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Filipino-American Diaspora • August 2026. Colonial Mentality Has a Score: The Filipino-American Scholars Who Turned Our Shame Into Evidence. colonial mentality, colonial mentality scale, EJR David, Leny Mendoza Strobel, Kevin Nadal, Yen Le Espiritu, Patricia Espiritu Halagao, Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, decolonization, Filipino American psychology, kapwa, loob, ethnic studies, AB 101, heritage language loss, Pinayism, Pinoy Teach, Filipino American identity. Decolonization • August 2026 Colonial Mentality Has a Score: The Filipino-American Scholars Who Turned Our Shame Into Evidence Six researchers built the field that explains why a Fil-Am kid stops speaking Tagalog, why the skin-whitening aisle keeps growing, and why a bookcase in Marikina may have been the best decolonizing curriculum I ever had. Filipino-American decolonization has an academic literature — and most of us were never handed the syllabus. (Illustration: PinoyBuilt) In S...

The current political questions may be a test of humanity for Filipino Americans - E.J.R. David In the current political climate, there is a strong and conceivable possibility for the United States to “ suspend immigration from areas of the world " where there is a proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe, or our allies”. Even if we use the most stringent definition for what is meant by “areas of the world” to just those considered by the U.S. State Department as “ Terrorist Safe Havens ,” the list of countries to be banned still number 12 - and they are Somalia, Mali, Libya, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Indonesia, Malaysia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and the Philippines. Source: Michael Vadon, commons.wikimedia.org And as a brown-skinned immigrant man from the Philippines, I am very concerned. Focusing on Filipinos It may surprise many, but the country that is going to be most affected by an immigration ban against these 12 “Terrorist Safe Havens” is ...