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I wish I could talk to a crowd of these detractors, these forum posters.

How dare you dictate what being Filipino means.

How dare you define Filipinos as simply being born in a certain place, to certain people.

How dare you denigrate Filipinos to such shallowness.

You can complain all you want about discrimination, but listen to yourselves first. In wanting to keep a team “pure”, you have also blackened our identity. We are a people born of a thousand traditions and ancestries. We are a people born of a culture rich with centuries of tales and legends, a mixture of races and nationalities.

Your concept of “purity” has excluded that same rich identity, that same rich culture that defines us.

Your concept of “purity” is based on location and parents.

How sad. How shallow.

How dare you.