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Know what's funny? Last year I found out that some Asian countries actually look a lot like Latin American countries, we even made a new term to refer to Filipino people here in Brasil: Filiprimos which is the concatenation of Filipino with primo (cousin), because of the similarities we have with them.
brotherly peoples, we love to see grains of internationalism
Many Asian countries are part of the Latino Belt
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My wife is from a SEA country. We went to Mexico and she was like "these are my people!". Except for all the beans. Beans are for dessert.
There are several Japanese words loaned from Portuguese and cuisine like melonpan, that was mostly from Jesuit missionaries from Portugal I think but that connection is interesting to me, some similar influences as South America.
Oh yeah definitely, I remember learning about that a few years ago. Also it's interesting that we have the largest population of Japanese people outside of Japan here because of the Japanese Immigration from 1908-1960.
Brazilian-Japanese and Peruvian-Japanese immigrants still make a large % of the immigrants currently living in Japan.
Us Filipinos have more in common with Latin America than we do with our neighbors due to Spanish colonialism. A lot of Spanish architecture in the Philippines. Tagalog is a mix between the indigenous Tagalog Filipino language and Spanish. And of course the super duper Catholicism. Our food is definitely South East Asian, though. Adobo is the main dish you'll find in Hispanic countries, but everything else is more like Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese, or Japanese cooking.