'Toy napigket nga daga
Pitpitenmi nga umuna
Danggayanmi't kankanta
Takkiagmi a napigsa
Kettang ken bannogmi
dikam igingina
Mannamili
Ilokano Folk Song
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Filipino
Assimilation, Integration, and
Adaptability within the North American Uberculture: A General
Overview of Post-Immigration Generations |
This inquiry begins a series of ethnographic investigations that seek to identify quantifiable internal social systems constructed within the post-immigration generations of Filipinos particularly those generations of Ilokanos in three locales where the researcher has had access in many occasions for many years including the present. The take of the research is on the need to draw up and understand the constructed internal social systems of these immigrated Filipinos, the very systems that add, alter, or modify their existing social network in the immigrant land. For this particular presentation, the focus is on Ilokanos and their constructed internal social systems that enable their descendants to unite constructively with the adoptive and foreign society they have come to immigrate to.
The research locales—the case regions—are: Waipahu, Hawaii; Los Angeles, California; and Vancouver, British Columbia. The investigation utilizes national and local statistical analyzes; personal Filipino-immigrant historical observances, both oral and written; non-Filipino-written sources; and various interviews with Filipino immigrant-descendants. All these techniques have been resorted to build a holistic construct by which the nature of successful Filipino adaptability may be further studied.
As researchers and as Filipinos, it is owed equally to our forebears as well as our future generations to identify and promote the positive processes that have enabled immigrant Filipinos the world-over to not only integrate and assimilate in whatever country they have chosen to live in but to have successfully preserved, perpetuate, and promote their own sense of ethnic identity.
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