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College/North San Mateo County Oral History Archives, Skyline
College Library
Student project for LSCI 110
– Digital Oral Research Project, Skyline College
Reynaldo Salgado
Click on the links below
to hear audio segments from May 2010 interview by RJ Salgado with Reynaldo
Salgado,
a Filipino immigrant who has come to find a permanent home in America.
In
(Reynaldo and his loving
wife for 36 years)
Table of Contents:
1. Growing up in the Philippines
2. Reasons for to coming to America
3. Homesickness
and Turning Back
4. Overall
reflection on life in America
5. Prospective on
the “American Dream”
Segment
1:
Growing up in the Philippines
·
In
this Segment Reynaldo speaks on his early childhood
in the Philippines where he grew up and was raised since birth.
Segment 2:
Reasons for to coming
to America
·
In this
segment Reynaldo talks about why he came to the
reason to live in America
and migrate himself and his family to the U.S.
Segment
3:
Homesickness and Turning Back
·
In
this segment Reynaldo speaks on his feelings about leaving
the Philippines and if
ever felt that he needed to go back and
surround himself with the Philippines again.
(Reynaldo
and some of the men in his family during Thanksgiving)
Segment
4:
Overall reflection on life in America
·
In
this segment Reynaldo talks about his life in America
and how he
feels about living there.
/
Segment
5:
Prospective on the “American Dream”
·
In
this segment Reynaldo speaks on his idea of the
“American dream” and what
it means to him.
(Reynaldo with his 3rd grandchild)
Image sources:
Title: http://thomassampson.com/?p=66
Title: http://animotivation.blogspot.com/2010/06/pal-philippine-airlines-affordable-air.html
Title: http://2pat.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/san-francisco/
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last
revised: 5-27-11
by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA
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