Filipinos were not Malay race

My cousin asked once where is filipino race came from the first thought came to my mind was from malay race since it was the one thought in schools.. then he says no were from pacific islanders then i utter huwat?? then i start to google, and amazingly there had been an account and writings about it, i dont know if its only me.. were you aware of this issue?

first, who is the austronesian people?:
The first Austronesian speakers are believed to have originated on the island of TaiwanAsia approximately 10,000-6000 B.C. According to linguist Robert Blust, due to a lengthy split from the Pre-Austronesian populations, the Proto-Austronesian language and cultures emerged on Taiwan following the migration of a group, or groups, of Pre-Austronesian speaking peoples from continental

These first settlers landed in northern Luzon in the Philippines intermingling with the earlier Australo-Melanesian population who had inhabited the islands 23,000 years previously. Over the next thousand years up until 1500 A.D., their descendants spread south to the rest of the Philippine islands, Celebes (modern-day Sulawesi), Borneo, the Moluccas (modern-day Maluku), and Java.

The Austronesian settlers in the Moluccas sailed eastward and spread to the islands of Melanesia and Micronesia between 1200 B.C. and 500 A.D. respectively. Those that spread westward reached Sumatra, the Malay peninsula and what is now southern Vietnam by 500 B.C.(See Champa)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesians
Batanes Islands and Orchid Island (Lan-yu)
The Austronesian Team is participating in a collaboration with the ECAI central team, the School of Information Management and Systems at UC Berkeley, and the Shung Ye Museum to develop maps and cultural resources on the Batanes Island area
FILIPINOS: Filipinos are largely descended from Austronesian-speakingTaiwan, ultimately hailing from the Fujian coast of China. They are most closely related to the Ami tribe which are one of the Austronesian aborigines of Taiwan, with whom they share similar physical appearance, prehistoric culture, and certain linguistic patterns, such as grammar and vocabulary. According to the Stanford University study mentioned below, Filipino and Ami genetic composition are exactly similar, except for a tiny fraction (3%) of European genes, most probably Spanish and/or American.^[10] Filipinos also share about 53% of their paternal genetic composition of the modern-day Fujianese, who are nevertheless considered as Han Chinese

The term Malay is also considered misleading because it gives the impression that the route for the populating of the Philippines was via Malaysia. Current theory holds instead that the Malays who inhabit the rest of the Malay Archipelago and mainland Malaysia are the descendants of Austronesian-speaking immigrants who first went to the Philippines. Then those Austronesian-speaking immigrants ventured further south to what are now Malaysia, Indonesia, and East Timor, as well as to the other Pacific Islands. migrants who came in successive waves from the island of

The earliest aboriginal inhabitants of the Philippines are known as the Negritothousands of years prior to the Austronesian-speaking migrants. Their descendants, the Aetas, constitute a very small minority of the population. groups. Their ancestors arrived

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipino_people

The Austronesian language family is perhaps the world’s largest, with some 1200 languages and approximately 270 million speakers, according to the most recent studies (Tryon, ed. 1994). It ranges from languages with tens of millions of speakers (Malay/Indonesian, Javanese, Tagalog) to a surprisingly large number of languages with only a handful of speakers, numbered in the hundreds. These latter are particularly prevalent in Oceania, the causes for which will be examined later in this volume by Dutton. The geographical range of the Austronesian family is displayed in Map 1. A glance at the map will show that Austronesian languages are spoken from Madagascar in the west to Easter Island in the east. They are spoken almost universally in Indonesia and the Philippines, in Singapore and Malaysia, by the indigenous population of Taiwan, and by minority populations in Vietnam, Cambodia and the Mergui Archipelago off the coast of Burma (currently Myanmar). Further east, Austronesian languages occupy almost all of the islands of Oceania with the exception of the inland and most coastal areas of the great island of New Guinea (Irian Jaya and Papua New Guinea). 

This language family encompasses all languages spoken on all Pacific islands from Sumatra in the west to Easter Island in the east, except for the Papuan languages of New Guinea and a few adjacent islands. They are also spoken in Madagascar and in mainland Malaysia. From the work² discussed here, it turns out that of the ten subgroups of Austronesian languages, nine are confined to Taiwan (red circle), and that all Austronesian languages outside Taiwan belong to the tenth subgroup (green), which includes Polynesian languages (dark green; only a few of the hundreds of Polynesian islands are shown here)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesia

Therefore it is the negrito that first walk in the philippines then to the south, so when we were asked if what race are filipinos? we are austronesian, we did not come from malaysia or indonesia via boat (elementary teachings) rather those people came from us..