Growing Up Filipino-American

As October marks Filipino-American history month, I wanted to share with you what my experience was like growing up. I hope this video can be used as a way to unify and bring awareness of the unique experiences and issues that we Filipino-Americans face living in the U.S. This is just some of what my personal experience was like, every person's experience may be a bit different. Please let me know in the comments what your experience was like!
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:43 Lunch Box Moment
- 0:44 What is it?
- 1:26 What is Filipino food like?
- 1:56 How This Affected Me
3:04 Cultural Clash
- 3:19 What is it like?
- 3:40 Conflicting Statements
- 4:33 How I handle it
5:31 Kumon
- 5:43 What is Kumon?
- 6:38 My Experience
8:10 Careers
- 8:45 My Career Journey
- 9:42 Going Outside The Norm
10:36 Racism
- 10:50 As a child
- 11:15 As an adult
12:32 Colorism
- 12:34 Definition
- 13:07 My Experience
- 13:24 Skin Lightening
14:08 Learning Tagalog Now
- 14:26 What made me want to learn?
- 15:20 Why I didn't learn as a child?
- 16:17 Tagalog Kids +
17:30 Representation
- 17:42 Examples

[@cc-jr7fy]

Well done! I related to all of this! Keep telling your story it's so important for people to hear. Keep making the world a better place!

[@Crabbypino]

Hi, I am Filipino, but adopted and grew up in Wisconsin. Here, I got and get confused for being Mexican/Pakistani/Indian. Some people come up to me talking in Spanish and I don't speak it well. One time some lady randomly came up to me speaking either Urdu or Hindi. I was amused. Also, I don't speak a lot of Tagalog - many people here either didn't teach their kids or didn't want to. And yes, I work in a hospital. There are a bunch of Filipinos in our hospital. The infamous, where are you from? is the best mantra - when I say Philippines, people get all happy and I think it's because they think they are getting fed. lol