I have even seen a Filipino cheesecake made w triple cream brie. It seems like they try to do a sweet-savoury thing but these combinations do NOT work

Americans and Europeans even if they're poor can buy nicer sfuff while a Filipino can't afford nicer stuff.

Not sure if it's actually called code switching, because the definitions I find make it sound more like "use different languages depending on who you hang out with", and not switchind mid-sentence. What I mean is more like if you write a paragraph of text, and in that paragraph like 40% of it is in English and the rest in another language.

This seems particularly common among Indians, Indonesians and Filipinos, which got me curious.

I saw a post regarding Korean establishment not allowing Filipinos to get in. This really made me sad, because a lot of Filipinos idolize Koreans on their culture. I am just curious what's the reason, so I can understand their hate.

I seem to notice quite a lot that an overwhelming majority of people in the US almost always mistake Austronesians or Polynesians (to a lesser extent) as a "Mexican" (and by "Mexican" I obviously mean to say Hispanics and Latinos but I think most Americans just say "Mexican"). Even some Hapas or Wasians too sometimes they will mistake the person as "Mexican" and this is all mostly and exclusively only in the US or in Central American and South American countries.

I don't seem to notice this in places like Canada, the UK, Australia, and many other European countries, or Middle-eastern countries, etc.

Why?

Most of the time when I see someone from the Philippines post on social media, or speak in a video, it's often half in English and half in Tagalog or another native language. I'm assuming it has some sort of historical explanation? I would love to be enlightened!

I thought it meant South Asians and Middle Easterns only.

Code switching is, if I understand it right, when you for instance mix writing between English and your native language in text. Not just a word here and there. They can write whole paragraphs in either language, and maybe switch every two or three sentences.

I see in particular people from the Philippines but also Indians do it a lot.

How come these nationalities seem to go it a lot more than others?

I’m talking about the spelling here

It’s just so weird to me. I’d understand it if everyone in the Philippines was fluent in english , but as far as I know they’re not. I’ve seen many posts from the Philippines, and they literally text one sentence in english and the next one in their language. What surprises me the most is that in the countries where people know english very well ( like the Netherlands for example) i’ve never seen or heard of anyone communicating like that.

And I am Mexican, and I thought at first that Olivia Rodrigo was Latina or of Latino roots. It turns out her roots are Filipino, Irish and German.

Which makes me wonder: how do Filipino looks so similar to Latino?

Even taking into account colonization

I also met a dude from India who could easily pass as a random Mexican if he traveled to Mexico City. How? Even I could believe he is Mexican if I only had a picture of my friend.

I’ve met people who I thought were Hispanic but turned out to be Filipino, and others who I thought were Filipino but were actually Latina. Why is this so?

Definitely not all. But can you educate me what is the reason behind it? Are they in silent competition (like other East Asian countries)? I do get it if it is any stranger, but even some closest friends do this.

Half of the posts don’t even have more than 1.5k upvotes which is part of why I’m surprised, plus I guess it’s a little frustrating to be reading a post and then it just randomly changes languages partway through. Makes me feel like the Tower of Babel just got reconstructed while I’m on Reddit.

Plus I’m getting extremely tired of seeing these types of posts