Filipino American

the most important are the stories of the very first groups. Most first generation Filipino Americans hear about the stories of how their families ended up in the United States, but never the stories of how the very first Filipinos got here. Why did the first group of Filipinos leave all that they had in the the

I am a Filipino Through the Eyes of an American Citizen In Webster’s New Dictionary, history is defined as a study of past events; course of life or existence. Without history, we wouldn’t know our cultures, where we came from, and the major events that changed the world. This is true for many people, because some of them don’t know their culture or their families’ history. People of color, especially many minorities who are born in America (second generation) tend to not learn their histories

The Filipino American War was sparked by the unprovoked shooting of Filipino soldiers by American sentries stationed in a suburb of Santa Mesa in February 1899. Pimentel (1999) describes “on a hot, humid night of Feb 4, 1899, American sentries patrolling the Manila suburb of Santa Mesa opened fire on Filipino soldiers walking near a bridge over the San Juan River (Pimentel 1999. Pg. 1).”The war lasted from February 1899 until July 1902. The war was noted as one of the “bloodiest conflicts in U.S

Health Disparities: Focus on the Filipino-American Population in the USA As a Filipino-American nurse living in Los Angeles, California, this writer has been a witness and an active participant in the multifactorial influences/aspects that affect the Filipino-Americans, in health and illness. Being a grandmother of wonderful grandkids has brought me further exposure to the plight of elderly Filipino-Americans in the United States of America. The Institute of Medicine’s Report on Unequal Treatment:

Voting and Housing among Filipino Americans in Los Angeles Filipino is the second largest Asian ethnic group in the United States and the largest Asian ethnic group on California. In 1925, the governments accepted Filipinos’ citizenship with a condition of serving up to three years in the U.S Navy (Cee at el, 2015). After years of fighting, in 1946, Filipinos were able to become U.S citizens and to vote and own properties (Cee at el, 2015). Even though, Filipinos-Americans were eligible to vote,

version of Filipino America, especially as they visualize what used to be considered Filipino America. The transformation of experience into a form of knowledge production becomes a vehicle to combat colonial mentality within the reader or observer. This inner revolution can then encourage

America is considered a melting pot of different ethnic groups. By today's standard, "American culture" is the result of a variety of races integrating their own cultural beliefs into American society. Throughout the years, the United States has seen a massive increase of people migrating from Asian countries; "they make up 3.6 percent of the U.S. population, a 199 percent increase from 1980 when they constituted only 1.5 percent of the population" (Ng). Like other immigrants, Asians come here

The American-Filipino war, the Filipino Revolution, the Filipino Insurrection, whatever name you give to the armed conflict between America and the Philippines that occurred at the end the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century, it happened and it stays as a footnote on both America’s history and the Philippines’ history. This war, or how my friend humorously called it, “A chain of war atrocities”, ended in the Americans’ favor. However, the question stands, did the Filipino

first thing someone would notice is the container of rice with a side of lumpia and adobo. I don’t have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich like everyone else, but that’s okay. I don’t mind. For seventeen years, I’ve been surrounded by both Filipino and American culture, each of which exposed me to different perspectives and defined who I am today. During a trip to the Philippines, my family and I drove miles into my father’s province before arriving at a small, run-down schoolhouse. Upon walking

easy for us to forget that at the end of the day, we are very much similar to each other. When we hear of the Chinese Americans and Filipino Americans living in America today, not often do we see a connection between the two except for the fact that they come from Asia or have descendants from Asia. If we dive deeper into history, we will see that when the Chinese and the Filipinos first came to America, they had very similar purposes and goals in mind; one of them being make money and go back home