White people don't think we're "expressive" bc they're invested in Orientalist narratives that present us as all the same #ExpressiveAsians
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USA couldn't understand why the people "resorted" to attacking back (the "juramentado"), so they built a wall in Jolo to protect USA troops
Agree what happened in the Philippines is important to USA expanded sense of "Orientalism" but Filipino people seen as emotional/irrational
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Thank you for the info. Emotional/stoic constructions are often interrelated. Similar discourses existed for Chinese in America in 19th c
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You can also see this duality at work with discussion of Viet Cong and Imperial Japanese army
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The intent of my tweets wasn't to say that there's only one way emotions of Asian peoples are discussed, and definitely not to erase
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The specificity of the experience of people in the Philippines
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