Local discrmination?

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Don't tell me Gil has been sleeping under a rock and only just now found out about this problem......

The problem's been around since I can remember.

If it was just the movie, then things can be forgiven. But, it's a lot worse than a mere slip of the tongue.

My wife is Visayan and I'm living that nightmare right now.

My Philippine heritage has been a love/hate (90/10?) thing. This just happens to fall under hate, joining the crab mentality part.

Add: 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....

I'm half Ilocano and half Tagalog(Bulacan) and I feel the discrimination from my full blooded Ilocano cousins during family get togethers. But I know what you mean about the FilAm organizations as my dad who is Ilocano was told by some groups that my dad was free to join as long as he didn't bring my mom, needless to say he told them to go to hell. But this regionalism is also the main reason that even though Pinoys are the second largest Asian group in the US we also have the least polical representation among the Asian community. Heck, the Japanese, Indians, and Koreans who we out number have more clout than we do.

sir, 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!


wow! hindi ko alam yan ha! man, thats really bad! I too have some friends (even the older generations) that served in the Military and I havent heard anything like that. well, baka siguro hindi lahat ganon.

but then again, it is so true na once na nasa labas sila (civilian) wether if your in the Military or not, haaayy naku. ayan na ang yabangan.


thats good, at least you never acted like a d!ck to them. Visayans are actually nice people compared to others. mas madaling matawa ang mga bisaya at madaling maki sama.

I know this since that I'm also part Visayan.. well my mother was from Mindanao and my dad was from Cebu, but I was born and raised in Pasay City, Manila.

anywayz, me growing up in Manila being part "bisaya" was also difficult ever since I was young. kasi sa Manila, once na malaman nila na Bisaya ka (or kahit na part bisaya ka) eh pag tatawanan at pag ti-tripan ka ng mga kaklase at mga kaibigan mo, which is really messed up in my opinion. biruin mo, kahit bata pa lang eh marunong na silang mang-hate sa kapwa. eh paano nalang pag tumanda na?

buti nalang hindi ako lumaki ng ganun, same as my whole family and relatives.. we never hate on other fellow kababayans based on their Dialect or Religion.

kaya dito sa amin (Bay Area), madami akong mga ka tropa na Tagalog, Bisaya, Ilocano at Kapampangan. I have so many friends out here since na marunong akong MAKISAMA.



aite, peace.

You have to understand the Filipino history in Hawaii as most of the early Filipinos there were from Ilocos and they were the one's working the pineapple plantation. It's was only later that Filipinos from other region arrived in Hawaii, it's also why the region with the largest presence there is Ilocos. I'm surprised he didn't say Ilocano when you asked because a lot still give that reply instead of saying Filipino. Others do consider themselves Hawaiian because they are 3rd or 4th generation born in Hawaii and speak only English and Ilocano. Just look at Brian Viloria when he fought in the Olympics for the US not once did he mention being Pinoy but he was always introduced as Hawaiian, it was only later on when he jumped on the Manny bandwagon did he acknowledge being Pinoy.