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How America Went Haywire Have Smartphones Why Women Bully Destroyed a Each Other at Work Generation? p. 58 BY OLGA KHAZAN Conspiracy Theories. Fake News. Magical Thinking. How America Went Haywire By Kurt Andersen The Rise of the Violent Left Jane Austen Is Everything The Whitest Music Ever John le Carré Goes SEPTEMBER 2017 Back Into the Cold THEATLANTIC.COM 0917_Cover [Print].indd 1 7/19/2017 1:57:09 PM TerTeTere msm appppply.ly Viistsits ameierier cancaanexpexpresre scs.cs.s com/om busbubusinesspsplatl inuummt to learnmn moreorer . 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Mutual of America® and Mutual of America Your Retirement Company® are registered service marks of Mutual of America Life Insurance Company, a registered Broker/Dealer. 320 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10022-6839. THE CONVERSATION RESPONSES && REVERBERATIONSREVERBERATIONS The use of underpaid and teachers, bakery workers, ship- overworked katulong, utusan, yard workers, and more. and kasambahay—the kind Adrian Bonifacio of servitude Eudocia was CHAIRPERSON, ANAKBAYANUSA SAN JOSE, CALIF. forced to endure—is common practice among many Filipino families. It is an unjust practice There is no way to excuse or that stems from a violent mitigate the incredible cruelty history of colonization and that Eudocia suered at the exploitation of the Filipino hands of Tizon’s father and people. In the Philippines, mother, nor the benets that thousands of Filipinos are he and his siblings accrued brought to cities, suburbs, and from her coerced labor. There wealthy households in the is no question that her unfree- countryside as domestic help. dom produced a sphere of Many of these domestic help- freedom that could be enjoyed ers are young women who face by the family. She was a slave, exploitative conditions. They as Tizon says, in that her life are a product of the massive and labor were stolen from her Telling Lola’s Story landlessness and joblessness to benet those for whom she “Lola’s Story” (June), by the Filipino American brought about by feudalism in was, at least in the early years, journalist Alex Tizon, quickly became the most- the Philippines. no more than an “utusan,” read story on TheAtlantic.com and garnered many Oppressive religious someone to be ordered around, emotional responses from people around the practices combined with lack bereft of rights and dignity. United States and around the world, particularly of access to quality educa- But despite her lowly status, in the Philippines. Tizon, who died suddenly just tion produce a culture in the fact remained that she was a few weeks before the story’s publication, wrote which people internalize not chattel. That she was not about Eudocia Tomas Pulido, the woman he called un questioning obedience merely property who could be and utang na loob (“debt of bought and sold might help Lola and thought of as a grandmother but who was gratitude”). They produce a to explain why she could also actually his family’s slave. Until she went to live society in which exploitation become part of the family, with Tizon and his wife, Melissa, late in life, Lola is downplayed as a temporary albeit a lowly and exploited provided unpaid labor and suered years of abuse state worth bearing to prevent member … In Tizon’s narrative from Tizon’s parents. Since the June cover story was any collective resistance and (and in the everyday experi- released, Melissa Tizon has, in several interviews, thoroughgoing change. ence of Filipinos who grew emphasized Alex and his siblings’ love for Lola. Facilitated by Filipino laws up with servants), aective While many U.S.-based readers drew parallels and institutions, and dictated ties of pity (awa), recipro- to antebellum slavery in America, many Filipino by foreign demands, migration cal indebted ness (utang na readers elucidated the cultural conditions that can has supplied the world with loob), and shame (hiya) hold lead to situations like Lola’s. One regional news at least 12 million Filipinos, together the master and outlet, Rappler, sought out Lola’s relatives in her 4 million of whom are in the servant as much as they pull hometown. Back in Seattle, where Tizon had lived U.S. Beyond the reality that them apart. Thus the Tagalog and worked, the Seattle Times reporter who wrote Filipinos are compelled to term Lola, “grandmother,” Lola’s obituary six years ago expressed shock and migrate abroad because of used to refer to Pulido.
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