Daghan bitaw ko'g mga friends sa church na Pinoy na wa mi ga ilhanay sa names. Warm jud kaayo. Pero ay ka, naa poy daghang Pinoy di managad noh!
Speaking of snabera nad di managad no.. Sa skole namo ron, naa pud nag skwela nga mga PT, kay nagwork sila sa hotel sa manghihilot
Pero dili intawon makig-istorya namo, bisan pa nagsakay mi sa bus. Mo smile ra unya pinugos pa jud.
Pag first time jud nako nga meet nila kay ni smile ko, kay pilipino lagi, naunsa bang pagkaunsaa nga gitutokan raman ko, naulaw intawon ko. Nya pagkasunod napud namong sakay, nakig-istorya ko, perti intawon nakong huna-huna ug topic, asus kay uga man kaayo ug tinubagan, nihunong nalang ko oi. ang mga babae na ang nag-ingon ana pero ang mga lalaki, managad jud, mao pa gani mouna.
Ang ako mga kuyog kuyog sa skole ron ug kanunay katabi kay mga au pair..
Belle, sorry kung na OT ko.
To add your story Cel (kay naa na bitaw ka OK ani ni Bil hahaha), dihay party sa school ni smiffy na "important of special person" day ba kaha to, Sa same table nko, dihay duha ka Pinay ladies. They were talking in Tagalog. Dayon I smiled and said hello, nah gi tan aw lang ko sa duha ka manghak like wa kasabot sa akong gi sulti. Wa jud ko nila pansina the whole time. So pwes, lain na lang akong ka storya. hehehehe
Actually since you brought this up, it reminded me about an incident here on campus. The area where my college is located is in Northwestern pennsylvania, a region where it is predominantly white-american. Little to no minorities in the town, and the student body is 96% white, 4% minority, so its quite common for all the asian students to know each other. When I first matriculated to Allegheny College in the Fall of 2004, most of the faculty knew that I was Filipino, and one of my Professors introduced me to the Director of Pelletier Library, who is a Filipina. When I first met her her eyes lit up, apparently because she has lived in the town for over 20 years and there is probably 2-3 Filipino families in town (a town of over 30,000 people). Respectfully, I greeted her in Tagalog and spoke to her in my limited Tagalog (I guess she assumed I was Tagalog when I did this, as she was from Quezon region). So one time our conversations were about Cebu (she didn't know i was from the visayas this time, as she never asked where i was from), pero she started making rude comments about Bisaya people; she made these comments mostly about how 'ignorante' Bisayans are. She was saying this during the Phi Si ceremonies (an Honors fraternity for high GPA students), I was inducted as an honorary member and she was there because she was one of the faculty directors. So when I got my award, as well as selected for Dean's List, I was ecstatic. I remember saying to her, "Tita, hindi ka alam pero taga Visayas ako, hindi tanan mga Bisayano 'ignorante'. Hindi talaga." We still talk, pero she does not even look at my eyes whenever I greet her.
I personally don't like stereotypes.
And these stereotypes of how Bisayan people are 'ignorante' is a flat lie.
Most of the Filipino Physicians/Surgeons are Bisayan.
A more correct stereotype would be how Bisayans are Intelligent.
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