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Angelica D. Pizzarro '94 was born in the Philippines and came to America at the age of 10. She grew up in California, in "a barrio with a lot of Filipinos," and she was one of relatively few in her high school to go to college...
...relative ignorance of Asian-American cultures that Pizzarro has encountered and the belief that Asian-Americans are a "model minority" are widespread, Asian-American students...
...Pizzarro has worked to recruitFilipino-Americans in high schools and junior highschools in California, and says she believes hervisits have been useful...
...church she shuffled slowly down a shadowy side aisle to the ornate tomb of Francisco Piz-zarro. Within a glass-walled casket lay the old conqueror's mummy with bones showing here & there through the dark yellow skin. "This was our gold mine [for tips]. Pizzarro is like one of my family," she smiled. "It was my job to keep his chapel clean. I also kept all the keys, including the keys to the underground vaults where archbishops and bishops lie buried. And of course I helped to ring the bells...
...hand, a delegation of Callao dockworkers called on Colonel Cerro at his new official residence, the 16th Century Palace of that superb ruffian Pizzarro, conqueror of Peru...
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