DURING WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT’S ADNINISTARTION AS THE PHILIPINES FIRST CIVIL GOVENOR (1901-03), EDUCATIONAL PLANS CALLED FOR SENDING PROMISING YOUNG FILIPINOS TO THE UNITED STATES. FOR ABOUT TWENTY YEARS FILIPINO STUDENTS WERE VIEWED BY

IN SEVENTY YEARS OF MIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES, FILIPINO IMMIGRANTS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN PLAGUED BY ADJUSMENT PROBLEMS AND HAVE FOUNBD IT DIFFICULT TO LOCATE AND KEEP SUITABLE EMPLOYEMENT. AS A COLOR-VISIBLE MINORITY, THEY HAVE CONTINUALLY ENCOUNTERED PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION AS THEY PURSUED THEIR OBJECTIVES-ECONOMIC AND EDUCATIONAL. MANY FILIPNIO’S HAVE ACHIEVED THEIR GOALS AND CONINUE TO MIGRATE.

THE FILIPINO PEOPLE CONTINUED TO COME FROM THE OVERSEAS FOR BETTER LIFE FOR THEMSELVES AND PARTICULARY FOR THEIR CHILDREN. THEY WERE WILLINGLY READY TO UNDERGO DISCOMFORT AND CULTURAL ALIENATION SO THAT THEIR CHILDREN MIGHT IMPROVE THEIR ECONOMIC STATUS. THE OBLY BAD THING WAS THE LANGUAGE BARRIER THE CONFRONTED THE MINOR FILIPINOS.

THESE AMERICANS AS DISCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY. CATAPUSAN A FORMER FILIPINO STUDENT DURING THE TIME REPORTED THAT BETWEEN 1910 AND 1938 ALMOST FOURTENN THOUSAND FILIPINOS ENROLLED IN A VARIETY OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. BUT MANY FACTORS, INCLUDING IN THE PARTICULAR HIGH COST OF LIVING, PREVENTED MANY STUDENTS FROM SUCEEDING AND FORCED THEM TO DRIFT INTO UNSKILLED WORK.

ELEVEN ISLANDS LUZON, MINDANAO, SAMAR, NEGROS, PALAWAN, PANAY, MINDORO, LEYTE, CEBU, BOHOL, AND MASBATE COMPROMISE THE MAJOR LAND MASSES OF ABOUT 95% OF THE TOTAL LAND AREA OF THE PHILLIPINES.

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