... banking. While many prominent Filipinos have Chinese ances- try, there is considerable hostility toward the Chinese dominance of business. Arab traders introduced Islam to the Philippines in the ... Filipinos do not arrange themselves in neat lines. Instead, they form a pushing, shoving crowd, with each person out for him- or herself. e only times that Filipinos have queued in neat lines ... clergy in the nineteenth century. e Spanish language and culture never became totally dominant in the Philippines, perhaps because Spain did not rule directly. e Philippines were overseen indirectly,...