ahem..
some haole kid decided to point out to me a few days ago that i only hung out with asian people. excuse me? not exactly there, kiddo.
so our aquacades group this year consists of people with naturally black hair that stand under 5'3". coincidence? nope, we just ended up that way.
i find that many people look down on asian pride-ers. wth is ur problem?! can't identify with your own nationality or something?? "white" people arent just "white." whatever happened to being french or english or german or dutch or anything else? same thing, asians have classifications, too.. chinese, jap, flip, cambo, etc..
don't hate cuz i can relate to people of brown skin (or yellow or whatever.. black hair.. etc..) .. it's nice to fit in and belong. not that i feel like im an outcast or something in a roomfull of white people, except in english class a few weeks ago, our teacher handed out a paper with a few contests and descriptions on them. one of them was the "growing up asian in america" art and essay contest. it was the last one on the sheet, and to end her reading off the description, she just had to point out... "you have to be asian." then of course, eeeeeveryone turns to the only two asians in the classroom, which were jessica and i.
so. whats wrong with loving my filipino heritage? my asian friends which i can joke around in an almost-racist manner and not get called for it? the flag, pancit, halo-halo, adobo, rex navarette, margaret cho, jin the freestyler, my import car, learning bad words from people, the hardcore asian gangsters, talking about how our grandparents say our names funny??? nothing. nothing at all.
everyone has a heritage, im just unfamiliar with most that are non-asian, even more so that are non-filipino. but see, im just as unfamiliar with others' cultures as they probably are to mine.
so there. eat my dust, haters... filipino is a part of who i am, not just what i am.

i just thought id point this out, since many seem to be shoving it in my face for some odd reason.
but just to add on.. im not racist towards non-asians. i am very much pro-nationality pride. take hannah, for example. its awesome how shes proud of her english background.
taste the rainbow, dammit. taste the rainbow.

thank you chantal. u bring up an interesting topic.
i'm in kababayan.