Filipino recruits arriving on Hawaiian plantations were almost exclusively single or without their wives. The summer of 1925 about... thirty thousand Filipino men were working on the Hawaiian sugar plantations, and fewer than three hundred Filipino women had been brought over. ... there was one amusing feature about the disproportion of the sexes. It was one of the few situations I have ever witnessed where the scarcity value of woman permitted her to be cavalierly indifferent to male domination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human... dignity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »