THE late journalist Alex Tizon’s moving and very personal account of “his family’s slave” – the domestic helper who served three generations of his family for 56 years – published in The Atlantic this week, has set off a storm of debate, cultural recriminations, and, one would hope, a bit of national soul-searching. That is on both the part of the Philippines, from where both Tizon and his utusan hailed, and the US, where they lived and worked.
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