So What If Miss Philippines Catriona Gray Is Only Half-Pinay?

I was thinking about past posts I wrote such as about obsessing about the obsession with Pinoy racial purity. Now it came into my head that the last Miss Philippines prior to Maxine Medina was half-German and half-Filipino namely Pia Alonso Wurtzbach. Right now, we have half-Australian (white) and half-Filipino contestant Catriona Eloisa Magnayon Gray. For those who are complaining about not sending a "pure Pinay" -- are they sure that they don't have any foreign blood mixed in them because Filipino history and anthropology would prove them wrong.

I don't really care about "racial purity" these days for the reason that much cultural exchange and interbreeding has happened around the world. You can see some Filipinos have different appearances than the others. The generations of interbreeding such as the Spanish occupation, Chinese immigration, the Imperial Japanese occupation, and the American occupation could not guarantee the preservation of the "Pinoy racial purity". If you do a bit of a study then you will realize that the modern Filipino today is a mixture of many races. If you're brown you may actually be of either Malaysian or Indonesian descent and even some of the natives were actually settlers from other parts of the world.

So what makes a person a Filipino these days? It's a matter of citizenship and not racial descent! Filipino-Chinese today are still Filipinos because most of them are either naturally born or naturalized in the Philippines. Anybody who holds a Filipino citizenship is a Filipino or Pinoy. Tsinoy is a combination of Filipino and Chinese. So why are those Pinoy racial purists still obsessing about Pinoy racial purity? They can't even prove that they are pure-blooded Pinoys to start with!

Regardless, I'm proud to have Catriona to represent the Philippines for this year's pageant (and hopefully won't make a fool out of herself like Maxine). I don't even care if she wasn't born in the Philippines if she's actually a Filipino at heart. Cheers!