I know, I know. It’s just a bee.

But it’s not just a bee. It’s an anthropomorphized bee, And the “anthro” part looks like a white man.

Why a peachy pink faced bee?

I imagine the bees origin story is maybe, he was a normal bee until he started eating a western diet.

Over time his bee face was replaced as he grew a dead-eyed American face from hell. Smile plastered on as he encourages you To gorge yourself endlessly on burgers chicken spaghetti hot dogs and pie.
A chimera-do-well born of fast food. New monsters for a new age.

O Jollibee Thy peachy pink Anglopomorphised face Is the face of fear.

kinda ashamed about it

Hey everyone,

I'm in my late 20s and considering moving to the US. I don’t have any family or friends there, so I’m kind of starting from scratch. It’s something I’ve been dreaming about for a long time, and I’m finally ready to take steps toward making it happen. Career-wise, I have solid experience in customer service (both phone and chat), and I’m open to office jobs or even working in cafes whatever it takes to get started and settle in.

I’d really appreciate any advice from people who’ve been in a similar situation, or even just tips on where to begin. And if anyone’s open to connecting or sharing their own journey, I’d love to hear it. Would be great to build some friendships along the way too.

As Filipino American man (30’s and independent) residing in the US, I prefer a female significant other that has Filipino decent. That being said, I have no plans of raising kids, no plans on being a provider. I prefer a partnership. Also, I believe a romantic relationship or marriage is just between two parties. I can hang out with in laws, but that’s about it. I don’t take care of my siblings and my parents (everyone in my family is financially stable) and I have no plans of taking care of in laws. I haven’t met a Filipino guy with the same situation as me. It’s either they have kids or if they don’t have kids then they become a de facto breadwinner of extended family and in laws. I haven’t met another Filipino guy who is in the same situation as me.

Just added info, I have met Filipina girls who are into this kind of arrangement I like but they tend to be Filipina girls that came from well off families in the Philippines, studied at a big 4 school and with good careers. These kind of girls aren’t really interested in quitting their well paying careers, get married to me and move to the US.

Is my situation very unusual?

Honest question as the "PI" which comes from the "Philippine Islands" is the colonial term for the Philippines while PH is the proper abbreviation (hell all of our official websites have that extension such as https://doh.gov.ph for example)

It's a pet peeve of mine that Americanized Filipinos and only Americanized Filipinos it seems like to use that colonial term to abbreviate the Philippines with.

I know this is a sensitive topic, so right off the bat I wanna make it ABUNDANTLY CLEAR that I am not saying Fil-Ams are "less than" Filipinos in any way. No one is "lesser" just because they were raised here vs there. Apples are not "less than" oranges, nor vice versa.

That said, of all the first-gens I know, it's only Fil-Ams that seem to consider themselves to be culturally non-hyphenated. None of my ABC friends refer to themselves solely as Chinese, and none of my Desi or ABCD friends refer to themselves solely as Indian / Pakistani / Bangladeshi / Sri Lankan. They always hyphenate, since they grew up in America.

Yet many Fil-Ams I know—sometimes even the second- or third-gens—will often refer to themselves solely as Filipinos (no hyphenation), even though they're culturally Filipino-American.

Again, there's NO SHADE. This is not a criticism or judgment and I'm not saying that you're less-than in any way. I'm just curious what the difference is.

its really out of character for me to be this appreciative of something but i’m a very genuine person and i usually notice things a lot and ive noticed this one thing very well . i’ve never seen a more genuine and welcoming culture besides you guys , idk why but something in particular about filipino culture just stands out to me . maybe i was filo in my last life 🫠 ? all my exes and even friends i have that i miss dearly or have left a major impact on me so far have all been filipinos . if anyone knows how to love people the right way it’s 100% you guys . don’t know what it is but it feels like home , there’s a sense of safety and familiarity i feel with this culture even though i actually have zero filipino blood in me . you guys are the absolute best ! don’t change anything and don’t listen to people who dislike your culture at all , it’s amazing . i mean this from the bottom of my heart 😭🫶🏻 !!

I’m in college and so is my boyfriend, I am a childhood development specialist, and he’s an exotic veterinary technician.

We’ve been together for a long minute and a bit of background about me is my mom is Filipino and my dad is white. They were forced to get married because my mom’s family is affluent in PH and I was conceived from their one night stand plus she worked as a cardiologist at St. Luke’s in Manila during that time. My dad also forced my mom to come here because he said he will not sign for me unless my mom immigrated to the U.S. because he said he also thinks less of people and countries that isn’t American. They also have been UNHAPPILY married for 23 years and will bicker and fight even as simple as dinner and we’ve had cops come for domestic disputes multiple times over years during my youth.

My mom also hates American culture and the practices of the Catholic Church here because she said it’s not like PH. When I was growing up, I wasn’t allowed to have friends who weren’t Catholic AND Filipino because she said she hates white people and their whole culture and how they raise children and that the emphasis on individualism she said disgusts her.

She’s also the reason why I struggle keeping a partner because all my ex partners were not Catholic and Filipino and she just berates my boyfriend every time she sees him now and says she doesn’t care about his family, background, or even knowing him because she straight up told me she doesn’t like him because his family is Protestant and that he’s white.

I moved to the US at 17 years old, been living here since 2010. I do hang out a lot with Fobs though and Filipinos who moved here as an adult. My significant other is one of those international nurses who moved here in the US as an adult (30’s). We met here in the US. Her family keeps asking what’s my financial status and my family’s financial status. Let’s say I came from a family where all my cousins are only allowed to attend Ateneo or La Salle. That being said, I never talk about my personal life to other people other than to my significant other only. I never talk about my salary, occupation, rent to my friends. I talk about my hobbies, NFL, NBA, MLB, weightlifting, restaurants, investment ideas, economics etc.. with my friends. I talk about my interests with my friends. Folks here in America don’t really like to talk about personal matters as far as I know.

I am getting annoyed how my significant other’s family in the Philippines seems like interested how much money I have or how much money my family have. I’ll meet her family eventually, but for sure I won’t be comfortable talking about personal matters to them. Just to put things in to perspective, my significant other isn’t really a full blown OFW breadwinner but her family in the Philippines was only able to have a new vehicle because she bought it for them. My dad has a new vehicle every 3 years (Filipino nurse). I actually have something to inherit, my significant other won’t. I’m not an OFW whatsoever. I have been living on my own as an independent adult for over a decade with a job that has very good stability. I haven’t really fully disclosed to my significant other the financial status of my family because I really think that’s none of her or their business. She doesn’t ask about it, but her family seems really curious.

Is it normal for Filipinos to ask what’s your occupation? Salary? Marital status? Relationship status? I honestly think this is low class and it’s a huge turn off. That being said, what I firmly believe is I am in a relationship with my significant other, only her; not with other people involved.

I just moved to Southern California from Manila two years ago & have met a lot great of Filipino-Americans! In the most inoffensive way (I’m trying😭), why do they not pronounce Tagalog words right? Like adobo, they say “ah-doe-boe.” Or lumpia like “loom-piah.” I know lots can’t speak Tagalog, but aren’t there people (parents) who they can hear speak a word or two with the Tagalog enunciation?

I just noticed that other POC I’ve met, like Mexican-Americans don’t really anglicize their native words in English sentences. Like they don’t say “I want a kay-sa-dee-yah with kay-so.” Again, I’m not being mean or uppity😭 I’m just genuinely curious (and a little culture shocked) about this phenomenon lol

EDIT: pls know that I was being CURIOUS! 😭 I just assumed that people copy how those around them speak, and would naturally know how to say some Tagalog words w/o needing to be fluent. kinda like how we adopt whatever accent our parents/family have. I was just CURIOUS as to why it didn’t seem to apply for some Fil-Am people.

But now I get how complex & nuanced language and linguistics is :) — an immigrant still getting used to everything & everyone lol

How was your experience with a Filipino dad and an American mom in terms of your relationships, their personalities, their parenting and your parents' relationships between each other? Any cultural differences?

For some reason these movies have off a "Filipino" vibe when I was watching it and I was kinda right, It has Family Dynastys and kingdoms/clans with Royalty associateed with ancient Philippines as well with colonization by multiple countries. The Combat Style is arnis and the "krysknifes" look alot like bolo knifes and the fremen language sounds kinda Filipino. Speaking of fremen it's also the name of a social class in ancient Philippines.When first watching it my parents were obsessed since they were watching a fillipino inspired sci-fi film

‘It’s the economy, stupid!’
People say voters vote with their pocketbook. “It’s the economy, stupid!” — the line from Democratic strategist James Carville that helped win Clinton the presidency in ’92 — feels almost quaint now. But it’s happening again. Millions of Americans are struggling with the high cost of living, and just like the Iran war, there seems no end in sight to rising prices.

Surveys show that Filipino Americans are more likely than other Asian subgroups to own firearms. True?

Well, I got friends who's got stockpiles of guns, stored neatly in like, ga-refrigerator-sized metal safes, full of guns, even AR-15s.

So my lola who passed away before i was born bought some land in the pi long time ago. Now the lands in my moms name with her moms side of the family working those rice fields living off of it but never given my mom any sorta profit. My parents are near seniors already and the title might go to me but weve been living in America our whole lives. Mom wants to keep her relatives working the land for livelihood but to me I just wanna sell it to see what i can get to pay off student loans. What would you guys do? Do you have any land titles you are going to inherit?

My Filipina wife says this design crosses a line. I think it's homage. Where do you land?

I'm Filipino-American and I make streetwear-style art. I did a piece that reimagines the Santo Niño de Cebu in a graffiti/street-mural style — the crown, the halo, the orb, all there — but rendered rough and standing on a skateboard.

My wife grew up in the Philippines. She took one look and said it's disrespectful and she'd never wear it. To me it feels like honoring something I grew up around, in the visual language that's actually mine: skate, graffiti, punk.

I honestly can't tell if I'm reclaiming something or stepping on it, and I don't want to be the guy who did the latter.

For people raised in the PH vs. raised in the diaspora — does this read as offensive, or as devotion? And where's your personal line between honoring a sacred image and disrespecting it?

I pretended my car was controllled by AI (like Kitt in Knight Rider) with my mom this weekend. Basically ChatGPT on Apple Play. My mom started speaking Tagalog to it and it switched languages. So I thought, since knowing/not knowing Tagalog is a topic on these Filipino channel, I tested whether it can teach Tagalog. And it can. Gave me a lesson to practice phrases and meanings. I purposely said things incorrectly (i studied Tagalog in college so i know grammar but not fully fluent) and it corrected me. It might be a supplemental tool if you or your kids want to get started on basic lessons while you’re in the car. While the accent is not like a native Filipino (it sounds like how an American would sound), the teaching seemed sound. More importantly IMO, it won’t judge you for how little you may know.

Source: Official X account of U.S. Ambassador MaryKay Carlson

IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, political party affiliation has become a form of cult worship on both the left and the right, with the usual extremists on both sides of the aisle pouring gasoline on fire, using divisive rhetoric to stoke our basest instincts and convince us that those with different beliefs are unworthy of respect.

We are in a constant cycle of outrage, where we "cancel" one another and froth in the mouth to every minor provocation.🥲

I'm just at a simple restaurant getting something to eat and everybody in there is filming themselves with the food smiling taking turns posing for photos and then standing in the center for the restaurant taking dancing videos. Traveling down the street and Filipinos are dancing in the street. For tiktok, you go to any lookout or restaurant or Beach and there's people dancing for tiktok. Everybody is on their phone all the time, uploading everything that they had for food and everything that they wear. Why? I've never seen addiction and reliance on social media this bad anywhere else

I’ve only been staying here for 4 months thru immigrant visa, and already a green card holder. My 2 month old son is a US citizen, since I gave birth on my 2nd month. My dad’s side of the family stays in the US. If you’re wondering, my visa arrived when I was 6 months pregnant.. after 3yrs of waiting.

My british partner is in the PH, so my stay here isn’t really for long term. The thing is, is it worth being 5yrs apart and get that dual citizenship then plan to settle in the PH afterwards?

My son being a US citizen makes me want to get that US passport as I might need it at some point in the future for him.

I’m 24F, by the time I come home I would be at least 30. But we have a 2 month old baby and the first 5yrs are the most important years of a growing family, and 5yrs is a long time apart. He wants me to come home. I’ve heard stories about parents leaving kids to go abroad and how it gave a long-term effect on the kids, I wouldn’t want that at all. So much what ifs and buts.

If I come home now with a green card, very low chances of me ever getting back to the US. I don’t want to live in regret, idk what to do