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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[Paul Pelosi's Boyfriend]

Get the fuck out of here you Sea Mexicans

 

[Matt Damon]

We're one step closer to "Chinx" being said unironically by the turbo-woke.

 

[gata]

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!

 

[Random Internet Person]

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!

Hasn’t that been said about almost all x-Americans ?

 

[Beautiful Border]

What would the course even contain, the founding of the first Jollibee?

 

[gata]

Hasn’t that been said about almost all x-Americans ?

Yes but flips have the stupid thing of celebrating successful hafus or 2nd generations as if they actually lived in the Philippines.
omg pinoy pride world wide blabla strongest race blabla.

Actually thinking about it I've see this shit happening in other SEA countries too.

 

[Stoneheart]

many of them are privileged cunts who think their better than the filipinos who live in the actual country

Are there even any Filipinos left on dry land? dont they all work on ships?

 

[WelfareNiggerQueen]

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!

The Flip mutt's I like seeing are the ones insisting they are pacific islanders. They're always rabid female liberals mad about their cultural identity being erased or some shit. Like nigger you live in the US it's eat the burger or become a racial supremacist to something you have no ties too unless you behave like a slut and your parents send you to live with the family in the Philippines to show you how well you got in the US.

 

[Kermit Jizz]

Filipinx sounds like a fucking slur.

 

[Counterfeit Obol]

Are there even any Filipinos left on dry land? dont they all work on ships?

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.

 

[Dysnomia]

Filipinx sounds like a fucking slur.

Well just give it time. Wokespeak changes so rapidly that it's bound to start becoming offensive eventually.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

Filipino-American "culture" ladxs and gentlemxn

 

[Bland Crumbs]

Ah yes Latinx was such a wild success that the sequel was inevitable. Are they trying to drive minorities to the GOP or are they just that fucking dumb?

 

[A-Stump]

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!

Filipinos are just brown fuck puppets used by the US military

Don't delude yourself into thinking they're anything more

 

[Matt Damon]

Ah yes Latinx was such a wild success that the sequel was inevitable. Are they trying to drive minorities to the GOP or are they just that fucking dumb?

It's the inevitable result of a political purity spiral - you can't both appeal to the general public and maintain your standing in the increasingly unhinged hierarchy of ideologues at the same time.

 

[kcbbq]

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.

 

[JoseRaulChupacabra]

The Flip mutt's I like seeing are the ones insisting they are pacific islanders. They're always rabid female liberals mad about their cultural identity being erased or some shit.

That's a thing among some Filipinas where they harken back to the precolonial times in the non-islamized parts of the archipelagoarpejlio where women played a larger role in society.

They're into feminism, tell you watch the documentary Bontoc, Rapeless, and making Baybayin (a defunct writing system) great again. Bonus points if said Pinay goes to one of the expensive universities in Manila, is pale as a bar of soap, has chinaman eyes, and has the last name "Ramirez" or some other Spanish word/surname.

 

[BiggerChungus]

I'm so happy I don't live in Seattle, Portland, or anywhere on the West Coast.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

We're one step closer to "Chinx" being said unironically by the turbo-woke.

Naw, China is feminine because it ends in "A". China is a feminist country. China good.


Please divert your eyes away from the corpse brides, the weirdo who fattened up his girlfriend so no other man would dare make a move on her, the "Chinese brothers" who rape their uyghur "mothers" and "sisters", the state mandated birth control, and the fertility databases.

Holy fuck how did I used to think that gendercide and foot binding were bad? That's kids play.