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- From: rayr@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Tribe Of Quest [INFPMBTI])
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
- Subject: Re: FIL-AMS
- Date: 24 Jan 1993 13:13:09 GMT
- Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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- References: <1993Jan21.080737.6533@schbbs.mot.com>
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- Ah...couldn't keep quiet either. Actually, I was going to post
- something about this subject but couldn't bring it up. Here goes:
-
- In article <1993Jan21.080737.6533@schbbs.mot.com>,
- R11334@waccvm.corp.mot.com (Cycle-Time-Sys Sh-Shuy) writes:
- > linked with a Spanish colonial heritage and whose popular culture is
- > unmistakably American influenced.
- > One would think that there is no Filipino culture to speak of, in the first
- > place. This is the reason they have earned the monicker 'brown Americans'.
-
- IMO, there is little Filipino culture to speak of - it seems to
- me that being Filipino boils down to lumpia (loo-pia) and
- tinikling. Perhaps we have to build on that. If we had a strong
- culture, I would think that we would be more united. There are
- large concentrations of Filipinos in Daly City, Hercules, and
- Vallejo yet we don't have many elected officials. Why?
-
- sedayao@sousa.intel.com (Jeff Sedayao) writes:
- >They have a skewed sample. Stanford, as an elite, expensive
- >private school, has a different set of Filipino Americans than a
- >public school would. Drastically different.
-
- I'm in UC Santa Cruz. It's public. I would say that there are
- a lot of confused young Filipinos out there (including me). I
- don't know enough Philippine history - I don't really know what
- Jose Rizal did and why he's so great; I don't know who the
- Katipuneros (KKK?) are; I don't know why the capital is in Luzon
- and why Tagalog is the national language instead of say, Cebuano
- or Visaya...
-
- mfrancis@binah.cc.brandeis.edu (Ma. Elena Y. Francisco) writes:
- >I definitely disagree with this! My relatives, when coming over from
- >the Philippines for the first time, experienced a lot of culture shock.
-
- When I came here 7 years ago (after I graduated elementary
- school) I did have to adjust some. Most of the adjusting was to
- deal with my junior high classmates who I considered very immature
- (probably because I thought that I should be in high school). The
- second hardest thing I had to deal with was understanding American
- English. Sure they teach you English in the Philippines but you
- didn't have to use it in everyday life. My elementary school (had
- to be private - the only decent public school there is U.P. Elem.
- School) tried to make us speak English while in school but never
- did work.
-
- >My parents were discouraged from continuing to teach me Tagalog when
- >I was younger. The teachers took my parents aside and said, "Your
- >daughter will never make it to college unless you speak English to her
- >in your home."
-
- Hmmm... I guess it's good that my parents still talks in Tagalog
- at home. Although they usually expect a response from me in
- English or Taglish.
-
- -----
- ray
- rayr@ucscb.ucsc.edu
- Bakit kumokuot ang ulo mong ganyan?
- Oh, and I ain't related to Lolo Fidel :)
-