Filipino American

Have you ever been to a place that left an impact on you? A place that was so exceptional and special to you that it nested itself into your mind? A place that you just could not forget because it was almost too fascinating to seem real? Well, for me that place is Hawaii. As a kid, my parents brought my siblings and I to Hawaii for a vacation, and to this day it remains the most pleasurable place I have ever visited. Although there are so many things that have stuck in my mind about Hawaii, the…

Asian Americans. We aren’t as disadvantaged as some races, yet we also aren’t as privileged as others. On one hand, we face harsh racial criticism. Asian Americans are perpetually seen as foreigners. Many White Americans often ask Asian Americans, “Where are you from?” or, in other words, “Why don’t you look like me?” The world is taught to believe that White Americans are the default Americans, and that the rest are outsiders. Asian Americans are not outsiders. Asian Americans are Americans.…

In Howard Ramos’s article “It Was Always There? Looking for Identity in All the (Not) So Obvious Places,” Ramos explores identity and to what extent his own cultural identity is defined by himself as well as by others. As a first generation Filipino-American with immigrant parents, I can relate to Ramos’s questioning of his and his father’s heritage and how it can affect the ways people label them. Especially in the modern age of technology where people are able to judge others’ images, faces,…

understand in his point of view, he don’t want Filipinos to revolt yet, because he knew that this will not succeed. But on the other hand, I think that he supported it on his own ways. He wanted Filipinos to be free, one of the reason why he build the group “La liga Filipina, it’s because he wanted too, to revolt but I think he is still waiting for the right time, that is why he didn’t agreed into revolving. He think that the resources of the Filipino is not enough, that we cannot win the fight…

used to control the legal rights of Filipinos and Filipino identification through court rulings that were dependent on a judge’s subjective interpretation of the laws. Supporting Paragraph: This is an important topic to talk about because judges are responsible for interpreting the law and applying the laws equally to everyone. Laws like Naturalization have ambiguity in them so that judges can exercise discretion based on the case. But in the case of Filipinos, the ambiguous wording of the laws…

dance with women (Bulosan 105). During his second job, he seemed to have learned about how whites treated his kind in central Washington, suspicion at the least, murder at its worst (Bulosan 107). Carlos had to deal with untrustworthy and shifty Filipino bosses, while also fearing the white lynch mobs (Bulosan 107). After his second job, Carlos would take trains from here to there, never finding a place to call home, always being mistreated wherever he landed. He had finally met up with his…

determine when Asians started immigrating to the Americas, but the first findings of a person of Asian descent in the American territory come from an archeological project in 2007. This project speculated that the first people were actually sea men from Japan that came around 16,000 years ago. It can also be said that Asian immigration to America started in 1763. In 1763, Filipino sailors abandoned ship from the Spanish ships and inhabited the New Orleans area. However, the first large-scale…

Bariso Hussein Movie Response “Home from the Eastern Sea” In the movie I saw times where chinese americans were trying to assimilate. The movie highlighted how some would use famous American quotes such as Ben Franklin’s: “Early to bed and early to rise”. Also in sports. The two baseball leagues created in Yakima valley showed the uniting of the Chinese community and the integration into America. The movie also highlighted struggles faced while farming in Indian reservations due to the…

Can you imagine coming to a new world with the idea and hope of living a better life to only find out that the land that you so admire is the complete opposite? Carlos Bulosan, a young Filipino native, arrives in America with the intentions of seeking a better life. However, Bulosan soon becomes aware that the life that he wishes to live requires a journey of hardships and suffering. Throughout his journey in America Bulosan faces economic and social injustices that diminish his faith in America…

in the society the poem is set in. The tension that lies the manner locals in other countries treat Filipinos is the main subject matter. Through the different elements, images, and figurative languages the poet utilizes, his statement on it is made clearer; regardless of the racial…