Which are you most proud of: Cebuano or Filipino?

[splendid moonlight]

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Gee.. as unbiased as I want to be, I feel I am Cebuano first before I am Filipino. I am currently working abroad and if someone asks me what my nationality is, I say Filipino with pride. Sometimes the same person would ask me where in the Philippines I am from, then I say Cebu with almost the same intensity.

But the thing is the term Filipino is much more familiar than the term Cebuano so that the questioner doesn't feel he needs more information. But if I say I am from Cebu the person would respond by asking "where is that?" and then if I had a computer in front of me I would surely show him a map and explain how I was born in a tropical island city with neighboring islands in the part of the Philippines called Visayas.... It is so much fun talking to a person about a place in the world he doesn't know existed. Try it. hehe.

[lecreigh]

cebuano (no questions about it...) im a cebuana first before i can be called a filipina.

[missgeeeeeeeeee]

Aren't Cebuanos Filipinos too? Hmmm, I don't quite see the difference. No offense..

[emb_ventures]

proud ko of being myself, nothing to do with my being a cebuano or filipino

[froi]

proud to be cebuano

[charmz_fire]

working abroad.. same with Luthienne.. i am proud to be cebuano before Filipino.
Becoz I can speak cebuano/bisaya which dili tanan pinoy can do,
we have our on culture, foods, historic places and nice beaches na pwd na to ipanghambog sa uban.
ang idea mn gud sa uban foreigner basta pangutan-on ka what country ka gekan..
unya mahibaw-an ka na Pinas gekan...
1st thing mosulod sa ilang mind "Manila" dayon...
kay naay uban bisan dili taga manila.. manila ra gehapon ela e-sulti!
but if ako pangutan-on ingnon jud na ko "CEBU"..pakapinan pa jud na

its the "queen city of the south" with lots of beautiful beaches and rich culture and history!

[CASHFLOW]

cebuano...

[akosabni]

bisdak gyud

[Baeybe_Bryce]

Filipino...im not cebuano man...

[splendid moonlight]

@charmz_fire: apir!