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Spanish colonial period, with minor differences. The terms criollo was used with the same sense
as in Spanish America, namely for a person born in the Philippines with entirely Spanish
ancestry, or in many cases in Latin America, mostly Spanish and some Amerindian. However,
those with Asian blood were not regarded as Criollo in the Philippines. Criollos were more
commonly called filipinos ("from the Philippines") or insulares ("from the islands") according to
the original meaning of the word. The criollo class was below that of the peninsulares born in
spain, but out-ranked the people of mixed Austronesian-Spanish descent, and the Christianized
native Austronesian peoples.
9 The meaning of filipino changed drastically during the Philippine Revolution for
Independence against Spain in 1896. It was adopted by nationalist movements and transformed
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