it's really amazing how prince zuko told us how to love our skin

Hello prince Zuko.

I remember hating my dark skin because I was teased for it. Now, I'm comfortable with it.

I don't hate my dark skin. I just want it to be even. I've been teased since I was a kid because of my skin but I learned to love my skin tone.

This is great work, and I thank you all for it! I wish more of our Pan Asian movements would heed this message, which applies to all folks across the continent.

My relatives used to call me ita when I was a kid because I am dark. Sometimes they referred to me as "matanggewan" - meaning, "kailangang mailawan"

Historically speaking pre-colonial Filipinos, excluding the Aetas, have always prefered lighter and fairer skin, the Binukot is an example. As for why they prefered said skin tone, the very same reason with the Europeans, the Chinese, the Japanese and the rest of Southeast Asia, to destinguish the nobles and elites from commoners. The racism part came later on.

Vietnamese ppl: same. SAME!

Incredibly important and powerful message! What an awesome video.

Love this so much!! This NEEDS to be spoken about more!! 👏👏👏

I actually have a black father and Filipino mother this makes so much sense😭😭🙏

from the bottom of my heart, thank u so much for this. this was amazing.

I don't know. People like to downplay their own internal colorism as mere preferences, and if we tell them otherwise, they will be angry. How do you deal with these kinda people? Do we let them be? Because apparently according to them attempts in educating is insulting to their preferences.

This video 🙌🙌🙌 Also, Khaliaaaaa! My bestie and her little sisters 💕💕💕 Loveeeee

Great great vid. Share with your fam and friends! ✊🏽✌🏽

Ms. Jaya is one of the favourite Filipino black singers and Ms. Elizabeth Ramsey.

Dark skin is a blessing from God..

Word. we need this right now.

As a filipino, i’ve been to Philippines for 3 times now & you will almost never see an African tourist anywhere. I only saw 2 in Palawan recently. & besides, we even have a festival called ati atihan & filipinos are racist while denying that an ancient tribe in Boracay were all dark skinned

The people with those spears you portraying are my ancestors in Kalinga They are warriors they called the head hunters We use those spears to defend ourself from the other tribal enemies,that's that's is our culture

Yall spoke facts after facts!

Thank you for this!

I used to be addicted to lightening products but 5 years later all I want is my old brown skin.

Love this!

We are living a moment of change, let's educate ourselves and our children for a better world. One 💘

I am blown away beautiful video

Look how some from the FilAm community saying the Filipinos are ignorant on their cultural marxism....

God's chosen people are not something to be ashamed of. 🙏

They must’ve forgot about the Aetas!!! Our ppl have an identity Crisis. I’m Black/Pinoy. I’ve been through hell and back growing up out here in Cali.

Thank you!

it's all about how parents raise their children no matter what color of your skin

Love my Filipinos my brothers and sisters

Thank you

Didn’t expect to click this video and see Dante Basco! 😳

Hi, Rufio!

Maganda kaya kaming mga morena. 🙂 💁🏾‍♀️

Prince zuko?

beautiful

Yes but its not true that ALL Filipinos are natural dark. You can be natural lightskinnes as a Filipino.

My Filipina Asawa is a beautiful 👩🏻Mestiza, she told me Filipino colorism is never ever going to change, as a result of 3 centuries of Spanish rule.

Filipinos immigrants to USA where treated with bad rascism not because there skin color but because of being Asian may Filipino whent back to Philippines of this everyone has gone through some type of rascism in USA tho white immigrants especially the southern Italians there rascism was short lived them being white and then assimilated into learning English they where grafted in cause there white

Some things I’ve noticed growing up...

i was told to use bleaching soaps

Don't forget the Mexican mestizo who had y'all back over 250 years we worked together in the farm unions the Mexican don't forget them

Respect to pvt david fagen.. How many know him?

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We are everywhere

My uncle is Filipino and he said “you’re Chinese because you’re using chopsticks” and he said “Chinese eyes look like this *pulls eyes*and Japanese look like this *pulls eyes*”

All moors lives together matter worldwide 🌎

See I always knew why I thought you were so fine back in the day on fresh prince as Ashley’s boyfriend. Lol

I can relate to this, Ms.Giselle I'ma fan,such a good actress.It's an eye opening for polynesian-Filipinos

This!

I just noticed that saphire is hella dark!

I used to hate the color of my skin. Since I was a kid people call me black when I’m literally “brown”. At a young age I was taught in using whitening soaps and lotions to lighten up my skin. As I matured and learned and value the true identity of a Filipino, I embraced the “Filipino Melanin” I was born in. Ngl but filipino skin color is to die for 😏

And Anti Browness chyeah

RUBY IBARRA!!! 💪

In my heart I new we could marry you it felt godly the black man in America is coming for you my brother an sister

Now I've seen a plethora of 'anti black in____' s Filipino is a fresh angle 🚶🏾‍♂️

What do y mean black y guys looks like light brown to me

Oh snap

So is this learned from the Spanish?

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Regardles of skin color, we should not let it be the complete definition of what makes someone Filipino. There are Filipinoes who are lighter skin than the Filipinoes who live in other countries, but culture wise they are more Filipino since they keep their culture in tact. Appearance is not everything, sometimes the darker skinned Filipinos know nothing about the Philippines due to being born outside of the Philippines.

Why this seems to be a global thing?

My mom used to make us bathe in milk as kids to get whiter. This colorism is messed up. We need to unlearn it.

Magandang morenx ❤️

Rufio Rufio Rufio!

Is that rufio

Was gonna skip but then I saw Rufio! Rufio! Rufio! Rufi! Ooooo!

Blood and Bone

the real Filipinos Are the "Indios" or the "dark skinned" The term "Filipino" are used as to distinguish Spanish people born in the Philippine Isles and was only used recently in the commonwealth period to call both the indios and of kastila heritage. personally, I find the darkness of our skin as something more desirable than becoming white. the darkness is proof of hard work and dedication and perseverance. just keep in mind that the media are showing us fantasy and not reality.

They are not people in Africa but I can agree

There's a very special relationship between African American men who have been loving Filipino women for over 100 years and also the relationship between African American and Filipino people go back over 100 years but the pale face didn't want you to know that but that the true. I FEEL SORRY FOR THESE PEOPLE”: AFRICAN AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN THE PHILIPPINE-AMERICAN WAR, 1899-1902 What you didn't know that our relationship goes back to Philippine-American war THE 19TH-CENTURY AFRICAN-AMERICAN SOLDIER WHO FOUGHT FOR FILIPINO LIBERATION Angry at the Treatment of Blacks in the US, in 1899 David Fagan Deserted His Regiment and Became a Household Name Back HomeIn 1899, during a campaign on the island of Luzon to entrap the Filipino revolutionary president Emilio Aguinaldo, a 21-year-old buffalo soldier named David Fagen deserted from the American army. He wasn’t homesick. Young Fagen decided to join the Filipino revolutionaries and quickly took up arms against his former countrymen. In time, he became a guerrilla leader of such renown that his Filipino fighters called him “General Fagen.”Fagen enjoyed a good time. He was a master of stud poker, having regularly relieved his fellow soldiers of several hundred dollars on payday. He was fond of carousals, played the guitar, and lived in the camp with his Filipino wife. He was “often amusing” and voluble, supremely confident, and a natural leader. Fagen even inspired mystery, and controversy, in matters of death. With a reward on his head, he retreated to the desolate Pacific coast. In December 1901, a Filipino hunting party brought in a moldering head and Fagen’s effects, claiming they had killed the renegade.The army announced Fagen’s death and hundreds of newspapers covered the story. Only the English-language Manila American made a mockery of the Army’s account of Fagen’s killing, but that story went unreported in America and was entirely overlooked until I recently discovered it. In the end, Fagen was not a central military player in the war; the region where he fought was of secondary importance in terms of the larger struggle. But he is important as an African-American who took up arms against a country racist to the core and bent on empire at the expense of a dark-skinned people. As a revolutionary officer and later as a bandit leader, Fagen confounded the American whites. He not only challenged their supremacist assumptions; he also mocked them, defiant in the face of the noose and the burning stake. Take care and God bless take care and God bless take care and God blessing the English-language Manila American made a mockery of the Army’s account of Fagen’s killing, but that story went unreported in America and was entirely overlooked until I recently discovered it. In the end, Fagen was not a central military player in the war; the region where he fought was of secondary importance in terms of the larger struggle. But he is important as an African-American who took up arms against a country racist to the core and bent on empire at the expense of a dark-skinned people. As a revolutionary officer and later as a bandit leader, Fagen confounded the American whites. He not only challenged their supremacist assumptions; he also mocked them, defiant in the face of the noose and the burning stake. Take care and God blessing the English-language Manila American made a mockery of the Army’s account of Fagen’s killing, but that story went unreported in America and was entirely overlooked until I recently discovered it. In the end, Fagen was not a central military player in the war; the region where he fought was of secondary importance in terms of the larger struggle. But he is important as an African-American who took up arms against a country racist to the core and bent on empire at the expense of a dark-skinned people. As a revolutionary officer and later as a bandit leader, Fagen confounded the American whites. He not only challenged their supremacist assumptions; he also mocked them, defiant in the face of the noose and the burning stake. Take care and God bless but that story went unreported in America and was entirely overlooked until I recently discovered it. In the end, Fagen was not a central military player in the war; the region where he fought was of secondary importance in terms of the larger struggle. But he is important as an African-American who took up arms against a country racist to the core and bent on empire at the expense of a dark-skinned people. As a revolutionary officer and later as a bandit leader, Fagen confounded the American whites. He not only challenged their supremacist assumptions; he also mocked them, defiant in the face of the noose and the burning stake. Take care and God bless but that story went unreported in America and was entirely overlooked until I recently discovered it. In the end, Fagen was not a central military player in the war; the region where he fought was of secondary importance in terms of the larger struggle. But he is important as an African-American who took up arms against a country racist to the core and bent on empire at the expense of a dark-skinned people. As a revolutionary officer and later as a bandit leader, Fagen confounded the American whites. He not only challenged their supremacist assumptions; he also mocked them, defiant in the face of the noose and the burning stake. Take care and God bless the region where he fought was of secondary importance in terms of the larger struggle. But he is important as an African-American who took up arms against a country racist to the core and bent on empire at the expense of a dark-skinned people. As a revolutionary officer and later as a bandit leader, Fagen confounded the American whites. He not only challenged their supremacist assumptions; he also mocked them, defiant in the face of the noose and the burning stake. Take care and God bless the region where he fought was of secondary importance in terms of the larger struggle. But he is important as an African-American who took up arms against a country racist to the core and bent on empire at the expense of a dark-skinned people. As a revolutionary officer and later as a bandit leader, Fagen confounded the American whites. He not only challenged their supremacist assumptions; he also mocked them, defiant in the face of the noose and the burning stake. Take care and God bless

KABATAAN alliance, wow CPP-NPA has roots outside the philippines

My kids are half African and Filipino…it’s a great mix!

These days darker skin is more beautiful. To tell the truth, I've started following dark skinned actors coz people are lightening skin to become beautiful

Spain taught the skin Color through the caste system it is a bad thing

naalala ko noon sabi ni papa na masahin ko raw ang ilong ko para tumangos daw 💀

I also grow up in the Philippines and my whole family is a colorist, it’s so sad :( hope it ends . Now I’m living in Europe and saw a more diverse world who doesn’t care about skin color. I’m happy here and I even changed my nationality because I don’t want to be a part of the Philippine ignorant world anymore

Sobrang Naive ung Iba , Yung iba Naman Walang Pakialam dahil sa Hindi Alam Ng mga Pilipino na Ang Mga Pilipino bago Tayo sinakop at hanggang 1900's + ay mga Itim na lahi tlga , bakit ikahihiya , Wala aq nakita na Black ppl na may Sakit na Cancer o mahina Ang Pangangatawan...

The comment sections omg ….. it’s goddam mess in here lol

Honestly, I thought racism against black or darker skinned people didnt exist here in the Philippines because I never noticed someone get ridiculed and looked down for being black; darker colored people are cool and friendly, same with people with any other color. However, the video did make me realize that people do subtly ridicule dark skinned people especially in the beauty industry. We do sometimes joke that our darker colored friend blends in with the dark, but at the end of the day we just had friendly banter and we see him as a very cool friend and he does sometimes initiates the joke.

IM LITERALLY BLACK AND FILIPINO ☹️

stop gaslighting us filipinos in the homeland. stop your western virtue signalling. pag sinabi naming gusto namin ng maputi HINDI ibig sabihin nun ay gusto namin maging kulay caucasian. gusto ln namin na maging "fairer" o mas "lighter" skin kasi ibig sabihin nun maalaga kami sa aming kutis. ibig sabihin nun, natatanggal namin ang libag, taliptip, dead skin at iba pang dumi sa katawan. sa totoo ln karamihan ng mga pinoy ay ayaw ng kulay caucasians dahil hindi bagay sa amin at parang pagyurak un sa lahing pilipino. pag sinabi namin na "ayaw namin ng maitim na kutis" HINDI ibig sabihin nun ay anti-black american/anti-african kami. ang ayaw namin ay maitim na balat dahil nga sa libag, dead skin at iba pang dumi sa katawan dahil maalikabok at mainit dito sa pinas. wag nyo rin sabihin na ang pagpapaputi ay isang social status. wag kayo matapobre. nagpapaputi kami ng balat dahil nangangahulugan un ng magandang kalusugan ng balat. uullitin ko, pag sinabi namin na gusto naming magpaputi ng balat ang ibig sabihin nun ay fairer skin hindi caucasian skin. hindi isyu dito ang racism at colorism sa homeland dahil hindi kami nandidiscriminate ng mga dayuhan basta taong dumating. wag nyo kaming gamitin para maging relevant kayo sa blm.

Nation of phonies

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Egoy!

But, many faces on this video are not Filipino.

I think there are paranoid people here who worry too much about their skin color.

FilipinX?

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I am half white & half filipino and i have noticed so many times how whitewashed most filipinos are, it all comes from the spanish & american colonization there was for centuries a culture where lighter skinned people were more favored than their darker brothers & sisters. .. It's very sad because this brainwashed whitewash mentality still exists to this day. I live in Europe where the majority is white, and almost everyone recognizes my long dark hair, my tan skin & full lips. i was always called an indian "Native-American" or simply the indigenous of the thoroughbred or fullblooded europeans here. But the nice thing about it is that here in Europe this is seen as beautiful & interesting, in contrast to the Philippines or Latin American countries, that's how i experience it myself in life. I still often have this tedious problem when I see Filipino relatives, but especially my own mother, who always says I shouldn't be outside in the sun for so long in the summer, because she thought that my skin would be too dark, and then that people here in europe will be racist to me, and then she always says that the more successful people are always the light skinned ones... Really sad how this brainwashing destroys our true pride & identity... I am proud of my filipino indigenous roots, and to all indigenous ethnic groups & tribes of the philippines' Igorot / Aeta / Negrito / Lumad / etc. and also to our cousins ​​overseas the Native americans from north to south & the pacific islanders. But of course I am also very proud of my Celtic & Germanic roots hell yeah. Don't let it get you down, be 💯% proud of what you are.

I don’t think it’s color that’s makes us human It’s our ability to love each other

Attractive or not. Smart or dull. Tall or short. Skinny or fat. Light or dark. Disabled or not. There are so many ways people measure the 'worth' of others.. Stop it!

Sooooo. First.. the territory we call today known as Philippines is divided into 3 large territories called Luzon , visayas and mindinaoe. The Spaniards only conquered Luzon which is where Manila became a place. The visayas and mindinaoe are UNCONQUERED BY ANY OUTSIDE RACE OR NATION. Just ask the Italians and Spaniards who tried like ferniand megellan. Ohh wait you can’t because they lost the war and died to the visayan tribes who are Pacific Islanders. Luzon the north island and home to tribes with indigenous blood and Asian race mixing aka Tagalog tribes were defeated in war. Tagalog got conquered. Also the first people of the territory known as the Philippines were AFRICAN as scientists Will confirm black people were there first and other groups like austronesians came and bred with the Africans and then you have a new race of brown indigenous people.

So u just boutta leave out the Chicano movement in the 60’s regarding the field workers of America

My Fililpino mom hated it so much when I teased her on having a flat nose. But she's also the same person that ridicules my dark skin and taught me the idea of beauty, "light skin, tall nose, etc." I'm a grown-up now, I don't do that anymore. But still, why get offended to a 6 year old when she was the one teaching me that mindset in the first place?

Wala kayong maisip kundi manggaya "black lives matter" eh brown kaming pilipino excuse po, pag pango ka o maitim ka hindi bullying tawag dun. Kasi we don't say it seriously, biro man o tukso its a compliment of identities bilang pinoy parang example; kamusta ka na kulot ang taba mu ngayon mukhang pumuputi Ka ata painom Ka naman... Tangaka pag masyado kang sensitive kasi pwede mu rin gawin yung ginagawa nya pero bullying is made up by the sensitive rich people out side Philippines. Kasi nagpapaka kahit wala sa itsura..

I do t think it’s anti-blackness, it’s just anti-darkness.

my mother is for sure Anti-Black