Three Cultures. Two Races. No Home.
Kristen Ellerbe, Richmond, VA. As a mixed child, I have never felt at home with any culture. My mother was born in the Philippines and...
Leap Of Faith: Towards Greener Pastures?
“Anon Swagapino”, Spring, TX In the Philippines, it is not uncommon to hear your neighbors planning to go abroad. Persuaded by the stories of their...
Wow, you speak English really well!
Sharmila Guha, Oakland, CA. It was my first summer job after high school. A man in the lunch room one day tried to ask shy...
Female Chicana, not from Mexico/Philippenes
Mariela Uscanga, La Mirada, CA. When people see me, I am often confused as Filipino or from Mexico. People will speak to me in Spanish...
Filipinos ridiculed for using proper English
Honorato Velasco, Cleveland, OH My brother and I spoke proper English and generally pronounced the words correctly. This meant that we were often ridiculed by...
Full Filipino, but not quite full
Marsha, TX My name is Marsha, a student at HCC in the US. I am 100 percent Filipino, but there are times when I do...
Chill With Anyone And No Politics
Earl Herr, Ecuador I moved in 2018 to Ecuador because of the turmoil in America. I get along with Everyone. I spent years in the...
Indigenous and religiously evangelical equal colonized?
Chantilly Mers New York, NY I am the daughter of parents who migrated from Palau, a small cluster of islands between Guam and the Philippines....
I May Look Chinese, but Nah.
Josh, Tustin, CA p>I’m from the Philippines. I have ch**k eyes but that doesn’t mean I’m Chinese!
People never guess my race correctly
Lara Jean DeShayes, Oakland, CA. I was born in Olongapo Philippines to a Filipina mom and French-American Naval seaman. In Oakland, I’m often assumed to...
You do not look INSERT RACE
Jamie M. Young, Seattle, WA. Collected from The Race Card Project, On Location: Seattle Community Colleges I was born in Subic Bay, Philippines at the...
Great-Grandmother’s name sparked interest in heritage
Maggie Trela, Denver, CO. I was visiting California for Christmas when I was about 5 or 6, when I asked my grandma why we called...
Scandinasican: Scandinavian, Asian, American – where’s home?
AD Hammershaimb Radnor, PA My siblings see it as belonging everywhere; I see it as belonging nowhere. In Denmark, Danes see me as Filipino-American. In...
No, where are you REALLY from?
Gerard Achilles Obnial, McAllen, TX. When I first worked in the hospital, it had always been routine that my patients would ask not for my...
Don’t marry a black, they said.
Katie Blunt, Freson, CA. “We don’t care if you marry a black man, but we just want you to know that your life will be...
Filipino in America; American in Philippines
Ryan, Arlington, VA. Like many first generation Americans who have tried to “blend” to American culture so deeply, it’s hard to know what your racial...
I Need Someone Who Speaks English
Joseph Anico Angeles Irvine, CA I was born in the Philippines and when I turned three, my father (pa) enlisted in the U.S. Navy and...
