As an ordinary Filipino citizen, I think we need to continue speaking about a "plurinational", "pluriethnic", & "plurilinguial" country. For example, why is barong tagalog (a dress specific to my mother's region) promoted as THE national costume for men? We've got so much more.
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Having a monocultural idea of being and becoming a Filipino is so damaging for the peoples of the Philippines. We've got 180+ languages and so many kinds of lifeworlds!
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Yes! There were multiple indigenous populations there! Many of which contributed genes to the Austronesian pool and practiced things like jewelry making using gold thousands of years ago. They were quite sophisticated.
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excuse my language! *are
I only had time to see one museum in the P.I. in Makati and it had dioramas of the ancient indigenous people, and that's what I was referring to but you are spot-on, you're all still alive and around! 
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