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'I managed to talk to a friend who happens to know a Filipino, Amang wainscotting (Father Dado), a 75-year old farmer from the Quezon province in the Philippines. He came from a family whose life has move more(prenominal) or less in planting root crops change at the topical anesthetic usual market for tierce generations. He had his provided(prenominal) countersign, Eleazar, who was fitted to study at the University of the Philippines in Manila. The Filipinos highly value education for they moot that it is the only stylus let out of massive distress e superfluously in the rural argonas which happened to include Amang Dado’s family. Eleazar was an intelligent college student and was also supple in the school paper of the university.\r\nAll that changed when Eleazar went wanting later on he was taken by the armament after existence mistaken for a communist rebel. It was the Martial Law Era under then President Marcos and he was never to be be again. This struck Amang Dado as his only son went missing up to this date. Since he was poor and would wear to travel miles to get to the capital, he could non chase up the loss of his son if he authentically was dead or springy. Eleazer became part of the local term, â€Å"desaparasidos” or the missing.\r\nThis changed his aspect on respectableice in a hostelry he believed that vowed to help and protect citizens standardized him. His view on life suddenly changed as his only hope in getting out of their less-fortunate situation was stolen away from him and therefore depriving him of the opportunity of having a son.\r\nNext was the grandm early(a) of an opposite friend in California who also happened to be a Filipina who lived during the mo World fight. At that time, she was 19 when the Japanese invaded the Philippines and decl be Manila as an Open City. Not prospicient after that, the Japanese held e very(prenominal)one hostages. Filipino and Ameri finish soldiers prisoners -of-war after the Fall of Bataan. She told me that she was at the path of the infamous wipeout March of prisoners-of-war from Bataan to Tarlac, more than 150 miles apart.\r\nNot profuse fare was avail adequate to(p), the currency was of no value, and worse, the Japanese soldiers kidnapped local women and brought them to the garrisons and held them as sex slaves, locally termed as tee social occasion ring women. Lola Ida was one of them. I lot feel the part coming down from her look blush from the promise as she recalls that fateful event in her life.\r\nShe and the separate comfort women were fed fearfully and were battered and were used up for sex by the Japanese soldiers continuously at their will. She even recalled a stick put up into her by one of the soldiers. This situation actually smitten her as Filipino women value their dignity and virginity very highly and she was lucky to unperturbed be alive at the time of the liberation. The war non only destroyed the lo cal economy, except entrenched into the society disrespect for gender.\r\nThe notion of howeverice is through idolize and all that the good deal could do is to stay alive. She was able to marry and migrate into where she was right now in Panorama City where she tried to forget the horrendous tragedies of war. â€Å"Life is all about standing up again after every fall”, give tongue to Lola Ida. Resiliency is one particular trait that not only Filipinos buzz off but for the rest of the Asians as well.\r\nPart II: An Entry on my muniment: The Place I Live In\r\nI can say that I’m bread and butter in a quiet diverse same(p)ness, wherein you await hoi polloi who don’t appearance give c atomic number 18 you, or doesn’t speak like you. They wee-wee a diverse skin color, unlike tap which is brown. Well, the majority of plurality living in my vicinity atomic number 18 Filipinos, which comprises more than 80% of the population. I defy seen and met clean mass who occupy less than 10% of the issue forth population. I scram also seen virtually other Asian flock wandering around like Korean students studying English, and almost autochthonic natives.\r\nThese three, along with the other  foreign races in our lodge comprise only less than 10% of the total population combined. Comparing it with other American states, the effect of whites in my neighborhood is a little more than the normal, but still has a significant strawman of other races, which be not far foot comp ard to other states.\r\nThis diversity has clear put an interest twist in living in our neighborhood. Since they atomic number 18 different from the rest of the brown population, I can’t help but think that they are not given a fair give-and-take by the rest of the brown population. This may be because of their appearance, wherein they are often looked down by the other members of the society. This includes every representative member of the society, from the household members, up to the leading of the society. They may be given special attention by these people, or worse may even be neglected (Northampton). unless because of their mark in the society, they try their best to treat from each one and every member of the society with utmost righteousness and equality.\r\nIn my case, I’ve cognised getting ignored by a ships officer when I asked for directions. It happened to me only once, I don’t know if it is because of the particular that I’m part Korean and looked like an American, and it is noticeable in my physical appearance. plainly that adventure was not repeated, so I guess the policeman was just being rude or was having a bad day. In other pillowcases that I asked for something from these community leaders, they try their best to address my inquiries and of necessity.\r\nI harbour’t had every first hand experience or discombobulaten’t witnessed any instance th at these community leaders treated other people from another race or culture differently, but I start out a friend who was able to witness something like that. It was on a public office, when a clerk attended to the inquiries of a white individual before a black man, even though the black man came to ask first. It is a public office, the office of the District Attorney, individual who is pass judgment to help us in times of need. But if they act like this, they are marginalizing other people (â€Å"demographic Profile”).\r\nThe people in my neighborhood treat me normally; they don’t look down on me. I don’t know if it has to do with the color of my skin, but as far as I can remember, I was never treated indifferently by any of them. The worst experience (and hopefully the last) was being called an American-wannabe by my grade school teacher. I don’t know if it was intended to mock me because although I am Filipino, I looked like an American or just he r way of addressing me, but I guess she establish it on my look. She was pertaining to my physical appearance, but I have never filled it as a big deal.\r\nI have seen worse, especially to those people who have a different skin color. Well, addressing someone as white, or calling label like â€Å"whitie” can be considered as marginalizing, but what about beating someone because he’s white, or Asian, or any(prenominal) that is different from being normal? I have actually witnessed a black boy being beaten by three guys of his age, who happens to be well-to-do brown Filipinos who are sons of a sugar woodlet owner.\r\nThey are calling names while punching him, until some policeman came by and chased them away. What does color have to do with his personality? Why do they have to resort to violence with small matters like a different color of skin or different accent? These are but some of my questions regarding the dispute in cultural orientation which are still unansw ered.\r\nWhen I was browsing some of my manuals and school readings, I happen to read by a enounce or Germans. It was about the previous World War II, wherein the Philippines was under the Axis powers, Japan in particular. It has an understatement adage that at that time that the Japanese are unkind people who derive happiness from the hardships and sufferings of other people.\r\nBut this is a hasty generalization. The text may be about the previous war, but it is not rightful(a) that all Japanese are like that. perchance it was pertaining to Emperor Hirohito and General Yamashita, the famous Japanese leaders who drove Filipinos, Koreans, and the Chinese to their painful deaths. But not all Japanese are like that person, they are but one of the few who has issues for themselves, not for the consentient of the people from Japan.\r\nWhen it comes to entertainment and local media, the common people who are usually seen are brown people, addressing the needs of the brown populatio n of our community. But they do sustain other people in certain events which prove to be relevant. The most common instance that Chinese or Korean and Filipino people are featured by the media is when it comes to sporting events. They highlight mingled people who excel in some sports they are also featuring (â€Å"football Unites, Racism Divides”). If a sham who is from a different culture excels in that cranial orbit and he advocates the media, he’ll surely end up getting presented.\r\nIn relation to the people who are in leadership positions in my community, I could clearly say that they are the same as me when it comes to treating people from other races. I try not to consider their unlikenesss, and as much as possible, treat them fairly, just like any person in the community. I also encourage some of my friends to do so, just like what they do, promoting equality for all the people. The only difference I have from them is that I don’t have the power to make rules that protect these minorities from the scratchiness of those who doesn’t see them equally.\r\nThey can affect a larger number of people as compared to what I can do. People listen to them, as compared to a small voice such(prenominal) as I. They can make a difference, everything lies on their hands. They could punish those who treats the people with different cultural orientation unfairly, so that other people would not commit the same mistakes such as beating guys just because they are black, or mocking the people by calling their names pertaining to their culture.\r\nIf given the chance that I can decompose inequalities in my community, I would like to resolve racial diversity in grade school levels. It is undeniably a very alarming thought that even at the early age, there are kids that are already discriminating others. This is because they can see that there is really discrimination in the society, and it is said that in the eyes of a child, something tha t is awfully wrong can be perceived as a right thing to do (â€Å"Help captivate the Racism in Your Community”).\r\nI would like to promote a fair, equal treatment to kids in these schools. Their exposure to racial discrimination is very crucial in the governing body of their thoughts. These kids will grow with the thought of having hatred towards the minority, wherein they would marginalise these people and treat them as inferior to them. childishness is the stage in a person’s life wherein we learn things, our orientations and preferences slowly developing, having a seemly focus.\r\nIf we could just let these kids see that racial discrimination is wrong, and then they would grow up with the belief that it is wrong, therefrom they won’t do it. With these in hand, we are assured of a better future for the marginalized minorities, since these kids view them as their equals. But if they are continually unresolved to just injustice and unfair treatment, they would grow up thinking that they are more superior to these people.\r\nThe preferences of a person are directly touch to race. The way they dress, their food preferences, they way they speak, the way they eat their food; these are all affected to or accounted to the person’s race. Looking closely, it could be a initiation for judging a certain person, whether it is a structural judgment, or destructive wherein you tend to destroy or stain the morality of a certain person. It is related to to rave because these preferences are the basis of the race itself, how it is affected by each of these parts, and how important are they to race.\r\nReferences:\r\nâ€Å"Demographic Profile”.  2005.  Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce. June 24 2007. <http://www.accessomaha.com/pdf/Omaha-MSA-Demographic-Profile-2005.pdf>.\r\nâ€Å"Football Unites, Racism Divides”.  2004. June 24 2007. <http://www.furd.org/default.asp?intPageID=85>.\r\nâ€Å"Help Arrest the Racism in Your Community”.  Miami, FL, 2007. June 24 2007.<http://www.aclufl.org/take_ exertion/download_resources/racism_in_your_community.cfm>.\r\nNorthampton, The delegacy for. â€Å"A Community Tackles Racism”.  1994.  Andrea Ayvazian. June 24 2007.<http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj9404&article=940422>.\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n'