#hispanicization

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Being artistic paid off in art school, but it didn't help me do well in high school, where I usually doodled and dissociated—especially in Spanish class. I joke that the spirit of Lapu-Lapu was protecting me from being recolonized. In class—which was taught in English—I was given a Spanish first name (Josué) to replace my Biblical birth name, which conveniently matched my Spanish surname "given" to my ancestors. So, I was taught the language of one colonizer (Spain) via the language of another (USA).

Even though I was living the legacy of colonization every day, I wasn't taught much about this Filipino history until I was an adult, outside of the US school system. So maybe me—and others—aren't bad students after all, we're just in the wrong environment.

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