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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is it crazy for someone to want to be around other people who speak the same language and are of the same culture?[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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?"   :roll:

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    [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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