View Full Version : Filipino delivers Harvard Law graduation speech
mark_15
06-08-2007, 03:40 PM
inquirer This year’s elite, multiracial class of Harvard law graduates may have found their best speaker in a young Filipino lawyer of Chinese descent, one obviously honed for the global stage but who hopes to pay back “the nameless farmers and fishermen” who partly paid for his studies. Oscar Franklin Tan, 27, earned the rare honor of delivering the commencement address in behalf of some 700 American and foreign graduates of the Harvard Law School. Read more... (http://globalnation.inquire r.net/news/news/view_article.php?art icle_id=70145)
la_tina512
06-08-2007, 04:18 PM
Mabuhay ka, Mr. Oscar Franklin Tan! You've added another reason why I'm proud to be a Filipino. :)
McBONG
06-15-2007, 12:59 PM
Santambak na pala gradweyt ng Harvard na Filipinos at may mga honors at prestigious awards pa.Kaya di na kakapagtataka ang galing ng mga Filipinos sabi nga ng isang kano na nakausap ko ang gagaling ninyo mga Filipinos tingnan nyo sa States(USA)lahat kayo propesyonal at edukado.Minority immigrants kayo (USA)pero halos lahat kayo ay may magandang trabaho at posisyon.All of you are professional....Doct or,Lawyer,Engineer,N urses,health workers (PT,ST,nutritionist, x-ray tech etc.)dentist,journal ist reporters,accountant ,Managers,hotel managers,Banks,scien tist,researchers,fed eral and government employee,realtors,ar chitect,teachers,ITs ,etc...and NASA researcher and employees.
Sabi ko what?maybe they want to travel to the moon?yeahh,..but they are americanized you know but they are proud filipino race.at sabi nya kaya di malayo kayo ay kinaiingitan(being envied)by other majority immigrants,by other what?latinos,hispani c,Mexican?or Black or White?well sabi ko na lang Filipinos are cool people on earth,and USA is an immigrant country.
Tanong pa nya,how about filipinos here in japan?sabi ko na lang same you do,English teachers,and some filipinos are factory workers,students,and professional too.
tanong nya pa,how about those filipino club hostesses?well they retired and I proud of them they are now working as a health workers,i mean care givers or in hotel and you can see some of them now are owner of bars or clubs.
kaya pinoy be proud and loud!
McBONG
06-15-2007, 01:07 PM
Santambak na pala gradweyt ng Harvard na Filipinos at may mga honors at prestigious awards pa.Kaya di na kakapagtataka ang galing ng mga Filipinos sabi nga ng isang kano na nakausap ko ang gagaling ninyo mga Filipinos tingnan nyo sa States(USA)lahat kayo propesyonal at edukado.Minority immigrants kayo (USA)pero halos lahat kayo ay may magandang trabaho at posisyon.All of you are professional....Doct or,Lawyer,Engineer,N urses,health workers (PT,ST,nutritionist, x-ray tech etc.)dentist,journal ist reporters,accountant ,Managers,hotel managers,Banks,scien tist,researchers,fed eral and government employee,realtors,ar chitect,teachers,ITs ,etc...and NASA researcher and employees.
Sabi ko what?maybe they want to travel to the moon?yeahh,..but they are americanized you know but they are proud filipino race.at sabi nya kaya di malayo kayo ay kinaiingitan(being envied)by other majority immigrants,by other what?latinos,hispani c,Mexican?or Black or White?well sabi ko na lang Filipinos are cool people on earth,and USA is an immigrant country.
Tanong pa nya,how about filipinos here in japan?sabi ko na lang same you do,English teachers,and some filipinos are factory workers,students,and professional too.
tanong nya pa,how about those filipino club hostesses?well they retired and I proud of them they are now working as a health workers,i mean care givers or in hotel and you can see some of them now are owner of bars or clubs.
kaya pinoy be proud and loud!
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