Hosts: 
Adriana Jones
AlaxSandra Santiago
Anthony Yamashiro

A podcast sharing the experiences of Filipinos in America from a sociological perspective. It also aims to highlight and discuss the contemporary struggles that the Filipino community faces. Exploring questions of Filipino identity. Am I Filipino enough? What exactly is Filipino culture? This podcast uses counter-narratives in order to give insight to the experiences of a marginalized group of people and foster a community on campus while simultaneously showing the importance of storytelling and history through candid conversations with guests and asking our audience to think critically. We aim to dismantle the notions that Filipino is Asian, as there is a lack of understanding of the colonial past. Colonial mentality manifests itself in the denigration of Filipino culture, the adoption of Western culture, and the belief that colonization was necessary.  Filipinos simultaneously exist as a hyper-visible, yet invisible group. Filipinos are the second largest Asian immigrant group in the United States, yet there is a lack of representation or understanding of what Filipino culture really is. In order to piece together the complexity of the Filipino diaspora we need to take these several angles of looking at social, historical, cultural and political contexts. The erasure of our ancestral land’s history and the lack of knowledge of our own personal family history reinforces this lack of identity. The Filipino identity also sits as one of the most marginalized and oppressed groups within the Asian/Pacific Islander community. In order to search for our lost history, we need to talk about the Filipino diaspora and explore our own family histories.

Anthony Yamashiro

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