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Mexican Filipinos are a multilingual Filipino ethnic group composed of Philippine citizens with Mexican ancestry. [1]
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Most of their Mexican ancestors arrived in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period. Between 1565 and 1815, many Mexicans, Spaniards or Filipinos sailed to the Philippines and Mexico as sailors, crews, prisoners, slaves, adventurers and soldiers in the Manila-Acapulco Galleon assisting Spain in its trade between Mexico and the Philippines. Some of their Mexican ancestors settled in, married local born native Filipinos and never returned back to Mexico. They have since integrated with, and been incorporated into the native core of Filipino society. There were even Mexican Filipino mestizos whose ancestors are Mexican Americans who settled Philippines from American colonial period to present whether as servicemen or businesspeople or are recent settlers directly from Mexico as businesspeople also.
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