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thinking about cultural appropriation and was genuinely curious if there were cases of such in/from filo culture... and honestly can't think of anything. this thread i found on reddit, tho:
reminds me of one of nick Joaquin's essay where the filipino identity is a bit muddled— not asian enough like our asian neighbors and not west enough like our colonizers. uh i probably worded/summarized his essay badly and i forgot what his conclusion was about it—
i think he said that that vagueness or mix of both east and west is what makes us filo? i really should just dig it up than to put out what i vaguely remember so! take this with a grain of salt 
idk i just got to thinking if foreigners wearing barong would be appropriation similar to how foreigners wearing kimono is. barong afaik isn't specifically sacred or whatnot that it can't be worn whenever by whoever— and there's no really right way except to wear an undershirt
because really the cringest thing i saw was a yt guy wearing a barong without one. it's not like a super bad cultural faux pas, imo, but more of an embarrassing mistake especially since no one had guts to correct him
