Of course,race is irrelevant,what is important is culture.Culturally speaking, yes. Geographically speaking, no. Racially speaking, no as well, for we are of the Austronesian ethnos, and therefore, should be aligned more with the rest of Asia, or should I say, the Brown Asiatic-Mongoloid race. Indonesia and Malaysia are also considered Pacific Islander, but they truly identify with the rest of Asia.
What I am proposing for what should be done to the Philippines is to realign their cultural alignment with Asia, so we may never be seen as little brown Americans with Hispanic surnames. Only by gradually severing our cultural ties to the West, can we truly integrate fully with the rest of Asia. Pacific Islanders too, must embrace their Asiatic roots, for they came from Asia as well.
It is to our detriment that Japan chose to imitate China's tendency to become the center of Asia when they treated the nations they claimed to liberate far worse than when they were under the rule of whites. It would have been better if the Pan-Asian movement was a genuine movement instead of being a mere cover for Japanese imperialism.
And to what Asia you want join ? becouse there was 3 important traditions there :
1.Hinduism with its caste system - it is still alive,but you do not want that shit.
2.Buddhism - still,if barely,alive - but what you want to copy? societies where part of population are monks? you,who hate catholic monks,would welcome buddhist ones?
And,they do not produce anything,unlike catholics.
3.China - commies killed that tradition,but even if it existed - do you really want to live under Heavenly Mandate? in practice it was rule of educated tyrants which lead to stagnation.
You want Asia,and you want technological progress.Sorry,all real asian cultures would curb such progress more then all catholic kings combined.
If you want real asiatic culture,then you want stagnation.