LETTER FROM TORONTO: In our winter of discontent, hope (still) springs eternal

LETTER FROM TORONTO: In our winter of discontent, hope (still) springs eternal

By Joe Rivera

Hot exchanges in two chat groups where I am a member threw me off-kilter recently. I thought of their significance in light of the current historic moment that transplanted Filipinos face in their lives, or in the onset of their lives as émigrés in a foreign country. I am referring to the two worlds we live in now: the homeland we left where the locals are now preparing to elect a new leader of the country, and the other, which we have embraced as our new community, including the problems of integration, whether economic or otherwise.

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