ILLUSTRADO 100 2016

NOTHING ELSE BUT PURE PINOY PRIDE. Very few talk about the Filipino’s pioneering spirit. And yet here we are, 11 million of us scattered all over the globe, in once strange lands we now call our home, over a century since the first known big wave of Overseas Filipinos moved to the United States of America to tend to the pineapple farms of Hawaii. Here we thrive, and here we have made our mark.