Kristine Hermosa is Filipina, not "3/4 Filipino"

Kristine Hermosa is a Filipina actress.
I was just visiting a forum, when I came across a common thing that happens often, which is to refer to Filipinos of known recent European ancestry as "1/2 Filipino" or "3/4 Filipino." Someone saw a picture of Kristine Hermosa and asked "Wow, she's beautiful! Is she mixed race?" to which someone replied "Kristine Hermosa is 3/4 Filipino because her mom is a Spanish mestiza", and this was my reply:

Kristine Hermosa is Filipino because her nationality is Filipino.

Mestizo in the Philippines is not a mix of Filipino or Spanish blood, but a mix of Malay and Spanish blood, there is no such thing as having "Filipino blood" because there is no such thing as a Filipino race, there is a Filipino people made up of the mixture of several "races": Malay, Spanish, and Chinese ancestry making up the ancestry of the majority of Filipinos.

After the Aeta natives who are thought to be related to the aborigines of Australia, the Malays immigrated to the Philippines and make up the majority of it's stock, then a very large ethnic Chinese population, then Spaniards arrived and settled and intermarried with the native Malays and ethnic Chinese, and mestizos were born of the main three ancestries that today make up the culture and ancestry of modern day Filipinos.

The word "Filipino" is originally a Spanish word originally used to refer to the Creole Spanish population of "Las Islas de Filipinas" (the original name of the country named after King Felipe II of Spain), after the Philippine Revolution, it was extended to include anybody born in the Philippines, not just Filipinos of mostly Spanish descent, but the mixed race mestizos, the Malay, and the ethnic Chinese. Anybody born in the Philippines who identifies with the national culture is a Filipino, regardless of their ancestry.

Mestizo is an outdated term, not only in the Philippines, but in the rest of Latin America and all of the Spanish-speaking countries, because for many people, it's difficult to trace actual racial ancestry and exact mixture percentages after hundreds of years of racial mixture.

I don't believe in splitting people up into fractions, it's inhuman. My cousin was talking to me about how he was confused growing up sometimes in Toronto because he's "half-Filipino" and I said, "You're not half Filipino, you're 100% Filipino. You define for yourself who you are, don't let society do it for you. Your mom is Filipino, you're 100% Filipino. Your dad is Canadian, you're 100% Canadian. You're not half of each, you're 100% of both, and don't ever forget that. You define who you are." Because at the end of the day, as scientists have proven, there is only one REAL race, and that's the human race, and every person on this Earth is a part of that one, and that's what matters the most.