Exogamy is the custom of marrying outside the tribe, family, clan, or other social unit.
The Spanish colonization that lasted for more than 377 years in 1500s perhaps started interracial marriages in the Philippines.
Nowadays, Filipinos of mixed ethnic backgrounds are scattered all over the world. There are not only Spanish-Filipinos (mestizos), Filipino-Americans (Fil-Ams), and Chinese-Filipinos (tsinoy or pintsik), but we also have Japanese-Filipinos, British-Filipinos, Filipino-Germans, Filipino-Koreans, and many more to mention that seems to be endless.
Couples with different colors tend to blend, live harmoniously, and produce another set of colors. Their offsprings are not comfortable at first. They get names from school like brownie, yellow, brown monkey, etc. They feel odd or different and don't belong to any of those groups around them. However, they'll soon realize that the world came from a single human race. They see others with mixed ethnicities and backgrounds as well until the remixing continues.
I think people marry men and women from other ethnic backgrounds because of so many reasons like love and partnership. Unfortunately, some of them marry for money or sex. I heard of maid-to-order brides from Russia, China, Vietnam, Korea, and Philippines. I can see young teenagers dating older white men or other colors in 40s, 50s, and even 60s, too! What an awful situation, I guess. I feel pity at the same time shameful for these young women. I, myself, has a foreign boyfriend yet I am 100%sure that we exist not because of money or something. My first interacial relationship was not successful, though. It was that hard. I dated Filipino guys, too. Let's just say that they didn't work well.
When I was in my teens, I never had a boyfriend. I never thought of having a foreign boyfriend either. I just didn't have any boyfriends. I didn't feel like dating and I was concentrating on my studies. Secondly, I taught myself that I should be with someone I can surely spend my whole life with. I guess, things like that come to those who had single parents, divorced parents, or orphans. The thought of waiting for that someone who will surely not leave them, but love them unconditionally is tattoed in their minds for the fear of having a broken family in the future.
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