talk of my family.

Quinn even if mestizo played the son of Andres Bonifacio which would make him at most half native Filipino. Bonifacio was a small man, Quinn would not have come out looking as he did being the son of Bonifacio.

Also, for your uncle to have blue eyes, both his parents would require to carry the blue-eyed gene. I doubt Bonifacio carried that blue-eyed gene.

As for Caucasian looking mestizos, I see them too but they are not common & usually have little native Filipino ancestry, but I don't doubt we have Filipinos who have no native in them. I think you have a wrong notion of what is more Caucasian looking than another. Anthony Quinn is Caucasian looking yes but his body type & hairy nature is not indicative of Filipino phenotype, Indians are very Caucasian looking, unless they are mixed, I don't see how a mestizo or another Caucasian (say from Germany) can look more Caucasian than an unmixed Caucasian. I think you're confused with the concept of Caucasian & 'whites'.

I don't see why Quinn's depiction as a Filipino is such a biggie for you when its nothing out of the ordinary.

Let us be honest, it is out of the ordinary. 3 of my grandparents are all mestizos, 1 didn't even have Filipino ancestry while the rest had very marginal native Filipino ancestry but I am not delusional to think that a half Pinoy native can look or have the built of Anthony Quinn. I have cousins who are 6'4" both parents & grandparents Filipinos, but they look & are that built because they are mestizos. Andres Bonifacio wasn't a mestizo, let's be more proud & honest of our native side instead of parading as someone else, it's makes a mockery of Filipinos. If we respect ourselves & stop deluding that we are all mestizos, we would get ourselves off this slump & people would respect us more.

Uh-huh but you're displaying extreme post-colonial mentality as well. Thinking that being darker skinned and looking 'native' makes you more legit Filipino than mestizos and sangleys. That's worse.

I believe they cast Quinn for starpower and I guess its not as easy to find South Asian foreign actors back in the 1940's and have huge roles. Old films usually cast white actors to take on bigger roles meant to be for a different race. It's just wasn't the norm and its understandable. Quinn who plays Mexican roles isn't a stretch to play a Filipino character. It seems you're just reading into it too much.

Darker skinned? Is that what you think people usually consider to be native Filipino? I actually don't think most Filipinos are all that dark, I find that most are kayumanggi or tan colored, olive-skinned that has a propensity to get very dark under the hot sun. I think that you subconsciously assume that this is what most people refer to when it is not. I hope you realize that different ethnic groups rely much more on facial features & body type more than skin color. Also, when scientists study skin color variations, they look inside the arm or in places not exposed to the sun, a tan is not an adequate portrayal of skin color. I say Filipinos are blessed to be kayumanggi, we're not dark nor are we white, embrace it, don't be ashamed of it. People looked down on the Chinese & other East Asians just a few decades ago. In fact they were looked at & regarded in the same manner itas were, yet times have changed now because they have self-pride. Most Filipinos look down on Indians but a few hundred years ago, they were respected throughout SE Asia, & in a few more decades they will be regarded much more highly again because they know their culture & respect themselves. People generally don't respect people who have nothing to bring in the table & no self-respect, if we learned our own prehispanic culture more, loved our language a lot more, & loved the native Filipino look a lot more; we would improve ourselves & others would respect us more. That is the key, not deluding ourselves that we look like Anthony Quinn. Or a native with non-Caucasian ancestry can produce the likes of Anthony Quinn or someone with blue eyes. Look at how confused filams are & look how people ridicule them, di kaya nakakahiya, don't you think?

Why would they cast a South Asian to play a Filipino when native Filipinos are SE Asians, we look quite different from Indians, Pakistanis or Afghans. SE Asians are usually Austronesian.

I am aware of Old Hollywood films as I've watched more of them than most people, but nonetheless it is quite a difference to see Quinn playing a SE Asian.


PS. I just saw this post after you replied to me on another thread when I checked your history (I was excited to see another Filipino into period films, what can I say?).



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