Shay Mitchell seemingly denies Filipino roots

Shay Mitchell is catching some heat for apparently denying her Filipino heritage.

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[khela]

She’s only a Filipino WHEN IT IS CONVENIENT FOR HER!

[iam]

denying her being a filipinas is denying her mother as a Filipino! Very sad to raise a daughter like that.

[Maggadacious]

I’m half Filipina and half Puerto Rican and I rep both proudly. I have no idea who this chick is.

[mariasainsanoy]

Filipinos don’t claim her and don’t even know her. So don’t care.

[TheKevinGeee]

Vanessa Hudgens used to do the same thing. She would label herself as Latina in the past. She only came out as Filipino when she was asked to be an ambassador (when her career was crap already).

[markerasquin]

Meanwhile Alice "Guo Hua Ping" Gou is forcing herself to be Filipina.

[sandybrattz]

Sandara Park is not Filipino but her heart was always Filipino but these Mitchell or whatever she’s so pathetic to deny her roots it’s disrespectful for her own roots her

[JungKook-upws]

It is not that big of a deal, as long as she won't use her Filipino roots to her advantage in the future. She needs to be consistent in denying it.

[JhoJhoMojo]

lol..I guess she was Filipino when she accepted Trese which was based on a Filipino comics series on Netflix. When she gets paid to play a Filipino role, she will claim to be Filipino again. Girl needs to get paid first.

[majosemarieserajoseftorres]

No problem for us Filipino citizen even if she denies her roots here in Philippines we don't care...

[enaielei]

On behalf of Filipinos, we don't know this person one bit! Lol.

[kristinhannah]

Denying your roots is denying yourself. Let her be. Not our loss.

[froilancrisostomo]

Enrique Iglesias whom we all know (son of Julio Iglesias a pure Spaniard and her mom Isabel Preysler who’s half Filipino and Spaniard)proudly acknowledge and address himself as HALF Filipino.Then, Who is Shay Mitchell?🙄

[Shay]

Her aunt is Lea Salonga
I don’t understand how anyone wouldn’t be proud of that

[uhrrrrrangels]

It’s cringey what she did. She’s like teenager all over again when she should have been past this.

[alrodriguez]

If she doesn’t want to be identified as Filipino let her be. If she’s ashamed of her heritage I think it’s her problem. Besides We don’t also don’t wanna be associated with such person.

[pinkvelvet]

Who is she anyway??? Never heard!!! Who cares, she's NOT SIGNIFICANT anyway to the Philippines. There are more than 120M filipinos.

[eugeneestalilla]

What a shame denying your heritage. That’s a disrespect to your own self.

[lt]

As an American, growing up, i looked up to the Filipino communities here in California.
Being Filipino is a respected status, so i dont think it wouldn't hurt the Filipinos if she denies her roots. She's not well known, she's nothing to the Filipinos and to the world...so no hurt done.

[findmi]

as a Filipino, i don't even know who the fk is this thing is