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It's not my job to worry about how Left, Right will react to something. My job is, am I creating something that connects people? That's my job.

Demographically speaking, young white people are not in the majority in this country; they're in the minority. My question is, if they're not the majority anymore, then what happens? How do things change? Or do they change at all?

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Since I got to this country when I was 12, I've been obsessed with this idea of whiteness and blackness because I realized I was neither. For me, it was so important to me to make a film that focused...

When people saw that the film was called 'White People,' many got very defensive. I've been getting some very interesting emails - and I'm used to hate mail, believe me. I think this idea that we grouped white people together...

I found out that I was illegal when I was 16. I'm gay. I'm Filipino.

I've been uncomfortable dealing with my identity since I was 16 years old.

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.

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...

On the surface, I've created a good life. I've lived the American dream. But I am still an undocumented immigrant.

There were many factors as to why I decided to come out as being undocumented. One of them is because I look the way that I look; I don't look like the 'stereotypical undocumented' person.

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.

We cannot change the politics issue until we change the culture around it; until we talk about what parents do for their kids as an act of love. That's a cultural conversation.

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.

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...

A broken immigration system means broken families and broken lives.

I did not realize how broken I was until I saw how broken Mama was.

I am more than an immigration activist.

Undocumented people get arrested all the time. I get arrested, and it's front-page news. I feel guilt.

I want to be as creatively disruptive as possible. I want to be radically transparent in a way that isn't showboating.

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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