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I just came back from the Philippines and honestly I think every Filipino American should go back at least once in their lives if they can. This was my fourth trip and it's good to be reminded of your heritage, especially if you're like me and aren't in a very Filipino community or don't speak any Filipino language. You learn a lot over there. It's truly an experience. Just brace yourselves for cold baths.
Fun fact: Filipinos are actually the oldest group of Asian Americans. A group of Filipino sailors settled in Louisiana in the 1760s, in a settlement called St. Malo. They were called Manilamen!
I've learned this from Vamp. Diaries.
Really? How?
Nah, chinos y filipinos
Im first generation Mexican-American and I met my wifey who is 100% Pinay, in 2007.
Ill be honest, first time I went to Pilipinas I was taken back by the poverty. However, the hospitality was the thing that won me over.
I have a daughter who was born there and has garner swp much admiration for her light skin and wide eyes lol lol.
Im not Filipino but my family is, and for that im proud
are you sure?because filipinos are more attracted to chinito or chinita means those who have slanted eyes and fair skin..
Filipinos are not particular about eye size so no they don't necessity be more attracted to chinitos than those who have bigger eyes. Filipinos are more attracted to light skin and high bridged noises otoh
Elena Delgado or should we say, germanic features.
MidNite Filipina/Mexican here! ☺️❤️
Now we admire morenas, mestizas and chinitas
When I was younger I used to ask my mom why so many filipinos are good singers and she always answered: It's because they always sing. When they're bored they sing, when they're sad they sing, when they're hungry and they have no money to buy food and at every party they sing karaoke.
Thought I would share this because.. i don't know 😂
He's spreading incorrect facts about the Philippines. Firstly China never colonized Philippines. He also claimed that the Filipinos were all Aetas before they were mixed with Spaniards, Chinese, etc, which is false. The Aetas are Australo-Melanesians, like the Aborigines in Australia. They are believed to be the earliest inhabitants of the Philippines, but became a minority after the Austronesian migration. The Filipinos share a common history with other countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia as their languages are in the same family. I really wished Filipinos would be more interested in their history.
Not just Indonesia and Malaysia but also the countries of Micronesia. They share a similar history from being Austronesians and also colonized by Spain and then the US. A lot of people forget that because Micronesians are considered Pacific Islanders. That doesnt mean we're not related to them.
true. It's irritating because he acts as a knowledgeable Filipino on Filipino when it couldn't be farther from the truth
Mimi Martin MICRONESIA is part of the Spanish East Indies, together with Philippines, Mexico and Guam.
Philippines is just similar to IND and MLY in terms of ethnic tribes and physical looks but culturally Philippines is more similar than Mexico and latin america. Philippines is culturally hispanic.
YUP MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY. ALSO IF HE REALLY KNOWS ABOUT FILIPINO AMERICAN HISTORY HE WOULD KNOW THAT FILIPINO WERE THE FIRST ASIAN GROUP TO THE US WHICH MEANS THEY ARE ALSO THE FIRST GROUP TO SETTLE BEFORE THE CHINESE AND JAPANESE. I SWEAR AJ RAFAEL SOUNDS LIKE A COMPLETE IDIOT IN THIS VIDEO. HIS MOTHER MUST BE REALLY PROUD. LMAO!
Many Filipinos have misplaced nationalism!
To me, that PInoy Pride thinking is a bunch of bs! Especially to those who use it in a wrong way.
Many Filipino-Americans who say they have Pinoy Pride but looks down on Filipinos from the homeland like calling them fresh off the boat.
Dissing the culture and people they are claiming pride in!
I am Filipino. And I noticed that we are a really proud race. And because of that, sometimes we do not know how to react to criticism. Usually when there is a video that says something negative about our culture, we are quick to get mad and flame the comment box.
There is a famous trend going on, it's called #butthurtphilippies or #butthurtpinoy . And I just really wish it would stop. I am born and raised in the Philippines, but if someone doesn't have the same opinion as I do, I don't care.
That's really one of the most non-redeeming characteristics about our culture, the pridefulness, and it upsets me as well. There is a fine line between "being proud" and "having pride..." Wish many Filipinos didn't cross it so much. Leads to lots of family and friend altercations...
touchmenot films Ironically there's also a growing number of Filipinos who put down other Filipinos, aka "Crab Mentality".
Robz Sarmy you shouldn't generalize. Not everyone is the same. I am born and raised in the Philippines and I could care less about other people's beliefs.
Also, I'm an atheist, but I don't judge other beliefs.
We are now living in a modern society. People can do what they want to do with their lives, that's the beauty of it. You can worship a rock and people should care less about it, it's your life.
touchmenot films Thats why I said the Massa . Ofcourse I know including me that not all pinoys are like that . There is so many shitty wrong things about the country but there is no way I would wish to change my Nationality
My mother is from Philippines, and I never felt like I'm proud of Philippines or any other country. I never felt like I'm proud of my "race", I'm too "mixed" to even say I belong to a race, and that might be why I can't identify with any traditions etc.
AJ grew up in the States. He's a little misinformed about the history, and don't judge him, he was just trying to remember what he was told.
Corrections:
1. China did not colonized Philippines but rather brought their business and engaged with the Filipinos during the pre-colonization. Chinese were also one of the foreigners who brought their culture in the Philippines and later on adapted by the Filipinos.
2. Filipino vs. Pilipino - Pilipino is the term for "People who are born in / are citizens of the Philippines" (as tagalog term) and Filipino is the term for "People who are born in / are citizens of the Philippines" (as english term), also term for " the discipline / subject which is the study of reading and language of the Philippines" and as a technical term for the "language of the Philippines" (it's not TAGALOG because it is a dialect and there was a history about that)
3. its P-I-L-I-P-I-N-A-S which was from the original spanish word "Filipinas" given by King Philip II of Spain.
point well taken!
Tagalog is a language not a dialect
Hey, AJ! The word "Filipino" is not Americanized. It's Spanish in nature. When we were colonized by the Spaniards, our country was called "Filipinas". When we got our independence, we wanted it to sound 'not Spanish' so we changed it to "Pilipinas" thereby changing all with P like Filipino to Pilipino. Americans made us "Philippines". Big FYI!
Not to mention that Tagalog doesn't recognize the letter F in their alphabet.
So many Asian cultures out there, glad to see these guys Reppin it for all of us Asians out here - we need to hope on some Thai, Cambodian, Tibetan, and Nepalese cultures and foods next !!
AJ, for your information, we Filipinos have actually been here for a very long time. The first Filipino settlers arrived in Louisiana in 1763." They were called Manilmen, who escaped from Spanish brutalities during the galleon trade era off New Orleans, Louisiana, and Acapulco, Mexico. Then a flood of Chinese immigrants came during the early 18th century. www.pbs.org/ancestorsintheamericas/time_06.html
Regarding the word "Flip", I thought it was cool and fine to say it among other Filipinos
back in the day. However, my lola begged to differ. She said it was a term of disrespect AND a slur for Filipinos used by US soldiers in WW2 in the Philippines. In her eyes, the word "Flip" is akin to the n-word. I'm going with my lola.
Elle Tee "Fucking little island people" to be exact.
+ivan paulo delos reyes agree with you.
Flip means crazy in our meaning...
But it was change to "Fine Looking island people"
Yeah, definitely a slur to us, from what I heard. It's weird we don't really know what it means the same way we know the Spanish called us Indios as their slur. I haven't even heard the term "zipper" until I saw a tiktok saying they used to call us that because during way, people would blow our heads off and they'd open up like zippers
Fil-Am culture is interesting. I am an Indonesian, born and raised, who secretly wish to be raised in California and adapting the Fil-Am culture. I mean, you guys are so dope. You can dance. You can sing. You eat the same/similar food Indonesian eats. You also bath with THAT water bucket. I know little of Indonesian-American CZcams personality but Filipinos... a lot! Anyway, just learn about the term ill-ipinos. They look similar to what Indonesian teens are like nowadays. Anyway just want to say hi. FungBros, I love your channel... full of Asian Pride. Haters gonna hate!
Don't betray your own countrymen.
Leonard Wattimena yeah right, so much for betraying my own countrymen. I am just saying Fil-Am cultures is cool. It is not like I am putting on an army suit.
Bagus. Gitu dong
Ayu Meutia Azevy you are just interested in another culture, there is nothing wrong with that. Don't mind the haters. I am also curious about other cultures, but it doesn't mean that i'm denying my own.
Omg so much misinformation. First China never colonized us. Saying Aetas to describe the Negritos is like saying British to describe all white people. Modern Filipino is not Chinese and Spanish. Truth is most Filipinos have Malay ancestry followed by Chinese. End of
Finally someone knows history! I think because they have Iberian surnames they claim to have Iberian ancestry. In fact most are Malay or Taiwanese peoples or the very early inhabitants known as the Negritos. Don't get me wrong some do have Chinese or Spanish ancestry.
He might have meant that the Chinese have predominantly migrated to the Philippines and not exactly colonized
Manila's chinatown is the oldest in the world. A lot of chinese migrated to south east asia as a matter of fact you can find a lot of them also in Malaysia, Indonesia and of course Singapore. It's only in the Philippines though were they were able to mix the most with the local population. Historically the chinese were big traders with the filipinos, then came the spanish with Magellan. 333 years after Spanish-American war saw the transfer of the rule to Americans. WW2 brought in the Japanese occupation then Americans freed the islands and then came independence.
I agree with everything you said except one, Malays came from us and not the other way around so it's more accurate to say majority of Filipinos are Austronesian instead of Malay.
allan kalvin leung The Chinese also heavily mixed with Vietnamese and It's not SE Asia but the Chinese also mixed heavily with the Japanese and Koreans.
I think it's not really fair for people to judge AJ for being "misinformed" because okay so some of his statements were misinformed but understand that in American History classes there's literally like one lesson on the Philippines which is about Marshall law and how the US helped out the PI when it was being invaded by Japan during WWII (if i remember correctly) so it's not entirely his fault if he's not a historian buff about all the facts on the Philippines and the indigenous roots, because we're not taught that in school, we're taught about other Asian cultures and Western civilization and most of the facts he said I thought were true too because that's what I was always taught too by the American education system and my parents.. so I think people really should cut AJ some slack considering he's a musician and not a historian and if people really wanted to know more about the PI history they can just google it...
He should at least googled it. Misinformation will be the death of us.
+annaslovesyou yep i googled it and i learned that chinese and philippinos are in the same race :)
anna lol stop defending him. He can research it himself. Just like everyone else who grew up or were born in the us were taught the same things. The smarter ones just knew to cross reference.
i doubt that a musician spends his free time googling historical facts on his culture to make sure they're historically accurate but whateves to each their own, i'm glad you felt necessary to comment a year old statement lol
Great interview, Fung Bros! The questions were really thought provoking and AJ is very insightful. I was born and raised in the Philippines, moved to NJ in 2007. I agree with a lot of what AJ said about identity and how tough it is to find it, given our history. I'm also really glad that he mentioned and honored one of the original people of the Philippines- the Aetas. Some Filipinos try to detach themselves from their native people, and just like what AJ said, attach to other cultures/people. As far as the word "Pilipino" and "Filipino", you were right on the money when you mentioned the alphabet. Currently, "Filipino" is actually the "correct" spelling. I put correct in quotes coz it's not a big deal but I wanted to provide more information on it. It was changed from Pilipino to Filipino when the official alphabet was changed to the "Modern Filipino Alphabet" in 1987. A lot of the Fil-Ams I've met do not know this because either they moved to the US before the said change, or they were born here so they didn't learn about it in school. Google "Filipino alphabet" or "Filipino orthography" if you want more info. Again, thanks for this Fung Bros! Keep it up!
I am philipino but some ppl are just TO proud to be pinoy
so?? everyone should be proud of what they are ...
Filipino*
too*
are you sure Lester Lee you are Filipino?
I agree some people are too proud its sad. I just shake my head
Your surname is Lee ?? are you half ?
We're not colonized by China. Although some Chinese influence can be seen in Filipino Culture. Also, we're one of the first Asians to arrive in US. Get your facts straight.
He left out Japan...
That's dope. I had no idea y'all were raised out here in the Southend. A lot of the kids I work with love watching the videos you both post. Shoutout to y'all.
I have lived in the Philippines for half my life now (9 years). I can confirm that Filipinos are 100% the happiest, most friendly people in the world. Not a single person has ever been rude to me here without reason. Coming from the Czech Republic, where half the people will go out of their ways to tell you exactly what they think of you, it's a huge upside.
Filipinos are so happy, we start getting ready for Christmas in September.
Very interesting. I have two friends that are Fillipino so I liked seeing a video of their country and culture
He was right on some points but as a FilAm living in the Philippines, you realize a lot more about the country when you really experience the actual culture through living it. You can't really come visit here and suddenly grasp the culture. Living here allowed me to really think about the culture more. Most Filipino American's have no idea what it's really like to be a Filipino these days. Filipino's born outside of the Philippines just have a very easy time adapting to the culture they are presently in which is a double-edged sword. It has it's pros and cons. I suggest some of the Filipino's that were born and raised abroad to come out here and maybe move out here to really experience the life out here. You'll be able to understand yourself better by knowing your origins.
please redo this with pure Filipino guy == mean a born in Philippines, with a good background in history and close ties to the family.
Great video about Filipino culture. Have a lot of friends and am interested to learn more about their culture. Btw omg I love that SnapBack!!!
I loved this video I learned a lot of stuff about Filipinos so i'm really happy about that. Also even happier that AJ was in this video! Wooo
Yas! another Filipino video!! I was so Happy when i saw this. Thank You so much for making this, I am Proud to be Pilipino
The way AJ pronounces some of the Filipino words makes me cringe, but it's cool though, at least he's trying.
tabo lol
It's actually hard to pronounce Filipino words properly when you're talking with other non-Filipinos. It's awkward to switch accents from American to straight up Filipino LOL
johnkevin1104 True haha
Jose Nervez Same thing with Richie Le when he speaks Vietnamese, but at least AJ tries to speak Filipino as you say, compared to a lot of Fil-Ams who don't.
ALOT OF THE THINGS HE SAID ON HERE MADE ME CRINGE.... CHINA COLONIZED THE PHILIPPINES?!?!?!?1 LMAO AND FILIPINOS WERE NOT IN AMERICA AS LONG AS CHINESE?!?!?! HAHAH FILIPINOS WERE THE FIRST ASIANS THAT SETTLED IN AMERICA. IS HE FUCKING HIGH ON DRUGS? LOL
I can relate so much to this video. I love it.
filipinos is the chillest people ever
Cool video. Learned some new stuff.
its cool that you guys are from Seattle and talking about the filipino community, im also a Seattlite and im filipino
Very informative in a cooool way! Thanks. :)
Awesome video!!!!!
aeta's are more of low landers and looks like short black people and those that are on the mountains are igorots. They look like Japanese and most of them have white skin. I just hate that most filipinos think that igorots are aeta's when they are not.
Oh so cool! Proud to be Filipino. Much love from Australia. X
Thats so cool topic!!!
Thank you :D fung bros for showing and appreciating filipino culture
Aj i expected you to sing 'we could happen' the end lol. love that song ❤
I'm Filipino, born and raised in the Philippines. I'm 1/8 Spanish from my maternal grandfather's side. I'm not sure about my father's side, but ever since I moved to London I'm sometimes mistaken for being Vietnamese, 'cause of my eyes. My father's side is probably the reason, since the rest of my blood from my mother's side have native Filipino surname.
I saw being Filipino as something not so special while living in the Philippines, but since living in London, being Filipino is something special. It's something unique being a Filipino straight from the Philippines since most of the Filipinos who grew up here, though embraces being Filipino- being Asian, mostly- they really don't embraces the culture as much. But, surprisingly, half-Filipino friends I have embraces the Filipino culture a lot more than their western side. I think this is the reason why I embrace the Filipino culture a lot more. Though it have a lot of influences from transactions during the pre-Spaniard era, with China, Arabs and Malay, and the centuries of colonisations by Spain, America, Japan and Britain (yes, though only for 2 short years), the culture itself is unique in actually mixing all these influences together along with their own traditions.
I so hope we can retrieve some of our own pre-colonised culture and somehow reinforces back to our current practices, such as the babayin (it looks cool to even write with this, though impractical), and the Filipino martial arts, Kali/Eskrima/Arnis. And don't forget our folklores! Though I do wish we can separate these from Christianity as the original versions were altered to suit the religion Spain enforced on our ancestors.
I agree on what they said that Filipinos claim every half Filipinos as FULL FILIPINOS. Every time a half Filipino become famous, the media will always tell that they are full and whatsoever. I think Filipinos should stop claiming those who don't want to be considered as true Filipinos.
If you have a Filipino parent, you're counted as a citizen of the Philippines from birth, no matter where you're born. So half Filipinos are just as Filipino as full Filipinos, legally speaking
That's mostly because they have nothing to be proud of so they desperately take everything they can. Filipinos are great to use different strategies to hide their complexes of inferiority.
being nationalistic is good...but claiming almost everything as pinoy even the person has little Filipino blood in it is wrong and embarrassing. Filipinos should stop that.
I remembered seeing a Singaporean swimmer won the championship, the Philippine media immediately connected him to Philippines just because his maid is Filipina.
zhan_rand lollll what?? Cuz his maid is filipina? You know what? When I hear the word ''flat'' it reminds me the 2 Filipino divers who made fools of themselves during the Olympic games few years ago. That was a typical Filipino failure.
i'm not trying to shame my fellow countrymen, my point is we Filipinos should be nationalistic in the right place and time. I always see this "i am filipino" or "proud to be pinoy" whenever there's a Philippines reference. And there's this filipino who will claim himself that he has 1/4 1/2 1/3 3/4 european blood bla bla blah etc just to hide his Asian/Southeast Asian/Brown skin/Austronesian descent and ancestry. It's so embarrassing and disappointing.
It's good to see a Fil-Am's perspective... How different the perspective we Filipinos who live and born here in the philippines...
I'm a teenage Filipino American and I never heard of this "ill pino" before.... And the talents of Music and Dancing really runs in my family.
This was fun! cool!
Tábô use is practical. It gets water in the right places and prevents wastage.
AGREE Filipino support each other!
Very accurate, haha glad people like AJ help keep the culture alive, and people like FungBros help educate other people on our culture (:
The reason why we claim half Filipinos as full is because according to Philippines nationality law, anyone who has at least 1 Filipino parent is considered a citizen of the Philippines by birth, no matter where you were born in the world. So even if someone is half white half Filipino and born in the US, they are born a dual citizen of the Philippines and the US. So the constitution of the Philippines regards half Filipinos and full Filipinos as the same.
...so I'm automatically a Filipino citizens, even if only my mother is Filipino and I wasn't born in Philippines?
Rebecca W yes, but your mother was supposed to file your birth with the Philippine consulate in the area where you were born. If not, you're still unofficially a citizen of the Philippines but you need to make it official
geno314 There is no Filipino embassy in Sweden, so it's a bit difficult to get registered. I guess I'm pretty much a non-Filipino citizen...
Wow this is refreshing. That's means I'm a Singaporean and a Filippino wow
This is so not true. I'm half filipino, and we weren't recognized as Filipinos by the immigration and DFA cause my dad's not Filipino.
Liking this conversation
thnx for the filipino coverage!!! loved it! and thnx for talking about halfies (we dont claim them as much as the culture claims us lol)
Very well said!! 👌🏻
Cool video!
@2:39: Enrique Iglesias is a regular Spaniard who just happens to be from the Philippines, but he's not Filipino.
I'm Vietnamese, and we've got a Spanish model named Andrea Aybar, who was raised in Vietnam and has been there most of her life, but she's still a Spaniard.
It’s true indeed!
Yes! CSUF PASA x Friendship Games representing "Filipino Party"!! Y'all should experience the "party" October 25!!
thats what really matter to us being filipino and be successfull in what ever we do...proud of those fil-ams,,, me from iloilo
I'm Pinoy proud and full Filipino and from Canada and I'm called a Phil-Can and I went back to Caloocan this summer and I was so surprised how close all the families are still because where we are from all of the cousins and 2nd cousins live in a 3 bedroom house it's crazy!
Very educational, Nice @AJRafael..
I'm half filipino, I love it, I don't speak tagalog but..I still love the culture and I love the food of course! =D
Rafael is more native not Spanish or Chinese, just sayin.
Yeah it's so obvious. What's up with all these Filipinos who claim European / East Asian ancestry? It's embarrassing
+crazymanjonchin Malay from China ???!!! what the hell ??? Malays Urheimat is in Sumatra and Malay peninsula you dumbass. I'm Malay ethnically and we are not from China
+crazymanjonchin sir, correct me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't mean that people in that age were considered as Chinese. There was no China back in the ice age. it wasn't the "Chinese" who populated the Malay. No wonder China is claiming the whole "South China Sea" with bases of historical fraud.
ex-LA Rams QB Roman Gabriel, just graduated from U of Hawaii German national Christian Standhardinger. Filipinos first came to Hawaii about 20 or 30 years after Japanese and Chinese immigrants but with recent immigration is the largest Asian ethnic group in Hawaii.
I love this video. :) Pinoy proud!
when aj was explaining the mountain people i died hahahah
you should do a video with apl.de.ap as well.
I love how AJ Rafael clearly explained stuff about us Pilipinos it was actually well said, and knowing that there's this Fil-Am identity it really isn't an issue cuz some would say Pilipinos forget their identity and lose it to being foreign and not being proud about your country and stuff but the thing is, people would always go back to their own, their culture and country.
I'm really digging this. Like how you guys are taking the time to understand filipino culture and why we are the way we are, regardless of what type of filipino we are. I'm fil-am and proud of it. But that being said, i tend to connect more with americans than asians. Growing up, i only had one filipino bestie and that was it. I got along with most everyone in school, any race and type of person, we were cool with it. I was mostly made fun of for needing glasses. But that was it.
:( Talking about the PI is such a touchy subject. The whole archipelago is an invention of Spaniards saying "hey, all these islands in this area will be named after my king". No consideration was made to the already established cultures and ethnic groups. The whole archipelago would be much different today if the Spaniards didn't intervene. The Rajahnates/Datus/Kingdoms would have warred and conquered different islands and could have created a much different country/group of countries it is now. You can see the many different ethnic/cultural/linguistic differences today if you took the time to visit Luzon, The Visayas, and Mindanao.
he wore that shirt for the guam concert !
Filipino's are Beautiful.
OMG I LOVE YOU GUYS SO MUCHHHHHHHHHH I HOPE TO MEET YOU ONE DAY
one thing that AJ didn't know about is that Filipinos have been here in North America since the 1600s! it's just that we have migrated here in waves, like the manongs who came here in the 1920s and '30s and then the soldiers who came after WWII. but just because we are FilAm doesn't mean we can't know about Filipino culture. my dad taught me a lot and my family in the Philippines teases me about being sooo Filipino. ime glad to see people wanting to know more about our history and our culture.
You should interview Joseph Vincent next.
lmao 3:00 that analogy made me laugh
fucking love these guys
it's really funny!
I performed at the filam fest for bibak san Diego
Yey
you guy's are dope. i can't help but subscribe dammit...
The Philippines was sold to the US and then was colonized but was treated very well in comparison to the abuse of the Spanish colonization. They abolished the Spanish language and taught us English. That's why you see a lot of American influence in our culture.
I feel like a lot of Fil-Am’s pretend to be Hawaiian or Polynesian, yet I don’t think we share any similarities to Polynesians. I feel like Fil-Ams are ashamed to be Filipino. I think it’s sad because we have so much to be proud of.
I'm more Spanish looking than Asian (I'm Filo), so I find it amazing how I can have my Spanish roots showing even though those roots are buried under so many generations
First generation Filipino-American musician love.
In the Philippines, we do the ice bucket challenge everyday!
Im Lao and Thai, anybody else this mix? Or atleast 1 of these races
Omg AJ!know ur history
Thats what im talkin about
As a Filipino I would say that drama, music, basketball and other talents are mainstream to us. Oh and food is so good in the Philippines too! 😆
Filipinos have been in what is now the continental United States going as far back as the 1760s New Orleans, and in Alta California a few decades later. There are some families that go back over 7 generations! While yes, most families trace their first immigrant to post 1965 Immigration Act, our culture has deep roots here in the United States.
Thoroughly enjoyed this conversation with AJ. Good substance. Curious, no dialogue about Pacquiao (I know he's not American, but he's THE guy that all my Fil-Am friends rep hard)?
Lol he calls tabo "the spoon". All my life I've never heard it like that before.
Pinoy and proud
im philichino, these are my people right here!
Why didn't you guys do the ice bucket challenge yet? You been nominated by someone xDD
Interesting, I learned something new.
Forgot to mention how awesome the food is!
History 101 from homeboi aj!
please feature Filipino dishes for your next food trippings. please fung bros!! #proudtobepinoy
I'm Filipino and raised in Canada❤️
BGZTV I was about to mention about "FLIP"... but thx for clarifying that terminology! Yes I agree IT IS A RACIAL term! Growing up as a 90's teen.. I heard that a lot in the bay and wasn't koo to hear.
Angel D. Flores foreal. i cant even believe they dont know what it means. or if they did they didnt want to mention it in the video.
BGZTV if it was me, I would mention it! That ish needs to be known.. its the same thang as using the N word.. Even I don't understand Y I hear Asians still using that N word too?! *SMDH* what examples in the world is it teaching if the new gen don't understand what's behind it?!!
foreal thats what i do on my channel, try to educate lao youth.. because they keep calling themselves 'LAOS' im like uuhhh? ur a country? lol
fucking little island people
amiright?
Angel D. Flores people are arguing with me in my original post lol thinking that 'IM' making fun of filipinos instead of being informative. lol people on the internet are hilarious
Filipino nurses definitely Main Stream!!!!!
You guys should talk about cambodian culture soon that would be cool and super nice lol
yes, we can talk about THE KILLING FIELDS.