What does it mean to be Filipino in America? According to the most recent U.S. Census data, only about half of the 1.4 million Filipinos in California speak Tagalog, Ilocano or Visayan. Whether it is because of the pressures of assimilation, residual effects of colonialism and the perceived value of English as being more beneficial, many first and second-generation Filipino Americans are probing why they never learned their native language or why it never stuck. News story from KQED News.