#chickenbxby

[rodrickheffeley]

oh my god, my dad is the exact way. He’s half filipino, so I look pretty damn white, but he was raised Bohol. Anything below an 85 is “unsatisfactory”

It's a worldwide problem then. I love my parents but sometimes I hate them . They always expect the best. I'm an above average student and they want excellence . The problem with Indian parents is that they want their children to do best in maths and maths sucks I hate it. The other day I said to my mom what if I scored less than 90%. She said don't say that you're going to do excellent. They can't accept average and that too in 10th grade.

[neechees]

genes are so wild tbh. My dad is filipino and black, a little less black cuz slavery, and I’m the definition of stereotypical Jewish girl. It’s both a curse and a blessing

they are!! I look almost nothing like any of my siblings, and yet I do?? its kinda cool though. I’m MacDougall clan Scottish and Ukrainian on my Maternal sides somewhere, and British on my dad’s side

[idkinsertfanreferencehere]

Hello, so I have something to say about your post “Denial of History” or something like that. What the fuck. My eyes literally watered and I wanted to cry. The truthfulness of that physically hurt me

Hey there (responding now because I was away and didn’t have my computer for a weekend). I’m glad that I was able to articulate something you can identify with, though sad that it was that. Do you like poems? Not to shamelessly promote my writing on my main, but I do more writing stuff here, At @glassheartedboy

I wish you happiness and health

[acehawkguy]

chickenbxby replied to your post “so on all my law school applications I marked both hispanic and white,...”

Is ur mom brown?? My dad’s Filipino and I pass pretty easily as white. If you wanna join the groups, join them!! I grew up in a very white community and I’ve only met one other Filipina my whole entire life and we’ve shared pretty similar experiences, I say go for it if you want to.

my mom was darker than me but probably just tan--half mexican, half french canadian (she died when I was in high school though). but I grew up only seeing my mother’s family, and most of that was the mexican side, so it felt like a bigger part of my heritage and culture than anything else. it’s not that I think I would be unwelcome in a latinx student group, but that by joining one I worry I would be trying to claim something (non-whiteness) that I don’t have.

edit: here’s a pic of me, a family friend, and my mom (in the yellow dress) I’ve actually always been somewhat self-conscious of my paleness compared to my mom’s family and I have no clue how much of that is due to a loss of pigment because of vitiligo and how much is just me being mostly white

[hawaiianhapa]

Hey it’s the filipino anon from a little while ago! Awhile ago didn’t u say u were white-passing, or light skinned? I look rlly white lol. I was wondering how you feel so connected to ur culture? Hawaii is a beautiful place! The language is very pretty btw. I used to live there when I was a minor because my dad was an asshole colonizer (that’s how I became educated on Hawaiian issues, cultural appropriation, all that jazz). I’m always insecure to talk to other Filipinos. (obvi not anon anymore)

I’m super pale! Despite my Tutu and grandma being about the colour of a walnut my mother is very pale and my dad is Irish who I take after, so theres very few physical traces of my Hawaiian blood. I was actually disconnected from my culture for a long time because of stuff with my family, I once told @syncv I felt like a hula doll, some bad impression of a Hawaiian girl. He said “Just because you might not meet something of your culture, doesn’t mean you are any less of it.” Just because you don’t look Filipino doesn’t change that it’s your heritage!Once I started reconnecting with my family I threw myself into my culture, I made this blog, I scoured the internet, I asked my family, I asked other native Hawaiians for information on our culture. I feel connected to it by getting closer to my family, learning about our past, and of course the food. The best way to immerse yourself in your culture is to embrace the other people of it, it might be  hard at first but there’s a really welcoming community out there, take a chance! (I hoped this helped!)