Geschichten und Deutungen der Herkunft und der<br/>Identität von migrantisch gefärbtem Leben.<br/>“We not only inherit the life that our parents built for us in their new<br/>chosen home, but also a responsibility to bear the torch and put<br/>our stamp on their legacy. Not entirely Filipino, not exactly Austrian,<br/>we are the sons and daughters of a third culture—the global citizen<br/>whose home is not one place, not one culture, not one language<br/>but a beautiful and colorful quilt of all our combined identities.”<br/>(Gerard Rababa, designer, marketing professional, communications executive)<br/>“I started suppressing my Filipino roots in school. The less foreign I seemed,<br/>the better—or so I thought. At home, I felt that I was being constantly<br/>reminded that I wasn’t the kind of Filipina that I should be. The older I<br/>got, the more I became aware of the world and myself. I was silencing<br/>me and my version. I realized that I was silencing my authenticity.”<br/>(Chelsea Amada)<br/>„Ich habe mit den beiden Kulturen in mir zu kämpfen gehabt.<br/>Es gibt Eigenschaften, die auf den Philippinen gutgeheißen<br/>werden, in Österreich nicht. Aber ich bin eben so.“<br/>(Cynthia „Cindy“ Kurleto, Model, Schauspielerin)<br/>“This book is doing a great service to both the Filipino community and (as a<br/>part of) Austrian and German society: that of raising awareness for the values<br/>of the diversity of culture, mentality, and social origin for the communalization of <br/>individual life’s destinies and life endeavors, as they are demanded of all of us.”<br/>(Thomas A. Bauer, Professor emeritus, University of Vienna)