Skyline College/North San Mateo County Oral History Archives, Skyline College Library
Student project for LSCI 110: Digital Oral Research Project, Skyline College

Chasing the American Dream : Brenda Ferraris

Click here to read the research essay, Home Bitter Sweet Home, by Vic Ferraris

Click on the links below to see video segments from an April 2011 interview by Vic Ferraris with Brenda Ferraris,
who was a single mother of two, who moved to a new country in hopes of a better life for her family.

Table of Contents:

1. Living in the Philippines
2. Moving to America

3. Working and its troubles

4. Nostalgia

5. Differences in Filipino families US VS. PI

6. Learning and Living in America

Living in the Philippines

Introduction and explanation of my mother's life in the Philippines.

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Moving to America
Moving to America for a better life for my mother's family.

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Working and its troubles

Finding work in America and stories of racism that she had experienced .

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Nostalgia

What my mother misses about the Philippines.

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Differences in Filipino families US VS. PI

My mother's opinion on Filipino families in the United States and in the Philippines.

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Learning and Living in America

What my mother has learned over the years of living in America.

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last revised: 5-27-11
by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA
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