This essay explores how Filipino diaspora fashion their identity relating to the home and the home abroad. Due to colonial and postcolonial history of the Philippines, its people have been compelled to migrate to the new home. Their experience of border crossing and making home in the U.S. incites them to have specific relationship with the homeland and the U.S. In Talk-Story, Filipino diaspora have specific links with the old and new home. Although Frank and his daughter Dee have disparate configuration of space because of generational gap, their predicaments as Filipino diaspora are overlapped. Frank was forced to leave home when the Philippines was colonized by the U.S. and experienced institutional discrimination of the US society in the past. Dee's present situation which is juxtaposed with her father's trajectories of life verifies that she cannot have stable association with the U.S. Being diaspora also signifies that their mother tongue becomes foreign language in the new home. On the one hand, Filipino diaspora accommodate to the dominant values and ideology delivered by English. On the other hand, they employ their vernacular to establish their Filipino self. Through the Filipino language taught by father, Dee can learn Filipino heritage. Importantly, Dee's complicated relationship to the Philippines and the U.S. make her develop diasporic consciousness which empowers her to disrupt the dominant ideology of the U.S.
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