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...ghost, if they are light-skinned, and kulot, or curly-haired, if they are dark. A nickname that applies to both groups is Babay na sa, or Bye-bye to daddy. In all, there are 52,000 mixed-race children nationwide, most the unwanted offspring of Western men and Filipina prostitutes. Some, like 16-year-old Robert, live on the streets, surviving on handouts and sniffs of mind-numbing glue. "They are born in shame," says Agnes Espiritu, a women's and child-rights activist based in Angeles City, home to what was once Clark Air Force Base...
...fact, most of the Amerasian children avoid the sleazy lanes where their mothers sold themselves to their fathers. "When I see a Western man with a Filipina girl, I feel sick," says 19-year-old Paul Calumpiano, who is half-American. "But I can do nothing but throw stares at the man's back." Others, though, have no choice but to return to the bars teeming with retired American postal workers and overweight German laborers. Mixed-race boys can find work as deejays, bouncers or, if they're tall, play for a local basketball team...
...cinema were the grand sum of all the world's philosophy. Movies and politics are also melded together. Even with Estrada gone, movie stars still want to be politicians, and politicians yearn for their close up. The President copied her look and her camera poses from a doll-sized Filipina actress, Nora Aunor, whom she resembles...
...there's also a thematic relevance to Alba's looks. With her wavy black hair and dulce de leche skin, she's as enigmatic racially as Max is genetically: she could be Latina, Filipina, light-skinned black or dark-skinned white. Alba, the daughter of Latino and European-American parents, says, "Max is mixed up [ethnically] just like most people in the U.S. There's no purely one race, especially here...
...beckoning at the end of a tunnel of white light (although he claims to have seen Death opening his mouth). I would like to ask if he also didn't see Christ among the Aborigine family that found him, the Bidyadanga people who chanted to keep him alive, the Filipina nurse who wept for him, his friend Danny who raced to save his life, the police and the medics who got to the scene, the medical personnel who decided to fly him to Royal Perth Hospital, the people who operated for 13 hours--or in the midst of relatives...