Wednesday, May 30, 2007

• Filipino Talk

  Upon returning from California I noticed that if you speak to a filipino worker in tagalog, they refrain from conversing with you in tagalog and instead use their broken english...

  However here in Texas, if you start speaking spanish to a hispanic worker, they'll gladly respond in spanish.

  I find it disheartening how a culture struggles for its exhistence and yet it refuses to communicate the language that which defines it...

  Of course there are some factors to consider... that the filipino speaks a different dialect of filipino or the hispanic worker knows only english... lol

  What has the world done to us?! For those of you that do not know about Filipino History, here is a brief explanation.

   

  ***you can skip this part if you don't want to read it

  Over centuries the Filipino has been colonized, reculturalized, and has grown so caught up in media, that we have had so many cultures at once influence our characteristics and beliefs, which has led us to be the single race that is a melting pot for others cultures.  Think about it as a 3rd cultured kid.  One born in Korea, raised in the Philippines, but went to an american-international school and can speak more than 3 languages.  The Filipino is like that but more.  We are, Spanish, Chinese, American, a little Japanese, & lots of Malay descent. With all of the aforementioned in mind, it wasn't til the 1950's when the world slapped us in the face once again, only to say that due to all of the assimilation into foreign cultures, the Filipino is a dying culture. What happend next and is still going on to this day, is that the Filipino fights to survive and create their own place in this world, their own identity.

  I think this can sort of explain why Filipino's have cliques. if you need an explanation please say so

  Anywho back on topic, in a modern day and age with the rise of Asian Americans understanding and fighting to create an identity in the U.S., it is incredibley more difficult for a Filipino to aknowledge their being.  After centuries of being told who they should be and what they are, they must now overcome another struggle in america.

  I hate to say it, but if the American Filipino were to find peace, logically they would have to overcome this persuit of being Filipino and instead embrace the new asian-american culture... unfortunately we aren't logical.

  We are too determined to find ourselves. We are incredibley gifted and blessed by the cultures that have created us. We are passionate about our inner beauty that the world does not aknowledge. Call us Bohemians of the modern age for we are everything that everybody is not and we can love more in life that any artists can paint or sing about. We are the rennaisance men and women of today, where our art has it's own purpose much like Bernini or Michaelangelo.  We are artists that not only portray life, beauty, and love, but also our reason of exhistence.

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