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Originally posted by Cynthetiq
I am American. My heritage is Filipino.
I resent being called a Filipino-American.
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I am pretty much the same way with being "filipino-american". What does this mean to me other than roots and heritage? I don't feel like I am particularly deeply rooted with my culture but I can understand where people would want to hold on to something that makes them uniquely american by adding the subgenre title. However, I see a lot of seperation between minorities and the rest of americans and I'd like to see this change. We need to embrace eachother's cultures and sometimes it seems like we just don't want to learn about eachother at all. One thing that really bothers me is when people assume that minorities are "lesser" people and are therefore stupid. They will raise their voice and enunciate syllables and speak in a slower tone as if you are deaf and dumb. Being able to speak their own language AND english (which i'm sure they're a lot better at than if you tried to speak theirs) doesn't seem dumb to me at all.