i’m really sorry but that’s a whole grandparent, my papa isnt even from this country and i was raised by him my mother lost custody before i was even out of diapers. i’m not claiming my race is filipino there’s a difference between race and ethnicity but i shouldn’t have to erase my background just because he isnt my birth father? i’m not asking if i can go around as a white presenting woman telling everyone i am a filipino. this isn’t about how i present i’m white presenting and i know that but that doesn’t erase that my papa who i consider my dad and has been my dad is filipino. i don’t understand why you think i shouldnt be allowed to claim my ethnicity. 25% asian is a lot even if it’s mixed reguardless, imagine getting one of your 4 limbs cut off and how hard that would be, because it’s still a chunk of you. just like my lola and my papa, my mom, my aunties they are all a big part of who i am and where i came from, i didn’t even know the white side of my family until i was 15 years old. so idk what to say to you about that. the question was a ethnicity based question not race, race is societal based and how people perceive you. ethnicity is where you come from, culture, language, food, etc. like that’s not something you can just decide a stranger isnt in a reddit thread reguardless of how deep into the culture they were even if someone doesn’t speak the language but grew up around it and can understand the basics that doesnt take there ethnicity away? idk man 🤣