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Para! Tuloy po kayo sa
ating munting bahay kubo. Stop! Come in to our little Nipa Hut. Please sit down
and browse through our small library of Filipiniana about our language and
history. If you are in search of your Filipino heritage then you are at home. The
Filipino community from Prodigy on Line Service welcomes you regardless of your
national persuasion in the tradition of Bayanihan. Asking, "what is
Bayanihan?" is the same as asking, "what is a community?"
My own childhood's
image of house in the highland village of Nueva Vizcaya can explain the spirit.
All the able men of the barangay are called upon to transfer a house to another
location. The house posts are dug out and bamboo poles run criss-crossed under
the hut. In complete unison, the men pull up the poles to their shoulders and
suddenly the house has multiple pairs of legs in front, back and sides. One
must witness the march to feel the tradition.
Our house is not complete.
Let me take you to the 18th
CENTURY, not in the Philippines but in the bayous of Louisiana. The first
Filipino permanent settlers in the United States were the dissatisfied sailors
from the Spanish ships who lived in Bahay kubo badjao style near New Orleans.
US history will not cover their trial but this is their story. This article was
written by Lafcadio Hearn and published in the Harper's Weekly in March 31,
1883. You might want to print them and hang them up in your living room. This is
probably the first article written in this country about us. This was certainly
not of the best of times nor place but it is a story about the Pinoy quest to
live anywhere and surviving the challenge of the rough frontier. You will read
my own reflection about our early flights, our seafaring ancestors of the
Pacific, their language and journeys, Enrique the first to sight the
Americas, the unknown sailor washed ashore on the California coast in 1587. The
first Filipino settlement in New Orleans and the vehicle that brought them
here, the Manila Galleon ships. The story of our Manong coming to Hawaii that started in 1888 when a group of acrobats and
musicians showed up in Honolulu. The seasonal workers who were brought to
Seattle by the early ships of the US President Lines to work in Alaska fish
industry. It is also about the
young boys who joined the United States Navy and their children.
Anne Paulin tells the new
waves of Filipinos. The Poem of Maria Tadina is about the hardships of the
women who came to work in the farms on the early 1930. Let us engage in a
little storytelling about our life in this country.
My Banaue
Rice Terraces page is my highlight. I can tell you the awesome fact that the
length of the terraces would reach you anywhere in this world, but I cannot
write enough to tell you how proud I am. My hypothesis of why we came here is
concluded on the Cyberspace Navigator page. This is
Bayanihan at its best.
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*PILIPINO BBS OF THE PRODIGY
phix7@yahoo.com Nestor Palugod Enriquez
*NESTOR PALUGOD ENRIQUEZ
Special Contributors:
*RAY GUMAPAC
*NOEL DE ASIS
*VICTOR SAYMO
*JOJO CRUZ
*Anne Paulin
*Maria Tadina
In commemoration of the
centennials of the Philippine Independence, Velltisezar Bautista, had just released the second edition (Feb 2002)..
THE FILIPINO AMERICANS, from 1763 to the Present.
Their History, Culture, and
Traditions.. chronicles the tortuous road Filipinos took to reach
America...Time capsule, then and now, who are who and their story of struggles.
This is a must reading for all Fil-American especially the young ones in search
of their identity. From the Award Winning Publisher (BOOKHAUS) and writer Velty
Bautista.
View the book & order info
The United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has included the Banaue Rice
Terraces on the World Heritage List.
1995
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