I am against Hyphenated-Americans. Those are US Citizens who find it necessary to define themselves by their own or their ancestors homelands.

Just to make my last message clear. I am a mixture of both American culture and Filipino culture. In the way I act; some actions of me are Filipino some of my actions are American. When I act Filipino, people who know the Filipino culture act as if I'm Filipino. If they don't know the Filipino culture they act like I'm from another country. I am treated differently from a stereotypical "American". When I act "American" I'm treat like a white male. If I'm with black people and I put on the "brother" attitude, I'm treated as a black male. If ever I am to have children, they will be called American simply and sadly because they will not recieve a Filipino heritage like the little I was lucky enough to recieve. I was born here in the US. The only Filipinoness I had came from my mother and father and the 2 years I spent as an infant in the Phillippines. In terms of attitude and action I'm more American than Filipino, but I'm a Filipino-American until the day I die and I'll be proud of it.