Let’s imagine then, not just California, but the entire world, waking up one day to discover Filipinos have disappeared. I’m talking here about the six or seven million Filipinos currently working
overseas in countries with names that run the entire alphabet, from Angola to Zimbabwe.
Let’s not worry first about why or how the Filipinos disappeared; in [...]
Archive for March 11th, 2008
A DAY WITHOUT FILIPINOS*
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The FILIPINO INVASION
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If centuries ago European colonizers went far and wide to conquer countries and peoples with the sword, a new colonization is taking place today, which no one knows about it.
It’s past 11pm on the tramcar in a northern Italian city. Few people, one spoken language: Tagalog. Probably Italians at this hour prefer riding their own [...]
Sayang”
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SAYANG’
MANILA, Philippines — “It was truly a Southeast Asian word, soft as its people and well-understood from Marang to Manila, Surabaya to Sulawesi, Kuala Lumpur to Kota Kinabalu. It describes a love bound to sadness, a tenderness trembling on the edge of tears, a passion from which pity could not [...]