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Before the Spanish there was significant Arabian presence in all over Southeast Asia to, this why you have significant minority of Filipinos being Muslims, some even say the whole nation was Muslim before the Spanish enforced Catholicism by brutal force. The Arabian presence was not colonial but rather based on mutual economic trade, however many Arabians for one or another decided to remain there and today some people there have Arabian ancestry. However our influence is much stronger in Indonesia, and many Indonesians seem to have Arabian features intermixed with Asiatic of course.
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