(Author:  Dawn Gwen Wakefield)

Hello and welcome to another episode of We are the future. I am Dawn Gwen Wakefield here to talk about the struggles for inclusion by indigenous people and tribes in the Philippines.

In school, the Filipino kids were discriminated against and called “ipis” which means cockroach just because they were not familiar with modern technology and certain ways of transportation. People from other countries are taking advantage of the Filipino people in politics ,and they threaten the Filipinos with saying they will take away their land and food if they don’t do what they say. Health access and education are also being taken away from the Filipinos. In school, sometimes when they are learning about a specific subject, their indigenous identity is not taken into consideration and it makes it harder for the Filipino kids to learn. Some Filipino people are also discriminated against in their jobs and they only get accepted into work places with bad circumstances and not very good jobs. They are being judged for their jobs not by their talent but by their job category, income, education, gender, and other things that shouldn’t be judged. Some Filipino that have moved to the US, are being discriminated, not with words, but people are just ignoring them completely and either forgetting about them or not even wanting to care about them.  #WeAreTheFuture #TakeActionProject