Jessica Sanchez considers herself ‘100-percent Filipino’

When Jessica Sanchez was still starting out in American Idol earlier this year and when they announced her as Mexican-Filipino, my brother Vic told me, how can she be Mexican, one look at her and you can really say she's Filipino through and through.  There's just no trace in that face of hers that would say she's Mexican (although we're no experts as to how ordinary Mexicans look).  Turns out the 'Mexican' in her is not by blood but by affinity since her stepfather who adopted her is Mexican, so it was just fitting to label her as such. 

However, I really don't understand all these debate labeling our Filipino brethren abroad as half-Filipinos or not really Filipinos.  Technically, yeah, but blood ties to ones homeland is not easily extinguished and even if they are far away, their parents try their best to share to their children a little of their being Filipinos.  There are Filipinos who have totally erased their being Filipinos from their personhood, but I don't think Jessica's family has done that.  I think her being Mexican-Filipino adds to her cachet since the US celebrates diversity in race.  And there's no denying her talent.  A friend of mine saw her concert last week and he said she really had that incredible voice!


Jessica Sanchez considers herself ‘100-percent Filipino’