This document discusses how colorism still affects Filipino communities today. It references a reading about anti-blackness, colorism, and homophobia within Asian communities. The author notes their personal experience with colorism within their own Filipino family. Colorism has been harmful, causing Filipinos to feel ashamed of their natural brown skin color and use skin whitening products. This stems from colonialism when Spain viewed white Europeans as superior, establishing beauty standards that prize pale skin over brown skin and still impact Filipinos globally.

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[From 10$/Pg] Still Affects Filipino CommunitiesFor this week’s online assignment in 300
words or more: Explore your reactions to one of the readings based on your critical thinking
and experiences. Were there key claims/arguments/ideas that confused you, resonated
with you, or made you wonder? If so, state these key claims. If you are responding to the
poem, be very clear and explicit as to what the poem is about and what it is doing? Then,
respond to at least one classmate’s post in 200 words or more by 5 pm on Tuesday. Post by
5pm Tuesday, Mar 1st. If you post your reading reflection after the deadline it will make it
difficult for your colleagues to read and comment before our Wednesday class and your
post will be substantially marked down. You will need to complete this discussion post
requirement to receive your Monday attendance points.Important Note: Please be mindful
always of your engagement with everyone in our class. Consider the social significance of
identities (class, gender, race, etc.) and the ways in which such differences may be affecting
the ways in which you (and others) are participating. Answer:I read “Stand Up” by Cathy
Park Hong, and I really want to focus on the part where she talks about the anti blackness,
colorism and homophobia within the Asian Community and how being queer or dark
skinned will make you looked down upon in the Asian community. When Hong talks about
how the Asian community have been inflicting the same type of hate and racism towards
black or brown people, or even people of their own kind with darker skin, it reminded me of
the Colorism that we have within my own ethnicity (the Filipino Community).This is an
issue I have personally experienced within my own family and it comes to show that the
standards that the Asian Community have placed among themselves has been set so high,
that it is sometimes quite infuriating. They are willing to bring down their own kind if they
do not fit that standard. I am a Filipino and I know a lot of women back in the Philippines
take iv glutathione for skin whitening because the beauty standard over there is to have
really pale skin. Some people are just naturally pale but a lot of Filipinos have brown skin,
and a lot of them are seen as poor or not beautiful for having darker skin. That beauty
standard has also been harmful towards so many people all over the world by belittling so
many of their OWN people just because of the color of their skin. Colorism has affected the
Philippines in so many ways and it all started when Spain colonized the Philippines, viewing
white Europeans as “greater’, and all of that still affects Filipino communities in the
Philippines, and even in the US, today. This concept has made many people to feel ashamed
of their natural brown color, and purchase products that will whiten their complexion.