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

Curious George: George Nervez

Click on the links below to hear audio segments from an April 2011 interview by Joseph Pascual with George Nervez,

who is a Filipino who immigrated to the United States.

Lol wut

Table of Contents:
1. Life in the Philippines
2. Transition

3. Life in America

4. Being Filipino in America

5. Raising Children in America
6. Overall Experience and Final Thoughts

Segment 1
Life in the Philippines (2:40)
A brief discussion of George’s life prior to immigrating to the United States.

Geographical Location of the Philippines

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Segment 2
Transition (2:40)
George describes his transitional period between his last years living in the Philippines and his early years of settling in the United States.

Major airline having flights from the Philippines to the United States and vice-versa

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Segment 3
Life in America (2:55)
George and I Discuss his current life in the United States.

Geographical Location of the United States of America

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Segment 4
Being Filipino in America (2:40)
George describes how it is being a Filipino in the United States

Census data of Filipinos living in the United States

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Segment 5
Raising Children in America (2:50)
George compares the differences in raising children in the Philippines and in the United States.

My brother and I as children

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Segment 6
Overall Experience and Final Thoughts (2:09)
George summarizes his experiences in the United States along with giving his own input on the United States is to him.

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Image sources:

Portrait of George: http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/24608_1286260837233_1251516833_30663376_5348475_n.jpg

Philippines: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/The_Philippines_and_ASEAN_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg/550px-The_Philippines_and_ASEAN_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg.png

United States: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/United_States_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg/541px-United_States_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg.png

My Brother and I: http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/35189_1383876277558_1251516833_30871352_4096195_n.jpg\

Filipino American: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Census_Bureau_2000,_Filipinos_in_the_United_States.png

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last revised: 5-25-11
by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA
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