We Filipinos are Mild Drinkers Analysis
The literary text "We Filipinos are Mild Drinkers" written by Alejandro Roces is a piece that talks about the time shared between two characters having a conversation over some drinks. The characters were of two different races, one is Filipino while the other an American who is called Joe all throughout the piece. It was set during a time where the Americans were coming back around the Philippines as mentioned in the piece. The Filipinos were at good terms with the Americans during these times as it was during peace times that the story took place, there were still some Americans stationed around the Philippines and the farmers would often see them. In the piece the Filipino farmer was just going about his daily tasks of tending to the crops in the field when an American was passing by that invited him to come drink some whiskey with him; the Filipino declined and instead offered the American a drink common to the Philippines at the time, the "Lambanog", the au...