Who Are You?

 

In my Humanities class, titled "Who Am I?", we explore many different forms of identification. Our main focus is race, ethnicity, culture, and heritage.  We have consistently defined each word throughout this term. 

My class and I watched a film called Yellow Rose; this film is about a young Filipino girl who was 'undocumented'. She had a great passion for making music and created songs that talked about her experiences in American or more specifically, Texas. This movie goes into greater depth of how Rose identified--Filipino American. This is just one example of the few films we've watched.

For our AP (Action Project), we interviewed at least one relative. We had to create a series of questions to ask about our relatives’ how they identify in terms of race or ethnicity. We’d also discussed how water has played a large role in racial discrimination—a few questions could be asked regarding this as well. I interviewed my great grandmother. For privacy reasons, I will not be uploading my podcast.

This experience was very interesting, getting to learn more about how my relatives’ experiences and what our heritage and culture is all about! It’s great to compare how they grew up to how I’m growing up—spotting the differences and similarities. This was fun!