US ‘Filipinx American US History’ course debuts at Seattle Public Schools middle and high schools

‘Filipinx American US History’ course debuts at Seattle Public Schools middle and high schools​

Local community members gathered to celebrate the new Filipinx American U.S. History course, which is now offered at the middle and high school levels of Seattle Public Schools (SPS).

Leaders along with several students, family and friends gathered at Hood Famous in the Chinatown-International District on Oct. 14 to celebrate the course created by the local Filipino community and current Ethnic Studies program manager Alekz Wray, reported South Seattle Emerald.

The course was introduced as a part of SPS’s expansion of the Ethnic Studies program. The schools previously announced LGBTQ-plus, Arabic, Black and American Indian studies courses.

“It was really important for me to make sure that this class was not a product of SPS. This was a product of the community that has been living this history, because who’s telling the story is super important. This was the Filipino, Filipina, Filipinx American communities’ story to tell, and because the community still has ownership over this curriculum, they’re still able to empower and uplift and keep this as a living curriculum,” Wray told South Seattle Emerald.

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Dr. Third Andresen, a University of Washington Seattle professor who played a vital role in the creation of the curriculum, said the focus of its development was intersectionality.

“Students going through ethnic studies curricula find themselves empowered having that self-confidence … a lot of people start to get to know themselves,” Dr. Andresen was quoted as saying. “It increases the probability of college access and the probability of graduation.”

The event featured lively music and Filipino food, such as arroz caldo, ube cookies and calamansi juice.

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According to Seattle Public Schools spokesperson Tina Riss Christiansen, there are currently 11 students enrolled in the virtual Filipinx U.S. History class. There are also reportedly a couple hundred eighth graders who will be taking the class this school year.

Students who were present at the event shared some of the Filipinx history they learned in the classroom.

“It’s really special to be here at this event, especially for Filipino American History Month,” Jennilee Policarpio, member of the Filipino Community Health Board and National Alliance for Filipino Concerns, told South Seattle Emerald. “Youth and students really need this perspective of their own history, to further be better citizens in our community.”

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“Filipinos are contributors in any community they go to, so this class will be for all of us, by Filipinos,” Wray added. “I’m really excited for students to be able to take this class and to really challenge the master narrative.”


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[BiggerChungus]

Filipino-americans are not filipinos culturally and are amerimutts brainwashed by amerimutt media and politics. many of them are privileged cunts who think their better than the filipinos who live in the actual country despite bitching about muh discrimination with their pathetic white simps. Hurr i eat adobo that means i know a lot about flip culture! Muh heritage!1!

Some of the real sad shit is how native Hawaiian culture's been deliberately erased and their demographics deliberately, largely replaced by Filipinos and to a lesser extent Asians. You'll find more Pablos than you will any Hawaiian name in Hawaii now, but no one cares because for whatever reason, the government really wanted Hawaiians gone.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

Some of the real sad shit is how native Hawaiian culture's been deliberately erased and their demographics deliberately, largely replaced by Filipinos and to a lesser extent Asians. You'll find more Pablos than you will any Hawaiian name in Hawaii now, but no one cares because for whatever reason, the government really wanted Hawaiians gone.

Spoiler: Tangent

Racistly lumping all island cultures together, I'm reminded of a time in College when I was at some event about one of the cultures. It was weird, it had two parts I think? The first part was a movie about how tourist culture was bad because it was so fake and climbing trees is dangerous and society taught boys to dream of being football stars to escape when that will be massive success for a few boys who will then injure themselves as if they just fell out of a tree anyways.

Presenter - who claimed to be of that culture - said supporting the tourist industry is bad because it supports the fake-ass idealized version of her culture instead of the real thing.

Then she admitted that when she goes home and her people come up to her getting off the plane and put a lei on her, instead of turning them down because they're demeaning themselves, she's like ok ok I understand what you're doing even though it's fake, I understand you need to make a living too. And then she pays up. Because what's she supposed to do? Let her people starve?

Tldr kids of island culture don't protect authentic island culture in practice, even if they lecture people on the mainland about it.

 

[ZazietheBeast]

The sad reality is, when Flips congregate on an area, they inevitably bring with them the broken culture that has left their motherland "the sick old man of Asia."

Which includes being total attention whores. As popularity is something they crave. Besides basketball.

 

[Looney Troons]

Jollibee isn’t really all that great.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

Some of the real sad shit is how native Hawaiian culture's been deliberately erased and their demographics deliberately, largely replaced by Filipinos and to a lesser extent Asians. You'll find more Pablos than you will any Hawaiian name in Hawaii now, but no one cares because for whatever reason, the government really wanted Hawaiians gone.

Well Marcos Sr. did claim Hawaii was part of a larger Asia Pacific kingdom which combined Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, and other Pacific Islands where he got this who knows.

 

[JoseRaulChupacabra]

Some of the real sad shit is how native Hawaiian culture's been deliberately erased and their demographics deliberately, largely replaced by Filipinos and to a lesser extent Asians. You'll find more Pablos than you will any Hawaiian name in Hawaii now, but no one cares because for whatever reason, the government really wanted Hawaiians gone.

I'm telling you. California is next. We just have to outbreed the Mexicans.

Well Marcos Sr. did claim Hawaii was part of a larger Asia Pacific kingdom which combined Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, and other Pacific Islands where he got this who knows.

We Wuz Datuz Maharlikangz Austronesian Pacific Vikang N Shiet.

 

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I'm a big US history nerd and I cant think of a single flip contribution to the country's collective history, and the US literally owned the Philippines for a while before writing it off as worthless.

They made several thousand americans good americans in the Philippine-American war.

 

[The Cunting Death]

I told my dad, someone actually born in the Philippines to a Filipino mom, spent his first ten years there, and lived exclusively in Washington since, about this.

Not only was he surprised because Filipino American history is boring as shit, with little to no culture of its own, he laughed at the "gender neutral Filipinx" term. Ftr he's a very right wing patriotic American who loves his country.

 

[Stoneheart]

Typhoon Paeng notwithstanding, there are still Filipinos on dry land.

cant be many since every damn ship is manned by them.

 

[JoseRaulChupacabra]

Not only was he surprised because Filipino American history is boring as shit, with little to no culture of its own, he laughed at the "gender neutral Filipinx" term. Ftr he's a very right wing patriotic American who loves his country.

That's cause we have a gender neutral third person pronoun and no one other than gender specials actually like that term.

The word "Filipinx" is just more white saviors imposing their culture on other people.

 

[Freshly Baked Socks]

I've seen some cars with PINOY PRIDE or PINAY PRIDE banners across the windshields, locally...

Pretty sure none of them will ever wear a FILIPINX PRIDE flag.

 

[Coldgrip]

I'm a big US history nerd and I cant think of a single flip contribution to the country's collective history, and the US literally owned the Philippines for a while before writing it off as worthless.

Well, they gave us butterfly knives, which are pretty fucking cool. On the other hand, they also gave us really ugly women. Seriously, I've never met a flip woman that was even remotely attractive. So I guess they gave us those two things.

 

[JoseRaulChupacabra]

Well, they gave us butterfly knives, which are pretty fucking cool. On the other hand, they also gave us really ugly women. Seriously, I've never met a flip woman that was even remotely attractive. So I guess they gave us those two things.

Based on the appearance of all the local hookers with sexpat johns, that's probably market forces at work.

 

[Non-breath oblige]

Tldr kids of island culture don't protect authentic island culture in practice, even if they lecture people on the mainland about it.

ymmv, but I've rarely seen Hawaii locals lecture mainlanders on muh island culture. Frankly most of the local population doesn't give a shit. Most of the time its haole mainlanders or Asian mainlanders whose parents may have been from Hawaii but otherwise never grew up in Hawaii themselves. Hell, /r/Hawaii just had posts about locals being more dicks than mainland tourists sometimes (without PLing too hard I can say that is true to an extent). It is funny seeing mainlanders on there be like "are tiki torches and hula grass skirts culturally insensitive? can i dance hula even though i'm not hawaiian? should i move to hawaii even though i'm white???" and all the replies from locals be like "lol we dgaf braddah" The only exception that people might bat an eye to is giving your white kid a Hawaiian first name without any local/islander blood, but honestly I'd feel that be the same if it were a Japanese/Chinese/Korean first name.

Not only was he surprised because Filipino American history is boring as shit, with little to no culture of its own, he laughed at the "gender neutral Filipinx" term. Ftr he's a very right wing patriotic American who loves his country.

It's funny because the majority religion of the Philippines is conservative Catholicism. Like nearly every Filipino person I knew attended a Catholic school or university.

 

[The Cunting Death]

It's funny because the majority religion of the Philippines is conservative Catholicism. Like nearly every Filipino person I knew attended a Catholic school or university.

My dad is literally an ex catholic. He converted to Protestantism when he married my mom and then just dropped religion in general after they divorced.

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

That's cause we have a gender neutral third person pronoun and no one other than gender specials actually like that term.

The word "Filipinx" is just more white saviors imposing their culture on other people.

There was a Filipinx panel at ComicCon I think it was and the Twitter comments were at the same level as the Latinos get about Latinx. Except it's Flips and you'd probably get stabbed in real life.

 

[RonPaul2008]

what history?

 

[Kulee Baba]

Some of the real sad shit is how native Hawaiian culture's been deliberately erased and their demographics deliberately, largely replaced by Filipinos and to a lesser extent Asians. You'll find more Pablos than you will any Hawaiian name in Hawaii now, but no one cares because for whatever reason, the government really wanted Hawaiians gone.

Because the truth of the matter is that native Hawaiians are real fucking lazy while Pinoys are hard workers.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

Filipinks is more like it- seems like at least half of Filipino men are gay or trooning out.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

It's funny because the majority religion of the Philippines is conservative Catholicism. Like nearly every Filipino person I knew attended a Catholic school or university.

Don't forget Muslim.

There was a Filipinx panel at ComicCon I think it was and the Twitter comments were at the same level as the Latinos get about Latinx. Except it's Flips and you'd probably get stabbed in real life.

Or just mugged and the muggers escape quite conveniently. Or raped which ever comes first.

Filipinks is more like it- seems like at least half of Filipino men are gay or trooning out.

Filipinks sounds like socialists.