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Adelina Bautista
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the links below to hear audio
segments from an April 2012 interview by Mark Allan Sanchez with Adelina
Bautista, who lived in the Philippines for over forty years before living her
last twenty-eight years here in the United States.
Adelina Bautista
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Life in the Philippines vs. Life in
America
4. Advantages of
Living in America
6. Obligations
7. Homesickness
Segment 1
Introduction
(1:18)
We find out who Adelina Bautista is, when and
where she moved to the United States. She also discusses how coming to the
United States was not part of her original plans or goals, but when the
opportunity came she took it.
Adelina and her daughter, Cindy
Segment 2
Life in The
Philippines vs. Life in America (2:07)
Adelina discusses how life is very different
in the United States than life in the Philippines. There are better
opportunities for personal growth and how you are more free
to do what you want in the United States.
The house in the
Philippines that Adelina lived in
Segment 3
Filipinos &
America (0:44)
Adelina talks about how Filipinos can get
along just fine with Americans.
United States
Flag (left) Philippine Flag (right)
Segment 4
Advantages
of Living in America (1:39)
Adelina talks about how there are advantages
of living in the United States. She also mentions how life is lived more
comfortably here as opposed to the Philippines.
Adelina and her
daughter, Cindy in Las Vegas, Nevada
Segment 5
Struggles
Filipinos Face (1:09)
Adelina talks about how and why some Filipino
immigrants struggle growing up in the Philippines.
There was less freedom in the Philippines
and it carries over when Filipinos migrate.
Segment 6
Obligations
(3:10)
Adelina shares who in the Philippines she
obliges to and how she obliges to them.
Adelina’s nieces
and nephews in the Philippines
Segment 7
Homesickness
(1:55)
Adelina talks about some of the things that
make her homesick and some of the things that she misses the most about the
Philippines.
Family party in the Philippines Adelina was in Family picture in the Philippines
Image sources:
Philippine and American Flag: http://100araw.com/united-states-welcomes-proclamation-of-aquino-binay-360
No Freedom Sign: http://alfredtheordinary.co.uk/
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