Where My Filipinos At?
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Anonymous
| And yes-- interesting to hear Tagalog a lot more often in Rockville since we moved back to the area ~7 years ago. |
Anonymous
| Gaithersburg. |
Anonymous
| Fort Washington and Oxon Hill outside the beltway neighborhoods near St Columba church and school. There is also a restaurant though it seems to have irregular hours. They recently built a Filipino community center in Oxon Hill not far from St Columba also. |
Anonymous
| There is a Filipino market in Laurel, so I'm assuming Laurel might have a community of Filipinos. |
Anonymous
| I always seem to meet a lot in the sterling costco. Not sure why, but makes me think sterling has an abundant population. |
Anonymous
| DH is Filipino and most of his family live in Silver Spring. |
Anonymous
| There is one in McLean. |
Anonymous
Great. More foreigners who don't want to associate with anyone further out than their second cousins. Maybe you were jesting, why do you present self-segregating yourselves (and presumably turning down other kids' birthday invites, etc.) as a Good Thing? |
Anonymous
This is on the mark. Thank you for speaking the truth. |
Anonymous
watchutalkingaboutwillis? OP said she owned herself some Fililpinos, right in the subject line. and that she lost them or something. |
Anonymous
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Where my Italians at?
wtf IS this? really, OP? |
Anonymous
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Why is it crazy for someone to want to be around other people who speak the same language and are of the same culture?
There is an amazing filipino store that was in Arlington that moved out to Springfield--is there a filipino community down there? |
Anonymous
I find it annoying because it means those people essentially become dead to us (an Anglo family) socially. Playdate and other invitations are ignored, attempts at engaging in conversation are ignored, etc. |
Anonymous
No there is cheaper rent down there |
Anonymous
Oh, bull. OP here-- Filipinos are some of the least "self-segregating" people around. I could give you a history lesson as to why, but that comment was in jest-- ever wonder why Filipinos are one of the largest Asian American groups by total population and yet there are so few Filipino restaurants or "Little Manilas?" 
I asked because it's really hard to even find a small concentration of Filipinos, for reasons of history I said I wouldn't go into, and yes, it would be nice for our kid to hear some Tagalog spoken, have more than maybe one random Fil-Am friend, etc. We have considered moving to the *actual Philippines* for a year or two to get this, but in the meantime, she doesn't have much Filipino family nearby, so, we were just thinking... No danger of us truly "self-segregating." Let's see. About 1/3 of my kid's family is white (half of that Jewish), 1/3 Filipino and 1/3 other Asian American or Latino ethnicities. But I will cry 1000 tears for you and your lonely life, Anglo PP. It must be so tough when you go to the nail salon and you can't understand Vietnamese. They're totally talking about you, YK. It's way harder to be snubbed by an occasional immigrant who is probably just self-conscious about his/her English and/or wary of potentially aversively racist and self-segregating Anglos (oh, no, white people would never choose to live around other white people! total coincidence when it happens!) O WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE WHITE PEOPLE |