“Take up the White Man’s burden, Send forth the best ye breed
   Go bind your sons to exile, to serve your captives’ need;
To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild—
  Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child.”

Excerpt from “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands”

This is why I won’t call myself Filipinx-American.