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When Asian Americans are discussed in the media the reference is often to people of Chinese or Japanese descent. However, the largest Asian American ethnic group is Filipino, a group of which little is known or written despite its long-standing history with the United States. This interdisciplinary analysis rectifies this dearth of information by addressing ethnic identity, the impact of different colonizations on ethnic identity, personal and family relationships, mental health, race, and racism. In addition, the sociopolitical context is examined in each chapter, making the volume useful as a foundational tool for hypothesis generation, empirical research, policy analysis and planning, and literature review.
Filipino Spirituality: An Immigrant's Perspective
Filipino Spirituality: An Immigrant's Perspective
By the rivers of Babylon—
there we sat down and there we wept
when we remembered Zion.
On the willows there
we hung up our harps.
For there our captors
asked us for songs,
and our tormentors asked for mirth, saying,
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
How could we sing the LORD'S song
in a foreign land?
Although there is a diversity of religion in the Philippines, Roman Catholicism is still the major religion, practiced by 85% of the population. The rest are members of the Protestant churches, the Independent Aglipayan or the Philippine Independent Church, the Muslims, the Iglesia Ni Cristo, the Church of the Latter Day Saints, the Jehovah's Witnesses, or some other sect. Still others are ...
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