Long before the industrialization and rise of communism, Chinese civilization has been built peculiarly on the basis of the family. The reason is that Chinese people have a unique family value system that would put family above their individual and personal needs; this is what we called familism. Th...

Minsa'y Isang Gamu-gamo (1976) SOURCE: The Urian Anthology 1970-1979 REVIEW: Minsa'y Isang Gamu-Gamo Nicanor G. Tiongson, The Philippines Daily Express, 1976 Minsa'y Isang Gamu-Gamo: Filipino with a Passion Contemporary Filipino moviemakers who seek to paint authentic Filipino experien...

The Philippines can be seen as an abboration in relation to other Asian countries. Early on in its history it was subject to colonial rule by the Spanish. The Spanish introduced Spanish culture and Roman Catholicism to the Philippines. The period of long colonial rule also produced a culture tha...

The Philippines has been struggling since WWII to have a steady government and labor system. The economy of the Philippines was virtually destroyed as a result of WWII. Poverty and conflict strained the economic and industrial growth of the country. Several Presidents since WWII have made improveme...

I interviewed Jake who is 14 years old. Jake was born in the Philippines. He has lived in the city of San Diego for twelve years. His parents decided to come to United States for a better life for him and his future family. He traveled with his family when he came to the United States. When ...

In chapter 6 of our speech book we covered what the definition of a culture is and discussed a little bit of the differences and kinds of cultures around the world. How many of you know where the country of the Philippines is located? Did you know that America purchased the islands of the Philippine...

Nostalgia in "When the Dancers Came" Bienvenido Santos' "When the Dancers Came," shares a common trait with the rest of his short stories in Scent of Apples. It is the trait that examines the sense of loss in the Filipino American community--a loss of home, country, and f...

Corazon Aquino,also known as "Cory", made an amazing accomplishment by becoming the first female president of the Philippines. She had to overcome many obstacles before she took on this major role. But in the end, her presidency contributed greatly to the way the Filipino government...

The summer of 1966 was a "high" point in the world of pop music. Here in the Bay Area, "flower power" was in full swing in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury. The Beatles had just released "Revolver", their most musically innovative album to date (and arguably the mos...

Population explosion is considered one of the undisputable alarming obstacles that stand on the path of the less developed countries. These countries produce great numbers in terms of human resources because the birth rate is much higher than in rich countries, but the rate of employment and product...

In the year 1965, the United States sent troops to Vietnam to aid the South Vietnamese against the communist Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese. As the fighting increased, the United States was in need of more troops in order to support its commitment to South Vietnam. Therefore, thousands of Sele...

Meantime, the first pattern of arrivals of Asians to America - in any significant numbers - were the Chinese, in who were pushed out of their homeland but also drawn to the opportunities for employment in Hawaii, the American West, and British Columbia. There were also Korean, Fili...

In the mid-18th century (1750s), there were 5 principal social classes in the Philippines. These were the Peninsulares, the Insulares, the clase media or middle class, the Chinese and the indio. The Peninsulares, which included the Spanish friars, were the Spaniards born in Spain, ( the Iberian pe...

American Son A Love between a mother and her child can be so strong that sometimes it is hard for one to express how they feel. A mother¡¯s love for her child is unconditional and so is the child¡¯s love for their mother. However, everybody expresses their love in different ways and sometim...

The novel, ¡°The Woman Who Had Two Navels¡±, is about Connie Escobar, a rich and confused girl, who goes to Hong Kong to find herself and to run away from her troubled life in the Philippines. She encounters the Monson brothers, Pepe, a horse doctor, and Tony, a priest, who desperately tri...

Different ethnics race choose their ethnics race as the prettiest in most cases, but in this case it has something to do with what the media thinks is the prettiest and best looking. As a group we choose six different models from different ethnics groups and showed them to kids of different age and ...

"The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. It's one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life." A lot has changed in the money...

America is in the Heart Carlos Buslosan, a man that had very different kinds life. Even thou his family was rich, they spend all their money to educate on one son. That really supervised me. Through out the book, he always had work to make living day by day. When he arrived to America he pret...

Who is an Asian American? "Asian American" can mean different things to different people. At the most basic level, an Asian American is an American who is of Asiatic descent. The term is so broad though that to make further assumptions about an Asian American would be folly. Within this racial cat...

It is for a fact that nurses are in demand in the U.S. and other "big" countries. As a Filipino, I am very much aware of the economic condition of my country. I know that we are having a hard time trying to be abreast with other fast-paced countries. It is just natural to cling to whatever lifesaver...

In recent years it has been hard to ignore the increased reporting of hate crimes in local and international media. With every passing day there seems to more examples of crime motivated seemingly only out of hatred for who or what the person is. Today we are supposed to be living in a more racially...

Japan" Japan is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary government. The three branches of government, judicial, executive and legislative have a system of checks and balances and separation of powers. Sovereignty is vested in the people; the emperor is the symbol of the state.1 The ...

"Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can never hurt you", goes one playground rhyme. As children, many of us are taught to just put up with the "potty-mouths", but we all know that words can really hurt a person. Although we can learn from them, words that breathe hate are no good. ...

Rudyard Kipling's poems, "Recessional" and "The White Man's Burden", both advocate imperialism, but make two different statements about imperialism. In "Recessional", the tone of the poem is that of joy and then depression. First the people of Great Britain ...

Every single country in the world that the people live in is important and each country has its own nature and significance. The United States of America is known as the most powerful country and many other countries support America. These countries become America's alliances. The Philippines i...