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Filipinos
come from the Philippines with an Archipelago of 7,107 islands.
There are currently over 100 Ethnic Groups in the Philippines, with
over 500 dialects, 78 major languages and 2 National Languages,
Tagalog and English.
We are
notably the largest English Speaking Ethnic Group in
Canada!
Filipino
Canadians are Canadian citizens or immigrants who are of Filipino
ancestry and can trace their roots back to the Philippines. They
are typically of South-East Asian Malay descent, with various
admixtures of Negrito, Chinese, Indian, Arab, Polynesian
bloodlines, with Spanish and other European Heritage. Filipinos
have also been greatly influenced by American cultural patterns for
almost a century.
The
earliest Filipinos that immigrated to Canada were in the late
1960's. These immigrants were mostly single women who primarily
worked as nurses, medical doctors, technologists, and secretaries.
In the late 1970s and '80s, the gender imbalance substantially
decreased, as family reunification became a priority of the
Canadian Immigration policy.
The Top
3 Immigrant Classes that Filipinos go through are: Skilled Worker
Class, Family Class and Live-In Caregiver Program, according
to Immigration Trends 2006 Multiculturalism and Immigration
Branch.
Filipinos
are one of the youngest visible minorities in Canada. Filipinos are
known to be well educated and industrious. According to Statistics
Canada, Filipinos are one of the visible minorities most likely to
hold a university degree and least likely not to have completed
high school than other adults in Canada. Filipinos have been
statistically proven more likely to be involved in the labour force
than other visible minorities in Canada.
Filipinos are celebrated to be a very family oriented, friendly,
hospitable, religious, adaptable, loyal, and diligent kind of
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