Either way, what I’ve heard is that most of them are usually rich and prefer owning business to having a job. And that Chinese girls rarely date/marry outside the community but the guys increasingly do.

I don’t have a pure Chinese friend (someone who speaks Chinese at home) – so I can’t be very confident of these stereotypes.

Of the total chinese population in the Philipines that either or identify themselves as chinese or chinese-filipino:

1) How many are chinese-born / foreign-born?
2) How many are chinese-born but is now naturalized filipino?
3) How many have chinese-born parents or grandparents?

After the 1603 massacre, most of the “sangleys” who arrived thereafter agreed to convert to Catholicism, including the father of San Lorenzo Ruiz and Domingo Lam-co, the paternal ancestor of Jose Rizal. The Spaniards created Binondo for these converted “sangleys” who were now allowed to intermarry with “indio” women. The “sangleys” salivated at the prospect of having great sex with their “indio” wives, and so that’s where this ethnic slur came from:

“INTSIK BEHOO TURO RAWAY”.

By the way, Jose Rizal never was an “indio” despite being hailed as the Pride of the Malay Race. During his trial, he opposed not only his death sentence but also his legal status as a “mestizo de sangley” which was contained in the verdict. Rizal did not even mention his own people the “mestizos de sangley” in his two novels. Indeed, “mercado” his original family name meant “market” which was chosen by Domingo Lam-co to prevent his heirs from facing the anti-Chinese hatred and prejudice of the Spaniards. No matter what he did, he could never get away from his “sangley” origins.