`, 14 September 2007 (UTC)  I am assuming that you're referring to your first statement and not the second one.  If you are, I am not understanding from where you are deriving this belief that ``The Phillipines are just as Fillipino today as they were before the American control`` and have to question whether you have even been there in order to even have a sense of the many ways that Filipino culture and society have been impacted by the US.  Now going back to your first point.  The closest example that I can think of in terms of how the Philippines was treated, i.e. no large scale migration of citizens from the colonizing power is India, so I'm wondering how you would define what the British did there and if this case qualifies as ``colonization`` as you seem to be interpreting it.  I've asked the editors at Wikipedia:Tambayan Philippines if they can comment on use of a term to describe the war's result as well.   18:34`