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Filipino Immigrants and Hypertension Maliah Stillson San José State University PH 135, Section 4 Dr. Andrew Carter December 7, 20202 Introduction Food culture in the Philippines is a big deal;... for example, it is a way for individuals to express themselves. The Filipino culture uses various spices, herbs, colors, and rich flavors in their dishes. Most Filipino dishes often have a bold mixture of sweet, sour, and salty flavors. The cuisines in the Philippines today are continuing to evolve because of the influences of new techniques, styles, and products from other countries. It is common in traditional Filipino culture to gather with family and friends to have a feast while enjoying some singing and dancing. Typically these feasts only occur on special celebrations, such as birthdays, holidays, and even family reunions. They consist of various foods that are high in fat, as they are oily, fried, and salty. Filipinos love to eat food, especially snacking between each meal of the day, but sometimes the foods being eaten can have adverse effects on the body. A person who continues to eat these types of foods on a daily basis can develop severe or even chronic illnesses such as hypertension or obesity. This paper will discuss the cultural group I identify with, the health disparity, what factors influence it, and public health initiatives that will have been implemented for the health disparity. Background of Culture My relationship with this culture is that my mother’s side of the family, both her mother and father were born in the Philippines. When my grandmother was a young girl in the Philippines, she remembers how different the food she ate there was compared to when she first came to the United States by boat in the late 1950s. Growing up, my grandmother's mother would cook traditional Filipino food because that is all they could afford at the time. In comparison, I did not grow up in a traditional Filipino household like she did since I am of3 mixed ethnicity, Filipino, and White. As a child, my grandmother would always cook traditional Filipino dishes whenever we visited her. The Philippines is an island located Southeast of China and North of Indonesia. In the 1500s, the Philippines was named after King Philip II of Spain after Ferdinand Magellan discovered the country (History of the Philippines, 2015). When the Philippines was under Spanish rule, the Filipino people wanted to find a way out of the country. About three hundred years later, in the 1800s, the Spanish culture started to take over in the Philippines, and many did not like that it was happening (History of the Philippines, 2015). The Filipino people began to fight for their own independence and wanted to be separated from Spain. After the 1898 Spanish-American War, the Philippines became American territory, so the people were free at last, and many of them fled the country (History of the Philippines, 2015). Thousands of Filipinos began to immigrate from the Philippines to the United States, but more specifically, California or Hawaii. As immigrants, they had a hard time finding a job, so most of [Show More]

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