[silisili]

Please go away. You embody the reason I wanted to say nothing at all. I'm not colonizing anything, I'm just an ugly guy with a curious brain.

If you can't tell a difference between an American and Filipino cry, you have no business refuting anything.

[danans]

You misunderstood what I said.

I think you are well intentioned, but your choice of descriptive language, superlatives and broad characterizations echo the language used by less well intentioned people of the colonial era, which is why it comes across the way you yourself described it.

If you read colonial ethnographies, you will find descriptions written in the same tone.

> If you can't tell a difference between an American and Filipino cry, you have no business refuting anything

It's entirely unclear what you mean by American here. Big diverse country after all.

[axaxs]

No, I understand it perfectly. And it's BS. I'm not usually confrontational here, but please, stop. Make a twitter post about awful me, where you'll probably find validation, but don't try to paint me as bad innocently here, please.

My wife, a dark villager, is a starkingly beautiful person, who knows everything. Hole in your shirt? She'll sew it. Found an unknown plant? She'll identify it and tell you how to grow it. I had a weird bump on my arm that wouldn't go away...she said it's an infection and cut it out...and now it's gone. I could probably list a hundred remedies she has.

She's the most amazing person in the world I've ever met, please don't treat me like some carpet bagger or colonist. I ran the entire thing by her before posting, and she, as a person with experience in both worlds, agrees.

But, we'll leave it to you, a presumably white person, to tell us both how to feel. So please, educate us.

[yibg]

Of course it’ll be broad characterizations. How else do you describe a large population of people? Individually person by person? I find OPs take interesting and informative. Your comment on the other hand has added no value.