Carlos Gamboa: "A Filipino Californian"

  I chose my father because he was born and raised in the Philippines. But he made a second home right here in both San Francisco and Daly City, California. 

He has been here in the United States for about 25 years.

Video Order:

Part 1:  Introduction/Immigration

Part 2: Diversity

Part 3: Shared Oppression

Part 4: Self-Identity

Introduction/Immigration

"In immigrant communities, culture takes on a special significance: not only does it form a lifeline to the home coun- try and a basis for group identity in a new country, it is also a base from which immigrants stake their political and sociocultural claims on their new country." by Yen Le Espiritu’s "We Don't Sleep around like White Girls Do."

This video gives a quick and simple introduction about Carlos Gamboa. After is how immigration works and the process of doing it. 

He came here for a new and better life. Migrating here, he made a second home starting his own family and having a job with more pay. With his salary, he could provide for his family in California and in the Philippines.

"Despite periodic downturns, California's economy, by conventional measures of growth, expanded during the 1970s and 1980s" (pg.404). Competing Visions: a History of California 

Diversity

In this video,  Carlos shares his first impression to California. What he liked and if there was any differences and similarities between California and the Philippines.  

Shared Oppression

 "Powerful ideas continue to influence the way we define what is properly "western" in our history." -  Quintard Taylor's Facing the Urban Frontier: African America History in the Reshaping of the Twentieth Century American West

In this next video, Carlos talks politics. Feelings towards the current presidential election, the possible future, and similarities with the Philippine's government. 

Self-Identity

  In this last video, Carlos concluded how living in the United States shifted his point of view towards his homeland. He also mentions how to maintain your cultural roots by living in a foreign country.