1.)In the first minutes of this documentary, there are multiple meanings to this. But a definitive example I can give, is that prior to this year, majority of people thought the term “POC” strictly referred to African Americans when in actuality it also spreads to other minorities as well. The economic goal that this serves is to either limit or help us. In most instances,
2.)The differences are very racially charged and in one of the instances provided, it was said that the early Americans viewed the various tribes as being like them, European due to their skin color and expansive nature is similar to theirs as stated by Thomas Jefferson.
3.) The Filipino people racialized in the late 1800s/early 1900s were shown as exhibits like they were something to behold. Constantly being compared to the standards that Americans had at the time such as white skin and their so-called “upright” morals. I do not know the political and economic purpose/goals that these served but in today’s Philippines, we are so Americanized. Most Filipinos I know prefer the white skin that is so common among Europeans and even our education system up until a couple of years ago started following the American system. Prior to leaving the Phillippines, I remember that after 6th grade, you’d go straight to high school, but now they changed it to the American standard.
Hi Jericho, I agree with you on how Filipino culture praise people who have lighter skin like white people and treat people of darker skin, like trash. It’s terrible how colorism affects an entire race, when they should be united as one.
Great observations, Jericho, of the continued impacts of U.S. colonization in the Philippines.