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Cake day: September 18th, 2024

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  • It really does, though it more feels like colonization and dehumanizing yourself than trying to earn money. Some white people including a couple of family members have tried to get me to abandon my Asian heritage. Why? There’s nothing to be gained from beside alienating myself and probably other Filipinos by doing that. There’s also no point in trying to attach your heritage as a “minority”, a term that actually applies to white people since they only make up a small percentage of the world population, to the “amerikan identity”.

    One time my great-grandparents bought me a shirt that was about “celebrating your Filipino-amerikan heritage”. Yeah, a shirt about attaching my asian ethnicity to the empire that colonized and genocided our people? not wearing that. I asked for traditional Filipino clothing, not shitty colonizer shirts. And I have explained several times as to why I don’t wear it.

    I’m thinking of moving to Asia in the future, to either the Philippines which is my home country, or China.