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REYNALDO CAPUCAO: American
culture, everyone's like, oh,

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you should be a doctor,
a lawyer, an engineer.

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But then, growing up--

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I would hear a lot of
Filipino parents say--

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you should be a doctor,
an engineer, or a nurse.

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Why are there so many nurses?

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As a Filipino-American,
I didn't understand--

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my mom was a nurse, but
I didn't understand,

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why are there so many like
her, and so many other women--

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and men, too--

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why are they all nurses?

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INTERVIEWER: Since
the 1970s, Philippines

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has been the largest supplier
of internationally educated

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nurses.

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Though Filipinos make up
just 1% of the US population,

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Filipino nurses make up about
4% of the nation's 3.9 million

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RNs--

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and Hampton Roads,
Virginia, is home

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to the largest community
of Filipino-Americans

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on the East coast.

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REYNALDO CAPUCAO: My
mom was born in 1954,

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and she's always wanted to be a
nurse-- the white cap by then,

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for her, it meant
something special to her.

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Nursing for her has helped
fund dreams for her family,

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for her children,
but also for herself.

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And even though she
doesn't think whatever

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she's done is noteworthy, to
me, it's such a proud history

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for me as her son.

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INTERVIEWER: There
were 160 Filipinos

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counted in the 1910 census.

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By 1930, 45,208 Filipinos
had been counted.

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Among them was [INAUDIBLE],,
who came to the US in 1926,

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settled in Ohio, then
Washington state.

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After the Hill-Burton
Act of 1946,

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which fueled construction of
new American hospitals, the 1948

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Exchange Visitor program, and
the Immigration Act of 1965,

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tens of thousands more
Filipino nurses arrived.

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While many settled
in California,

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some, like Arisela
[INAUDIBLE],, a founder

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of the Philippine Nurses
Association of Virginia

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made a home in coastal Virginia.

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The third wave of migration
occurred after 1965,

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when nurses like [INAUDIBLE],,
who settled in Charlottesville

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and worked at UVA
Hospital, arrived.

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By the mid 1990s,
Filipino nurses

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represented 3/4 of the nursing
labor force recruited to

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and working in US hospitals.

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REYNALDO CAPUCAO: As you see--

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a flight of these
Filipino nurses

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coming in the United
States, it imbalances

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the clinical hierarchy, but
also the racial hierarchy

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of nursing and health
care in general,

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from a lot of the
Filipina nurses

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I've interviewed, they
weren't used to racism,

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since the Philippines
is mostly homogenized.

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They wanted to develop
a sense of community,

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a sense of familiarity--

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they wanted to have a
transnational linkage

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back to the Philippines.

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Going to nursing school,
it's been very humbling

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learning about myself,
my profession--

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but also about my
cultural heritage as well.

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And I guess that's what I aim
to do as a nurse historian,

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specifically with this project,
to really expand it and share

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this history-- not just with
Filipino-Americans and nurses,

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but just in general--

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this is Virginia, this
is cultural diversity

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of our state, and
how amazing we have--

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how amazing what
people we have here.

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This is how I give
back to my mom.

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This is how I give back to
everyone, all my predecessors,

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this is how I want to make
their legacy known to everyone.

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So for me-- when I
have my children--

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they'll know what my mother,
these nurses, have done.

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And they'll know the story of
how they came to be as well.

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