I’ve decided to make my paper about Filipino food history and my experience as mixed race.
- Filipino food has never been really popular or known for different reasons
- didn’t look as appealing as other Asian foods
- only now starting to become a thing
- large demographic of Filipinos worked in fields and orchards when they first came
- white people didn’t want dark skinned people cooking?
- Filipino food/ food in general made me feel comfortable
- helped me forget being uncomfortable at the Filipino hall and at my white family dinners
- bonded with family and friends over food
- have a lot of fond memories relating to food
- unpleasant memories as well
- tease that I was eating dog
- told I was weird for eating it
- made me feel like it was more acceptable for me to eat noodles than rice dishes