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Pure Filipina

Just what is a pure Filipina? Were there always people in the Philippines? If not when did they get there and where did these original Filipinos and Filipinas come from?

What would be a genetically pure Filipina? For that a person would need to know exactly who the original inhabitants of the Philippines were…

More than 250,000 years ago there was absolutely nobody in the Philippines! Then, around that time, the Dawnmen arrived from Asia via a land bridge. These Dawnmen surived by hunting and fishing, and had no knowledge of agriculture.

However, these Dawnmen eventually did leave the Philippines, or for other reasons, ceased to exist in the Philippines.

About 11,000 years ago, during the Pleistocene Epoch saw the first significant human settlements in the Philippines. How did this happen? A land bridge connected Southeast Asia mainland and Malay Archipeligo (south of the Philippines), allowing Paleolithic hunters to follow wild animals across to the Malay Archipeligo.

These Paleolithic hunters later arrived in the Philippines. These are believed to be ancestors of present-day people of the Aeta (Negrito) and Agta tribes. The Negrito are now only found in higher elevations of remote areas of Luzon, Palawan, Panay, Negros and Mindanao. Negritos remain a nomadic people, foraging and hunting in small family groups.

2,500 years ago, Northern Luzon (Cagayan Valley) was settled by Austronesian speakers from Taiwan. These Austronesians arrived in Taiwan about 4000 BC. Tagalog is part of the Austronesian language group. Austronesian type descended 150,000 years ago from Ngandong man of Java who originated from the older Pithecanthropes of Java.

After 3rd century BC, Groups of Malay descent arrived. These are the ancestors of the majority of modern day Filipinos.

Note: this is just one of multiple theories as to the origin of people in the Philippines.

After all this info gathered from the internet, the exact definition of a genetically pure Filipina remains even more unclear, doesn’t it? Yet, a look at this pretty Filipina’s picture confirms that, no matter what the definition of a pure Filipina is, the results are most spectacular and appealing!

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Kadena NCO Club Park

Down the street from our Kadena Air Base house was a fairly big park. I suppose it had a name, and we sort of think it was called Stillwell Park. This park was located just across the street from the Kadena NCO Club.

The NCO Club had a great little barber shop, and haircuts were 75 cents at that time. It was handy to home, so that is where I went.

As with a lot of Filipinas, my wife is good with her hands, and in this picture she is wearing a dress she made. It’s longer than I prefer her to wear, but nice anyways.

Our entrance to this Kadena park was down a hill (and back up again) and went through an area quite overgrown with vegatation, and it looked like a good place for snakes.