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  • I have a mental image of pensioner and desperado, but this word has different meanings used in the Philippines or Panama

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    In the Phillipines, it's a sponsored student who studies overseas.  In Panama it's retirees who get a visa.
    Word is totally not a Pensioner tornado.

    December 14, 2015

  • Pensive afficionado.

    December 14, 2015

  • The colonial government also established scholarships for academically gifted Filipino men to pursue their college educations in the United States. These young scholars, who were better known as pensionados, studied everything from economics to politics to agriculture at American universities. In exchange for their free education, the United States required that these men return to the Philippines and serve as teachers, engineers and civil servants.
    Anthony Christian Ocampo, The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race (Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 2016), ch. 2.

    July 2, 2016