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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Filipinos"”.
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Correlates of Diabetes Self-Management Among Filipinos
<p>Among immigrants in the United States, Filipinos are the fourth largest group by country of origin with projections to triple by 2030. Despite current protocols to identify risks for diabetes, a gap exists in diagnosing and treating Filipinos with the disease. Knowledge about Filipinos and their …
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Patient Activation and Self-Management of Hemoglobin A1C among Filipinos
… self-management of hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) among Filipinos with Diabetes Mellitus (type 1 and type 11).</p> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> A non-experimental cross-sectional design to collect prospective data among Filipinos with Diabetes Mellitus. Descriptive statistics were applied for all …
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"We are simply Filipinos" : gendered, sexual, and religious scripts in the making of the Philippine nation.
… annexed the Philippine archipelago. To “prepare” Filipinos for eventual independence, American annexationists sought to engender among Filipinos specific scripts related to gender, sexuality, and religious practice. Central to these scripts was the notion that the patriarchal, heterosexual, …
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Challenging Filipino Colonial Mentality with Philippine Art
… later, colonial teachings continue to oppress Filipinos due to their colonial mentality (CM.) CM is an internalized oppression among Filipinos in which they experience an automatic preference for anything Western—European or U.S. American—and rejection of anything Filipino<strong>. …
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Language usage and language attitudes among education consumers : the experience of Filipinos in Australia and in three linguistic communities in the Philippines / by Iluminado C. Nical.
A comparative investigation of language usage and language attitudes in relation to Filipino/Tagalog, Philippine languages other than Tagalog and English among senior high school students and their parents in two countries, the Philippines and Australia. The study provides an historical overview of …
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Creating Imagined Homelands and the Politics Behind the Balikbbayan Identity
Balikbayan is a Filipino term used to describe Filipinos who have left the homeland, and have returned for temporary visits. Due to the large economic contribution of balikbayans in the past, the Philippine state has hailed those who occupy this status as Heroes of the Nation. In the recent years, …
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Dangerous intercourse: Race, gender and interracial relations in the American colonial Philippines, 1898 - 1946
… interracial sexual contact between Americans and Filipinos was a threatening prospect, informing everything from how social intercourse and diplomacy was structured, to how the built environment of Manila was organized. This project utilizes a transnational approach to examine a wide range of …
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Transforming Popular Catholicism: The El Shaddai Movement of the Philippines
This study argues that these Filipinos are transforming popular Catholic religiosity to cope with the economic and social realities of their times. Old Catholic notions of suffering, leftist ideologies of struggle and oppression, and old forms of sacred power and mediation no longer speak to the …
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The Philippine independence missions to the United States 1919-1934
In 1916 the Filipinos received the promise of independence "as soon as a stable government can be established." The promise, contained in the preamble of the Jones Law, provided impetus to Filipino aspirations for independence. However, the Filipino leaders did not agitate for independence during …
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The Immigration Paradox: Exploring Filipino American Psychological Distress
… generations. Mossakowski (2007) found that Filipinos follow this trend, and using the same data this study builds upon the previous research by examining the relationship between cultural (ethnic identification, native language) and structural (nativity, age at immigration, and poverty in …
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Later-Life Filipino Immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area: A Case Study of Health Status and Utilization of Services
… interviews (22 key informants and 15 later-life Filipinos) and a survey of 138 questionnaires were collected for analysis. Results from key informant interviews support current literature which suggests that immigrant seniors experience significant barriers to services, such as language, economic …
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Paul V. McNutt, his role in the birth of Philippine independence
… later through "benevolent assimilation" of the Filipinos, (3) Philippine economy prior to Commonwealth government, which became an important factor in considering the feasibility and desirability of giving Filipinos full independence, (4) McNutt's first term as United States High Commissioner to …
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BALIK-ISLAM IN THE PHILIPPINES: REVERSION, SYMBOLIC NEGOTIATION, AND BECOMING THE OTHER
Although the majority of Filipinos are Christian, recent developments reflect an upsurge in conversion to Islam, particularly in the northern Philippines. This dissertation examines one of the fastest growing religious phenomena in Southeast Asia, Balik-Islam, which means “reverts to Islam,” or the …
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Medical modernity: Rethinking the health work of Filipina women under Spanish and U.S. colonial rule, 1870-1948
… transferences of knowledge between Filipinos and Americans. Second, I assert that since Filipina women were not homogenous, it is important to attend to multiple categories of difference. And third, I believe that health education gave women the agency to create counter-discourses …
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Made for export : labor migration, state power, and higher education in a developing Philippine economy
… abroad in over 160 countries and about 4,600 Filipinos leave the country every day for overseas work. Why did the Philippine government develop institutions for exporting labor and why has it continued for the past four decades? This dissertation explains how the management of post-secondary …
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From the sea to the stars : the forgotten journeys of the Philippines' ancient explorers
… seafaring technology. If so, then modern Filipinos -- who are even now making their first tentative steps into space -- are heirs to a rich heritage of exploration, the story of which has yet to be fully told.
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Negotiation of 1.5 and Second Generation Filipino Canadian Identity: Language, Internalized Racial Oppression and Ethnic Identity
… identity formation of 1.5 and second generation Filipinos in Canada. Semi-structured interviews have been conducted to look at how this demographic defines, understands, and how closely they connect to, their hybrid transnational Filipino Canadian identities while navigating Canadian society as …
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Appropriation and resistance in Philippine Marian devotion
… attitudes to Mary that can be found among Filipinos in general: while people seemingly subscribe to the Marian stereotypes perpetuated by the Philippine Catholic Church and the dominant social classes, there is nevertheless a subversion of these stereotypes through an active re-situating or …
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Self Care Among Filipino Immigrants in the United States Who Have Hypertension
… early and recent studies that explored HTN among Filipinos in the US have consistently revealed a prevalence rate that is highest among Asian Americans. There is also evidence in the literature that indicates this population’s sub-optimal control and management of HTN when compared with other …
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