DiLLynqnt said:
Are you including nursing?
DiLLynqnt said:
Yea. I always wondered, are we considered "Asian" or "Pacific Islanders"? And since I get mistaken more often than not for being hispanic, I've been tempted to put that down as my ethnicity and get that coveted minority status. Too bad my Spanish is as bad as my Tagalog. 
Is it possible you got mistaken for being hispanic, b/c you might be?Nylesor said:I'm in at LECOM-Lake Erie so far.
Many filipinos have a spaniard("castilian") ancestor or two in their lineage therefore technically classifying them as "hispanic" or being of spanish ancestry; however, the term is generally used in the U.S. to refer to people from Latin/South America, not filipinos. I'm not trying to convince anyone to start calling themselves hispanic or anything, I'm simply offering a reason for why people may mistake you for latin/south american b/c it is possible you may be spanish looking. I know the filipinos on this board are gonna jump all over me for this, b/c my girlfriend, who is from the Philippines, gets angry at me anytime I make any reference to her being part spanish/hispanic, even though she has previously mentioned she some spanish ancestry in her bloodlines 
Sorry for the bad tagalog spelling. How come some filipinos get angry when people mention they might be part spanish? Is it b/c in filipino history, the Spaniards were seen as the oppressors/conquerors? My Mahal is from the Visayas, where the Spanish influence was very heavy.PlasticMan said:Like in the bebot song "Filipino! Filipino! Filipino! Filipino!" I'll try to type up the lyrics, "Pinoy kah sigaw nah, sige. Kung un bohi mo mahalaga, sige. Salamat sa iyung supporta!"
Hmmm, but once again you have to go back to what having URM is for - to help encourage healthcare in underserved neighborhoods/communities. There are many large, poor underserved mexican/black/native american communities, hence they are URM to help encourage doctors of those ethnicities to service those communities. A good amount of filipinos in this country are nurses or other professional careers, so they are not really poor underserved communities in my opinion.DiLLynqnt said:
Nylesor said:
i was so tempted to take them up on it, but a lot of them required in-person interviews, and that wouldve totally blown my cover..DiLLynqnt said:
lilithny said:do any of your moms do the flip-dar thing? watch television or see someone on the street and can tell if they're filipino? so wrong, but now i catch myself doing it.
Nylesor said:Pssst....Hoy! Going to UMDNJ-SOM!
). Hawaii and California consider us minorities in medicine.
Aren't minorities usually represented by race as oppossed to specific ethnicity? You're lumped in with asian, so that is not considered a minority in the medical field. I could argue the same argument, and I am white and no one considers me a minority, although I am of Eastern European descent(a former Yugoslav country) and I can guess there is probably almost no one of the same ethnicity in medical school in the U.S. b/c we are very rare in the U.S.A. However, I am lumped in with "white" and therefore not a minority. Sux for both of us that minority goes by overall skin color / race rather than by actual ethnicity. I personally think Slavic people should be considered minorities. Just b/c their skin is white does not mean they are not under-represented in the U.S.A. or under-privledged. Look at all the former Soviet countries - Russia, Ukraine, Kazahkstahn(Boratporokeratosis said:Interesting thread. I just saw it randomly.
I'm Filipino-American (parents from PI, but I was born and raised in the US), went to MD med school (not DO), and I'm about to start my Dermatology residency (one of the most difficult residencies to get into). By no means am I privileged either. Both my parents are blue-collar workers who immigrated to the USA and I was the first one in the family to go to college.
I have always wondered why Filipinos are not considered minorities, especially as I went through college, medical school, and residency. During college, I was the only over-achieving Filipino. There were a few other Filipino students at my college, but unfortunately a significant portion of them failed and dropped out. During medical school, I was one of two Filipinos (out of about over 200 students) in my large medical school class. And I know during residency, I will be the only Filipino. During large American Derm conferences I attended, I usually was the only Filipino there (there are more black and hispanic dermatologists than Filipino dermatologists).
I definitely think we Filipinos should be considered minorities. But for some reason, most of the USA lumps us up with Asians, which I think this is totally wrong and we should form our own separate identity. A Filipino is NOT Asian. Fortunately, a few states got it right and consider Filipinos under-represented in the Physician medical field (not the Nurse field
So what exactly is Filipino? First off, Filipinos are from the Philippine Islands, which are "Islands" in the Pacific Ocean (it is NOT a part of Asia). Therefore, we should be lumped more with the Pacific Islanders and Polynesians. But Filipinos are also more than just Pacific Islanders. We have a diverse background very unique from other Asian and Pacific Island countries. Filipinos were under Spanish rule for over 2 centuries (until we were freed by the USA during the Spanish-American War in the 1890s). That is why so many Filipinos have Spanish last names and why our culture has many Spanish traditions in it (the traditional clothes look Spanish, Spanish-like foods, Spanish words in our language Tagalog, and only country in Asia and the Pacific Islands that is mostly Roman Catholic and Christian). There also was and currently is a strong Chinese influence in PI also. If you ask any Filipino what there ancestry is, it is usually a mix of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese blood lines.
Just my two cents...
), all the Yugoslav countries, Belarus, Maldova, Bulgaria, Romania, etc. Who would argue against the fact that they come from very poor countries and are heavily under-represented in American medicine. Why are they not minorities? Just because they happen to be from a cold region and have white skin? If any of you are Slavic, you know the culture and language is very different from the rest of Europe. Ok, I'll stop my rant now; this has been building up in me for quite some time.... 
Yeah...how did I miss this thread!....Filipino here already accepted to DMU...I was actually born in the philippines...immigrated when I was seven...just got my citizenship recently...go flips go!...lol...anyone planning on going back and maybe doing some pro-bono work back in the homeland?...definitely an option for me!
