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To the Filipinos, DJing was a way to express oneself. It was a way to be creative and really show their personality through music. Today, we know DJing as a dream job -- much like being a famous actor or actress. The really well known ones make a lot of money and live a lavish lifestyle. Filipinos recognize this, “DJ’s are now so worried about getting to the big paychecks, but we were just focusing on the music” (54). Culture changes over time. This is clearly demonstrated with DJing in the Filipino culture. Now that DJing is so popular people are trying to be original by romanticizing the DJing that happened “back in the day”.
The culture of Filipinos goes much deeper than just DJing. They feel that they are not Asian because they are more culturally influenced by Spanish people. However, they look similar to asian people to it would make sense to most to group them into color-based cultures.
I can relate to this because I feel that I am in between two groups. My mother is from Beijing and my father is caucasian and from California. Although I look more similar to my mother I feel more related to the white side of my family -- especially because I was raised by only white jewish people.
I don’t think that DJing should be the only factor that identifies the Filipino culture. Honestly, I didn’t even know that they were interested in music until I read this paper. People shouldn’t be grouped into stereotypes based on what they do or how they look.
It all gets very confusing when the paper starts off with Filipino people being the experts in DJing but then African Americans take a different spin on it. Why can’t they both just be good at DJing and we just let them live how they want?
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