"Multiplicity" is interestingly as important a descriptor of the Filipino and/or the Filipino experience as anything. I've often been asked to describe this group and it feels an impossible task. Even looking at the experiences within my own family, I see where we are and how we view our heritage and history distinctly, despite our fairly similar starting points.
thanks billy! part of PUNTO's project is to deconstruct (and then reconstruct!) what it means to be filipino. it's not just about growing up in the philippines, eating certain foods and speaking your own dialect. it's also about the millions of filipinos who have left home or were born abroad to define what being filipino means to them, and have that be included as part of the overall conversation of what it means to be pinoy.
"Multiplicity" is interestingly as important a descriptor of the Filipino and/or the Filipino experience as anything. I've often been asked to describe this group and it feels an impossible task. Even looking at the experiences within my own family, I see where we are and how we view our heritage and history distinctly, despite our fairly similar starting points.
thanks billy! part of PUNTO's project is to deconstruct (and then reconstruct!) what it means to be filipino. it's not just about growing up in the philippines, eating certain foods and speaking your own dialect. it's also about the millions of filipinos who have left home or were born abroad to define what being filipino means to them, and have that be included as part of the overall conversation of what it means to be pinoy.