My father is German, my mother is from the Philippines. I’m 19 years old.I grew up in Ge
My father is German, my mother is from the Philippines. I’m 19 years old. I grew up in Germany only learning German and later English at school. People usually notice my Asian heritage and think that I’m an Asian tourist or exchange student. When people ask me what I am, I tell them that I’m German. Why? Because I personally only identify as German. I grew up here and only lived with German culture, Filipino culture only being visible in my mother’s cooking, though she also cooks a lot of German dishes. I only visited the Philippines once in my whole lifetime and am not capable of speaking Tagalog or any other language on the Philippines. When people get to know me, they notice that I’m just like any other person from Germany. My personally biggest pet peeve is when people tell me that I can never be fully German due to my racial heritage. I grew up in this country and feel pride about its culture like any other German. I hardly associate with the Philippines so telling me I can’t be German has the same meaning to me as saying “I can’t be anything.” To sum it up: I’m German. -- source link