>>214225044
Us Filipinos don't have a cultural prescence in America because we are an inconvenient truth, we are the voice of the prophet crying in the wilderness. You celebrate Japan and Korea who are recent new comers in America compared to Filipinos who are literally the oldest Asians in the Americas, because you get to be safe and be heroes of your curated stories of being captain America civilizing the barbaric Japanese or rescuing the Koreans from Commie danger, meanwhile with the Philippines, you are faced with your sins and your inner demons. The betrayal of the Philippine-American War wherein America destroys a First Philippine Republic patterned after America itself.
In contrast to Koreatown or Japantown which are immaculately preserved in California, Filipinotown has been mercilessly demolished; our history in the USA has been marked by discrimination and colonization, from the Watsonville riots, to the Delano Grapestrike, to America giving the fucking Japanese the congressional medal of honor in WW2 first rather than the Filipino veterans who fought and died for America.
Filipino voices are purposefully supressed because America is too afraid to take account of her own sins.