Espiritu's subjects document their changing sense of Filipino identity in the United States, much as Bulosan did as a member of the first substantial wave of immigrants.

There are several ways to map the identity, such as looking it up from a database, using an algorithm, and so on; these techniques are beyond the scope of this document.

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