Ocampo said that when he has spoken with other Filipino Americans about their experiences growing up, plenty of them talk about how many of them often subconsciously gravitated toward Latino spaces.
Ocampo noted that the League of United Latin American Citizens, a national organization that fights anti-Hispanic discrimination, used to also have Filipino chapters. He added the close ties between Filipino Americans and Latino Americans even go as far back as the 1960s, when Cesar Chavez and Larry Itliong worked together to form the United Farm Workers union. These cultural overlaps served as building blocks for people to form social relationships, Ocampo contended. News Eclipsed by Cesar Chavez, Larry Itliong's Story Now Emerges Ocampo noted that when Filipinos immigrated to the U.S., many would end up at churches and meet Mexican Americans and people from the Latino community rather than other Asian Americans. “You can’t just forget the three-and-a-half century Spanish influence in the Philippines.”Īccording to the Pew Research Center, more than 80 percent of Filipinos were Catholic in 2010. “The Spanish colonial period in the Philippines lasted longer than that of a lot of countries in Latin America, including Mexico,” Ocampo said.
2018 marks the 120th Anniversary of the declaration of Philippine independence from Spain in 1898 as well as the 120th Anniversary of the Spanish-American War.
In 1982, the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) declared October Filipino American History Month to preserve and promote Filipino-American history. Making guitars is a Spanish-culture linked in the region where first Spanish colons put their foots in 16th century. Workers assemble guitars at a private guitar workshop in Lapu-Lapu city, in central province of Cebu, on December 2, 2006.
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