ABSTRACT
The sociologist Zygmunt Bauman delineates the possible life strategies that denizens of the postmodern era can choose: stroller, vagabond, tourist, player. Apropos of the sojourner, Cesar Vallejo writes during his exile in Paris, November 12, 1937: "Acaba de pasar sin haber venido". An alternative to Georg Simmel's hypothesis is the historical case of Spinoza, the archetypal exile. The life history of the national hero Jose Rizal offers one viable paradigm for Filipino intellectuals in exile. In the context of globalized capitalism, the Filipino diaspora acquires a distinctive physiognomy and temper. It is a fusion of exile and migration: the scattering of a people to the ends of the earth, across the planet throughout the sixties and seventies, continuing up to the present. Margie Talaugon of the Filipino American Historical National Society points to Morro Bay as the spot "where Filipino American history started".
