Local discrmination?

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That's also why I shun separate Fil-AM organizations based on dialect or province/region here in the US. It breeds this kind of behavior. Too many Pinoys make a big deal of their dialect/province or whatever college in the Philippines they graduated from..... They're not happy to be simply Pinoys....

That reminds of the UP Alumni Associations in the Bay Area. The one in Oakland, if it is still existing, is actually a break-away group from the one in SF. The group lost in the elections but wanted so badly to be officers they broke away and formed their own group. Needless to say, I never bothered joining either.

There are actually a lot of Fil-Am groups in the SF Bay Area that I think among ethnic groups, Fil-Ams have the most number of registered ethnic-oriented organizations/associations. It may sound impressive to others until they find out that most of these organizations have very few members, or rather officers, since practically all their members are officers.

kahit ako din dito sa US na experience ko din yan. one time I asked someone kung ano nationality niya.. sabi sa akin "Hawaiian" (which dapat talaga American, kasi state ng America ang Hawaii) anywayz, yung pag alis ko, na bigla nalang ako nung narinig ko siyang mag Ilocano!! .. talagang "Feeling" ng loko! lolz!

Hehe. Times have really changed. It used to be when you ask a Pinoy oldtimer in Hawaii, "Are you Filipino?" his answer would typically be "No, I am Ilocano."

I guess they must have adopted the kamaaina's attitude of refusing to recognize the mainland. (Some of the older Hawaiians refuse to accept statehood and view the whole thing as colonization; hence they refuse to consider themselves Americans.)