Republic of the Philippines

COMMISSION OF HIGHER EDUCATION

Pamantasan ng Cabuyao
College of Education Arts and Sciences

1st Semester, A.Y. 2021-2022

Name: Cher Angeline Rodriguez Date: September 11, 2021

Section: 3BAF-A Professor: Sir Alex Sanchez

1.Situational. Give what is asked. (15 points each)

Situation: 1

Maicah Tan is a Chinese mestiza and is a business woman who sells Chinese food. Makisig
is a Catholic Indio who works as a farmer in the Hacienda Gomez located at Bunawan,
Agusan del Sur. It is part of Makisig’s routine to buy food from Maicah every afternoon.
After 3 years of repeatedly buying in the store of Maicah, they fell in love, got married, and
now living with their 13 children.

Question:

What is now the racial category of Maicah and her children? Explain.

Maicah is a Chinese mestiza that married a Catholic Indio which is in the name of Makisig.
According to Wickberg (1964), A mestiza marrying a Chinese or mestizo remained in the
mestizo classification, as did her children. But by marrying an indio she and her children
became of that classification. So in conclusion, Maicah now is considered as Indio as well as
their children.

Situation 2:

Lowie Co is a Chinese who work as shoe maker in the Philippines for 15 years. One busy
afternoon, a public school teacher named Atika who was in the rush with damage shoes
captured Lowie’s attention. Lowie offered to repair her shoes. Later on, they got married,
Mrs. Aticka Co and Mr. Lowie Co happily living with their 15 children.

Question:

What is now the racial category of Lowie and his family? Explain.

In this situation, Lowie is a Chinese and Atika has no racial category specified. According to
Tan, in his article The Chinese Mestizos and the Formation of the Filipino Nationality, “Any
person born of a Chinese father and an Indio mother was classified a Chinese mestizo.” It does
mean that if the mother is Indio then their family will be a Chinese Mestizo.