Was interested to see young Filipino Americans answers to questions in this video. I watched it with Apple and I had to explain to her: Be clear, these people are not Filipino. They are American. They are no more Filipino than Carlos Celdran is Spanish, which is to say theyve got the genetics and some knowledge of the culture, partly passed down by their family and partly acquired outside. Apple had never heard the term Pacific Islander before. I told her that because Hawaiians, Samoans, Tahitians, Chamorro, and others dont consider themselves Asian, and they need to be counted in a group for demographic purposes, so the US governments official census category is Asian/Pacific Islander. In my opinion, culturally and historically Filipinos share much more in common with Asians than with Pacific Islanders, though.
Posted on: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 01:12:13 +0000