1st I’m comfortable to live the place where I raised.
2nd I can’t leave the small real properties which I own particular to those properties which I valued more, a properties inherited from our great grandparents. Who care of it if I leave?
3rd I have no chance to work and live abroad because I know my capability is not enough.
4th sa akong nakita sa TV walay tindahan sa abroad nga nag tinda ug Tuba malutas ko didto unya wala pod siguroi buwang/sabong sa abroad.
That is an honorable reason, Vista. I admire and honor that.
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Though I left the Philippines when i was but 5 years old, I have never lost my Filipino identity and have tried to hold on to my Bisaya manner of speech. I am proud to be Bolanon and my language, unlike some Filipino youth who just left the Philippines and within 3-5 years have already claimed to have forgotten how to speak Filipino.
Alot of Filipino-American youth are so ashamed of their Filpino identity and think it is 'unpopular' to be a FOB or have an accent. I think not. If it where not for our immigrant parents, we would not be blessed with a life abroad, or in the case of Americans, have our American Dream, a piece of the American Pie, so to say.
Luckily for us, my parents were very strongly linked to family in Bohol and tried to reinforce that aspect; the importance of one's ROOTS.
In that regard, I still am in Bohol Island, in spirit and through the web.
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