*RACIALLY AND CULTURALLY, HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO MAKE OF ME AND MY FAMILY (PARENTS AND SIBLINGS). HE SEEMS NOT TO BE FULLY COMPREHENDING AND INTERNALIZING WHAT I'VE WRITTEN ABOUT MY BACKGROUND AND MY FAMILY'S BACKGROUND (THE BACKGROUND OF MY PARENTS AND SIBLINGS), SO I'M GOING TO REHASH ALL OF THE POINTS I'VE MADE ABOUT MY FAMILY AND I IN A FEW MOMENTS. I HOPE THE REST OF YOU WHO ARE HAVING TROUBLE MAKING SENSE OF ME AND MY BLOGS FULLY GRASP WHAT I'M ABOUT TO WRITE.
The Cover Of Sports Illustrated In 1958 - The Swimsuit Edition!
Now, I Sent An Email To Mike Magpayo Asking About The Adversity He's Faced. Did My Father Ever Mention Experiencing RACISM. No, And If He Did Experience Any He Didn't Let It Effect Him. The Majority Of His Peers In High School, College, And The Business World Were WHITE, So He Was Part Of The Dominant Social Group And When You're Part Of The Dominant Social Group You Experience Less Adversity.
For Instance, He'd Relate A Story About Traveling Through The South By Train On His Way To Camp Lejune, North Carolina And Getting Off Of The Train To Use The Whites Only Restroom And Not Having Any Problem Using It. Why? because He Was With A White Friend, Didn't Identify As Black, And Saw Himself As Being Accepted By And Equal To Whites!
There's An Article From One Of The Military Papers At This Time Titled, "MARINE BEATS MARINES" And It Describes How My Father, Playing For This Same Camp Lejune Team, Single Handedly Beat A Team Of Former Collegiate Players From Another Base. I'll Ask One Of My Siblings If They Have It And Try To Find It When I Return Home This Fall!
I'LL USE THE FOLLOWING PHOTOS TO HELP ILLUSTRATE MY POINT! LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE FIRST PHOTO AND THE WRITING BENEATH IT. THAT WRITING SHOULD GIVE YOU A G00D IDEA OF WHERE I'M GOING WITH THIS WRITING (MY FATHER, MY MOTHER, MY SIBLINGS, AND I ARE UNIQUE FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS).
https://twitter.com/robkhenderson/status/1446214576501149706
"Multiple Homes" - Peter Dagampat Ph.D.
SEE THE PERSON TO THE RIGHT? HE WAS A ONE-IN-A-BILLION FOR BOTH GENETIC AND SOCIOCULTURAL REASONS. HOW MANY HALF HAWAIIAN-HALF FILIPINOS FROM THE SLUMS OF LOS ANGELES PLAYED COLLEGIATE FOOTBALL ON A NATIONALLY RANKED TEAM IN THE 1950s? HOW MANY HALF HAWAIIAN*-HALF FILIPINOS FROM THE SLUMS OF LOS ANGELES BECAME AN OFFICER IN THE AIR FORCE IN THE 1960s? (HIS ABILITY TO ATTAIN HIGHER RANK WAS STYMIED AFTER HE ASSAULTED A PUPIL OF HIS.) HOW MANY HALF HAWAIIAN-HALF FILIPINOS FROM THE SLUMS OF LOS ANGELES TAUGHT A COURSE A A UNIVERSITY IN THE 1970s? HOW MANY HALF HAWAIIAN-HALF FILIPINOS FROM THE SLUMS OF LOS ANGELES BECAME A SUCCESSFUL EXECUTIVE FOR A MULTIMILLION DOLLAR COMPANY IN THE 1980s? HOW MANY HALF HAWAIIAN-HALF FILIPINOS FROM THE SLUMS OF LOS ANGELES LIVED IN PREDOMINANTLY WHITE, MIDDLE TO UPPER MIDDLE CLASS NEIGHBORHOODS FROM THE 1960s ONWARD? N0NE!
*UNLIKE MOST PEOPLE WHO SAY THEY'RE HALF HAWAIIAN, HE COULD TRACE HIS HAWAIIAN ANCESTRY THROUGH AN UNBROKEN CHAIN OF FULL-BLOODED HAWAIIAN ANCESTORS (HIS LINE HADN'T BEEN TAINTED BY MISCEGENATION). BUT HE KNEW LITTLE ABOUT HAWAIIAN CULTURE AND EVEN LESS ABOUT FILIPINO CULTURE.
STEVEN, RICHIE, AND DAVID PRIMARILY ASSOCIATED WITH WHITES AND ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY DATED WHITE GIRLS. WHY? BECAUSE THEY WERE RAISED IN COMMUNITIES DOMINATED BY WHITES, SO THAT'S WHO THEY WERE SOCIALIZED BY AND WHO THEY EVENTUALLY CAME TO IDENTIFY WITH, i.e. BECAME ATTRACTED TO WHITE GIRLS.
WHEN MY BROTHERS AND I WOULD GO TO SURF SPOTS IN NEWPORT BEACH, LAGUNA BEACH, SAN CLEMENTE, ETC. IN THE 80s AND EARLY 90s WE'D BE THE ONLY NON-WHITES THERE! WE'D BE THE ONLY COLOREDS THERE!
A LAKE IN TUSTIN OR NEAR TUSTIN! (CLOSE TO WHERE MY FATHER SHOULD HAVE MOVED AFTER MOVING FROM FULLERTON IN THE LATE 70s!)
AND THIS WAS ONE OF THE JAMS WE'D LISTEN TO WHILE HEADING TO AND FRO FROM ORANGE COUNTY!
WE PREFER ORANGE COUNTY BEACHES TO LOS ANGELES COUNTY BEACHES.
BECAUSE OF MY ENJOYMENT OF BASKETBALL AND SUPERIOR BASKETBALL PLAYING ABILITY I WAS ACCEPTED BY AND ASSOCIATED WITH BLACKS. AS A RESULT I BECAME ACQUAINTED WITH THEIR CULTURE (HENCE THE BLACKNESS YOU SEE IN MY WRITING). GERY, FOR SIMILAR REASONS, KNEW MANY BLACKS AND WAS FAMILIAR WITH THEIR CULTURE AS WELL (THE BLACK, URBAN, UNDERCLASS CULTURE OF LOS ANGELES).
THERE WERE NO EAST ASIANS, FILIPINOS, SAMOANS, ETC. IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS IN WHICH MY OLDER SIBLINGS WERE RAISED. THERE WERE ONLY WHITES AND SOME MEXICANS (THE MEXICANS WERE ONLY IN THE CALIFORNIA NEIGHBORHOOD (i.e. HACINEDA HEIGHTS) IN WHICH THEY LIVED). SO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? THAT MEANS ALL THEY KNEW WERE WHITES, SOME MEXICANS, AND A FEW BLACKS!
By The Time Katy And I** Were Born Our Father Had Retired From The Military, So He Was No Longer Moving His Family From State To State And, More Importantly, The Racial Makeup In The Neighborhood We Were Raised Began To Drastically Change. The Middle-Upper Middle Class White Demographic Began To Be Replaced By East Asians (Chinese And Koreans In Particular). So, Katy And I Began To Associate With Them And Assimilate Their Americanized Culture!
**Katy And I Are Socioculturally Different Than Our Older Siblings Because Of Generational Differences (e.g. Urban, Black Culture Has Become More Acceptable And Part Of Mainstream American Culture) And Peer Group Differences (Katy And I Associated With East Asian, Filipinos, Polynesians, Etc. Whereas Our Older Siblings Didn't). This Has Resulted In Vast Differences In Preferences Between Us And Our Older Siblings (For One, My Older Siblings Aren't Too Fond Of Black Music And, Two, Aren't As Open To Dating/Mating With East Asians, Filipinos, Polynesians, Blacks, Etc.).
LOOK AT MY FATHER'S OBITUARY. SEE THE COMMENT BY THE GIRL NAMED
LISA WHITE SHE'S MY UNCLE WALTER'S GRANDDAUGHTER (SHE'S UNCLE WALTER'S DAUGHTER
LYNETTE'S DAUGHTER;
LYNETTE IS TO THE FAR RIGHT).
LISA WHITE CHOSE TO MARRY A BLACK MAN (A
NIGGER) IN THE EARLY 90s, SO UNCLE WALTER CHOSE TO BOYCOTT (NOT ATTEND) HER WEDDING (HIS GRANDDAUGHTER'S WEDDING) AND SUBSEQUENTLY SEVER TIES WITH HER! SEE THIS GIRL:
https://www.instagram.com/ellenorescott/ SHE'S UNCLE WALTER'S GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER AND THE GRANDDAUGHTER OF
PAULETTE (UNCLE WALTER'S 2nd ELDEST DAUGHTER WHO'S
NOT PICTURED). ELLENORE SCOTT IS THE DAUGHTER OF
PAULETTE'S SON
MICHAEL (THE LAS VEGAS DANCER) AND LIKE
LISA WHITE'S DAUGHTER UNCLE WALTER SEVERED TIES WITH HER BECAUSE SHE'S BLACK (A
NIGGER)! DO YOU UNDERSTAND THIS? DOES THIS MAKE SENSE TO YOU? (
SEE THE FILIPINO/AS IN THIS PHOTO (
THE ONES IN THE FOREGROUND AND BACKGROUND)?
THEY'RE NOT DAGAMPATS.
THE DAGAMPATS I'
M REFERRING TO AND RELATED TO DESCEND FROM A FULL-
BLOODED FILIPINO MAN (CLAUDIO BAGOBE DAGAMPAT) AND A FULL-
BLOODED HAWAIIAN FEMALE (ANNA KEKOI)!)
UNCLE WALTER TO THE RIGHT IN CENTRAL CALIFONIA! HIS GRANDDAUGHTER MICHELLE'S SMILE IS VERY SIMILAR TO HIS.
THE HAWAIIANS IN L.A. LIVED IN LOWER SOCIOECONOMIC NEIGHBORHOODS THAN I (NEIGHBORHOODS PREDOMINATED BY POOR WHITES, BLACKS, MEXICANS, FILIPINOS, AND POLYNESIANS LIKE LONG BEACH, CARSON, TORRANCE, GARDENA, HAWTHORNE, INGLEWOOD, ETC.)! AS A RESULT, THE HAWAIIANS WERE SOCIOCULTURALLY DIFFERENT THAN I AND THAT SOCIOCULTURAL DIFFERENCE CREATED A BARRIER BETWEEN THEY AND I! SEE THE GIRL ABOVE? SHE WAS ATTRACTED TO ME AND I WAS ATTRACTED TO HER, BUT SOCIOCULTURAL DIFFERENCES LED TO US NOT INTERMINGLING WITH ONE ANOTHER! WHAT WERE THESE SOCIOCULTURAL DIFFERENCES? DIFFERENCES IN THOUGHT, BELIEF, SPEECH, AND BEHAVIOR. PEOPLE FROM HER SOCIAL CLASS TEND TO HAVE LOWER INTELLIGENCE, LESS EDUCATION AND THUS LESS WEALTH. THE LESS WEALTHY IN TURN TEND TO LIVE IN LOWER INCOME NEIGHBORHOODS AND THE PEOPLE THAT INHABIT LOWER INCOME NEIGHBORHOODS TEND TO HAVE UNSOPHISTICATED (CHILDLIKE) THOUGHTS AND BELIEFS, SPEAK A VERNACULAR DISTINCT FROM MEMBERS OF HIGHER INCOME NEIGHBORHOODS, AND PERMIT MORE LAX AND LENIENT BEHAVIOR, PARTICULARLY LAX AND LENIENT (PERMISSIVE) SEXUAL BEHAVIOR!
"Those with higher measured IQs have higher incomes, greater educational attainment, and lower crime rates... This is well known within psychological science, but for various reasons has been obscured and downplayed by broader American culture."
Even if the English Channel did not separate the French from the British...if the British and French boyfriend and girlfriend cannot whisper sweet nothings to each other, they are not going to marry and have children. And still in this, the twenty-first century, few British or French are fluent in each other's language. And so they rarely marry - as they rarely married a millennium ago.
Different dialects, different languages, different mutually incomprehensible sounds separating populations? That is a concept, a phenomenon that any bird or insect watcher would be completely familiar with. Birds and insects, like us, are not interested in mating with an individual that makes sounds different from their own species' sounds....
Why should people be so ready to be xenophobic? In the case of animals and plants that avoid mating with individuals of other species, the answer is that hybrids between species usually do poorly. Indeed, many are sterile. The mule, a hybrid between horse and donkey, is perhaps the best-known example...
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It seems to me that if humans actively avoid associating with people from another culture - and they indeed seem to - then they do so in large part for the same reason that species, including plants, avoid hybridization - the offspring can suffer problems. In the case of humans, the problems are social, not biological. The difficulties could be lack of communication between the parents, differences of opinion over diet, over holy days, and over any other of the many petty differences that separate cultures. (Humankind: How Biology and Geography Shape Human Diversity)
Biologists have long thought that speciation occurs most often on the edge of a species' range, where a small group of animals could more easily become isolated from the larger group, perhaps by moving beyond a mountain range or river. Once isolated, this small group would evolve independently of the larger group. Over time the small group could become so different that it would no longer interbreed with its parent group, gaining evolutionary independence...one major objection must be addressed: how can a new species become biologically isolated right in the middle of an existing species' range? According to the usual understanding of speciation, the new species would begin interbreeding with the existing one and quickly lose its distinct identity. This quandary has forced biologists to look more carefully at what they call reproductive isolating mechanisms. These mechanisms have a job much like that of the chaperones accompanying high school seniors on an overnight graduation trip: to prevent successful matings. Some reproductive isolating mechanisms depend on behavior. For example, the mating rituals of two species may be so different that sexual overtures end in a welter of mixed signals and inappropriate responses. Others are more visual. Primates, in particular, with their highly acute vision, often can identify suitable mating partners at a glance. (Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins)
YOU THE LOWER CLASS, SO I MUSS HAVE YA KASH!
This goes for every social class. Upper class people would immediately give themselves away if they tried to blend into a working class environment
Why do soldiers die for their countries?
To the best of our knowledge, there is no satisfactory explanation for this phenomenon from an evolutionary psychological perspective. However, we have a few observations. First, it seems to us that soldiers die for their countries only if their country honors fallen soldiers and provides for their widows and children; in fact, we can not think of any civilized society that does not honor men who fight and die for their country. Second, many men get married right before they are shipped to war, which explains why so many deployed soldiers have newborn babies whom they have not seen. Perhaps fighting and potentially dying for their countries when the country honors the war dead and provides for their widows and children is some men's reproductive strategy to make sure that their children are taken care of, when they could not provide sufficient parental investment themselves. Historically, soldiers have disproportionately come from lower classes... (Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters)http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-People-Have-More-Daughters/dp/0399534539 
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