The balikbayan box: The way Filipino Americans have sent love all the way back home
PHOENIX (AP) — Beginning in the 1970s, just about every Filipino household in America was either hauling balikbayan boxes in person or mailing them to relatives back in the Philippines. These care packages that held goodies from the U. S. were seen as an expression of support during hard economic times — as well as one of pure love. “Balik" and “bayan,” Tagalog for “return” and “homeland," respectively, was what President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. called the tourism initiatives he a...
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