Word: filipino
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That makes Philippine Forum cultural festivals equally masturbatory; bad food, bad music, and Filipino cultural pride, all for the low price of $26,000. Maybe Let, until recently vice president of Philippine Forum, should eat his own words...
...several questions in my mind after finishing this short letter. First, who was this woman? Probably some crazy fundamentalist, a paranoid and overly religious Filipino woman who knew nothing of exalted educational institutions like Harvard...
...jury containing only one Asian American. The panel was puzzled by the failure of the plaintiffs to demonstrate sufficient passion over the damages they claimed to have suffered. More Asian Americans on the jury might have illuminated matters by pointing out that the plaintiffs came from a Chinese-Filipino culture that frowns upon public displays of emotion...
...affect change, it's through marriage and child rearing." This is not assimilation in the Eurocentric sense of the word: one nation, under white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant rule, divided, with liberty and justice for some. Rather it is an extended hyphenation. If, say, the daughter of Japanese and Filipino parents marries the son of German and Irish immigrants, together they may beget a Japanese-Filipino-German-Irish-Budd hist-Catholic-American child. "Assimilation never really happens," says Stephenson. "Over time you get a bunch of little assimilations...
Intolerance need not be that blatant to inflict wounds. If Tony Jeffreys, 34, and Alice Sakuda Flores, 28, have a child, that hypothetical Japanese- Filipino-German-Irish-Buddhist-Catholic-American will become flesh and blood. In their one year of marriage, Tony says, "I've heard friends say stupid stuff about Asians right in front of Alice. It is real hypocritical because a lot of them have Mexican or black girlfriends or wives." Sometimes the more subtle the rejection, the sharper the sting. Says Candy Mills, 29, the daughter of black and Native American parents, who is married to Gabe...