ABSTRACT
At least a fifth of the total patronage of the taxi-dance halls in Chicago has come from the Filipino group. These young men, more than half of them under twenty-five years of age when entering America 1 and very few married, 2 are quickly attracted to these halls. Alone in a foreign land, far from the rather simple family and community life in the Philippines to which they have been accustomed, and with very few young women of their own race in the United States, 3 it is not surprising that many have been drawn to these resorts. Also, the all-important factor of race prejudice must not be overlooked. The Filipino finds himself in a racially hostile society where not only his occupational and professional opportunities are restricted but where he is denied the usual social contacts with young women.
