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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[heathercho]

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

And speaking as a native flip, whoever pushed for this "Filipinx" nonsense deserves nothing but pain.

Sea Niggers, Filos and Flips are already the best terms for Filipinos.

Though, having said that, the amount of 1st Gen flip males in the US obsessed with KPOP and being gender fags is quite high. They absolutely deserve the Pinx slur.

 

[raspberry mocha]

"Pee noise"

I don't really understand why flips don't outright hate the US but they really just might be retarded.

 

[HackerX]

The first Philipino I ever met was in the Army. If I were a betting man, I'd bet the thought of driving a car into a crowd of people has crossed his mind daily. Legitimately nuts.

The second was also in the Army, and he explained everything I needed to know about his homeland. "We are the Mexicans of Asia."

 

[Mr. 0]

@homerbeoulve do you realize what you have done

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

I think it might be short lived as they will see three letters important in Philippine history PC be damned they'd hate to see

And just like with "Light" Supremacy or whatever they say about Latinos they will use this as an excuse to give Filipinos some grief.

 

[Snekposter]

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 Flips are so hardcore they regularly include nails in their Easter reenactments. Thankfully they've not yet stabbed anyone and then left them to die on top of a hill for three days.

As to more general hardcoreness, their primary martial art has training katas about the baseball bat and pieces of hardwood in general, so yeah, around flips, seal your lips.

 

[Baklang Jollibee]

These terms Filipinx and  Pinxy are actually offensive to some Filipino gay males (known as baklâs) who are experiencing gender dsyphoria and don't want to be associated with those WOKE western ideologies. In most Austronesian languages, including ours, we Filipinos already have the gender-neutral pronoun siya (he/she), niya (he/she), kanya (her/him) or kanyang [bahay] (his [house] / her [house]), and we're not Filipinx! As a natural-born Filipino citizen, these clown Fil-Ams who identify as non-binary should stop making fun of our own culture.

 

[Sumptinsfuckey]

As someone married to a pinay, with a phil-am daughter, if anyone ever referred to either of them as philipinx I'd slap the taste out of thier mouths. If you used that term in front of my father in law or brother in laws they'd do the same. Then again, they are all pure strain, not the bannana wannabes who grew up in the US.

 

[Stoneheart]

If you used that term in front of my father in law or brother in laws they'd do the same.

Do they prefer Sailor or Seaman?

 

[Tacgnol]

Do they prefer Sailor or Seaman?

One of the funniest things I've seen was an old club in Bermuda when the boat flips got the night off. The club had a stainless steel dance floor, so the boat people were all hanging around the periphery, heads down and staring up the skirts of all the dancing white sluts.

At least they weren't armed, like everyone in the homeland.

 

[The Token Ethnic]

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!

Imagine not eating lumpias, pancit or siopao asado. For bonus gross points and street cred, some balut.

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

All I know is that the Philippines just gave us a new gross horrorcow we will be studying.

 

[Sumptinsfuckey]

Do they prefer Sailor or Seaman?

?

 

[Psyduck]

Philippinos are some of the ugliest humans on this great blue earth, god bless

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

Imagine not eating lumpias, pancit or siopao asado.

Definitely not Chinese

 

[Grub]

Filipinos were literally created by Spaniards raping niggers.

 

[The handsome tard]

The amount of Filipinos that wanted this:

But it doesnt matter what they wanted, they will be "helped", they liking it or not.
Everyone today is so obssessed with being a hero that they are ready to do the most villanous shit to get it done, I swear to God

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

Filipinos were literally created by Spaniards raping niggers.

And Muslims and Malays and Indonesians and Polynesisns and a combination of the three. Some were said to be bred from Chinese pirates raping the locals.

 

[Baklang Jollibee]

if anyone ever referred to either of them as philipinx I'd slap the taste out of thier mouths.

Yes, you should.

 

[37yearolddickrightnow]

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

Yup, just about every filipino immigrant I've met are willing to bust their ass to make a buck. I'd trade a dozen sleepy beaners or feral joggers for a single pinoy laborer.

The only people pushing "filipinx" and "latinx" are woke white liberal faggots.