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This 3 page paper discusses the works of Filipino writer Carlos Bulosan and the key ideas and attitudes that led him to develop his perception of American society. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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paper considers the key ideas and attitudes that led Bulosan to develop his perceptions of human experience in the works "Be American" and "Homecoming." Discussion Carlos Bulosan was born near
the town of Binalonan on Luzon Island in the Philippines (Bulosan biography). He was a farmers son, and he and his family lived in abject poverty, because the US colonization
of the islands led to great economic disparity, with a "growing concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the economic and political elite" (Bulosan biography). Bulosan was determined
both to help his family and to get a good education, and so he came to America to achieve these goals (Bulosan biography). He arrived in Seattle in 1930; he
was 17 and had on three years of education, spoke little English, and was almost broke (Bulosan biography). In order to survive he took any job he could find, including
working in hotels, picking crops, and even traveling north to the canneries in Alaska (Bulosan biography). It was during this period that he "experienced much economic difficulty and racial brutality
that significantly damaged his health and eventually changed his perception of America" (Bulosan biography). Clearly, America was not the "land of opportunity" that he had hoped for, instead it was
xenophobic and violent, rank with discrimination and hatred for those who were different; Bulosan endured "several years of racist attacks, starvation, and sickness" (Bulosan biography). The conditions under which he
worked, as well as the ongoing discrimination fired Bulosans determination to fight injustice, and he became a union organizer, with "other Filipinos and various workers" (Bulosan biography). He also became
a "self-educated and prolific writer determined to voice the struggles he had undergone as a Filipino coming to America and the struggles he had witnessed of other people" (Bulosan biography).
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