#this is the difference btwn my filipino ancestry and indian ancestry | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

dykemcqueen · 6 months

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the thing about being from a place whose written history only began with colonialism is that it's like. i know you. i love you. you're in my very bones. but at the same time: who are you? who are you? who are you?

#route66.txt #this is the difference btwn my filipino ancestry and indian ancestry #bc there's lots of rich documented indian history in writing & architecture & religion & food even if the british stole a fuckton of it #but the philippines is like. literally what was going on!!!!!! what was happening!!! tell me #but unearthing pre-colonial filipino history is essentially an archeological event

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