The gratitude toward Americans is immense and sometimes embarrassing in its manifestations.

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Okay, it can get embarrassing sometimes, but it's not the maids' fault if immigration officers constantly suspect Filipinos of sneaking into their countries on tourist visas to work as maids.

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Like, it was so embarrassing that, you know, it's like sometimes you're kind of like looking for that area where you're, like, being subversive and sneaking in, and this was one of those ones where we kind of felt like we should've changed our name to DeHo.

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They fight and clash and sometimes you still get a great movie ( consider Apocalypse Now) but often you get an embarrassing mess on the screen.

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