Familial Pattern

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Cory Aquino and Benigno "Noynoy" or "PNoy" Aquino III. Diosdado Macapagal and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Now the two Ferdinands. Is this propensity of Filipino voters towards electing offspring of previous presidents to the presidency an attempt at collective redemption? Or is it collective flagellation? 

It may be too early to evaluate the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos II, as PF contributing writer Patricio Abinales writes. But it's never too late to look at historical records to see how the son compares with the father in a variety of interesting ways.

Most of us know "Earnshaw" only as a street in Sampaloc and a public elementary school in Manila, but as former Ambassador Virgilio A. Reyes Jr. (a regular PF contributor) writes, the family name connotes exemplary public service and business acumen. The Earnshaw brothers -- Tomas and Manuel -- were more than shipbuilders (their family business); they were patriots who served the Philippines as public servants (not politicians) at a time when the country needed them the most. 

We're now on our 35th list of Fil-Ams Among the Remarkable and Famous, and our publisher/listmaker Mona Lisa Yuchengco is not running out of names. Which speaks of how entrenched the FilAm community is in this country their parents/grandparents immigrated to.

Here's a heartwarming story that will definitely make you smile. It involves Joseph Tagaban, a Fil-Am teenager from Alaska and four-time NBA champ, Klay Thompson, of the Golden State Warriors. 

And if that's not enough to make your day, here's humor, Filipino-style. [Forgive Us Our Signs 16]

If you haven't yet, you can still register to join our Zoom webinar, "A Murder Most Foul." Details below. 

Jo Koy's movie "Easter Sunday" is coming very soon (August 5, in fact) but let's not forget that he also has a book. Read Again: http://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/jo-koy-gets-no-respect-from-mom

Here's a story worth rereading from our first July issue in 2013: http://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/2013/7/when-lolos-debating-team-vanquished-america

{Cook it Again] The Happy Home Cook: Ginataang Langka (Young Jackfruit In Coconut Milk)

[Video of the Week] Jo Koy’s mom reacts to his jokes

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Unforgettable

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In 1932, a Filipino woman named Cecilia Villano Navarro, the wife of an ailing Filipino farmworker, was buried alive by some members of her Northern California Filipino community. Her alleged crime: adultery, although the details are murky at best. What followed next was a sensational court trial that pitted Filipinos against Filipinos, Filipinos vis a vis the US system of justice, and whispered tales of supernatural appearances. On July 29 (July 30 in the Philippines), a Positively Filipino webinar titled "A Murder Most Foul" deconstructs this lurid tragedy, taking off from the documentary film "The Celine Archive" by Celine Parrenas Shimizu. Please see details in the e-flyer below, as well as the link to register for the event.

In 1960, a young American woman sailed to the Philippines on a freighter from New York to begin a new life as a wife and mother. Patricia Kearney Encarnacion, a first-timer to Asia, was alternately filled with wide-eyed wonder and shock at what she saw and experienced in her first months in a country so different from her own. She wrote detailed letters to her family vividly describing how it was to see carabaos outside her window, riding a bus to Quiapo and eating at least five meals a day. 

In 1980, a London- and US-educated Filipina debuted as director of a Filipino movie, one of a few women able to pierce the then-male dominated Philippine movie industry. In the decades that followed until her death in 2012, Marilou Diaz-Abaya made some monumental movies that will forever be remembered. This year, she was posthumously named National Artist for Cinema. Her friend Pablo A. Tariman pays her tribute.

This year, our country and the world are confronted with challenges to collective memory as powerful forces connive to revise history. CoverStory.ph editor Rosario A. Garcellano quotes sociologist/columnist Randy David's words ("The battle for memory never ceases") as she correlates the past Marcos administration with the present, so we will not forget.

Here's something to make you smile: A Filipina nurse in the UK risked her marathon record to help a runner reach the finish line. It was all in a day's work for Harrieth Kay Amores.

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