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מִרְיָם: I don’t know what possesses people to be so aggressive about imposing that I MUST be Filipina. How come people see my super uncommon strictly Hebrew name, followed by a more common middle Hebrew name (or, as I prefer, a two-part first name), see me right in front of them wearing my Hamsa (or Magen David, depending on the day, but mostly the Hamsa), TELLING THEM “no, I’m Sephardic,” and still insist that “no way, [I] must be Filipina” and then start forcing me to speak a language I cannot understand even a single word of. After a long day of the same person pushing me the whole Filipina thing, she finally realized that maybe, just maybe, I am not. And then throws “what’s your nationality then?” Well… Which one of them? ;)
Bnei Lot are of an ancient origin. In the migratory tradition of Ruth begun more than two millennia ago, a remnant of David and Solomon migrated into Maritime Southeast Asia which comprises what is now Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, and Singapore, as well as Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, with a sizeable minority of Malays migrating back to their tribal allotments in Sephardic Judah, besides Terrestrial and Figurative Jordan.