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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
The Vice Mayor : Santos Fumera
Click on the links below
to hear audio segments from an April 2011 interview by Mark Torres Fumera with Santos Fumera,
his father who immigrated to the US in 2001.
Table of Contents:
1. Early life and family
2. College
3. Politics
5. Jobs in the US compared to jobs in the
Philippines
Segment 1
Early life and Family
Santos Fumera mentions
his upbringing in the Philippines.
Our home in San Roque, Bulusan, Sorsogon, Philippines
Segment 2
College
My father’s choice in majors in college
Segment 3
Politics
Segment 4
Immigrating to the US
His thoughts
about him immigrating to the US many years ago.
Segment
5
Jobs: US and the Philippines
The differences
in jobs in the US and the Philippines
Segment
6
Land of Opportunity
My father’s
thoughts on America