Wrong. Filipino is not gender specific. I know that, and a Filipino girl I used to work with confirmed it. Also, I don't even think Filipina is a word.
looks legit
tico/tica
latino/latina
gringo/gringa
etc.
Filipinos are the inhabitants of the
Philippines, located in
Southeast Asia. The term (feminine:
Filipina) may also refer to people of Philippine descent, regardless of citizenship (i.e.
Filipino Americans).
Throughout the colonial era, the term "Filipino" originally referred to
Spaniards born in the Philippines, also known as
insulares,
criollos or
español filipino. This distinguished them from Spaniards born in Europe who were known as
peninsulares. By the mid to late nineteenth century, however, the term "Filipino" had begun to refer to the indigenous population of the Philippines. According to historian
Ambeth Ocampo,
José Rizal was the first to call the native inhabitants "Filipinos".
Today, Filipino is also used to signify the
nationality and citizenship of one who is from the Philippines. This means that not only native
Austronesian Filipinos are included but also other ethnic groups such as the
Chinese.
Colloquially, Filipinos may refer to themselves as
Pinoy (feminine:
Pinay), which is formed by taking the last four letters of
Pilipino and adding the
diminutive suffix -y. The word was coined by expatriate
Filipino Americans during the 1920s and was later adopted by Filipinos in the Philippines.
In various
Philippine languages,
Filipino is translated to Pilipino. The use of /p/ is used since many lack /f/ as a
phoneme.
Negress - a Black woman or girl Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid, Black - a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
