For my ethnography, I decided to conduct an interview with five students from our campus here at the College of Mount Saint Vincent. My specific target group for this project was a bunch of Filipino students, some of which were born in the United States, and the others coming from the Philippines. By isolating these two subgroups, I can gather a nice variety of perspectives regarding my research topic: the Filipino cultural identity. Although these interviews sound random, I felt the strong need to ask these individuals for their viewpoints because I have struggled in trying to understand who I am as a Filipino, and I have also faced adversity in my endeavors to do so. From friends and family, I have heard many things about what constitutes a “real” Filipino, and it got me wondering: what kind of Filipino am I? With my gathered data, I think I will have a more developed understanding of what it means to be Filipino.
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