Soygen
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story of a Philippino slave and her family
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spronk
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why is it Philippines but Filipino, fucking english is triggering me
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moonarchia
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Soygen
The Dirty Dozen For the Price of One
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Lola is basically a show of respect to a grandmother-like female in the Philippines. It doesn't mean they are an actual blood grandmother. So this chick was their Lola. Lola was not her actual name.
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Which reminds me, how come you ain't got diner fixed yet? Get offa the fuckin interwebs!
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Harshaw
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Growing up Flip I pretty much called all of my parents non relative friends either tito/tita or lolo/lola. It wasn't til I got older that I realized wtf, they aren't actual relations.
Also, when I was in the Philippines we had 2 live in nannies that pretty much raised me, cleaned, and cooked. They had their own room in the house, but they were basically 24 hour servants. However, we always treated them like family and I personally never even saw them as help. Now some relations of mine who were well to do brought their nanny to the States with them and she was basically their slave. She was treated pretty shitty by the family. That lady pretty much had no choice as she was sending all her money back home to her family. I think she was with them for like 25 years before she finally went back home.
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spronk
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The author of the article won a pulitzer prize for an article he wrote decades ago about how corruption at the Bureau of Indian Affairs was taking money away from native americans, and was also a professor at USC. Ironically he won his pulitzer two years before his mom died, at which point his Lola was "semi freed" from slavery and went to live with him and his family and started getting paid ($200/month I think). Just all around a pretty fucked up thing. Like you know the guy kinda wanted to do good, but that can't erase the fact that for all of his 20s, 30s, and 40s he knew this woman was a slave to his mom and did nothing about it, until his mom died.
Reminds me a lot about the Chappelle cosby bit
The incredibly (more) weird fucking thing about the whole story: The Atlantic decided to run his story, which he had been working on for months, as its cover for the May issue on March 23d. They were set to call him in the afternoon to let him know. He died in his bed that morning of natural causes and never found out.
Reminds me a lot about the Chappelle cosby bit
The incredibly (more) weird fucking thing about the whole story: The Atlantic decided to run his story, which he had been working on for months, as its cover for the May issue on March 23d. They were set to call him in the afternoon to let him know. He died in his bed that morning of natural causes and never found out.
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Big Phoenix
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Wait wait wait hold up, this occurred in the United States? What the fuck?
Fuck him and everyone related to him. I hope they all die horrible deaths of falling into vats of boiling oil.
Fuck him and everyone related to him. I hope they all die horrible deaths of falling into vats of boiling oil.
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Lanx
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Wait the fuck up, he died at 57 from "natural causes"??? first of all he's asian, us Asians live forever, how is it fucking natural to die at 57?
It's pretty cool everyone is saying fuck him.
BTW, he never loved this woman,she was still always a housekeeper to him, he just felt the shame of what his entire family did.
It's pretty cool everyone is saying fuck him.
BTW, he never loved this woman,she was still always a housekeeper to him, he just felt the shame of what his entire family did.
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Xequecal
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This isn't all that rare, domestic slavery is a real thing, even in Western countries.
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Adebisi
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ZyyzYzzy
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I always get confused with my wife's family and paisans because of this
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Soygen
The Dirty Dozen For the Price of One
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moonarchia
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Well, all white people are, and asians are just slightly more yellow white people.
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Furry
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Well, your dying act can be profiting off how much of a retarded hypocrite you are too!
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