thelastaxolotl [he/him]@hexbear.netM to Ethnic Minorities and People of Color@hexbear.net · edit-210 days agoEM & PoC bi-weekly thread 09/06/2025 and 16/06/2025message-squaremessage-square95linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareEM & PoC bi-weekly thread 09/06/2025 and 16/06/2025thelastaxolotl [he/him]@hexbear.netM to Ethnic Minorities and People of Color@hexbear.net · edit-210 days agomessage-square95linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBelly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·15 days ago think being mestizo makes them exempt from settler colonialism. As a mestizo Filipino, lol. lmao, even. The one drop rule will always come into effect, sometimes sooner rather than later.
minus-squarefilipinokilla [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days agosame. look, they didn’t even teach the philippine american war in filipino schools as my parents were growing up. (mom mestiza, dad mixed chinese) i worry for our latin cousins sometimes
minus-squareLemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days agoHuh another kababayan. Yeah, though I haven’t checked my ancestry, I figured, due to my light skin, I’m prolly mestizo as well
minus-squareBelly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days agoI think we all are, to some extent, due to how long Spain colonized the country. Then you have all the people from neighboring areas moving to the Philippines throughout history.
, hope you all have a good week 
As a mestizo Filipino, lol. lmao, even. The one drop rule will always come into effect, sometimes sooner rather than later.
same. look, they didn’t even teach the philippine american war in filipino schools as my parents were growing up. (mom mestiza, dad mixed chinese)
i worry for our latin cousins sometimes
Huh another kababayan.
Yeah, though I haven’t checked my ancestry, I figured, due to my light skin, I’m prolly mestizo as well
I think we all are, to some extent, due to how long Spain colonized the country. Then you have all the people from neighboring areas moving to the Philippines throughout history.