How does you wife, fiancee or girlfriend look?

I went into a coffeeshop/internet cafe in Dumaguete tonight (near to Silliman University) and was very surprised to see how almost all the people in there looked Chinese.
After speaking to some people, I had the impression that this was because Filipino-Chinese families have the money to put their kids through the best schools.
My wife doesn't look a bit Chinese - I believe she comes from Malay stock.

All the Filipinas I have met in the UK seemed to look more like my wife than the ladies I saw tonight here in the Dumaguete internet cafe.

I was wondering what your loved ones from the Philippines look like?

My wife's family is apparently 1/4 chinese. All of them have high promnent cheeck bones

You must be very proud of all of your kids, Jim

Your wife looks like Malay stock, the same as my wife....

Your wife also looks like Malay stock, Methersgate....

Yes, Kay is undoubtedly almost, if not entirely, pure Malay.

I've extended the scope a bit to include friends and relations because they illustrate the diversity...

Kay's father is Ilonggo and her mother is Visayan:



and here's Kay, her niece Crystal and her sister Rosalie:



and here are a whole bunch of male cousins at the start of a drinking session (except that her father is second from right, her eldest brother is on the right and her elder brother is sixth from right...)

Crystal looks a bit like the late Angharad Rees (Demelza Poldark to my generation...)



and will no doubt have a devastating effect on males in a few year's time (she's 11!)

For comparison my ex-wife's niece Hazel Reyes looks like this, and could walk almost un-noticed down any street in China - certainly south of the Yangtse:



And for a bit more variety, here is my friend Angel Basul, who comes from Zambales Province but is ethnically a Waray:



(by the way folks - she's still single...)

Although my wife's family are from the Visayas ( Dumaguete ), I swear my wife has a % of chinese stock in her. I have always thought this as her eyes are almond shape. And her cheekbones are high (not so prominant since she came to the UK and ate the food here !)

Somewhat to Kay's annoyance, I asked this young lady if I might take her picture, because she has such an interesting face:



I'm tempted to say "an Olongapo face" (she is a waitress at Bunker Bob's). What combination of genes produced that? Possibly Samoan?

This lady is not Filipina at all - she is the Chinese schoolteacher and distinguished human rights activist He Peirong - but does she look "Chinese"?...



She is of course Northern Chinese; I have known men from around Dalian ("Port Arthur") and points North of that in Heilongjiang Province who would pass un-noticed in a street in Europe.

^ coming from a Filipino-Chinese, she does look Chinese to me. I would even dare say that she looks like one of my high school classmates.

To the thread starter, yes, the Chinese are a bit more affluent compared to the entire population and have the resources to send their children to the best private schools in the country.

A lot of Filipinos have some foreign blood in their veins as a result of immigration and colonialization.

For around three hundred years, the nation was in practice ruled, at the local level, by Spanish friars. Being "men of the cloth" they were of course single, but they were also lonely, far from oversight and male.

I think it would be safe to assume that, across the length and breadth of the country, village priests made the most of the considerable opportunities that their situation presented, and selected the prettiest girls.

^ exactly, Carlos Celdran, a very popular blogger and advocate of Manila is a product of a Spanish friar - Filipina mix. Generations later, he and his family still look very mestizo. He admits this when you join one of his tours.

Both my wife and I think she looks very Chinese.

My wife looks gorgeous ... oh oh, I just had to say that

she tells me she's half bajao

My girlfriend is from Pangasinan:

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She looks a bit like my wife. Is she also under 5ft in height?

Maybe there should also be a thread called "How does you husband, fiancee or boyfriend look?"