SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- "What does it mean to you to be Filipino?"

SOMA Pilipinas Executive Director Raquel Redondiez was asked that question while giving KRON4 a tour of the "Makibaka: A Living Legacy" art exhibit inside the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Needing to take a moment, Redondiez was emotional as she pondered her answer. "Wow," she said in reaction to that simple, yet deep, question.

"For me, to be Filipino is really to carry on this legacy," Redondiez said. "Resistance, which is in our blood, in our bones, for not just decades, but centuries. The Philippine islands were a colony of Spain, colony of the U.S. So much of that history is us just fighting back, fighting for liberation in our homeland."

The history of Filipinos includes generations of them fighting to call San

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