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> [I think there has been a long-running notion in the West that Asia was a continent of people that were really conquerable. That people from Asia were weak, they were small in all ways - including physically small, geopolitically small,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-tizon/i-think-there-has-been-a-long-running-notion-in-the-west-that-asia/)

[Alex Tizon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-tizon/)

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## More by Alex Tizon

> [It wasn't a conscious decision to search for my Asian self; it was an urgency born out of an emptiness I was trying to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-tizon/it-wasn-t-a-conscious-decision-to-search-for-my-asian-self-it-was-an/)

[Alex Tizon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-tizon/)

> [I think there has been a long-running notion in the West that Asia was a continent of people that were really conquerable. That people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-tizon/i-think-there-has-been-a-long-running-notion-in-the-west-that-asia/)

[Alex Tizon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-tizon/)

> [When I was 15, Dad left the family for good. I didn't want to believe it at the time, but the fact was that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-tizon/when-i-was-15-dad-left-the-family-for-good-i-didn-t-want-to-believe/)

[Alex Tizon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-tizon/)

> [I first visited the Philippines when I was 29. I thought I would feel at home there, but I felt more out of place…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-tizon/i-first-visited-the-philippines-when-i-was-29-i-thought-i-would-feel/)

[Alex Tizon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-tizon/)

> [Shame is hard to confront. Even if you know it's baseless, it's still hard to come face-to-face with.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-tizon/shame-is-hard-to-confront-even-if-you-know-it-s-baseless-it-s-still/)

[Alex Tizon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-tizon/)

> [I do remember instances where girls would just fawn over me because they liked that I was different - exotic - to them. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-tizon/i-do-remember-instances-where-girls-would-just-fawn-over-me-because/)

[Alex Tizon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-tizon/)

> [I didn't go into journalism thinking it would solidify my identity. I did it because I needed to make a living, and I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-tizon/i-didn-t-go-into-journalism-thinking-it-would-solidify-my-identity-i/)

[Alex Tizon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-tizon/)

> [“First was the abandonment of our native language and our unquestioned embrace of English, even though for my parents that abandonment meant cutting themselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-tizon/first-was-the-abandonment-of-our-native-language-and-our-unquestioned/)

[Alex Tizon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-tizon/)

> [We all, to some degree, absorb the mythologies around us, our vision refracted by the prisms of our particular time and place.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-tizon/we-all-to-some-degree-absorb-the-mythologies-around-us-our-vision/)

[Alex Tizon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-tizon/)

> [To our American neighbors, we were model immigrants, a poster family. They told us so. My father had a law degree, my mother was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-tizon/to-our-american-neighbors-we-were-model-immigrants-a-poster-family/)

[Alex Tizon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-tizon/)

> [My brother Arthur was born in 1951. I came next, followed by three more siblings in rapid succession.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-tizon/my-brother-arthur-was-born-in-1951-i-came-next-followed-by-three-more/)

[Alex Tizon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-tizon/)

> [I guess you could say I've written a lot about one thing as a journalist. But I hardly ever saw it as exclusively about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-tizon/i-guess-you-could-say-i-ve-written-a-lot-about-one-thing-as-a/)

[Alex Tizon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-tizon/)

> [“We could debate whether movies reflect or create the reality. It's clear to me they do both.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-tizon/we-could-debate-whether-movies-reflect-or-create-the-reality-it-s/)

[alex tizon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-tizon/)

> [The stories I work on, especially for any length of time, do tend to become personal to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-tizon/the-stories-i-work-on-especially-for-any-length-of-time-do-tend-to/)

[Alex Tizon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-tizon/)

> [Admitting the truth would have meant exposing us all. We spent our first decade in the country learning the ways of the new land…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-tizon/admitting-the-truth-would-have-meant-exposing-us-all-we-spent-our/)

[Alex Tizon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-tizon/)

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