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Miguel Syjuco
Filipino Writer
Born: Nov 17, 1976
Book Change Myself People Philippines Writing
Related authors: Ayn Rand Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Niccolo Machiavelli Thomas Mann Thomas Paine Voltaire
I don't see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a nurse, a labourer, a maid or a prostitute. Miguel Syjuco
Myself Opportunity Looking Gone Other Nurse See Abroad Maid Labourer Any Different Who
I look at western literature and especially North American literature, and I feel like it gets bogged down so much with all of that, with domestic stories and relationships and a woman dealing with the loss of her husband. Miguel Syjuco
Woman Husband Down Relationships Feel Like Look Dealing Loss Domestic Western North North American American Gets Stories Literature American Literature Much Bogged Her
I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports! Miguel Syjuco
Love Politics Sports Philippines Country Absurd Like Homeland Spectator
If I were to go back to the Philippines, I would probably end up teaching creative writing at a university. I wouldn't be able to write, for I would become too jaded to be able to view the existing situation objectively. Miguel Syjuco
Creative Writing Philippines Become Situation Too Back Would Able Objectively Write Go Were Existing End Up Jaded View Teaching Creative Writing University
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths. Miguel Syjuco
Truth Postmodernism About Objectivity Reaction Sought Singular Subjectivity Truths Where Modernism Multiplicity
There is that potential of the expats coming back to the Philippines. But sadly they are no opportunities, no incentive for them to come back home. Successive governments have, in fact, been training them to export them rather than working on the economy to welcome them home. Miguel Syjuco
Home Welcome Training Opportunities Philippines Back Rather Potential Fact Come Economy Sadly Coming Been Governments Than In Fact Them Working Successive Incentive Export
The immigrant experience in 'Ilustrado' was only a small part of what I intended to be a broader look at the Filipino experience, even if that broader look was itself merely a specific perspective. Miguel Syjuco
Experience Perspective Broader Immigrant Only Small Small Part Part Merely Look Itself Intended Even Filipino Specific
I read a blog about this young filmmaker in the Philippines who made a short film, and one of the characters in the film reads my novel and then starts discussing the novel with someone. The idea that my book can inspire another artist and be part of that other artist's work... that's the reason I write. Miguel Syjuco
Work Book Inspire Philippines Made Young Starts Other Characters About Someone Write Part Idea Read Another Reads Blog Discussing Artist Short Short Film Then Reason Who Novel Film Filmmaker
The Philippines, it has a politics of patronage. Family and favors, in addition to the old cliche of guns, goons and gold, really do still hold a lot of sway. Miguel Syjuco
Politics Family Old Philippines Addition Favors Guns Cliche Still Lot Gold Hold Patronage Sway Really
When you live in the Philippines or a country like that, you develop something of a very thick skin because you're confronted every day with all of the problems all around you. Miguel Syjuco
Day You Every Day Problems Philippines Country Skin Live Every All-Around Something Develop Like Because Around Very Confronted Thick Thick Skin

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