How to Eat Rice With Your Hands
April Werle April Werle

How to Eat Rice With Your Hands

Even before I learned to eat with a spoon, I learned how to eat with my hands—as most of us do.

But the way that I learned to eat with my hands was through a technique meant to be used the rest of my life. Not to expire after childhood. There is an entire etiquette and ideal form to it...

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Are You Filipino Enough If You Are Mixed?
April Werle April Werle

Are You Filipino Enough If You Are Mixed?

If you’ve been asking yourself this question, I hear you.

I grew up in a small Pinay community in Montana, and when I got older and moved away I began having this complex.

Would full Filipinos believe me if I said that I was Filipino? Better to just tell them my mom is Filipino?

Here are my thoughts on 4 common things you might be asking yourself…

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