Latin American Asian
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| Total population | ||||
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| (Officially Unknown but rough estimates place it at around 18 Million Filipinos possessing significant partial or majority Hispanic/Latin-American ancestry plus some 250,032 Brazilians living in Japan. Thus, totaling to about 18 million 250 thousand Latin American Asians. (Based on old Spanish-Censuses of the Philippines and the modern count of Brazilians in Japan)) |
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| Regions with significant populations | ||||
| Philippines and Japan | ||||
| Languages | ||||
| American English, Spanish, Filipino, Portuguese and Japanese | ||||
| Religion | ||||
| Christianity predominantly Roman Catholicism | ||||
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Latin American Asians are Asians of Latin-American (Either of North American or South American) descent. Latin American-Asians have been in Asia since the 16th century. The timeline of Latin-American settlement in Asia mostly occurred from the 1500s to the 19th century when the Spanish used Filipino sailors to bring Latin-Americans from across the Pacific to serve as mercenaries and traders either to supplement its Filipino soldiers in the numerous wars Catholic Philippines had with its Muslim, Tantrist or Confucian neighbors which surrounded the Philippines (Ensuring a state of constant warfare) or coordinate the Manila Galleon trade between Latin-America and Asia. Therein, gems taken from South Asia, spices taken from Southeast Asia and silk and porcelain taken from East Asia were gathered and transshipped from the Philippines across the Pacific Ocean to Latin-America in exchange for the products of Mexico in North America (Mainly Chocolate and Pineapples) and silver taken from the mines of Peru at South America. This trade eventually extended to Europe where the silver mined in Latin-America and silk gathered in the Philippines was used by Catholic Spain to fund its wars across Europe (mainly against the Islamic Ottoman Empire) and to a lesser extent, support Catholic Philippines' many wars, mainly against the Sultanate of Brunei. In a small scale, a few Latin-Americans also settled in the ports of Macau in China and Ternate in Indonesia which were secondary trade-nodes to the primary one between Manila and Acapulco. Asides from this historical Latin-American settlement into the Philippines, which has now mostly stopped and doesn't operate anymore and the current people merely being Latin-American descendants rather than Latin-Americans themselves, there is also the modern presence of Brazilians in Japan which form the largest presence of people from the Americas, living in Asia, barring the Philippines.
The first Latin Americans Asians were primarily Mexicans and to a lesser extent, Colombians and Peruvians who made their way to Asia (Mainly the Philippines) in the 16th century, either as mercenaries or traders during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. For two and a half centuries (between 1565 and 1815) many Mexicans and some Colombians and Peruvians were supplementing Filipino soldiers in the wars fought in conflict-ridden Philippines (I.E during the Castille War and The Battle of Manila etc). Others were traders engaged in the Philippine-built Manila-Acapulco Galleon Route and were assisting in the Spanish Empire's monopoly in trade as well as serving as officials for the Viceregal capital of Mexico wherein the Captaincy General of the Philippines was a part of. The Latin-American soldiers who were sent to the Philippines from the Spanish colonies in America were often made up of Mulattoes, Mestizos and Indios (Amerindians). This is proven by the letters written by Governor-Generals such as Don Sebastián Hurtado de Corcuera who wrote that they brought soldiers over from Peru, settled Zamboanga City and waged war against the Sultanate of Maguindanao.
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