Oral Research Project: Student

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

Interview with Marisa de Castro Mariano

Click on the links below to hear audio segments from an April 2011 interview by James Rodriguez with Marisa Mariano, who talks about her life in the United States.

Marisa de Castro Mariano

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Birth place and talks about living in the Philippines

3. Family’s Occupation

4. School in the Philippines

5. Family’s migration

6. The Big Adjustment

7. Life in the United States

8. Sacrifice

9. Homesickness

10. Maintain Filipino Customs, Language.

11. Difficulties to Maintain Filipino Culture

12. Different personalities between Filipino immigrants and Filipino Americans

13. Education equivalent to the United States

14. Discrimination

15. American Dream

16. Negative and Positive reactions

17. Memories about growing up in the Philippines

Segment 1
Introduction (0:15)
Marisa Mariano introduces to herself.

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Segment 2
Birth place and talks about living in the Philippines (0:27)
Talks about where she was born and talks to me about when she lived in the Philippines.

Long Beach, CA the Philippines

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Segment 3
Family’s Occupation (0:33)
Marisa talks about her family’s occupation.

US Navy in the Philippines

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Segment 4
School in the Philippines (2:07)
Talks about where Marisa went to school in Philippines and how is it different.

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University of Santo Tomas an example of a school in the Philippines

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Segment 5
Family’s migration (1:14)
Marisa talks about how her family came to the United States.

Application of Citizenship United States Passport Philippine Passport

A DVD on how to pass the U.S Citizenship Test and interview is an example of a process of immigration

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Segment 6
The Big Adjustment (1:22)
The big adjustment for Marisa and her family about living in the Philippines.

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Segment 7
Life in the United States (2:01)
What life was expected for Marisa in the United States as she explain to me in this segment.

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Segment 8
Sacrifice (1:06)
The major sacrifices that Marisa and her family made when they first came to the United States.

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Segment 9
Homesickness (1:07)
Marisa explains how she faces homesickness.

Examples of homesickness

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Segment 10

Maintaining Filipino Customs, Language. (2:04)

Marisa talks about how she maintained her culture as Filipino and with language.

On your left this is a Tagalog and English dictionary that represents Language. On your right is a food called Pancit, it is a Filipino food that represents Filipino Customs what Marisa mentioned to me that she knows how to cook Filipino food.

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Segment 11

Difficulties to maintain Filipino culture (1:12)

How Marisa talks about the difficulties maintaining her culture.

Filipino Pride Hip Hop Culture Filipino Showcase

Filipino Boxer Manny Pacquiao is an example of Filipino pride.

Hip Hop Events like Rock the School Bells can represent Filipino Pride.

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Segment 12

Different personality between Filipino Immigrants and Filipino Americans (2:26)

She explains to me about the different personalities between Filipino immigrants and Filipino Americans.

Example of Filipino immigrants an example of a Filipino American is Professional wrestler Dave Batista

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Segment 13

Education equivalent to the United States (1:51)

In this segment Marisa gives me her own opinion if education in the Philippines is equivalent to the United States.

Education in the Philippines and the United States.

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Segment 14

Discrimination (2:56)

Marisa talks about how she experienced discrimination.

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Segment 15

The American Dream (1:04)

In this segment I asked her about living in the American Dream.

These two pictures of the Statue of liberty and the American eagle are both represent the American Dream.

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Segment 16

Negative and Positive reactions. (6:06)

Marisa tells me about the negative and positive things about the United States and the Philippines.

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Segment 17

Memories about growing up in the Philippines (1:20)

Marisa shares me her memories about growing up in the Philippines.

Flag of the Philippines Boracay Beach, Philippines

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To end my project I want to share the two beautiful pictures below of me and Marisa.

Me, Nate and Marisa at the Scholarship Ceremony Reception on 5/11/11

Link to images

http://www.educationpinoy.com/university-of-santo-tomas.html

http://www2.binghamton.edu/isss/publications/homesick.html

http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/friends/summercamp/article6.html

http://apanews.si.edu/category/filipino-american/page/2/

http://wtpotus.wordpress.com/2010/07/02/security-of-u-s-passports-called-into-question/

http://www.immigrationforms.com/

http://wn.com/Philippine_passport

http://www.bigbadmedium.com/american_dreaming

http://www.ehow.com/facts_7584515_can-speed-up-immigration-process.html

http://www.topnews.in/filipino-immigrants-keep-jobs-new-zealand-2146443

http://nel-ceo.blogspot.com/2010/07/filipino-american-friendship-day.html

http://www.faeala.org/Home.html

http://www.maps2anywhere.com/Languages/Filipino_language.htm

http://www.pinoyblogosphere.com/2009/06/13/baybayinalibata-the-lost-writing-script-of-the-philippines/

http://www.jphotcomments.com/graphics/filipino/

http://qcpaulfurniture.com/charity.php

http://zunia.org/post/engaging-higher-education-in-societal-challenges-of-the-21st-century/

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/317166-filipino-pride-the-main-reason-pacquiao-refuses-random-testing

http://www.attorneysdiscrimination.com/

http://technorati.com/lifestyle/article/diversity-harmful-effects-of-discrimination-part2/

http://www.anguilla-beaches.com/boracay-beach-philippines.html

http://www.wikinfo.org/index.php/Flag_of_the_United_States

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=455536&page=138

http://www.longbeachrealestatehome.com/long-beach-california

http://onearthtravel.com/blog/travel-info/the-islands-of-philippines/

http://www.wcl.american.edu/finaid/eligibility.cfm

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/6396842/image/59974459-united-states-department-of-education

http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-51842701/stock-photo-manila-philippines-april-street-performer-showcase-filipino-culture-amp-tradition-in-the.html

http://rocktheschoolbells.eventbrite.com/

http://orchestroscopy.blogspot.com/2010/06/misplaced-filipino-pride.html

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/430868-ranking-all-18-of-the-world-heavyweight-champions-worst-to-best/page/17

http://prowrestling.wikia.com/wiki/Batista/Magazine_covers

http://www.immigrationdirect.com/us-citizenship/citizenship-test-dvd.jsp

http://blogs.targetx.com/sbm/KyleSawdey/2008/04/the_american_dream.html

http://blogs.eveningsun.com/troublebrewing/2008/01/filipino_friends_filipino_food.html

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