For the most part where did you grow up and develop your ideals?

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Born in the Philippines 1987, grew up in San Diego, California after 1988, the navy town of Paradise Hills. I feel privileged to have shaken the hand of many kids of different ethnicities. I grew up seeing people as faceless, and learning to read their minds and hearts first before the color of their skin. Also I got lucky and ran into some teachers that told me to question everything. I’ll wrap this up by stating that I am half American (white, Eastern European descent, father) half Filipino (mother). I was a bastard child as my father left me and I was, “born talking back”. Growing up as a halfie had only one confusion, filling in my ethnicity growing up in elementary I was told to always fill in Filipino by my teachers making me feel lesser than what they were (obviously full white) and since then I never considered myself white American and now tend to relate more to Filipinos, it’s not to say I can’t relate to others but now I know the white man doesn’t see me as his own, how could he? I look nothing like a normal white person.