Filipino Celebrities are often half white, half Filipino...why is it like that?

[Arthur Little]

I've just read a story about Anne Curtis. She is a half Filipina half Australian girl who has been in a few Filipino movies...

Why is it that celebrities in Philippines tend to be half white, half Filipino..?

It's the result of Caucasian [predominantly American/Australian/European] influence, Nigel. e.g., the father of an elderly *relative of Myrna's was a native of San Diego, California ... and his mother, Filipina. Yet, oddly enough *this man has never left the Philippines. His granddaughter, however, was the winner of a beauty contest [Miss Fitrum] in Manila earlier this year.