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    Filipino-American writers grapple with whether to exile themselves from their home country, accept a hyphenated American identity, or find a bridge between the two. While they share some experiences with other Asian Americans, the Filipino American experience differs in some ways. Specifically, it involves a longer history of colonialism under the United States and varying attitudes toward assimilating into American culture. Additionally, the pluralism within the Philippines, with its many languages and geographical divisions, makes it difficult for Filipino Americans to have a single sense of national identity.

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    Filipino-American writers grapple with whether to exile themselves from their home country, accept a hyphenated American identity, or find a bridge between the two. While they share some experiences with other Asian Americans, the Filipino American experience differs in some ways. Specifically, it involves a longer history of colonialism under the United States and varying attitudes toward assimilating into American culture. Additionally, the pluralism within the Philippines, with its many languages and geographical divisions, makes it difficult for Filipino Americans to have a single sense of national identity.

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    Filipino-American writers grapple with whether to exile themselves from their home country, accept a hyphenated American identity, or find a bridge between the two. While they share some experiences with other Asian Americans, the Filipino American experience differs in some ways. Specifically, it involves a longer history of colonialism under the United States and varying attitudes toward assimilating into American culture. Additionally, the pluralism within the Philippines, with its many languages and geographical divisions, makes it difficult for Filipino Americans to have a single sense of national identity.

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    Filipinos Writing in The United States Adfef

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    Filipino-American writers grapple with whether to exile themselves from their home country, accept a hyphenated American identity, or find a bridge between the two. While they share some experiences with other Asian Americans, the Filipino American experience differs in some ways. Specifically, it involves a longer history of colonialism under the United States and varying attitudes toward assimilating into American culture. Additionally, the pluralism within the Philippines, with its many languages and geographical divisions, makes it difficult for Filipino Americans to have a single sense of national identity.

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    A “Different” Asian American Literature

    The seeming indecisiveness of agenda for Filipino-American writers (to


    exile themselves from the home country, accept the status of a
    hyphenated American or find a bridge between the two) is not exclusive
    to this branch of what we term as “Asian American” literature. There are,
    however, some ways in which the Filipino American experience veers
    away from the “normal” Asian American lifestyle, and these differences
    contribute to these writers’ literary intentions. Ephifanio San Juan Jr.
    claims, in “Filipino Writing in the United States, “that Filipino
    Americans remain an exploited and disadvantaged, not a ‘model’
    minority” (142). Oscar Campomanes, in his arguments that all types of
    Filipino American writing are “exilic” in some way, counters Bharati
    Mukherjee’s strict dichotomy of immigration and expatriatism (Lim and
    Ling 57). The uniqueness of Filipino American writing comes, for critics
    like Campomanes, from its inability to fit neatly into divisive labels
    (see Essentialism). What makes Filipino American literary efforts
    different, even from South Asian American writers, is the combination of
    the length of the total colonial experience, the involvement of the United
    States, and the varying degrees of willingness to assimilate into the
    American cultural landscape. Further complicating the matter is the
    Filipino appraisal of its own “national” language (Pilipino, stemming
    from Tagalog) which, according to an entry in the 1995 Encyclopedia
    Americana written by Leonard Casper, is known as “Filipino English.”
    The pluralism of national consciousness within the Philippines (eight
    vernacular languages and three distinct geographical divisions) also
    precludes an immediate and unified “home” or”national” identify
    (see Benedict Anderson).

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