Book Review – Balikbayan: A Filipino Homecoming
by Alex
on November 9, 2009
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…It was the Marcos regime in the mid-1970s that coined the term balikbayan by joining the Tagalog words balik, to return, with bayan, meaning town and nation. A balikbayan’s relationship to the Philippines is construed in terms of his sentimental
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