Growing up Filipino (and) American | My experience
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2024
- I grew up Filipino-American in the Midwest of the United States. Life has been so so so good to me, but there were certainly parts that weren’t smooth sailing.
Here’s my story - the good, the bad, and the ugly - and I hope it can be of some help to you, friends ❤️
0:00 Why am I making this video?
1:35 My Background 🪞
2:51 I thought I was like everyone else
4:43 The racism I experienced
9:43 My most shameful memories
16:07 Switching Gears ⚙️
16:53 Benefit 1 - Not Limiting Myself
19:00 Benefit 2 - Being Memorable
20:57 Benefit 3 - The Best of Two Cultures
25:18 The Punch Line 🥊
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I'm Matt, and I am a joyful human who has been blessed with so much in life. I seek to live a life worthy of my circumstance by living purposefully, mindfully, and effectively. On this channel, I make videos sharing my life experience in the hope that you can find little nuggets to help you live your best life 🙌🏾
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Beautiful, thank you for sharing and helping me understand.
Greetings from East Timor 🇹🇱
So incredibly blessed and happy you’re here 🥰
Such a beautiful video and message of self-acceptance. Love the quality you bring to making this and sharing it with such tenderness. 👏💛
Ahhh, I appreciate you, Smita 🫶🏾 Hope you are having the absolute best day ❤️
What an incredible video, so thought provoking and inspiring
Ahhhh, you are much much much too kind, Jo! Would love to connect as I'm loving what you're doing with your channel 🤗
what an amazing video and hearing your thoughts....learned a lot
Well, thanks so much for watching and glad to have you here ❤️
Thank you, Matt. Great video)))
You are most welcome and thank you for being here on the journey, Katia ❤️ Sending you so much love and good juju today 🤗
It was interesting to know moree baout you, thanks for sharing!
P.S. you got PTY vote on this one :)
Much love much love both for checking it out and for the vote, my friend ❤️
I look forward to seeing your similar video so I can get the inside scoop you on 🙃 (And if it is already on the channel, I suppose I need to go find it!!)
Nice video, great editing!
Much love much love, Serra! Happy to have you here and sending you the best ❤️
I'm proud of you! You're a BEAUTIFUL person inside!
Emelyn, you are most kind and I’m sending you so so so much love wherever you are in the world ❤️
Such a good, honest perspective.
Much love to you always, Alex ❤ #blessed for your friendship 🙏🏾
Cool video man!
Its nice to see a video that highlights the positives of being in this position once in a while because 90% of the dialogue about immigration flows into political polemics (which ofc they have a reason to be, its just that I wish the positive side of it was taught a bit more).
Every story like this it's intresting in its own way expecially because this kind of experience produces a lot of different outcomes in people.
Like you, I can only be grateful for what I have because when I see what life is for relatives and more generally the people in a third world country, I understant that the struggle here its nothing compared to the struggle there.
But for me, growing up in a different country was an extremely alienating experience. I never really felt a part of either the one or the other but I consider it a blessing... I feel some sort of relief and freedom in rejecting the idea of having a national identity, and in some way this makes me appreciate them both more because I can easily reject the toxic traits of both so I take only the good from them.
Thanks so much for sharing a bit about your story ❤️
Absolutely love what you said there about leaning into the gratitude 🙏🏾 We most certainly have a choice in how we interpret the situation we find ourselves in and it is so splendid that you decide to take the path of seeing life as a blessing as opposed to a burden. That is also a really neat take about being able to reject national identity to stay more detached; I’ll really need to sit with that and reflect upon it more 😄
Anyway, thanks again for sharing your thoughts and happy to have you here ✊🏾
As a Filipino-American, I related a lot to what you’re talking about! I know skin color isn’t everything, but sometimes it certainly feels like it. I’m lighter skinned and my eyes are even more almond-shaped, so even Fil-Am friends I made in college also doubted me being Filipino. To add to the confusion, my parents chose not to teach me Tagalog, and I was deep into anime and wanted to learn Japanese lol. I appreciate your inclusion of the benefits of being visibly and culturally different. :D
Thanks so much for sharing a bit of your experience ❤️ Totally hear you that it feels like it at times, but I suppose we can take solace that (I think) it becomes less and less important over time.
If you don’t mind me asking, what are some of the benefits you’ve found over the years???
I hope you see this comment Matt. I've been struggling exactly the same way with what you faced. I am Indian of origin and I live in Australia. I've been extremely blessed to get everything that I ever wanted and needed. I always have the feeling that people will judge me for just existing, as an Indian. I know being of Indian race has a hell lot of stereotypes- most of which I have absolutely overcame. But I still have that feeling that no one will talk to me just because of who I am... And hence I struggle to make friends.
I'm sorry to hear that's been your experience while, at the same time, it's incredible to hear you've overcome a lot 👏🏾
What I've found in my experience is that people care far, far less about my ethnicity or background compared to the love that I share, the ideas I bring, and the support I (try) to give. And the ones that do care aren't ones that I necessarily care to have in my life 🙃
Hope that is helpful in some way and sending you tons of love ❤️
yea 1.5 gen/third culture kids! great editing!
Much love, much love always ❤️
You prove by your personality that the colour is inside not outside , somebody in one day would be grateful to you ,believe me ! You are not the only one who was annoyed by his colour on the other side you are the unique one who could adapt successfully and declare what he felt , it's not any power at all .
Sending you so so much love wherever you are in the world ❤️
Cheers from Indonesia, the neighborhood of Philippines
Cheers and hope you are absolutely thriving in Indonesia, Sammi ❤️
i love filipino people, like every filipino i come across is like so kind and has such a cool vibe LOL
Ahhh much love much love, Leonard! Have you had the chance to visit the Philippines???
@@MattAgustin hi mattt, unfortunately not, i live in germany xd
@@makotoniijima9211 Oh, hallo then! My two oldest cousins grew up in Germany (they are half-German, half-Filipino) 🇩🇪🇵🇭 One lives in Munich and the other near Regensburg.
You’d absolutely love making the trip to the Philippines so do let me know when you make your way there, Leonard 🙃
@@MattAgustin hehe i will, ur so kind🦥
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Good moring pro now i wach u
Much love, much love, Mohamed ❤️
If your parents don't speak Tagalog, I think they speak Bisaya/Cebuano since this dialects are also commonly spoken in the Philippines.
We are a Tagalog household here, Marl ❤️ What about you?? Which languages do you speak???
@@MattAgustin We have 8 major dialects here in the Philippines, but I can only speak 2 of them. I can speak Bisaya/Cebuano since it was my first language, and I can also speak Tagalog because it is our National Language. Most of educated Filipinos that have lived from Visayas and Mindanao can speak atleast 3 different types of languages. We've learned to speak our first dialect when we were raised as a child, then we also learned to speak English and Tagalog because it is always taught in our school. Moreover, English and Tagalog are important here in the Philippines because these languages are required to be used when we produce documents and answer job interviews especially in professional services.
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