Chia-Hao Chang
999672426
ASA 4
Prof. Abdullah
16 April 2017
For
April 18 Blog Betrayal, Class Fantasy, And Filipinos Nation in Daly City
Filipino
community has grown significantly in Daly City, California. They even called
Daly City “Little Manila”. The article focuses on discussing the post01965
Filipino immigrants moving to Daly city based on their cultural and economic
prospective in America. These people are often underemployed with limited
skills. According to Glicerio Sicat, president of Interpacific Capital Philippines,
Filipino immigrants are silent heroes, in which their purpose is to service the
country. Nationalism often links to ethnicity and place, whereas some may be
more concerning with “money” causing “binary opposition between money and
nation”, as mentioned in the article. There’s
always a debate on staying versus leaving amongst Filipino groups living in
United States and they are on discussion between “money” or “nationalism”. Indeed,
many Filipino workers seek oversea opportunity to support their family and
kids. To be “maidless” in America is hard to keep up with the upper class.
Therefore, many Filipino workers are “silent heroes”. Many Filipinos are afraid
of people judging them having Filipino accent, resulting a loss of their
language, Tagalog. Even though median household income for Filipino is higher
than national average, it can be misleading due to there are many persons per
Filipino household.
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