Filipinology on Ben Cayetano, etc. Most public offices are held by Japanese Americans, and in the private sector, Filipino Americans occupy the lowest job slots. It's also common to see a Pinoy customer in a McDonald's restaurant or a supermarket being yelled at by the cashier, not for his grammatically correct English but for speaking it with a Filipino accent.
Many Pinoy oldtimers suffer being treated as newcomers.
Interestingly, Ben Cayetano draws the majority of his political supporters from the Asian American communities. His 1998 gubernatorial rival, a Caucasian, had a mostly Caucasian following. The old man Bonifacio, an Ilocano from Pangasinan, reportedly began work in Hawaii's sugar plantations, after substituting for his cousin who was the real Cayetano.