The Filippino Nurses - Is That Really What I Do?

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Filippino nurses is a phenomenon that i think a lot of americans familiar with, maybe. The fact that it goes back to colonization in the late nineteenth century was incredible. A and so that what created a trend where you just had a large number of filippina women being being educated. Then there's a law that makes that an easier way to emigrate. You have recruiting, and then you just end up with, what, a pipe line that persists, persists to this day. Thats, i shall be quite an umary. Thisisn't what i do, catherine. I talk to academics and i condense what they say into something easy and digestible

Asian Americans are an essential part of the history of this country, but the true story is all too little told, especially in a time of rising anti-Asian sentiment and violence. Historian and author of “Asian American Histories of the United States” Catherine Choy joins Adam to discuss the origin of racist ideas such as the “model minority myth,” and dive into the history. You can purchase Catherine’s book at http://factuallypod.com/books Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.