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'How do we know if one is Filipino enough?' ThoughtLeaders More in this Opinion article by Rappler's sports editor Jasmine W. Payo:
There’s an old sports joke on Britain’s tennis great Andy Murray – he’s British when he wins, but Scottish when he loses.It happens quite often. Foreign athletes with Philippine roots – many of them from families of US immigrants, Filipino-Americans or Fil-Ams, as we’ve long called them – getting questioned on their “Filipino-ness.”
“US Team B,” one commented on social media on the mere basis of their looks and last names – Bolden, Long, Beard, McDaniel, Eggesvik, Guillou, and the rest of the 23 who were mostly born and raised in Europe or America.In Rappler, we’ve always thought athletes should be more than just names in our game stories, hence, our staple Fast Facts features.
Initially, we thought of just career nuggets, but our ladies proved to be more than that off the pitch. Sara Eggesvik, whose mother hails from Davao, can actually speak a bit of Bisaya . But this Fil-Norwegian midfielder is also studying to become a doctor, like her Fil-Am teammate Ryley Bugay.
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