Filipino Chinese Community

1. Filipino Chinese Community
(Revisit)

2. Filipino Chinese History
 Binondo was created by Spanish Governor Luis
Pérez Dasmariñas on 1584 for a settlement for the
Chinese Immigrants (called Sangleys), with the
intentions of converting the Chinese to Catholicism at
the initiative of the Spanish Dominican Fathers.
Spanish officials forced the Chinese to convert into
Catholicism and if not they'd be executed. Luis Pérez
Dasmariñas played a prominent role in the massacre
of 24,000 Chinese after the Chinese revolt in 1603.
The reason for the massacre was that he wanted to
avenge his father's death under the hand of the
Sangleys.

3.  Binondo's population grew rapidly with many
Chinese Mestizos, products of intermarriage
between the now-Catholic Chinese and local
Filipinos. The district is therefore known as
the birthplace of the Chinese Mestizos,
including St. Lorenzo Ruiz, who became the
first Filipino saint, and Mother Ignacia del
Espiritu Santo, a Mestiza de Sangley who
was the founder of the congregation of the
Religious of the Virgin Mary

4. Language
The vast majority (74.5%) of Chinese
Filipinos speak either Filipino or
English as their first languages. The
majority of Chinese Filipinos (77%)
still retain the ability to understand and
speak Hokkien as a second or third
language.

5. Majority (70%) of Christian Chinese Filipinos are Roman
Catholics. Many Catholic Chinese Filipinos still tend to
practice the traditional Chinese religions side by side with
Catholicism, due to the openness of the Church in
accommodating Chinese beliefs such as ancestor
veneration.
Unique to the Catholicism of Chinese Filipinos is the
religious syncretism that is found in Chinese Filipino
homes. Many have altars bearing Catholic images such as
the Santo Niño (Child Jesus) as well as statues of the
Buddha and Taoist gods. It is not unheard of to venerate
the Blessed Virgin Mary using joss sticks and otherwise
Buddhist offerings, much as one would have done for
Guan Yin or Mazu.

6.  Approximately 13% of all Christian Chinese
Filipinos are Protestants.
 Chinese Filipinos comprise a large percentage
of membership in some of the largest
evangelical churches in the Philippines, many
of which are also founded by Chinese Filipinos,
such as the Christ's Commission Fellowship,
Christian Bible Church of the Philippines,
Christian Gospel Center, United Evangelical
Church of the Philippines, and the Youth
Gospel Center

7. Chinese Traditional Religions and
Practices
A small number of Chinese Filipinos
(2%) continue to practise traditional
Chinese religions solely. [38]
Mahayana Buddhism, specifically,
Chinese Pure Land Buddhism[39]
Taoism[40] and ancestor worship
(including Confucianism)[41] are the
traditional Chinese beliefs that
continue to have adherents among the
Chinese Filipinos.

8. Education
 There are 150 Chinese schools that exist
throughout the Philippines, slightly more than
half of which operate in Metro Manila. Chinese
Filipino schools have an international
reputation for producing award winning
students in the fields of science and
mathematics, most of whom reap international
awards in mathematics, computer
programming, and robotics olympiads.
 Chinese School in the Philippines (Manila)
Philippine Tiong Se Academy 菲律宾中西学院 April 15, 1899
Binondo,
Manila

9. Welcome to China Town
Manila!

10. Binondo Church
(also known as St.
Lorenzo Ruiz
Minor Basilica). It
is one of the oldest
Catholic Church in
the Philippines and
it is where St.
Lorenzo Ruiz once
serve as an altar
boy.

11. Take a walk at Ongpin Street.
It is a home to many Chinese
herbal stores, restaurants
and groceries

15. chinese delicacies.

17.  Kuang Kong is open to the public and is worth
visiting as it shows the roots of the Chinese-Filipino,
you can burn incense sticks and utter your prayers.
There is also these red wooden half moons you can
use to have your fortunes told.

18. The end! Thank you for listening! 