Any Filipinos on the forum?

[Blue370tt]

Originally Posted by mrcardio

To legitimately claim to be of a certain ethnicity you should at the very least be familiar with its customs, culture, history, traditions, and be able to speak the native language. In the case of the Philippines that language is Tagalog. If not it’s about as lame as my self trying to claim I’m Irish and German simply because of my blood line. Who you are has a lot more to do with where and how you were raised NOT what country you were born and or who your parents are, etc. Most of you including my self would be more accurately described as: “American of “insert decent" ".

Not True: This is from the CIA fact book and from ME living there for 7 years:

Filipino; eight major dialects - Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon or Ilonggo, Bicol, Waray, Pampango, and Pangasinan

And BTW....if you were an American school child of military person you were required to take 1 hour of PI culture per day every year of school at Clark AFB.

I love lumpia and San Miguel!

[Mr. Mcoupe]

Over 100 languages/dialects. All are Filipino.

[vash_241987]

I'll admit I'm white washed, cant speak a full sentence of it, but I do understand most of it. Sure wished I learned it well though....but besides my parents, I had no one else to speak it with and be fluent.

[DeLRo]

Originally Posted by vash_241987

I'll admit I'm white washed, cant speak a full sentence of it, but I do understand most of it. Sure wished I learned it well though....but besides my parents, I had no one else to speak it with and be fluent.

I'm the same way. I can understand about 90% of Tagalog, but when it comes to speaking it I have a really hard time. I learned when I was 7yrs old when I stayed in the Phillippines for a month. I came home and spoke it fluently. But my grandparents on my moms side only spoke English at home because they wanted all the kids to learn English faster.

I know if I really put in the effort I could learn again, but it's hard when I don't really have anyone to practice with on a daily basis. Hopefully when I go back to the Phillippines next year I can relearn again.

[DarKNight370z]

I think someones ethnicity/race is based off your bloodline and how your raised. I consider myself a Filipino Italian American but when i have to declare my race on forms, job apps, etc there is no option for that lol so you have to check multiple ones and almost always there is not a option for American, so i am left with Asian and European when i haven't even stepped on those continents. So i think knowing the languages and customs etc is not a necessity, at least to the government, when someone is saying their "Filipino" or whatever because you are more so talking about where your family traces back from.

[Cmike2780]

[wheee!]

ummmm... I am very white I guess. British parents and they immigrated to Canada one year before I was born in Canada.

BUT! I have some very very nice friends who are Filipino and they are great! Served overseas with one (we called him the Mexican cuz he loves spicy foods!) and I would walk thru a minefield for him.(Lol, I think I did once!)

Met another wonderful lady on a cruise ship (stop stereotyping here) who worked in the lounge. She was a fantastic lady, wife, mother, waitress etc and was also a great friend to my wife and I during our cruise.

My co-worker has a Filipino girlfriend who is an amazing cook. Met her last week and I think she is great! She is new to Canada and we are glad to have her here!

One of the things I love about Canada is that very few people (native Canadians excepted) can claim to BE from here. Everyone comes from somewhere else.

A Chinese friend at work looks very oriental, speaks Mandarin and has a rich cultural identity. Yet his family has been in Canada for almost 200 years!

My next door neighbours are Polish and the others are from El Salvador. My step-dad is Ukrainian and my crazy son thinks he is German! (he speaks fluent German now and pretends he is Austrian actually... weird)

I toured Afghanistan with the French Canadian "VanDoos" and did a lot of my work in French (I am bilingual). I also worked side by side with the Americans in Panjwaii District (Crazy Americans! We called them "Cowboy" for a call sign cuz they were VERY reckless!)

Bottom Line: Celebrate your heritage, no matter where you live. It is who you are, not your address that defines you. nuff said.

[Mr. Mcoupe]

^^ Fun post! Thanks for getting the fun back in this thread!

[Cmike2780]

:ic well said.

Enough of that. If I offended anyone, I apologize.


Are their any 370z owners on the forum in the Philippines? It's a relatively expensive car there after all the import fees, so I would suspect it's pretty rare. Probably double the sticker price of the US.

[Mike]

we had one guy before, he burned up his differential doing high speed runs.

[m4a1mustang]

Originally Posted by Cmike2780

:ic well said.

Enough of that. If I offended anyone, I apologize.


Are their any 370z owners on the forum in the Philippines? It's a relatively expensive car there after all the import fees, so I would suspect it's pretty rare. Probably double the sticker price of the US.

Yeah there are one or two. You know how it is over there though... you have teh money or you don't.

[Saber Rider]

Originally Posted by m4a1mustang

Yeah there are one or two. You know how it is over there though... you have teh money or you don't.

Almost $80k including taxes. A GTR is abot $150k including taxes. You'll have more luck seeing an F430 on the street instead of a Z or GTR.

[mrcardio]

Originally Posted by Cmike2780

:ic well said.

Enough of that. If I offended anyone, I apologize.


Are their any 370z owners on the forum in the Philippines? It's a relatively expensive car there after all the import fees, so I would suspect it's pretty rare. Probably double the sticker price of the US.

Nissan doesn't sell the 370z in the Philippines.

[m4a1mustang]

Originally Posted by mrcardio

Nissan doesn't sell the 370z in the Philippines.

But we do have a member or two that has one over there.

[PapoZalsa]

Originally Posted by m4a1mustang

But we do have a member or two that has one over there.