Asian Pacific American Culture

Asian Pacific Americans are primarily identified with Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino Americans but Asian Pacific Americans are much more than that. In my opinion, I believe Asian Pacific Americans are people who emigrated from Asian Pacific Islands to America who’s either looking for a job, freedom or be with their family member who already has American citizenship. These Asian Pacific Americans are either the 1st generation or more of Asian Pacific Americans who 's been in America for a period of time. They have adapted to Western (American) culture because exposure to the Western culture, although they have never forgotten their own homeland and its culture, histories, environment, and traditions. Learning or becoming more aware of the early …show more content…
My immediate family is here in America while my extended family and childhood friends are all in Philippines which I have been close to even today. Most of my friends here in America are all Asian Pacific American citizens who are either 1st or 2nd generations that migrated from Asian Pacific Islands. During high school I learned how to be an Asian Pacific American, by joining clubs like Filipino, and Polynesian Clubs where they taught you choreographies of both cultural and modern dances and perform it during Club Rush, and International Week which I would only seen on tv or school perform by other people but I would never know the names and the choreos. Those two clubs that I had joined made me realize that I had forgotten some of the things about my past which is my culture and traditions that were all taught to me before I migrated by the old people when I was little. I now become the elder that share wits about anything in life to my younger cousins and friends which before I was the one just listening to all the …show more content…
After seeing the “My America, or Honk! If You Love Buddha” video, now I’m curious of why Filipinos aren 't talked about in the history books even though they have been in America as long as the 1760s, which is longer than some other ethnicity that migrated to America. In the video, the sisters also says that in a Filipino birth certificate they were considered white and buried next to a white person in cemeteries while the Black Americans were buried separated. In the video we watch on Wednesday, the main person said that she would travel in five different states and can hardly see Asian Pacific Americans, how is that possible Lastly, my question is in what year did each Asian Pacific Americans started settled in? How come even though a certain area is popularize by a certain ethnicity group they don 't really have the right to say what they want in government area. Over all I think Asian Pacific Americans will never lose that driven to succeed more and prove to the world they are the most talented