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Turning the Tables. Miguel Evangelista R-50 English 11 August 13 "Turning
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Miguel Evangelista R-50 English 11 August 13
"Turning the Table"
Passing thru the huge pillars that serve as an entrance gate to Chinatown, I saw an unfamiliar sight – an old Chinese man selling taho. " I haven't seen this for more than thirty years. Brings back old memories," said my dad. He grew up being teased by his schoolmates for being singkit. "They would often chant, ‘Intsik beho, tulo laway.' That was a grave insult for me back then," he added.
Being a Chinese Filipino, or much often referred to as Tsinoy, was not a thing to brag about from the time when Spain ruled our country. In the novel Noli me Tangere, Father Damaso insulted Crisostomo Ibarra's deceased father by ordering his burial inside a Chinese cemetery. By the late fifties, a huge number of Chinese people fled to our country to escape from the great revolution in their homeland. They made a living here by selling taho, shining shoes, and selling fish in a market to name a few. But, the situation changed by the early eighties. The shoe shiner became the owner of several malls scattered all over the region, while the taho vendor founded one of the biggest banks in our country. These rags to riches stories were experienced by most of the Tsinoys. Suddenly, Chinese blood seemed to be blue. Chinitas and Chinitos became the new "crush ng bayan." Being singkit today is not something to be ashamed of.
The success of the Chinese Filipino people in our country is only a part of the rise of the whole Chinese race across the globe. The wave started in Taiwan. In the late 1950s, industries in this small island located north of the Philippines flourished ten years after the Chiang Kai-Shek led Kuomintang party escaped from the mainland, declaring this small island as a country divided from communist China. Presently, it remains...
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