Philippine

Spain once governed the Philippine Islands.

The flag of the town of Vila Velha looks like an inverted Philippine flag.

Do you know what the Philippine currency is called?

How many Philippine presidents were there until Benigno Simeon Aquino III?

Philippine motorcycle riders wear masks to deflect vehicular exhausts in heavy traffic.

The Philippine government suspended domestic travel to and from Manila and closed schools in the capital city.

Oswaldo is making suman, a type of Philippine rice cake.

Philippine indigenous culture is quite aural-oral as television, videos, and movies outshine literature. Often, the English-language section of Philippine bookstores is larger than the indigenous-language section.

From Roman Catholicism, my father, who first converted, converted my mother, my grandmother, and my cousin to Baptist Protestants. I was in high school; I believed in science and did not convert. My little brother started in the kiddy section of the Protestant church. Such is why he is different from me and my elder brother who both had nominal Catholicism for at least a decade. My elder brother, who also believed in science, stayed away from the religious strife that my family was having. I went to Protestant church with my parents, but felt alien in there. Such is my confession. Statuettes of Buddha from my Philippine and Canadian childhood attracted me to Buddhism. My interest in biology was my natural inclination towards Animism since childhood.

Philippine society is composed chiefly of mixes of Sundadonts, Sinodonts, and Caucasoids.