What’s the difference between a Thai girl and a Filipino girl? There are so many misleading information floating around especially certain articles whereby even the authors are confused and mixed up these Asian women. For example plastering Japanese and Taiwanese girls’ photos and representing them as Filipino or Thai girls.

Many can’t tell the difference from their online dating profile photo but with more time, you are able to set them apart. This can be helpful for you to filter off fake online dating profile photos immediately.

Language

The most obvious difference is that Filipinos speak English fluently and tagalog as their native language. Thai is the national and official language of Thailand and the mother tongue of the Thai people, only minority of  Thai women can speak English. However Thai girls in Bangkok and Phuket are fluent in English as they depend on tourists for their trade.

Filipino Women Physical looks

Some Filipino women may look Chinese, Spanish (Spanish colonization) or Caucasian (British rule and American) due to colorful history of the Philippines. On the other hand some Filipina girls are dark and tanned as they have roots tracing back to indigenous people in the Philippines. Below are some pictures of Malayo-Polynesian Filipina women descent.

Ethnic Filipina women Malayo-Polynesian

Most Filipina women are part of Malay/Malayo-Polynesian speaking people. You can find them in rural areas Negros Occidenta,Zamboanga,Misamis Oriental and outlying islands Cebu,Palawan

Filipina Chinese women

Non-Malay Polynesian ethnic groups such as Chinese, Europeans and American form a minority in the Philippine population.The intermarriage of Chinese immigrant workers with native women (called indios) in the 16th century exceed more than those Spanish mixed with Malayo-Polynesian population.

Filipino women with mixed heritage

The opening of the Suez Canal in the 18th century give rise to foreign trade and soon Europeans such as the British, Germans, and French settled in the islands to do business. Mixed-race individuals are known as Filipino mestizos. Example of popular Filipino woman model Misa Campo who has mixed heritage (Dutch and Filipina)

filipina girl with mixed heritage

Thai Women Complexion

Thai women are mostly ethnic Thai that make up approximately 80% of the nation’s population of approximately 64.5 million. Thailand women from predominantly ethnic-Malay southern provinces  are more tanned with brown complexion.

Thailand girls from numerous hill tribes living in the northern mountains and cities such as Chiang Mai have very fair complexion due to the weather. You could easily mistaken these Thai girls for Chinese girls as they are very white. Below are some pictures of fair skinned Thai girls.

fair complexion thai girls

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