Thread: Why are people from the Philippines called Filipinos?
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Old 03-07-2008, 11:00 PM  
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Originally Posted by BJ View Post
because the philippines was once a spanish colony called something like islands of the filipinas or something like that and the name stuck.
ah, that makes sense then. thanks for the info.
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