sometimes i feel so intimidated by everyone else and it's not just because i've got brown skin. there are a lot of barriers that i need to cross. one being insecurity of skin. the fact that i'm not white but whiter than most filipinos causes problems. "in no one's shadow" (wow, how come we don't filipino telemarketers? i know my last name is spanish-like, but not all guevarra's are spanish. we are filipino too. geez. people think i'm mexican because of my last name. yes, yes, i went off on a tangent so what.) ok so back to this barrier of mine. i think the fact that i'm not apart of the mainstream america makes it hard for me. i noticed that with a lot of other filipino-americans we have identity problems.