Ok so I copied a thread in the Viet chat...What do other Asians think of Filipinos? I dont live near any Filipino community so I cant really observe plus I only know a few Filipinos but they live kinda far. So as stated...

I live in Chicago, inner city around the North Side where there are Filipionos, Viets, Cambodians, Mexicans and Blacks. All three are constantly at war with each other, guys gals getting shot at high schools and colleges somewhat often. In fact my sister got sent to the hospital by some Cambodians 10 years ago. Vietnamese gangs(Dragons) right now are at war with Filipino RSG(Red Scorpion) and Filipino Bloods. Filipinos call Cambodians black asians, and the vietnamese g__ks... Cambodians and Vietnamese hate each other and call Filipinos Flip(is that supposed to be a derrogatory name i dont know). BUT.. these are teenagers and young adults, hardly the people you want to use to generalize an entire population

ah geez, gangs...I thought gangs are so passé? Anyways I think its always thesame news when it comes to SOuthEast Asian gang rivalries...I guess theyère just bored...

where do u live jmac. whats ur address?

I only know of my experience. For example, when I was a child, I befriended this Vietnamese girl, and she invited me to her home after school finished. She introduced me to her family, and they seemed really nice. Then her father came home from work, and when she introduced me. He appeared to be fine with me until her father asked what ethnicity I was in Vietnamese. She told me this later on. Well, when he found out I was Filipino, he yelled at her to kick me out of her house, and told her not to be my friend! I was hurt. Anyways, she said she was sorry her father reacted that way, but I didn't hold it against her. We remained friends until she moved away a couple of years later.

Most people I hang with are Latinos and Asians (98% Filipino), so I don't really get much criticism from other Asians. There were some exceptions though. At my school, the East Asians hang together and I tried to befriend one of them, but he kept giving me these unpleasant gestures after I told him i was Filipino. I don't understand it. When I was in Brazil (not long enough to speak Portuguese though), majority of the people were very accepting of each other. No matter what you are (white, black, Asian (mostly Japanese)....)

Poor, Maids, Prostitute, Corrupt etc.................
The list goes on and on......

^^ Nyahahaha

never had a problem much. got teased about filipino stereotype some, get mistaken as a mexican or latino some...but for most of the time in the us, mainstream outside of Hawaii i don't think much people really understand what "Filipino" really is.

in my school, all the asians support out pinoy org. chinese,vietnamese,japanese,korean,thai...we pretty much get along. but most of the cambodians and laotians here dont really chill with the asians in my school. they hang out in this one side of town and they dont support asian parties that we organize eventhough we invite them. all the asians pretty much get along except for the cambodians and laotians. why is it like that?

I like befriending Filipinos and Thais than I do with any other Asian ethnic.

Filipinos are the friendliest and hospitable asian group in my experience, they always have big smiles.

^^ Probably because we have the habit of laughing. Hehehe. Kidding.

I like adobos.

Are you flippin’ me? What Chicago neighborhood are you from, bro? I’m from Jefferson Park and I use to live in the Ravenswood neighborhood when I was little. I’m not doubting you but I never heard of any Asian gangs here in Chicago causing sh##. The vast majority of Vietnamese live in the Argyle neighborhood near Broadway/Foster Ave. They mostly live in that place their founder call the “second Chinatown” in that neighborhood in the northshore and they usually stick to themselves since they speak english as a second language. They don’t bother anyone else. I use to have some Vietnamese friends and they seem to be hard working studious people. They don’t get into trouble, flip gang signs at each other, or ride in low rider cars. Maybe the odd Asian and White gangbanger wannabes from the suburbs but not as many as in California and West Coast from what I read about. We don’t have a lot of Cambodians compared to the large Filipino and Korean American community in Chicago. From my observations, majority of IndoChinese people (Cambodians, Vietnamese, and Laotians) live in Minnesota and California. It’s mostly native born Mexican Gangs and Puerto Rican gangs causing $hit as well as some growing racial tensions between young black people and kids of Mexican immigrants moving into black neighborhoods. If there’s currently a gang war with “Asian Gangs” in Chicago, it would have made big news now. Public High school shootings in Chicago would also make the news and I never heard a lot of it lately in the news. CPD are beefing up patrol and cracking down on gangs not only because of terrorism threat but the recent death of a Mexican girl (I forgot her name) who was shot in a gang crossfire a awhile back in either Blue Island or Humboldt Park. Mayor Daley is a former US Marine as is the last Police Chief and the current Police Chief, they’re former Marines. So they’re tough on these gang problems. That’s why they installed outside security cameras in some Chicago neighborhoods and set up CAPS meeting between the Cops and the community. I have some childhood friends who are currently Chicago and Cicero Police officers and they sometimes tell me how it’s like. So I sometimes know about it. I studied books and documentaries about the mafia and Chicago street gangs since the American Civil War because I’m interested in studying law or become a police officer like my friends.
Young Filipino Americans that are in Chicago area, are the sons and daughters of academic professionals like nurses, doctors, business owners, bankers, engineers, or work at O’Hare and Midway as Ramp Workers and Aircraft mechanics. Their kids are more likely go to private Catholic schools and go to college. They mostly live in middle class neighborhoods in the city or in the Suburbs like Skokie, Niles, Des Plaines in their own houses. Filipinos that first immigrated to Illinois and New York are different from the Filipinos that immigrated to Hawaii and California in the early 1900’s to work as field workers along with the Japanese, Portuguese, and Puerto Rican field workers before the Mexicans. Filipinos that immigrated to Illinois came to go to college on US government scholarships or work as professionals (mostly nurses or in the medical field).
Source:
http://www.niu.edu/cseas/outreach/Filipino...sinChicago.html

Im actually not kidding, i live around Roosevelt high school in albany park neighborhood(area of brown line final stop), on bernard street actually and viets from other schools are always coming by roosevelt to meet up with the viet clique and occasionally bust caps at filipinos & cambodians. how long ago did you grow up in those areas?

Oh I see. I think I know that high school. Yeah I’m an older dude . I’m in my mid-20’s. I graduated from St. Benedict in the 90’s. Kids from Chicago are still the same no matter what decade. This older truck driver I befriended who drops frieght at my company’s warehouse grew up in the Northside in the 1950’s and he told me that the kids that had gangfights back then didn’t use sidearms. They mostly use blunt weapons or their fists.
Those Vietnamese kids though shouldn’t do that to Filipino Americans otherwise they should go back to Vietnam in their friggin’ boats. Filipinos have been here a lot longer than Vietnamese or other Asians apart from Native American Indians. Filipinos welcomed Vietnamese boat people when they were coming to Philippine shores in I think Palawan and other southern parts of the Philippines. When they saw these starving hungry boat refugees, the Filipinos quickly gave them food, shelter and a temporary job till the Philippine government can help process them to the US. A Vietnamese veteran who served in the South Vietnamese Army as an MP told me about how the Filipinos treated him and his family hospitably. He said the Filipino food was excellent there. An older Filipino co-worker friend told me about them too and I read about it in the paper. Filipino troops from the Philippine military and Filipino-Americans that served in the US Armed Forces served in the Vietnam War. Some have died or were injured in that hell-hole country. No other country would welcome them like Malaysia and Australia or Europe and Japan. Xenophobia is an all time high in those places. In fact, I heard about Malaysians or Malay Pirates unseathing their bolo swords and cutting up and killing these Vietnamese refugees when they landed ashore. There was a movie about it once but I forgot the title.
Anyway it’s good to hear another Chi-towners who’s Filipino American. Most of the Chi-towners I met online are black or white Chi-towners. Most Filipinos that I chat with online are from California or Hawaii.

in california we think they're
black/pacific islander (i admit the pacific islander does bear some weight) wannabes


oh the ones i find very annoying are the ones
that want to be japanese
due to anime, food, culture

and they're totally oblivious to koreans
and somehow view themselves superior to koreans by identifying
with japan...wtf?!?!?!?!?!??!

someone should give them a prehistory lesson of korea and japan

i think thats because Japanese look like mestizo filipinos without the super chinesey eyes, with wide round eyes. The modern Japanese are a mix of mainland korean yayoi migrants and aborigne aini, which is a similar mix to filipinos. Spanish, American, Malay and Chinese. but yea they need to read up on their history!

no doubt, i dont meet many chi town flips out there, especially chi town flips from the hood, or semi-hood vacinity 2 . I know some guys from St. Bens, i went to Lane Tech myself.. outside from the scummy Albany Park hood, where asians got along with each other.

Im not suprised the malaysians, australians etc.. denied vietnamese refugees from entering. filipinos however are generally a mix people and so arent afraid of a couple vietnamese migrants.. their parents should teach them not to hate the people who took them in when nobody would.

the small eyed thing really depends most japanese are 3/4 yayoi 1/4 jomon
during WW2 the U.S. gov proclaimed the japanese as not being a airborne threat...due to small slanted eyes obscuring their vision so reinforcing pearl harbor
seemed unnecessary

being similar to spanish american seems unlikely since the ainu
are found genetically close to palaeo siberian mongoloid

i think the "japanese" that look somewhat like philipinos
are the okinawans for that matter

Im not trying to justify some young filipinos in the states thinking they are superior to koreans, that is bunk and wouldnt waste time worrying about those racist chumps.

genetically and linguistically, even scientists arent sure of the ainu, theories range from caucasian, to polynesian-austronesian origins, to proto-northern siberian to mars.





who knows where they came from, but visually they resemble caucasians so the spanish-ainu parallel is justified, what really matters is the outcome and many filipinos resemble japanese aesthetically. honestly it is difficult to pigeonhole how all filipinos look because even their native peoples can range from mountain tribe blacks to tribal chinese looking people in the north.. to caucasian muslims in the south. city folk tend to be lighter skinned for obvious reasons

The two of you... you're getting off-topic

Plenty of excellent Filipino nurses working in the NHS. They keep coming up to me thinking I'm Filipino.

In my whole life i've met maybe five Filipinos in real life. They were nice peeps. Along with Cambodians they're a real small minority in Holland. Most of the Filipinos I see are in breaking clips. One of my favorite bboys is Filipino, that guy sure has soul. And when I see them in breaking videos they always seem to have a great time.

breaking videos?

^Yeah breaking videos. I used to watch stuff like "freestyle session" or "out for fame". Those events are based in like california. One Time rockadile, a Filipino breaker came to Holland. He was part of team America that participated in the bboying competition. That guy had so much soul, unbelieveable.

*breaking as in breakdancing/bboying to avoid any confusion.

owww....

geez, thats pretty sad...what possible reason could his father have?

most other Asian ethnicity I've met are friendly but sometimes there are some who get all weird when they find out that Im a Filipino for some reason. anyways I dont get the whole hating thing...

Friendly people.

It's weird, really. I don't look the stereotypical Filipino especially the skin and eyes, but the father seemed especially taken aback by my being a Filipino. He had this look of contempt in his eyes as if I was beneath his daughter.

^^ Naku, lagot ka! Hehe

thats seems like old school prejudism to me false sense of superiority? I get that feel from other Asian ethnicity too...

yeah its kinda hard to tell what Asian ethnicity you are...if I was ignorant I would say Chinese since its the safest bet other Asians cant tell what I am either, they always result to the safest bet too

One of the things I admire most about filipinos is the fact there very family oriented. My ex was filipina so I know thins for a fact they had more family parties in a week then I did in a year it was just crazy, but I admire that. The only time a chinese family gets together aside from new years is when somebodies dead, dyiing, or diagnosed to be dead.

The only thing I don't like about filipinos is some of them are either very nice to you or very rude and competitive and Im speaking about the guys now not the women I have never had a problem with the girls just the guys. All i can say is tone down your competitive juices boys I got nothing to prove to you I'm chinese!

thats hilarious

maybe the fact that youre chinese can surely play a factor in their competitiveness... who cares, anyways not every one is like that

Lol that's not true. Our family gets together for holidays usually. But we're pretty spread out, so that makes it harder to get together more often. My filipina friend, her entire family is in the same area, some live on the same block, and they get together a lot. The distance issue could play a large role.

I haven't noticed this. Competitiveness? No...sadly, most of the Filipinos I know are messed up. As in they're into drugs, do badly in school, just drink and party and have sex all the time. The one girl who I"m pretty good friends with who's Filipina told me that out of her whole family [including extended], she's the only one with the potential to actually graduate college, but she just got kicked out of her house and now I don't even know if she's going to return to school. The thing is, she doesn't even seem to care. She gets a new boyfriend all the time, she's never without one, and she leechs off of them. Car, house, whatever. She's too into her looks, now into the hard drug scene so I hear, and yeah.

I don't know. My friend's gf is Filipina too. And mostly, they have no real desire to reach higher for some goal in life. It's mostly "eh if I can get by" then it's fine.

Don't know if that's just me or what, but that's what I've been seeing.

I have no problem with Filipinos, but the general stereotype here is not good at all....

I apologize If Im coming off as stereotyping here but like i stated very early on these are my experiences growing up. Like I said I respect everybody but at the same time Im going to tell it the way I have seen it and experienced it.

Filipino girls are hot (the asian looking one)!

Then it’s probably just you and your “friends”. Because I don’t know any Filipino American that’s like that into drugs and “sexing” around. Filipinos are mostly religiously conservative. Go visit jails in California, the majority of Asians that are in jails are Indochinese people (Vietnamese and Comadian gangs).
Source:
Asian Gangs
Majority of the Filipinos that immigrate to this country post 1960’s are professionals like nurses, doctors, and engineers or seek higher education not friggin boat refugees or illegal immigrants seeking cheap jobs. This country needs a lot of nurses, that why you’ll see a lot of Filipino nurses, dentists, and doctors in American hospitals. They mostly come here legally not as illegal boat refugees. As for intelligence, Filipinos have inventors and scientists such as these:
Filipino Inventors
One of them invented the moon buggy that the Apollo Astronauts road on in the moon and we have scientists and engineers (most were educated in the Philippines) that work for NASA. Most of the Filipinos here, they or their children are mostly educated and contribute greatly to the economy. Don’t believe me? Go here:
"New York City's Filipino Americans have higher incomes and more education than other New Yorkers overall"
Education of Filipino Americans
Economics of Filipino Americans
Filipinos as well as Indians from the Subcontinent can easily assimilate in this country because they speak english as an official language as opposed to other Asians and some East Europeans I’ve seen who are trying to learn english as adults now. Filipinos have been living in North America for 300 years now longer than other Asians except for Native American Indians. Filipinos have $52 billion dollar purchasing power and contribute a lot to the economy
“Filipino-Americans have a combined purchasing power of over $52 billion annually nationwide.”
Some start their own business and hire Americans and not take jobs from Americans like the father and daughter company that runs this winery in California:
“Vineyard has Filipino touch Father-and-daughter team own and operate Eden Canyon Winery”
Or the CEO Filipinas woman that runs this American grocery store chain in Northern Illinois:
Butera Grocery Stores
My late grandfather ran his accounting firm in Chicago a long time ago thus providing jobs to Americans and he was smart in mathematics and chess and and he spoke 5 langauges fluently, French, Spanish, Tagalog, English, and Visayan. Many of my Filipino American workers play chess and are real good at it. I play with them often. 43.8% have bachelor’s degree like my family, 60% of Filipino Americans are property owners like my late grandfather, or my mom and aunt who owns some real estate property in Florida and Las Vegas. Filipino Americans are also the richest just after Japanese Americans and Asian Indians. You can check all these sources here:
US Census on Asian Americans





So, don’t paint a few bad Filipinos you've "met" in the same brush strokes as all Filipinos and I won’t do the same for other ethnic group. Just because the Philippines is poor doesn’t mean Filipino Americans will be poor and leech off of welfare here in the states like refugees and illegal immigrants.

Yo, Chill OUT. this thread was asking about what other Asians think of Filipinos. Did I say I had any problems with them? I was simply stating what I see around my area. geez. No need to get out the encyclopedia and list all the $hit Filipinos have ever done. Thanks for all your sources though, because they have A LOT to do with what I observe around in this area.

Did I ever say they leech off of welfare? Did I ever say they were illegal immigrants? No. So CHILL THE FUK OUT ronin.

I never said they were in gangs either.

Anyways, there are a lot of Filipina nurses, but apparently a lot of the men are into the USPS? Eh. That's just in this area though. [In case anyone wants to go on freaking insane rant like ronin ]

You seriously need to relax becuz this thread was asking indidviduals of non filipino descent what they thought of them and I can't see in any of these posts where we have insulted you so why are you getting so upset about. And for your information filipinos are to overly competitive that might not be what you think because your in a different location but it speaks the truth where Im from. And as far as drugs and sex in which you stated that theres no truth in Stats canada indicates that the number one group in teen pregnancies are african girls followed by filipinas so there is truth to that as well as the part about drugs some of my boys who happen to be filipino do alot of these things like sitting on their porch and drinkinh henny and smoking up but I don't judge them on that as far as Im concerned there still my friends but were just not really close.

Not once have I ever judged them but at the same time I feel its important to acknowledge what your doing and not make up excuses. This doesn't make you guys any less inferior since I have never judged people irrationally but if your gonna do it own up to it.

Sorry I have a bit of a temper but I didn’t mean to be harsh. However, I will defend the Filipinos’ integrity. I just got pissed off in another thread I visited where some ignorant Brazillians who probably never met a Filipino talking sh## about Filipino women. Yeah there’s a lot of Filipino men working as postal workers. I have no problem with that. It's an honest and honorable job. They’re contributing to the economy not leeching off of welfare like other immigrant refugee groups. People in some other boards I’ve visited think Filipino women are prostitutes/mail order brides or all of them eat dogs like other Asians. That's the stereotypes I've seen.

If I a was a real friend to those young pinoys and I saw them smoking and joking with their friends in the old block, I would tell to get off their asses and go to college or vocational training like aircraft mechanic or powerlineman or join the Marines or Navy. I would help pay their education if they needed it. They would be doing a disservice to Jose Rizal or earlier Filipno American immigrants who helped built this country and defended this country in the 19th and 20th century. Where are guys from anyway? Califnoria or Hawaii?

Why do you care what some little ignorant prick is saying about you on the internet. He obviously doesn't know anything about your culture and is just saying it to get a rise out of you. And people who try to bring you down about your culture are just insecure of there own.

@ronin_______from the burbs of IL

I am a real friend. My philiosphy has always been to treat those who are nice to me very good and those who are s***** to me 10 times worse. But at the same time Im not going to parent these guys into turning there lives around when they don't want to and #2 because Im not close to them. Like I said I'll hook them up with jobs or introduce them to different colleges or universities where they could go in and try to get a degree but Im not going to force them so tell me how Im not being a real friend. Im not going to come off all fatherly and s*** to them. And I reside in Canada.

Yeah I probably would do the same. Not force them since they’re not direct relatives but help them apply at some colleges or check out aircraft mechanic school or journeyman powerlineman.

So then its really not a case of me not being a friend since Im doing what I can to help them but more of them not having enough pride in themselves to get off there butts and doing it for the sake of there own future. What do you want me to do pay for there tuition to before I can be classified as a real friend. What makes u think Im not real now.

There are so many negative stereotypes about filipinos. Whats so sh!tty about is, is that some filipinos don't help in dispelling those stereotypes. Seriously there are so many d@mn wannabes out there trying to seperate us from being what we are.

Just go to Asian Avenue and you'll see some people say that they refer to themselves as Pacific Islanders and not filipinos, cause in Hawaii filipinos are stereotyped as dog eating asian wimps. Stupid @ss cowards, if your so d@mn ashamed to be filipino then stop trying to tell other people that we are P-islanders cause we are not. And I hate all those black wannabe filipinos who try to act gangster. News flash stupid your filipino not black get over it. You know what f-ck it. Let them live their lives. But if some @55-hole trie to put those stereotypes on me I would knock him on the jaw.

One of my chinese friend hate filipinos, but he didn't realize that i was one. He thought
i was hispanic(think i'm Colombian). He got scared and said "your an exception" 2



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My hispanic friends think "filipinos are pussy eaters"