+ The Model Minority Myth, like with other non-East Asian Americans, does not completely encapsulate Filipino American experiences and images
+ Filipino Americans are perceived as a "successful conversion" from a savage race of barbarians to civilized colonial subjects - we are viewed as tamed savages of Asian America
+ We inhabit the modern colonial idea of colonialism's end goals - a docile, though flawed, Christianized people in compliance with the global white supremacist order
+ In heteronormative relationships
+ Women who make "good wives" because they "readily submit" and "obey" white husbands
+ Men who are queerified and feminized and do not pose the threat of "stealing" white women from white men
+ People who are seemingly "post-racial" - who get along with other Americans regardless of race, but do not challenge pervasive anti-Blackness and other manifestations of racism
+ Unique problems exist for Filipino American Muslims (and other religious minorities), queer and trans Filipino Americans, Filipino American women, disabled Filipinos, poor Filipino Americans
+ White America takes credit for teaching Filipinos "how to be civilized"
+ Filipino involvements with the civil rights movement and with the labor movement are largely erased from history, along with other major historical events like the American colonization of the Philippines, the Philippine-American War, and earlier stereotypes and caricatures of Filipinos
+ Filipinos, especially Filipino men, were formerly stereotyped as being promiscuous, violent, and dimwitted plantation workers especially during the early 20th century
+ Prior ideas of Filipinos as "little brown brother" or "white man's burden"
+ Philippine American war fought especially by a force of volunteers with experiences in the massacre and forced migration of Native Americans
+ Filipino Americans being depicted in racial caricatures of the early 1900's with the same features as Black Americans
+ Following the P-A war, the mestizo class was groomed by and collaborated with the Americans in instituting a postwar democracy assimilated with American ideals -> this is why the modern Philippines is entrenched with political dynasties, and it is the ensuing conditions in the Philippines which lead to more immigration from PH to the US
+ The Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes
+ "In establishing the Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes, staffed by educated Filipinos, the “civilizing” mission of the American colonial policy created an enduring process of differentiation among Filipinos, leading to the marginalization of indigenous peoples. For instance, it took a hundred years before the Agta community could see one of its own graduate from the University of the Philippines"
+ We are not white America's equals - we are more like pets, trophies, exhibits
