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Why the West holds license to comment on slavery in the Philippines

May 19, 2017 benign0 9 Comments

There has been an overwhelming and varied response to the late Alex Tizon’s moving piece on how his family enslaved Eudocia Tomas “Lola” Pulido for decades — even after moving to and settling in the United States. Most interesting of these responses is how some Filipino social media “influencers” are incensed with the way Americans…

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“My Family’s Slave” is a story familiar to a lot of Filipino families

May 19, 2017May 19, 2017 Ilda 17 Comments

The treatment of household help or katulong by Filipino families has been put under the international spotlight thanks to the essay “My Family’s Slave” written by the late Filipino-American award winning journalist Alex Tizon. His article was recently published by the American publication, The Atlantic two months after his death. Many readers were moved to…

Culture, Society

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