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Here’s a film about a shared experience in honor of AAPI Heritage Month. And what making my short film about that damn cookie jar that never had cookies in it taught me, this is a shared experience that spans across so many cultures. Yet, for whatever reason, we all seem divide each other with our differences, when we’re way more similar than we all think. If you had any of these items in your household, regardless of where you’re from, you’re good in my book 🤞🏽
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Things in our Filipino household that just make sense. Or, well, at least to us. Come to think of it, they barely make sense to me, but we're gonna try to make sense of it today. Let's go. So worst off, as soon as you walk in, you're greeted with more Jesus' than you can count. Jesus on tier cross, tiny Jesus being held best tiny Mary, and even tinier Jesus, white Catholic porcelain Jesus, white Jesus, Korean Jesus, and even your new age actual Jewish Jesus with curly hair and brown skin Jesus, and finally, the final boss Jesus. Next, this is the definition of we have it at home. Why pay more for extra sauce when your fridge has every fast food sauce imaginable? They're probably expired. Magnets, coupons, also probably expired. And in here, my mom used to pack my school lunches in these, and I got roasted for it. But what I've come to realize, the older that I got, these things that I used to be embarrassed of, ashamed of, because I got made fun of for these things as a kid, were the the things that I actually became the most proud of. Like, whenever somebody would come over and they'd see things like the iconic bird clock, because if you didn't have one of these, were you really even Filipino? Or the million other useless things that we bad, for what I thought was useless, which made me stray away from it, from good that looked and smelled weird compared to everybody else's because the other kids' favorite foods were just pizza, burgers, and spaghetti. You know, normal things. I used to think, like, why couldn't I just be like everyone else? The things that I would be embarrassed of or ashamed of when people would come over and they'd see our mismatching furniture or the plastic on the couches, literally everything and anything is what I find comfort in now. Yeah. If you're wondering, I absolutely am using a back scratcher from a microphone holder because why not? It's a Filipino video. Come on, bro. Put it together. You know, moving away from home and then building your own home that looks nothing like the Filipino home that I grew up in. I love it. But when I sit back into my home and my home comfort in there that just is inexplicable. I spent a lot of my life because of the opinions of others pushing it away best for it to become some of my favorite things, actually. So in celebration of AAPI heritage month Tier embracing it. It's will make us us.
