Um, I don't know if this is relevant but when I studied for a year in the Philippines, one of my good friends was an Indian-Filipino. He was, I believe, 1/4 Filipino but he can apparently trace back his roots to 1920's when his family first moved to Davao. The difference with him was that his family was able to keep their 'Sikh' religion whilst integrating into Filipino society (I know that sounds kinda weird with Catholicism having a massive impact on Fil Soc. but bear with my story) wherein his parents have no trace of an accent and his grandparents were essentially the typical Filipino O.G.'s in the way the acted. The sad thing is, is because he wears a turban, he cops so much shit. Like, he would be called 'ta-e head' because of the way his turban was tied into a bun. People would blatantly say that he should go back to India and stop scamming Filipinos too and he would also be physically pushed around by 3rd years and 4th year (I studied 2nd Year in Ph) Ateneans which was so disheartening and so shameful that we could be so racist. So, the story goes is that I saw these events first hand and I befriended the guy since he always seemed to be a loner. I mean, he could pass as a Filipino Middle Eastern mix because of his fair skin (apparently they have lighter skin in Punjab). So we talked about cricket and stuff (Me being an 'exchange' from Aus)and he eventually invited me over and I was really intent on talking to his parents to just make sure that they knew what was happening to their kid. Turns out, they invited me (p.s. fuck, I wanted their house -_- They lived in the place called Juna in Davao and my god was it nice af) because I was the kids only friend (apart from his bro) and the mother broke down infront of me saying how she knew how hard experiencing all of that and how thankful she was that I befriended her son. I was so shocked because that sense of being branded as 'different' was so deep-rooted that I assume the parents copped worse when they were kids :/ I just wanted to share this because although some people look up at some mestizos, there is definitely a massive proportion that are marginalised from society.