September  UTC  I am assuming that youre 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 ie no large scale migration of citizens from the colonizing power is India so Im wondering how you would define what the British did there and if this case qualifies as colonization as you seem to be interpreting it  Ive asked the editors at WikipediaTambayan Philippines if they can comment on use of a term to describe the wars result as well