Interracial Dating

Cultural Presentation #2
Presentation Date: Friday, February 13th, 2009
Inspired by: B. Figueroa
And thanks to the opinions & help of: J. Valdez, C. Pagaduan, A. Delosreyes, K. Flint, E. Kelsey

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*=Asking questions to the audience

*How many of you were ever in an interracial relationship?
*Never?
*How many of you are more than one ethnicity?
*How many of you think that interracial dating has more prominent than ever before?

Believe it or not, interracial marriage is not a new thing for Filipinos. In fact, it’s hard to find fully bred Filipinos today without them having some Malayan, Indonesian, Chinese, Spanish, even American mix in them.

*How many of us can say we we’re fully Filipino?
Although I'm full Filipino, I am a mix of Kapampangan and Ilokano.

So what could be the reason for all these mixes? Well let’s look back at history for a bit.


So here’s the Philippines (we are the Carabao)

Before common era, it is theorized that the first inhabitants of the Philippines were Malays and Indonesians that migrated from the Malay Peninsula.


Around the 9th to the 14th century, Chinese came to the Philippines and became one of Philippines top traders. You know the big malls at PI? The majority of them are driven by Chinese business people.

Going into the mid-16th century, the Spaniards came in, took over and colonized the Philippines for over 300 years.

Then in the late 19th century, the US took the Philippines from the Spaniards. But then… WWII ended and the US left PI in ruins only for them to build themselves up on their own… (trailing off then up beat) But basically, you have all these different countries coming over and meshing with the Filipinos:

(Didn't address during the presentation) [*Besides from history, what are some other reasons we meshed together? Our parents wanted to get out of the Philippines and attain US citizenship. Wanted to be equal with Caucasians. Or they just really loved each other...]

Well, that’s the past. *Can I see a raise of hands of who’s mixed again?
You all are products of interracial marriages. And to speak on behalf of you all today, is Katrina Flint. Unfortunately, she couldn’t make it today, but we did interview her.



Okay now we're going to break into discussion groups. Here are some points you all can discuss with one another:

Reflection
*If anyone wants to say anything.

So to recap, Filipinos have always been mixing with other races and culture. So before I end this presentation, I'd like to leave you all with this last question:

How do we define (Filipinos and) the Filipino culture?

Thank you & Happy Valentine's day!