Project of the North San Mateo County
Oral History Archives, Skyline
College Library
Student
project for LSCI 110 - Digital
Oral Research Project,
“Destination
to United States
Click
here to read the research essay “Living the Navy Life”, by Mae Dela Cruz
Click on the links below to hear audio segments from an October 2004 interview by Mae Dela Cruz with her cousin, Emeline Morino, while
they talk about adjusting to
the American life.
After settling in the
1.
Coming to the United States
2. Growing up in the Philippines
3. Parents
4. Adjusting to the United
States
8. Teaching Her Children
Respect
9. Gender Roles
10. Grandfather Came in the
1920s
11. Remember About
Grandfather
13. Retirement Plans
1. Coming to the
United States
Emeline
talks about her father being in the Navy, so they came to the United States to
seek better opportunities and life.
Emeline (in pink), brother (in green shirt), her mother (in brown), and
father (with navy clothing) just arrived to the United States, and are pictured
in the Naval Base.
1. Growing up in
the Philippines
What
she remembers is her mother being a teacher, while her father was always away
because of the Navy.
Emeline’s father was always stationed on board, pictured is her mother,
her brother, as well as herself with one of the many ships her father was to
leave on.
2. Parents
We
talked about how her parents disciplined and raised her, and if she instills
the same rules to her current children.
3. Adjusting in
the United States
It was a big transition for her family
when they arrived in the United States, going from having people do things for
them to having to learn how to do things on their own.
She had
relatives who were already her in the United States that helped her family out,
showing them around and getting them settled.
There
wasn’t really any discrimination that she experienced when she first arrived,
but she felt that not knowing how to speak well in English was a barrier that
she felt she had with her peers.
Throughout
her school life she, especially in high school there were no Filipino Clubs
that she could of joined.
7. Teaching Her
Children Respect
She was
taught to respect her elders and show them a gesture of “mano po”, which she interprets as
appreciating the elderly.
8. Gender Roles
We go
into some detail of differences she sees in how
“gender roles” differentiate between the Philippines and in the United
States.
9.
Grandfather
Came in the 1920s
Her grandfather arrived in the 1920s as a
farmer in Gilroy, CA. He lived there until his death.
10. Remember About Grandfather
Stories
she heard through her father, and what she remembers of him.
She
talks a little about going to the farms in Gilroy when she was a kid, and what
she remembers back then.
12. Retirement Plans
Her
retirement plans are simple and she wishes to do them when her children are all
grown up.
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last revised: 1-21-05
by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA
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