So great to learn more about the ethnicity of our #SNC faculty! Thanks to Dr. Anindo Choudhury, @maryc_snc@JackHanauer Check out their "Zoom Interview" below ๐ #sncgeography
@persianofntrest From information on pages 362 and 363, it seems that most of the families from the Southeast Asian culture have a patriarchal structure that is significantly contrasted here in the US. I do not remember seeing such a contrast from other ethnic groups #ch15msea
@JedGalutira@persianofntrest@IanMcDowell13 @KeegsHutMilly I agree with what Jed pointed out. That seems to be direct influence by the government of where those refugees settled. In terms of immigrants, I am not aware of any direct policy towards where they have to settle, but I imagine there is some "subtle guidance" but govt #ch15msea
@persianofntrest@IanMcDowell13 @KeegsHutMilly I think this comes from the fact that the refugees were placed in specific places because of the government trying to spread out the large number of refugees coming in, whereas most immigrants it would seem kind of settled where there were already big groups right away. #ch15msea
@KeegsHutMilly A1: I noticed with the Hmong population that they settled somewhat heavily in midwestern states such as Minnesota and Wisconsin. I think that pattern deviates from the other settlement patterns that we have seen #ch15msea
@persianofntrest@GeographyTim@JedGalutira I agree, it is possible that in the eyes of Filipino-Americans, their culture is not invisible, rather they like to express it in different ways than having large congregations of their culture such as a Chinatown. #pgeog
@GeographyTim@JedGalutira To go off of that, it seems that the idea of being an "invisible" culture here because of the ability of the Filipino immigrants to integrate into US society is presented with a negative connotation in the book. Does anyone have any thoughts on that? #pgeog
@persianofntrest @JackMarkham17 I think so, especially since there is not a large Filipino population in this area according to map 13.2 on page 311 #pgeog
@psitzy I agree, we also saw a range of some priests that had a pretty good grasp of the English language and couple of the other priests did not speak it very well and were hard to understand. #pgeog
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Here is an interesting article I found that relates to the area of Wisconsin that I live and that SNC is located. The church that I attend, St. Michaels in Keshena, Wisconsin, is officiated by 3-4 Filipino priests. #pgeog
@persianofntrest@MagerSkye@MattLyn41673336 Page 317 suggests that this is partially due to the fact that Filipino immigrants are relatively fluent in English, and therefore do not need to settle together spatially necessarily to form social cohesion. #pgeog
@IanMcDowell13 It seems like Filipino migration is significantly more complicated than other migrations. The reasons behind their migration seemed to encompass all of the 4 migration theories talked about in the first chapter we read #pgeog