Skyline College/North San Mateo County Oral History Archives, Skyline College Library
Student project for LSCI 110 – Digital Oral Research Project, Skyline College

Interview with Marisa de Castro Mariano

Click on the links below to hear audio segments from an April 2011 interview by James Rodriguez with Marisa Mariano, who talks about her life in the United States.

Marisa de Castro Mariano


Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Birth place and talks about living in the Philippines

3. Family’s Occupation

4. School in the Philippines

5. Family’s migration

6. The Big Adjustment

7. Life in the United States

8. Sacrifice

9. Homesickness

10. Maintain Filipino Customs, Language.

11. Difficulties to Maintain Filipino Culture

12. Different personalities between Filipino immigrants and Filipino Americans

13. Education equivalent to the United States

14. Discrimination

15. American Dream

16. Negative and Positive reactions

17. Memories about growing up in the Philippines

Segment 1
Introduction (0:15)
Marisa Mariano introduces to herself.

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Segment 2
Birth place and talks about living in the Philippines (0:27)
Talks about where she was born and talks to me about when she lived in the Philippines.

Long Beach, CA the Philippines

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Segment 3
Family’s Occupation (0:33)
Marisa talks about her family’s occupation.

US Navy in the Philippines

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Segment 4
School in the Philippines (2:07)
Talks about where Marisa went to school in Philippines and how is it different.

University of Santo Tomas an example of a school in the Philippines

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Segment 5
Family’s migration (1:14)
Marisa talks about how her family came to the United States.

Application of Citizenship United States Passport Philippine Passport

A DVD on how to pass the U.S Citizenship Test and interview is an example of a process of immigration

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Segment 6
The Big Adjustment (1:22)
The big adjustment for Marisa and her family about living in the Philippines.

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Segment 7
Life in the United States (2:01)
What life was expected for Marisa in the United States as she explain to me in this segment.

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Segment 8
Sacrifice (1:06)
The major sacrifices that Marisa and her family made when they first came to the United States.

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Segment 9
Homesickness (1:07)
Marisa explains how she faces homesickness.

Examples of homesickness

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Segment 10

Maintaining Filipino Customs, Language. (2:04)

Marisa talks about how she maintained her culture as Filipino and with language.