Poverty and the Filipino Drug Mules Introduction Among the most admired Filipinos today are the Overseas Filipino Workers or OFWs. They have been dubbed as New Heroes or Bagong Bayani by no less than the late Corazon “Cory” Aquino because of the way they willingly leave their families and the comforts of home to pursue high-earning jobs abroad. An estimated 8.2 to 11 million Filipinos or 11% of the total Filipino population work in other countries to support their families and to make their dreams
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Literature 1 (Midterm Project) Submitted by: Romano Guerrero AB Psychology Submitted to: Ms. Bibiana Jocelyn Cuasay Estrella Alfon Estrella D. Alfon (July 18‚ 1917 – December 28‚ 1983) was a well-known prolific Filipina author who wrote in English. Because of continued poor health‚ she could manage only an A. A. degree from the University of the Philippines. She then became a member of the U. P. writers club and earned and was given the privileged post of National Fellowship in Fiction
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HAVING AN OFW PARENT Jean Alyzza E. Villaver Chapter 1 I. Introduction Overseas Filipino Workers are lauded world-wide for their heroism. Much has been said about the economic contributions of these modern day heroes‚ but it is also equally important to look into the effects that migration has on their children left at home. On the positive side‚ it is expected that children of migrant workers have better living conditions than their counterparts from non-OFW families. This children experience
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Being a Filipino-American is very unique. I’m proud to be a part of two of the greatest cultures in the world. What’s even better than being a Filipino-American is being a Filipino-American living in San Diego. San Diego is one of the greatest places to live in the world. It’s a great place for anyone to live. San Diego is one of those cities where everyone is different but we still appreciate each other for who we are. One of the many places in San Diego where I believe is important to me as a Filipino
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the likelihood of maintaining a strong ethno-cultural identity of the Korean Americans. This essay will address these types of communities defined by Professor Kashima in comparison to the Filipino American community. Professor Kashima offers the definition of community as “a socially identifiable group of people who may or may not reside in a particular geographical area but who consciously share a common culture and way of life and can act in a collective manner to pursue desired ends” (Kashima
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Our Filipino Values: A Connotation to the World What are Filipino values? What is distinctly Filipino in our value system? The Filipino value system arises from our culture or way of life‚ our distinctive way of becoming human in this particular place and time. We speak of Filipino values in a fourfold sense. First‚ although mankind shares universal human values‚ it is obvious that certain values take on for us a distinctively Filipino flavor. The Greek ideal of moderation or meden agan‚ the
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Running head: THE FILIPINO MIND-SET IN COMPETITION 1 The Competition and the Roots of Filipino Crab Mentality Amante‚ Mayca Joy M. Adamson University Author Note Mayca Joy M. Amante. Department of Industrial Engineering‚ Adamson University. This research should be addressed to Mayca Joy M. Amante. Department of Industrial Engineering‚ Adamson University San Marcelino
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Filipinos Reaction towards Papal Visit: More on Filipinos or by Pope Francis presence? Philippines is one of the two Catholic predominant countries in Asia‚ other than East Timor and it is the third largest Catholic country in the world after Brazil and Mexico. As the religion acquired by Spanish colonization with the wonder of its tradition and style and despite of the fact that the country has different languages‚ 80 percent of the Filipinos are Roman Catholic that shared a common way of life
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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:
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