OPINION: The first naturalized Filipino-American
Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Updated as of Jan 03 12:09 PM
Long before the epithet “Americanista” was used by Filipino nativists and angry nationalists to describe, and even smear, all who were pro-American after the fall of Spain, and even up to the present, there was truly a singular Filipino who was not only an avowed ‘Americanista’ but actually became an American citizen even before the Philippines became a colony of the United States.
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