Filipino - Journalist | February 3, 1981 -
I found out that I was illegal when I was 16. I'm gay. I'm Filipino.
Jose Antonio Vargas
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I've always really wanted to make a film on what it means to be white in a country that's getting less and less white.
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After I arrived in Mountain View, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, I entered sixth grade and quickly grew to love my new home, family and culture. I discovered a passion for language, though it was hard to learn the difference between formal English and American slang.
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On the surface, I've created a good life. I've lived the American dream. But I am still an undocumented immigrant.
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I am undoubtedly one of the more, if not the most, privileged undocumented immigrants in America. And for us at Define American, which is this culture campaign group that I founded with some friends, culture trumps politics.
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To me, politics is culture. I became a journalist, and later a filmmaker, to get to know my new country and my volatile place in it as a gay, undocumented Filipino-American.
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As a newcomer to America who learned to 'speak American' by watching movies, I firmly believe that to change the politics of immigration and citizenship, we must change culture - the way we portray undocumented people like me and our role in society.
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I am more than an immigration activist.
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Undocumented people get arrested all the time. I get arrested, and it's front-page news. I feel guilt.
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I want to be as creatively disruptive as possible. I want to be radically transparent in a way that isn't showboating.
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I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.
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Facebook's headquarters is a two-story building at the end of a quiet, tree-lined street. Zuckerberg nicknamed it the Bunker. Facebook has grown so fast that this is the company's fifth home in six years - the third in Palo Alto. There is virtually no indication outside of the Bunker's tenant.
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