Where My Filipinos At?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is it crazy for someone to want to be around other people who speak the same language and are of the same culture?

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.

I am not Filipino, but I have lived in southern California, which has a substantial Filipino population. In my experience, Filipinos were always very friendly, engaging, and outgoing toward the "Anglos" (your term), Chinese, Armenians, Mexicans, Persian/Iranians, no different than anyone else, really, in that respect. In some metropolitan areas, like Los Angeles, the different ethnicities, cultures, and nationalities are both more integrated and still have well-defined cultural enclaves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is it crazy for someone to want to be around other people who speak the same language and are of the same culture?

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.

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

I'll just comfort myself with all my white privilege and wealth. You, on the other hand, can support all your deadbeat relatives. From what I hear it's a pretty sweet existence to be the deadbeat relative in an extended Pinoy family.

I wasn't talking about Anglos looking down their noses at the brown newcomers. That's a separate dynamic and issue. I was talking about foreign families self-segregating and sticking to their own.

Non-Anglos self-segregating helps ... no one.

[Anonymous]

(I'm a guy by the way, so my talk about nail shops is just conjecture)

Apologies about Pinoy families. That was a low blow.

Now if you wish to discount my concerns about foreigners snubbing native-born Americans, that's fine -- I do have all that white privilege to fall back on.

IMO, it's rude as hell to go a nail salon or any other place of business and have the nail tech yammering away -- in any language -- on their cell phone or to a co-worker the whole time while they're presumably needing to do stuff on your hands/feet. Where I grew up, it was the Gretchen Wilson wannabees doing that stuff not the Vietnamese.

[Anonymous]

http://www.wtop.com/41/3504723/Local-Filipino-community-rallies-to-help-typhoon-victims

[Anonymous]

OP; you are funny.

There is one in my house. I just hired a Philipino nanny. anything I should know about the culture?

All I know is that she is really small and I think my child will outgrow her by the time he's 3. Kidding. She's small but not that small.