How Filipinos in America sent love home via Balikbayan box

PHOENIX (AP) — Since the 1970s, almost every Filipino household in America has sent love back home, whether by hauling balikbayan boxes in person or mailing them to relatives back in the Philippines. These balikbayan packages that held goodies from the U.S. were seen as an expression of love and support during hard economic times. “Balik” and “bayan,” Tagalog for “return” and “homeland,” respectively, was what President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. called the tourism initiatives he established in 1973. After declaring martial law a year earlier, he wanted to compel Filipino immigrants to come back and visit and further “legitimize his […]... Keep on reading: How Filipinos in America sent love home via Balikbayan box

Original source: Philippine Daily Inquirer