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Family bonding is not as close among Americans as it is among Filipinos. Living in proximity with family members after each has married is not typically American, either. As adults, Americans prefer to live far from other family members to maintain their independence.


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A local adaptation of an American play / The Filipino identity

By SUNDRY STROKES | March 29, 2006 - 12:00am

Not having read the comedy of Paul Osborn, I now wonder how faithfully its Philippine adaptation by Tony Amador and Joy Virata hews to the original, the idea of a rural setting in the 1920s having come from director...

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