Filipino American Essays

Philippines, there was already a Filipino community in Louisiana. It was the American colonization of the Philippines which paved the way for an exodus of Filipinos to the United States. There were two types of Filipinos who went to the United States. One type was comprised of the educated and, initially, middle class Filipinos who came as pensionados, or government scholars, for the purpose of furthering their education and training in the U.S. The second type were poor Filipinos who came as a cheap migrating

2, Filipinos and the United States had a basic colonizer/colonized relationship based on reciprocation after the United States took over the Philippines. There were set responsibilities for both groups. The U.S. wanted to civilize the Filipinos and guard the Philippines from foreign interests, and in return, would allow the Filipinos to work in their fields as agricultural labor. However, when World War 2 comes along and the U.S. decides to enter the war, the responsibilities of the Filipinos to

known my friend “Annie Valentin” from a community college, the second generation of Filipino Americans. Although I never knew much about her family immigration background and experiences. Her parents born in Manila, Philippines, Mr. Valentin was born in the 1940s and Mrs. Valentin was born in the 1950s. They immigrated to the United States in the 1970s for jobs offered. Like countless first generations of Filipino American from the post-1965 wave, they have achieved a high educational level. However,

I am a Filipino-American and have lived in america for most of my life. My parents had actually lived in the Philippines for their whole lives, but we eventually moved to America for “Job Opportunities” and for me to have better future. I lived in the Philippines up until I was about 3 to 4 years old, unaware as to why we were in a different place, but I did not think much of it due to my young age, just the fact that me and my mom were seeing my dad again. As I grew up I soon came to realize

The article written by Yen Le Espiritu called “We Don 't Sleep Around Like White Girls Do”: Family, Culture, and Gender in Filipina American Lives is written from a feminist political economy approach. As I have learned through my sociological experience and from the class women, work and family a feminist political economy approach adds a gender lens to explore women’s access to resources in the public and private spheres. It looks at the inequalities of power and control. Looking through the lived

them?” Just, human, civilizing? Strict, biased, Christianizing was more like it. In these islands, the United States of America once again made the same mistake it had made with the Native Americans. Determined that there way was the best way, ‘the slaughter of the Filipinos’ (Doc. A) commenced. Less Filipinos died in the three hundred and thirty-three year Spanish rule than the 1.5 million that fell under America’s forty-eight year annexation. It would have been more humane to leave the Philippines

friends of five years is Filipino, and I am constantly learning something new about her cultural backgrounds. Loren King is eighteen, from Princeton, West Virginia, and is currently attending WVU. Her father is half Filipino. Her mother was born and raised in the Philippines. Even though Loren grew up in Princeton, West Virginia, she still follows most of her cultural traditions and beliefs. There are two major languages in the Philippines, English and Filipino. Americans express themselves with

Reflective Essay on Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury, The author of the book ‘Fahrenheit 451’ used and mentioned things that are related to nature and things that are related to water which basically is under the nature topic. I have read online that Ray Bradbury loved nature and he included nature in the majority of the books he wrote and he also has a known pretty long quote about nature too, but in this book the nature is different. The nature in this book isn't the nature everyone else would

zarzuela (called sarswela in the Philippines) and the rondalla, adding more Spanish touches to Filipino folk songs. The Americans, on the other hand, influenced the Philippine music scene by introducing pop and rock, eventually leading to the creation of “Pinoy pop”, which included a wide variety of forms like dance tunes, ballads, rock n’ roll, disco, jazz, and rap. From this, it can be said that to Filipinos, music is more than just a means of entertainment; it is a way to communicate emotions, to

and is Filipino by birth. She is popularly known as Donna Cruz and is a recording artist and at the same time an entertainer. She is a member of the prominent Philippine showbiz family Cruz. In year 2006, Cruz returned to the music industry with the release of her eighth studio album Now and Forever. Profile Donna Cruz Yrastorza-Larrazabal was born on February 14, 1977 and is currently 39 years old. Her zodiac sign is Aquarius. She was born in Manila, Philippines and is Filipino by birth

system and the key to that is to implement and support k-12 K-12 was implementing starting 2011 and by 2013 president Aquino signed the k-12 into law, adding 3 years to country basic education curriculum. The new k-12 curriculum guide requires all Filipino students to have one year kindergarten six years of elementary schooling grade 1 to 6 ,

wishes to respect each member’s culture within a larger collection of cultures which serves as a unified identity. This is comparable to a ‘melting pot’ mentality which encourages one to forego their culture in order to assimilate with the predominant American-based culture (Burgess & Burgess 2005,

Courageous Character Courage means when you are able to do something or stand up for someone or something, despite when people say that you shouldn't do it, or when you know there will be consequences for doing the right thing. Throughout the novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor uses the young Cassie Logan as an example of a young girl with courage, strength, and stands up for her beliefs and her family no matter what gets in her way. Cassie proved she was courageous and brave

Many times throughout a person’s life, we are asked many times who we are. We are asked, what characteristic makes us who we are. The truth is, all of the answers that we come up with can be surmised into one word; culture. Culture effects almost every aspect of our lives; from the way we celebrate certain holidays, to the way we talk and act. Just like how every person has a unique set of fingerprints, everyone has a culture that describes only themselves. In this way, my cultural identity is also

black” very interesting. This is a text by Willem Reerink, where he writes about “when he became black”. What he means with that is that one day in school, some of his classmates was talking about that it was no African American kids in their class, but Willem was in fact African American, but it didn’t show. His skin was caramel, so nobody had ever thought of him as “black”. But as soon as Willem “came out”, he felt that the other classmates and the kids at school started to treat him different. He

In the beginning, McDonalds was run by two brothers named Richard and Maurice McDonald who not only owned but ran a hamburger restaurant in San Bernardino ,California in the 1950’s. Ray Kroc saw the potential in McDonalds and had ideas to expand it globally so he founded the McDonalds Corporation in 1955. Today, there are more than 33,000 McDonald’s restaurants globally in 119 countries (REFERENCE/web). McDonald’s applies Scientific Management by Frederick Taylor in their management. Frederick

Little Saigon is an example of a contemporary, flourishing Asian American community built form the ground up. Through the structural opportunities in Orange County, we can see that it allowed the Vietnamese to construct their community without any interference. As shown by the fact that they did not have to compete with other groups for commercial interests, like the White Americans who had abandon it. Also because the original site for Little Saigon developed in an area that was already in a state

The American Dream is so essential to our country as it is an honor to reach your goals and make it a reality. The American Dream is the national ethos that people’s lives would be better and abundant with many opportunities. The American Dream was more accessible to attain back in the days, however, changed over the years. Although the “American Dream” is still possible, many people, minorities are affected by the lack of improvement in social mobility in our society. The American Dream is still

The American Dream is so essential to our country as it is an honor to reach your goals and make it a reality. The American Dream is the national ethos that people’s lives would be better and more abundant with many opportunities. The American Dream was more accessible to attain back in the days, however, changed over the years. Although the “American Dream” is still possible, many people, minorities are affected by the lack of improvement in social mobility in our society. The American Dream is

with an Asian American focus. One Theatre in the US with an Asian American focus is Yangtze Repertory Theatre. The theatre is a small group in New York that performed one of Hwang’s earlier plays. The play was performed in Mandarin with English supertitles. Another theatre in the US with Asian American as a main focus is the New York, Ma-Yi Theatre Ensemble. The theater’s main interest of focus is on the flourishing Filipino population. In the beginning, the theatre performed Filipino plays translated