So What's A Filipino?

Never has a question so simple spawned answers so many and complicated.

Even after Filipinos have gone through three colonizers and two world wars--or perhaps even because of that--a lot of them (local, foreign-born, naturalized, and the millions who work abroad) continue to think about the same question.

Is being a Filipino merely citizenship as determined by the Constitution? Is it love of country? A state of mind? Or is it by parentage or by race alone?

So what's a Filipino?

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