Do Mexicans see us Filipinos as chinos or as hybrid Latinos?
After all, we have Spanish surnames, were brown and Catholic, we have quinceaeras (just several years after your chicas), and we started that grape strike Mexicans get credit for. Fabulous Little Island Person Dear FLIP: Gracias for allowing the Mexican to set the historical record straight. American history classes teach kiddies that Csar Chvez and his United Farm Workers brought justice to farm workers through boycotts and strikes in Californias Central Valley during the 1960s. What the history books rarely mention is that Chvez and his Mexican followers first earned national prominence by joining an already existing grape huelga started by Filipino laborers. And what the history books never mention is that many of those pioneer Filipinos joined the UFW but eventually left due to perceived discrimination at the hands of the unions Mexican-majority leadership and members. One of those Filipinos, former UFW vice president Philip Vera Cruz, described in his 1992 memoir how the union bec
