Business

FilAm ARTS, the organization who brings us Southern California's Festival of Philippine Arts and Culture (FPAC) every year, just launched a new campaign to stimulate Pilipino American businesses - Buy Pinoy.  This campaign connects Pil-Am owned businesses and Pil-Am customers in a network of mutual support. 
As you might know, many Pilipino Americans are taking the opportunity in this chaotic economy to become business leaders, and many of the services and products you find at a mainstream shop are also provided locally by Pilipino American entrepreneurs.  

Pilipinos have been subject to the lack of relevant exposure in mainstream media.  Many aspiring actors and actress have been typecasted in roles such as a leader of a child gang of misfits, a ninja turtle accomplice, and many other non-Pilipino characters.  Other than films like "The Debut" and "Lumpia," when do Pilipino Americans actually play...Pilipinos?  The last couple of years have been great in terms of representing Pilipino talent in singing, dancing, and the arts.  But what about Pilipinos on the main stage as a character portraying their own ethnicity? 

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