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How did Spaniards affect Filipino culture?

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Beginning with Ferdinand Magellan's arrival in the Philippines, in the 1500s, Spanish governors, colonists, and merchants imparted their culture, including their Catholicism, to many Filipinos. The Philippines remained a Spanish colony until 1898 when the U.S. defeated Spain in the Spanish-American War.

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