Being born both Filipino and Chinese I’ve seen many differences in culture. My dad being Filipino and my mom being part Chinese and Filipino, as a kid, I thought it was odd when my parents would get mad at me because sometimes my dad would yell in Filipino and my mom would yell in Chinese. Living with my parents gave me the best understanding of culture because my parents are both unique Till this day my parents still try to make me speak Filipino and Chinese food names because they like to make fun of me when I speak the name because I sound white when saying it. Certain things were easy to say like “pork adobo” and certain ones were simple like “Chow Fun.” Growing up, I realize that many foods that my parent’s cook was important to our culture, …show more content…
Vinegary, sweet aroma of adobo was always common is the house. As a child living under a Filipino house there were a lot of foods I was interested in, but adobo was the one that always caught my attention. Adobo was always made in a long process as if it was being fermented in a boiling process in bay leaves garlic and vinegar and other stuff. It was the food every Filipino parent would commonly cook. I remember watching my mom make adobo because I was always interested in the scent. It was always interesting while it was cooking. Adobo was the one thing I saw everywhere. Every Filipino related restaurants, every Filipino household; every Filipino party somehow there has been always adobo. Food such as adobo is important to Filipino because it’s the most known to most Filipino’s. It’s incomparable with any other food because it has importance to …show more content…
Although adobo has reminded me of some terrible memories, like getting teased, it also helps me remember the memories I am most fond of such as watching my mom make it. Adobo is what got the family together and showed how great they were. Family parties were the best because being both Filipino and Chinese I got to see both cultures in one area listening to two different types of languages talking on and on. Also seeing many different types of food, from Filipino food to also seeing Chinese food. Adobo was my anchor more of my family is Filipino and my Chinese side also loves the adobo my Filipino side cooks its part of why they sometimes they come back the fact food has the power to create memories for everybody who comes. Adobo was an important factor because I seen more of it in my life than any other food. It was always there when there was an important family
In 1900, Senator Albert Beveridge, a Republican from Indiana, gave a speech in response to “The Philippine Question”. Beveridge was asked by senators and members of the House of Representatives to give a speech on the Philippines. At this time, the United States was in discussion of what the future steps would be after the Spanish-American War, which resulted in a win and subsequent acquisition of the Philippines. Senator Beveridge responded to the idea that the United States should stay in the Philippines for its available resources for the United States, its impact it gives the United States in the Pacific Ocean, and the destiny the United States has in spreading democracy. Senator Albert Beveridge makes a strong argument of why the United States should stay in the Philippines; his arguments of commerce, world powers, and race are all strong for the United States, but there is a strong resistance from the Filipino people and their vocal leader Emilio Aguinaldo.
) Miss Columbia’s School House at 1894 and Emilio Aguinaldo Criticizes American Imperialism in the Philippines at 1899 illustrates the perception of being foreigners among the Americans. Among the short male figures outside the gates, is Hawaii (the men is carrying the Hawaiian flag) and Alaska. Around the 1950’s, the two states became part of America. Miss Columbia is the teacher and is in charged among the students. But inside the school house there is somewhat chaos happening with the different diverse people. An African American is running away from the school because a white male is stabbing him with some type of weapon. In 1865, slavery was outlawed but segregation was still permitted until 1964. African American were treated poorly among
Gianina, my twin sister, has an irrational dislike of bananas and cheese. She will not knowingly eat anything that has bananas or cheese, and in fact, the simple mention of bananas may very well throw her into a fit. Bizarrely, one of her favorite foods is mango cheesecake and she will quite happily eat anything so long as no one mentions it contains bananas or cheese. Gianina’s predilection annoys me not only because my favorite thing to eat is new york style pizza, but also because it reminds me that as a kid I had an even stranger quirk: I refused to eat Asian food. A word of background is in order. My mother is Chinese, originally from Shanghai. I overlap two cultures because I am half-Chinese and half-Caucasian. As a child, I would walk around the fresh markets in Hong Kong every day with my maid to buy the fresh fish and vegetables that were sure to be steamed and sautéed with vast amounts of oyster sauce. Some days, my father and I would stroll the streets seeing what was out there for I was a curious. As a child, I did not understand why my Dad would turn heads on the str...
People of Filipino decent have a rich culture that emphasizes tradition and family; as well as allows for a political and sociocultural movement for Filipino immigrants in their new countries. Theme one focuses on the concept of culture and how Filipinos present themselves as a race. Although they reside in the United States, it was rare for most informants to identify themselves as Americans. Rather, they viewed their culture as being morally correct and righteous and American culture as deviant or aberrant. Explicitly, the issue with Filipinos in terms of American culture was their concept of family and the U.S. families’ lac k thereof. They argue that in their culture family is a dominant aspect that preaches assistance and care for one another. Additionally, they disagree with the ideology that American families have in terms they raise their children. Filipinos take care of their children and continue to offer them resources and shelter regardless of their age. Conversely, they believe that American parents lack in care for their children and ultimately get the same from them in return. Filipino culture also emphasizes gender roles and restrictions, particularly female gender. Females are expected to take on the role of the
One of the main things that shapes a person’s cultural identity is their parents. Culture is passed down from generation to generation. In the story Two Kinds Amy Tan tells about a mother and daughter that clash heads because the mother wants her daughter to be something she’s not. They are Chinese, and in Chinese culture children are pushed to excel in everything they do and be better than everybody. The mother tells her daughter “You can be best anything. Of course, you can be a prodigy too”. The mother is pushing the Chinese culture down on her, because that’s the way she was raised. People’s parents were raised one way, which in their mind is the “right” way, so they raise their children the same way implementing
My parents like all parents are faced with raising their children with culturally suitable morals and ethics that will not only prepare them for adulthood but also molds them into the person they are today. For my brother and I, we were taught from young where my parents, grandparents, and other ancestors were from. Even though I never went back to the country my parents or grandparents were born in I was able to gain a sense of my ethnic self. Whether it was taking my brother and me to events those in the Guyanese culture celebrated or showed us picture to keep the culture alive. I believe something simply as cooking traditional cuisines that originated from their country my parents did to show us this is what we ate. My dad hung up flags, shared stories of life growing up in the
In 1898, in an effort to free Cuba from the oppression of its Spanish colonizers, America captured the Philippines. This brought about questions of what America should do with the Philippines. Soon, controversy ensued both in the American political arena as well as among its citizens. Throughout its history, America had always been expansionistic, but it had always limited itself to the North American continent. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, however, there emerged a drive to expand outside of the continent. When America expanded to the Philippines, the policy it followed was a stark break from past forms of expansionism. Despite much controversy, America followed the example of the imperialistic nations in Europe and sought to conquer the Philippines as an imperialist colony that they would rule either directly or indirectly.
Rex Navarrete, being a Filipino-American did not showed any difficulty or struggle in sharing his perception on the Filipino practices. In fact, although he grew up in the US, he still knows the typical Filipino culture, practices and issues (such as colonial mentality, racism within and without the Filipino community), and is able to share it to the people using his own experiences. This makes it grounded on the Filipino experience. But, as heard in the video, though there are some parts in the video that showed what everybody experiences in the Philippines (like Jollibee's MamSir), he mostly talked about his own experience with his family. And considering he spent most of his life in the United States, I believe that Rex was not able to capture
The first inhabitants of the Philippines arrived from the land bridge from Asia over 150,000 years ago. Throughout the years, migrants from Indonesia, Malaysia, and other parts of Asia made their way to the islands of this country. In the fourteenth century, the Arabs arrived and soon began a long tradition of Islam. Many Muslims are still living in the Philippines today.
The island of Bali is a city among the islands of Indonesia, located east of Java and west of Lombak in the Indian Ocean. As stated in “The Anthropological Romance of Bali 1597-1972,” Bali is “in the very center of the Indonesian archipelago” (Boon 1). This island is part of the largest nation in size and population in Southeast Asia.
There’s so many varieties of ethnicities and some people aren’t the most respectful to each other. We used to not get along with the Flipinoes that work with us in the plantation. However, the Japanese, Chinese, and the Filipino are teaming up to improve the pay conditions at work right now. I’m very glad that we are starting to get along with the Filipinos and I hope the pay conditions will get better. It’s actually a really good experience to work with other ethnic groups because I’m learning a lot from everyone about their cultures. So far, the Japanese group and I have shared mochi, chopsticks, and musubi. I’m very glad that many people are enjoying these unique foods. However, everyone says that it’s a struggle to use chopsticks because it takes quite some time and practice to get used to using them. Still yet, I’m very happy to share our culture with everyone. Some things that I learned from others are kimchi, malasada, and hula. Kimchi is from the Korean culture. It’s basically lettuce and vegetables flavored with a spicy sauce and it goes really well with rice. Malasadas are from the portuguese culture. It’s a soft bread coated with sugar and is delicious when I’m craving sweet food. Hula is from the Hawaiian culture and it’s a beautiful dance that tells a story. Overall, I have learned so much from each culture and I’ll be ready to share some of my favorites with you all when I get back.
Generally, textbooks, articles, and essays talk about America’s “occupation,” “supervision” or “intervention” in the Philippines. They seem to be afraid to use the word “colonization.” According to Webster’s Dictionary the definition of colonization is, “The colonial system of political government or extension of territory, by which one nation exerts political control over another nation, territory, or people, maintaining the colony in a state of dependence, its inhabitants not having the same full rights as those of the colonial power. The controlling power is typically extended thus by military force or the threat of force” (6). In his book analyzing Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, Mark Caprio makes a distinction between two different “levels” of colonialism: external and internal. He states that external colonization is what Hannah Arendt calls “overseas imperialism…where their indirect policy exerted minimal effort to forge political, social, or cultural bonds with the peoples under their jurisdiction” (2). Although this is the way the French colonized, the United States seem to adopt the British way of colonizing, which is Caprio’s second level of colonization or internal colonization. This is what Benedict Anderson describes as “inventing nations” (Caprio 2). It requires that the colonial power send ambassadors to impress its culture upon the colony through controlling things such as dialect, media, education, and military (Caprio 2). Caprio also mentions, “The decision to colonize, as well as the administration to administer the colonized, was based primarily on the needs and interests of the colonizer’s subject; those of the colonized object received minimal consideration” (2). Therefore, a colony serves...
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Being born in the Philippines and being raised between my birth country and Japan, I was taught completely different languages than that I speak today. From the beginning of my life, I was embedded with the languages of Japanese, Tagalog, and some Chinese. Not only did I learnt and understood these languages, I was also influenced with the Asian lifestyle. I had to show respect to my elders, always be with my family, and incorporated religion and cultural traditions into my everyday life. Then, with a sudden whisk, I was brought to America at the age of five years old with my mother. My mother wanted to live that "American dream" that she has heard. So with her "imperfect English" and me with no knowledge of English, we first moved to Oregon. There I attended my first English school. I was shocked with the culture differences that they practiced in America. I realized that the families are broken apart, the Asian Americans appear to have never practiced their cultural traditions and language, and some children do not pay their respects to their elders. I see how American culture collides with what I was taught; I progressively adapted this culture change. I gradually adjusted to my environment in Oregon, and then my mother decided to move to California, then to Hawaii. Moving to this new country and jumping around the different states, learning a new language and culture was imperative. Taking in English and the American ways slowly over took me; thus caused me to lose myself I
Spoken by over 28 million people around the world, Tagalog is the national language and one of two official languages in the Philippines, the other being English. Tagalog, is also referred to as Filipino, it is considered the most important of the many tongues and dialects throughout the Philippines, because it is the most understood and has the most development. It is mainly spoken in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, and the surrounding eight provinces around it including the provinces of Bataan, Rizal, Laguna, Cavite Batangas, Quezon, Mindoro, Marinduque, and Bulacan. It is also spoken in many outer-lying islands and seaport towns throughout the archipelago. Today, Tagalog is spoken as a first language by around 23 million people and as a second language by over 66 million people.