confession: i'm typical.

today i was having an interesting conversation with my mom about typical and non-typical filipinos. i guess it's different when it comes to the definition of what is typical. my mom based her opinion on filipinos in the philippines. she suggested that we were typical compared to them. "the way my girls are," what did she mean by that? i guess we're (my sisters and i) traditional according to my mom. she raised us to respect our elders and abide by filipino traditions. i understand what she meant by us being typical, but i guess our definitions of typical are different. when i think about typical filipinos i think about the ones that are girls with high-pitched voices, bleached hair; guys sporting baggy clothing, tommy hilfiger, nautica, whatever. that's what i think of, but now that i think of it. filipino-americans' typical behavior is not to be typical. many filipino-americans have strayed away from what was considered typical filipino. many have created their own identity, and well you know what. there are too many categories to even consider a person to be typical or not. filipinos have yet to create their identity and this generation has started a movement.