@upsidedowndevil we were sold to the US by Spain then shortly occupied by Japan where they did incredibly horrific things to the Filipino people during WW2
the US helped us fight back against the Japanese and left a huge cultural impact on us which explains why many of us can speak English
shocked at all the Latinos confused about why the Philippines is so similar to Latin America when we were all conquered by the same country around the same time and that same country colonised us for 333 years and named us after King Philip II