An Asian Country with Telenovela People

Santos, Gonzalez, Lopez, Mendosa and de Guzman, have you ever heard those names every time Philippines appeared on the screen during sport competition? Did you ever think why Filipinos have latino names meanwhile they are asian? How could they have those names with a fact that they have very long distance with latinos country.

Well, in Asia at least there are three areas that use Latin, that are Philippine, Macau, and Timor Leste. Philippines use Spanish and the last two countries use Portuguese, they called Asian-Latin not only because they speak Latin but also because they have culture similarities with Latin. Located on the Pacific Ocean and area of ASEAN, Philippines is a republic country that people often called Latino-cultured country because in the past, Philippine has been colonialized by Spain for 333 years. Started when Ferdinand de Magellan arrived in Cebu in 1521. The long colonialized has made spain-alized in cultures, especially how Filipinos name their children.

About more than hundred vocabularies of Tagalog come from Spanish, even "Philippines" comes from King of Spain, Phillip II. Spanish has been used even until the last period of American Colonilization in Phillippine in the World War II. Unfortunately, start from 1987 Spanish was eliminated to be official language and replaced by Tagalog and English. But, in 2007 Spanish has raised again as Educational Language.

Americanized that because of American colonialization made a lot of young Filipinos weren't able speaking Spanish anymore. Even though the use of Spanish is decreased, the other Latino cultures still do exist until present days, for example is how Filipinos name their children by picking Latin names. That's why Philippines will always called the one of Latin country in Asia.