about growing demand for Ube while Filipinos struggle to keep up with that demand. My response was about how often people are interested in the product, trend, or aesthetic but not about the labor conditions and economic realities Filipinos have to face.
what? ure arguing against a claim i never took. I wasn't talking about whether someone isn't allowed to make ube ice cream, nor was i demanding that anyone engage with the "totality" of filipino culture before cooking a dish. I'm talking about an article-
@irarchivex@bettercallzuzu@naolovesindo west has. Filipinos engage much more deeply with western culture than vice versa. I can see how that would be frustrating but resentment over such things is embarrassing. You can't demand deep engagement just because the other's culture is very influential to you.
@I_ReadNews@bettercallzuzu@naolovesindo the problem is when that minimal engagement is treated as the full understanding of a whole people, their culture and their living reality.
@I_ReadNews@bettercallzuzu@naolovesindo The issue here is that Filipino culture gets appreciated in surface-level ways like food, aesthetics or trends while filipinos themselves are often ignored, stereotyped, or only seen through labor. And engaging with our culture "minimally" isn't the problem here-
@I_ReadNews@bettercallzuzu@naolovesindo That's exactly the problem. Plus the issue here is how often perception is limited or stereotyped unless Filipinos are directly involved in their lives. There are literally millions of Filipinos in the US that are part of the healthcare, education and everyday labor systems.
@Senordonjulio@bettercallzuzu@naolovesindo ??? The Philippines had thriving civilizations, literature, language, etc., LONG before Spain arrived 😂. By your stupid logic every country colonized suddenly has no culture of its own?? bitch bfr
@mojiji__ meanwhile i’ve met way more non-white people who speak grammatically and punctually correct English than the same Americans acting superior online tangina patawa shet