#fahmchallenge Day 3 β Obstacles | Ok I didnβt want this to be a long self-roast lol so Iβm sticking to one thing: being bilingual. Itβs hard to balance remembering all the little words, phrases and slang from both Tagalog and English. Some days one language Iβm better at, some days the other. It feels like being a jack of all trades but a master of none. Older titas/titos I meet always get surprised when they hear me speak Tagalog, esp when I tell them I was born in PI but grew up here. Sometimes I feel like I canβt joke around or talk casually the same way as other Fil-Ims (Filipino immigrants) around my age because I donβt fully understand the humor, because I didnβt come here when I was older. Sometimes I would stutter when talking in English to half-Filipinos or non-Filipinos because deep down Iβd feel insecure about how good my grammar was. When I get too excited, whether texting or talking Iβll straight up skip some words or mush things together and make gibberish (in both languages π). Being bilingual itself is not the obstacle but itβs the fact that it will always be a little difficult when Iβm trying to build and organize folks on both sides of the language spectrum, but damn I hella try lol. . I found this image on Pinterest (hmm..) but itβs supposedly of an American Thomasite and an indigenous Aeta student. The Thomasites were 600 American teachers who were sent by the US govβt to the Philippines after the Philippine-American War in the 1900βs as a way to pacify and control Filipinos through our education system, and their first task was to teach English. . To control a culture is to control its language, and to a control an entire people is to control their minds. We need to reclaim whatβs been stolen from us and create a new revolutionary culture, starting from our mother tongue. . Tagalog TLDR: Ang hirap mag salita ng Tagalog at Ingles. Salbahe ang mga Thomasites, ibasura natin. Gumawa tayo ng bagong rebolusyonaryong kultura. https://www.instagram.com/p/B3MB0a3gPOFtNapHSMo_0UneLQypKnsVVKIgUQ0/?igshid=5co66zn285nh















