What constitutes today the emergent Philippine nation is discernibly a plural society and culture comparable to those of sister countries in the region of Southeast Asia. Since colonial times, the direction of change in this country has been towards the integration of the diverse and isolated small tribal communities into a developing nation. The desired goal of the nation is to effect a cohesive society is an interesting study in the special area of race and ethnic relations. Perhaps a sub-area could be found also to focus on the problem of majority-minority relations. The paper attempts to differentiate and stratify the entire Philippine population into four major groups of alien and native populations. The object of such tentative classification, which may invite refinement by other taxonomists of Philippine groups, is to identify which group represents either the majority or minority.