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Filipino historian Prof. @xiao.chua, PhD answers the question: “Who was the first Filipino?” in various fields of studies, from history, anthropology and even mythology. But Prof. Xiao dives even deeper into the question to discover something profound about what being Filipino truly means! If this video caught your attention, piqued your interest, or touched your heart, feel free to ASK XIAO in our new video series on our YouTube channel: The Filipino Story Studio. (Link in Bio) #thefilipinostory #AskXiao #filipino #filipina #pinoy #pinay #philippines #philippines🇵🇭 #philippinesgram #philippinestravel #choosephilippines #travelphilippines #filipinofood #filipinoartist #filipinoamerican #ofw #filipinofoodmovement #filipinas #filipina

Bring joy to communities who live with much less as part of the Filgrimage immersion experience on July 6-16, 2023.

Help us reach our goal of $3000 so we can bring a day of celebration and fellowship to an Aeta community (in Sito Bulacan, Capas, Tarlac), a Gawad Kalinga Village (in Cabiao, Nueva Ecija), and a Community Kitchen volunteer group (in Baseco).

At the end of each day’s community visit and service, as we get to know the people more, we would like to leave the children some goodies, and each family the security of their next few meals. With your help, our hope is to serve as many of them as possible.

Click here to support now https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=GMZK8M5MHT2MQ and follow along on our Instagram to experience this year's 2023 Filgrimage trip from home! 💛

Every single day is an opportunity to tell our story as a people, rediscover our heritage, and live our lives knowing who we truly are: a diverse community with an intrinsic greatness within.

Happy 124th Independence Day, Philippines!

Filipino culture allows us to experience an expanded meaning of the word Mother (Inay, Nanay).

Inay (Mother) can mean a lot of things to a Filipino child. She’s the "ilaw ng tahanan" (light of the home) who birthed and molded us to become who we are today. For millions of Filipinos in the Philippines, Inay is the breadwinner working abroad, so they can live a more comfortable life.

Inay can also refer to a Lola, Tita, kapitbahay (neighbor), family friend, or even kasambahay (helper) who treated us like one of their own. Showering us with unconditional love and care even if they're not our mother by blood.

Whatever this word means or represent to you, may you find time to thank Inay, today.

From us here at The Filipino School, Happy Mother’s Day!

Eid Mubarak!

It’s the morning of May 2 in the Philippines and Sunday night here in the States. Eid al-Fitr which starts from sundown on May 1 to sundown of May 2 marks the end of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting.

Muslims in the Philippines, whose political history spans at least five centuries, has the longest political experience compared to other groups in the Southeast Asian nation, according to Mindanao State University-Sulu professor Hannbal Bara. Bara also noted that the main concentration of the Philippine Muslim population is confined largely to the western side of Mindanao down to the Sulu Archipelago.

Mindanao is the Philippines’s second largest island, after Luzon.

Diverse, empowered, resilient, and truly American.

The Filipino School celebrates with our fellow Asian American and Pacific Islanders the first day of our heritage month. A time and season to reflect on the achievements, contributions, and trials and triumphs of our forebears who journeyed to a nation we now call home.

According to the Asian Pacific Institute, the term Asian American and Pacific Islanders or APPI includes all people of Asian, Asian American or Pacific Islander ancestry, who trace their origins to the countries, states, jurisdictions and/or the diasporic communities of these geographic regions.

According to Presidential Decree 557 of 1974, barangay was the basic political unit existing in the Philippines before the arrival of the Spaniards. The same order renamed what was then referred to as barrios to barangay, a tradition maintained to this day. In 2015, Philippine Commission on Elections data show that there are 42,036 barangays in the country.

The term was derived from balangay. The name for sailboats that originally transported Austronesians to the Philippines.