For someone, somewhere down the line, our existence—our familial tie—is the basis and rationale for their grief
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Pulido's obituary translates "Lola" as "grandmother" and I took that as face value, since I am not a Tagalog-speaker.
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Some Tagalog-speakers do lean towards that translation, most seem to not? Overall consensus is that it connotes "adoration" or "respect"
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Without the cultural background I can't fully grasp it but I'm going to go with "Calling her Lola is erasure" being possibly misguided
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Re lola: it means grandmother but is also honorific given to elders who mean a lot to us. By calling her "lola" she was family to the kids
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Yeah I've gotten a really mixed range of answers to this question, suggesting to me that non-PH readers will always miss a key element
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Yeah, there's a lot about that article that ties to difficult concepts in the PH like family (fluid), hiya (shame), TNT, utang na loob
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Utang na loob (debt of gratitude) is huge thing. Without those four concepts it's difficult to grasp everything in that piece. It hurts us.
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(By that i mean so many discussions have popped up from that piece on our kasambahay culture here)
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Was thinking about the many ways people conceive of kinship, servitude, employment and the intersections of those categories
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Such caregivers were part of my upbringing; still trying to wrap my head around the positionality, cultural norms and liberal individualism
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This brings me to a question that I have always found disquieting: who determines universal human rights and how are they universal?
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If international human rights are fundamentally Eurocentric, then is it unfair? What are the limits of liberal democratic individualism?
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Tl;dr I don't know
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This phenomenon not isolated case; Filipino "domestic workers" all throughout Asia in this role as a colonial aftereffect.
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Filipino, Indonesia "domestic workers / servants" embedded throughout upper class Hong Kong, Singapore families
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This entire saga must be viewed through the lens of a much bigger embedded story of neocolonial/economic oppression http://www.rappler.com/world/regions/europe/54297-human-rights-watch-domestic-workers-abuse-uk …pic.twitter.com/UCt8mrU2g7
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Since we are talking about overstepping due to unfamiliarity with a culture that is...
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children had a position of power over black adult women as an FYI.
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That's more a stereotype than a thing. They had pet names but Mammy was something else. But the pet names indicated that even small white
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