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INFLUENCE OF SPAIN Spain's influence to her former colonies in Asia and Oceania are undebatable, and to this day, the Philippines, Guam, Marianas Islands, and Palau are Roman Catholic countries and have numbers of '' Mestizo '' population. INFLUENCE OF THE PHILIPPINES During the Spanish Colonial Era, political prisoners are all those who were convicted of treason were deported to both Guam and Marianas Islands, in so doing this, the Spanish significantly influenced both the bloodline and the culture of its inhabitants. In Guam and Marianas Islands, the Philippine influence had been strong. The native people of Guam, the Chamorro, are of mixed Austronesian, Spanish, and Filipino blood, while due to the influx of immigrants from the Philippines, three in ten Guamanians have a direct Filipino ancestor. Chamorro's nearest language relatives are found in the Philippines, and many Filipinos and Chamorros have word cognates. In Palau, 16% of the population is composed of Filipinos, who are primarily descendants of exiled political prisoners. Also, Filipinos now constitute the majority in the Northern Mariana Islands , the second most numerous in both Guam and Palau, and a minority in the Caroline Islands. |
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