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os here and there it was almost like culture shock i didn t realize how important it was to me to be surrounded by diverse peoples like i am in the bay area until i had to leave it i wonder how i ll fare in a more homogenous place like spain hopefully i can try to surround myself with diverse and accepting people posted by christina sl at 3 07 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels filipino identity mixed race tuesday july 6 2010 filipino post colonial inheritance some interesting quotes i found while reading random academic essays that pertain to my identity as filipina american from introduction have come are here reading filipino a american literature rocío g davis melus vol 29 no 1 filipino american literature spring 2004 pp 5 18 published by the society for the study of the multi ethnic literature of the united states melus this issue opens with vince gotera s personal essay which charts the itinerary of a us born filipino s self awareness and cultural awakening gotera s process of learning about filipino american history is constitutive of his own trajectory as a writer interestingly he writes of the identity he had to come into as an inheritance due to him but denied him until he learned the hidden histories of the early filipinos in america i m still in this process i ve barely even begun a sense of discontinuous history and cultural hybridization produced by a palimpsestic journey of imperialism cultural imposition diasporic movement and assimilation hits the nail right on the head here from relocation of culture post assimilation paradigms in the immigrant writing of contemporary america an essay by carl jenkinson in which he writes of the filipino american author carlos bulosan s novel america is in the heart 1946 newcomers to the united states are first generation immigrants they are the new wave of pioneers who come to america in search of economic prosperity or political freedom or gender equality or simply family reunification their children are at once second generation immigrants and first generation americans as this naming indicates theirs is the most confused immigrant subject position of all pulled by allegianes to both lands but belonging in neither they endure perhaps the truest of in between states a very poignant perception of some of the difficulties of being a biracial filipino american the first ambition of the colonized is to become equal to that splendid model and to resemble the colonizer to the point of disappearing in him albert memmi this quote appeared as an epigraph within the same essay english is still the language of education and helps to assimilate filipino identity to that of what americans deem more civilized education also symbolizes the american occupation and comes with hidden costs representing the faux benevolence of the colonizer the possibility of prosperity through education seduces the colonized into complicity with the colonizer ultimately this complicity leads to cultural erasure interestingly though the effects of this process are insidious the american government was quite open about its aims with regard to education president william mckinley openly declared the mission of the united states in the philippines as benevolent assimilation a concept which of course contradict the democratic tenets the americans were seeking to export as mckinley stated in 1899 to a congregation of methodist church leaders t here was nothing left for us to do but take them all and to educate the filipinos and to uplift and civilize them as our fellowmen for whom christ also dies this declaration bears an unnerving resemblance to the infamous and perhaps more brutal civilizing mission of the british in africa which also invoked the will of god as a mandate for both expansion and exploitation mckinley s desire to indoctrinate the populace in order to subdue it was clearly similar in design i consider myself privileged that i know where to look and have free access to these academic journal articles i wonder how other filipino americans navigate their identity to a satisfactory understanding everything i find out makes me more and more disgusted with american racist imperialism where are the filipinos who are not complicit to this assimilation is it possible to do so when they are raised in an environment that values american myths that not even america adheres to is the writer of this essay correct in saying that dissent itself is what americanizes the dissenters is the philippines still feudalistic but under different guises posted by christina sl at 3 43 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels assimilation filipino filipino american identity mixed race monday july 5 2010 horizontal hostility in the context of race pt 2 in an earlier post i made about whether poc can be racist against each other i think the problem was that my definition of racism was too narrow to account for other ways that racism is expressed thus i define racism as not only the power to withhold or grant benefits that are not earned but also the power to keep powerful powerless relationships the same in this case one good example i can think of that i wrote about for a final paper for my asian americans of mixed heritage class is whether asian americans using the word hapa a native hawaiian word to describe themselves is racist i came to the conclusion that it is because tl dr version it robs the autonomy of native hawaiians to use their own words as part of their own identity and misappropriates that word to describe another people which reinforces colonizer colonized relationship of asians to native hawaiians since they also worked under whites in the plantations and had higher standing above the native hawaiians regardless of not being equal to the whites therefore it is possible for poc to be racist against each other if they buy into the negative or even positive e g smart asian stereotypes that originate from white ignorant perspectives in order to other poc this upholds the dominant paradigm of whites over poc however it is not possible for poc to be systemically racist against whites since whites already are in the dominant powerful position posted by christina sl at 2 13 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels horizontal hostility friday july 2 2010 a filipino quote kapag nagsara ang isang pinto may bubukas na iba pero kadalasan tinititigan natin at pinanghihinayangan ang pinto na nagsara kaya t hindi natin makita ang isa na bumukas para sa atin translation when one door closes and another opens we often look so long and regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us posted by christina sl at 1 47 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels filipino filipino american mixed race monday june 28 2010 children of filipino immigrants and assimilation it s not often that i find literature or studies specifically about the filipino american experience or in other words the experiences of 1st generation u s america born children of a filipino immigrant s so it is a bit of a relief to see a lot of the stuff i ve been feeling as part of my experience as a filipino and white american be talked about in the article paradox of assimilation by espiritu and wolf the article examines the filipino american population in san diego ca some of the parts that resonate with me i ll quote here and comment on this first quote i thought was interesting because when my mother says i m white maybe she s equating white not only with physical features but with nationality as well although i think it may be poignant that white culture and i m not even sure there is a thing such as white culture as i understand it but that s for my next post and american culture are equivocated in a qualitative study of filipino americans in san diego county espiritu 1997 also found that most filipinos rejected the assimilative american identity instead they equated american with white and often used these two terms interchangeably for example a filipina who is married to a white american referred to her husband as american but to her african american and filipino american brothers in law as black and filipino respectively this practice of equating american with white reflects the racialized history of filipinos and other asians in the united states historically u s immigration exclusion acts naturalization laws and national culture have simultaneously marked asians as the inassimilable aliens and whites as the quintessential american lowe 1996 excluded from the collective memory of who constitutes a real american asians in the united states even as citizens are expected to remain the foreigner within the non american in the case of filipinos emigrants from a former u s colony their formation as racialized minorities does not begin in the united states but rather in the homeland already affected by u s economic social and cultural influences lowe 1996 8 cognizant of the enduring significance of race a filipino man who has lived in the united states for thirty years explains why he still does not identify himself as american i don t see myself just as an american because i cannot hide the fact that my skin is brown to me american means white espiritu 1997 not so much having to do with filipino experience but i quoted this for truth a european non european distinction remains a central division in u s society lieberson and waters 1988 248 this belief in the promise of equal opportunity and the rousing endorsement of the united states even in the face of racism testifies to the enduring power of the ideology of the united states as the land of opportunity fair play and abundance indeed the american myth is very strong for filipinos here and those aspiring to be here even when many of my family members can recount at least once instance in which whites have done or said racist things toward them because they are proficient in english filipino parents may be less compelled to teach their children the filipino language as a filipino immigrant parent explained we don t teach the children tagalog because we re comfortable in english also english comes out almost automatically when we speak to them even the grandparents speak english espiritu 1994 257 i once asked my mom why she never decided to teach my sister and i tagalog and she said at differing times that either she never thought about it or we did not show any interest in learning i have since asked her to only address me in tagalog so that i can build off of the tagalog i already know just from having been surrounded by it for many years but she often forgets to do so it seems to be more convenient for her to talk to me in english even though after two decades she continues to have trouble mastering the english language to the extent of a native speaker along the same lines cils data suggest that there is a lack of active cultural socialization the deliberate teaching and practicing of the languages traditions and history of the philippines in filipino american homes although close to three quarters of the parents surveyed stated that it is very important for their child to know about the philippines over half 57 reported that they seldom talked to their child about the philippines and close to three quarters 72 admitted that their family seldom celebrated special days connected with the philippines a filipino american tells of the cultural void in his family not much was going on at my house nothing it wasn t made explicit that filipino culture is something that we should retain that we should hold on to as something that s valuable there wasn t that much sense that we should keep the language so you don t really get taught you know and i found that to be a real common experience among filipinos my age our parents don t realize that we don t know anything about the old country who was the first president when was independence day who was jose rizal espiritu 1994 258 this perceived lack of cultural transmission in filipino american homes can be attributed in part to the parents long work hours and or to the pressure that force immigrants to assimilate the mainstream culture as a filipina american stated we don t celebrate these holidays because growing up in my neighborhood white washed suburbia we just couldn t espiritu 1994 259 again my mother never thought it necessary to teach about filipino culture i didn t know the day of independence or the first president until this article made me realize that i didn t and i promptly looked it up similarly i had no idea who jose rizal was until i first heard his name when we went to visit a few historical sites on my first trip to the philippines when i was 16 first as predicted by the pluralist model second generation filipinos like others in the cils sample move toward an ethnic rather than an american identity over time but they also conform to the forces of assimilation because they believe in the american dream and prefer english to their parents native language these data suggest that ethnic identification is a more dynamic and complex social process than has been predicted by either the assimilationist and pluralist perspectives for me i had enough exposure to the filipino culture through family that there are often times where i don t particularly identify as white so much as filipina american i ll never fit in as a filipina because i don t look filipina enough however many filipinos usually have three things to say when it comes to how i look that i m tall and or beautiful and that i should go to the philippines and be a movie star i don t know too well since i don t have a large amount of knowledge of the filipino attitude toward celebrities but it seems that the more rich filipinos in films that speak more english the more high class they seem compared to the poorer maids who work under them there is also value placed on those who are of mixed blood mestiza that have spanish blood as this is seen as a sign of being high class as well along with the light skin that comes with it i may be mistaken though but this is just my impression from the attitudes and biases that i ve been exposed to they are already part of the system as opposed to being marginalized by it compared with other immigrant groups another possibility is that our notion of assimilation is flawed in that it suggests more ease and integration than what may be occurring for some speaking english and owning one s home do tell us about economic integration but not about socio emotional matters in other words such measures cannot and do not elucidate the process and meaning of assimilation for those who live and experience it thus our analysis underscores that rather than navigating a path towards a sense of ease and belonging the process of assimilation...