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Philippine Cultural Ethnography Interview

Abstract

This paper is a cultural ethnographic study of the Rivera family, a Philippine-American ***** residing in Los Angeles, California.

Through personal interviews and site v*****its to ***** Rivera family home, this researcher finds that despite migration ***** decades of ***** assimilation, the Rivera ***** still retains many ***** its Filipino traditions, values and cultural norms. This paper examines how those values are expressed in the family relationships, *****ir goals and the architecture and organization of *****ir house.

Introduction

As an immigrant group, Filipino-Americans have a very different history from their Asi*****n counterparts. Many Southeast Asian *****s like Koreans began large-scale immigration only during the 1980s. At present, economic development in ***** Southeast Asian countries like Korea has actually resulted in decreased ***** to the United States.

***** Philippines, on the other hand, continues ***** see large-scale immigration to the ***** States. In addition to being immigrants, Filipinos were also colonized subjects of the United *****, ***** ***** early 1900s to the mid-1940s. As immigrants ***** the early 1900s, many Filipino men faced exclusion from American social life. The young ***** who moved to ***** country to work as farmhands and fruit pickers were regarded as racial minorities and were often subjected to *****ary treatment. However, ***** ***** continue to immigrate ***** the United States today, many ***** healthcare professionals (Espiritu). Today, Filipinos form one of the largest immigrant groups in the United States.

What effects did this unique acculturation experience have on ***** structure and lives of Filipino-***** families in the United States? This paper investigates ***** question by examining the ***** of immigration on ***** ***** family ***** Los Angeles, *****.

***** family, composed of Mina Rivera, her husband, one daughter, ********** parents, Mina's sister and one niece and nephew, live together in a house just outside of Los Angeles' Kore***** town.

Towards answering the main research question regarding how Filipino ***** are affected by their migration experience, this researcher utilized the ethnographic research method. The researcher chose to study ***** Rivera family to examine the effects ***** migration on a small group. In line with ethnographic research, this researcher c*****ducted first-hand interviews ***** ***** family members, with a special focus on Mina.

***** ***** members were interviewed regarding ***** goals, values, aspirations and *****s. This researcher ***** conducted site vis***** ***** the ***** family's home, conducting ***** observations of their dwellings, the arrangement ***** their living space ***** the artifacts on display.

***** family was specifically chosen for a number of re*****sons. First, ***** Rivera family is fairly re*****ative ***** *****. Both Mina and her husband are of Filipino origin, and no one in the household has married a person from a different racial or ethnic group (yet). Second, the ********** ***** lived in th***** country since 1975, giving *****em over 30 years of cultural assimilation into the United States.

***** this ethnographic ethnographic study of the Rivera family, this rep*****t discusses ***** findings that Filipino-Americans are in a unique position to integrate