Word: filipino
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...seek their fortunes at the same time. Older immigrants' dilemma of whether to embrace their ethnic culture and community or be carried away by the American environment is like dealing with oil and water, and nowhere is that incompatibility more deeply felt than in romance. As Bob Ragasa, a Filipino-American teacher said, "Maybe we are like our parents. We are going to be pioneers too." M. Saleem Chaudhry Karachi...
...April 10]: My compliments on a well-written article. I can say with conviction that Guia Soncini, the columnist for a women's magazine quoted in your story, hit the nail on the head when she said the youth of Italy "are comfortable with how things are." As a Filipino immigrant in Rome, I can only agree. The reluctance of young Italians to take risks is still something of a marvel to me. I work for a family whose 36-year-old son doesn't seem to want to move out of the house, saying his salary won't permit...
...This song just reminds me how being Filipino gives me the right to indulge in shamelessly cheesy Asian pop songs, and how there’s some video of me singing this when I was five or six – that was effectively the end of my solo pop career...
...offered an appraisal, in "Glory Days" [Feb. 27], of the 1986 People Power revolution that toppled the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, the world witnessed truncheon-wielding police trying to break up rallies for the overthrow of the Arroyo government. Your story quoted an official report on our national flaws, describing Filipinos as "passive, unreflective, undisciplined and prone to loyalty toward personalities rather than institutions or ideals." Seen in another light, we might be regarded as resilient, spontaneous, flexible and sentimental. TIME credited People Power as the Filipino contribution to history, "a true gift to the world." But even before that, Filipinos...
...Glory Days" described the rise and fall of the People Power revolution and the individuals who were behind it. A gift to the world that is uniquely our own, People Power was used and abused until its true essence was degraded. To say Filipino history repeats itself is an understatement. What's happening nowadays to the country clearly indicates that history strikes back with a vengeance. The inability of some Filipinos to learn from the past holds back the entire country, including the many who just want to move on. Raphael Causapin Manila...