books.google.com - "The Filipino diaspora is at least 400 years old. Since the sixteenth century, Filipinos have been going to foreign lands to find their place in the sun. In the beginning they were known as the Manila Men. It was only in the nineteenth century that they assumed their present identity as Filipinos." "For...http://books.google.com/books/about/Manila_Men_in_the_New_World.html?id=OSqhZphG_gQC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareManila Men in the New World
