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'As adolescents, my brother and I grew up in a household where we were forbidden from speaking our native language around and to our baby sister.' Opinion NewSchool
Besides with my Filipino mother and my brother, I never really use Bisaya or Tagalog outside of my home in Orange County, California. Compared to the more predominant Asian group in the region, Vietnamese Americans, who number 6.1% of the total county population, Filipino Americans only comprise 2.4%. As a 10-year-old immigrant from Bohol, I had already recognized that an encounter with a fellow Filipino peer would be like finding a needle in a haystack.
I noticed that this inability to speak one’s heritage language was a uniquely Filipino-American experience. Nowhere else did such a trend sustain itself within the larger American immigrant sphere. This, therefore, is in the hands of Filipino-American parents. As a culture, we elevate Americans and American culture into the epitome of our own societal hierarchy. We, for instance, prefer to master the English language over the national language, Tagalog, for we view the former as levels more prestigious and more educated than the latter.
And as I became more immersed with my Vietnamese side, I realized the harsh reality that my Filipino-American peers were being confronted with.
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