far out in the north atlantic. the faroe islands surprisingly filipino women comprise the largest ethnic minority here some 10000 kilometers from their homeland i don't know how they found the car and it's raining so hard to get . on to net found different traditions the love of her life and a new life awaiting her on the faroes so she's thrilled to celebrate all ahsoka the island's national holiday she's donning the national dress of the pharaohs for the 1st time i feel so proud to wear it because everybody in the 3 percent. so i thought for in there and i feel brave relates to a national costume. for you for you here's.

your antonette has created a new life for herself. to be with her great love reagan egg kong she left the philippines and all she knew behind her for the last 5 years the faroe islands have been her new home. coming from the tropics adjusting to life in the chilly north atlantic was a real culture shock. it rains $300.00 days a year in the farrows. at the height of summer temperature reaches just 12 degrees celsius. and in the winter it's only light for a few hours each day. i know how it feels to me i know because the 1st time i had an fire and i thought there are not going to be north or going to be there in the far right so i was just like going to grad thing

that. i can borrow i love ny and think oh how can i make friends they don't understand my and i'm ways i don't understand their language. on time that reagan 1st met on cyprus she was working in a hotel there and he was a guest on holiday for 2 years they wrote e-mails and phone one another then on to net talked up her courage and followed reagan to the pharaoh's a year after they married their daughter was born. on tonight's mother has come all the way from manila to the pharaoh's to meet her 24th grandchild. the whole family is looking forward to the baby's baptism but naturally she'll be

wearing the national dress of the pharaohs. that fits right. say hello. how are you jim. the baptism has proved a bit of a challenge for antonette there's one fair always custom she still struggles with yes she already had the name but the follow the through the fire while it's the secret we are not allowed to. sell it to anyone not less. the only allowed to say it's already in the service and we are ready to give her and him being the pins when you get pregnant you already thinking of her name i do the same i was so because i can love you i

feel like i can have her name. but antonette has resigned herself to waiting until the baptism. in the meantime she makes the most of the few hours of sunshine. her husband rake in as a pharmacist. he spends most of his free time working on the house and torch on the capital of the fair islands. the 1st time reagan told her where he lived until it had absolutely no idea what to expect. she'd never even heard of the pharaoh islands. i thought fire island their fire part of it so i was thinking oh you're. thinking of. all the stuff. but he said this part of denmark and i need to google. denmark. and looking very spyro i like my kind of crying.

and then i go far i learn. denmark at the end and i guess you know my going to try to go all the very far away from denmark. and even farther away from internet home city of manila. the capital of the philippines boasts some 13000000 residents barely 20000 live and her new hometown. the pharaohs comprise 18 islands made of volcanic rock. some pity 1000 people call this european outpost home. but living on an island surrounded by a unspoiled nature can get lonely at times. especially for the men who far outnumber women on the faroes for years young women have been leaving the pharaohs to study and start a new life abroad the men left behind practice traditional professions and abide by

traditional gender roles. at the port of tour schollers morton johana says sells his catch of the day. his father and grandfather were also fisherman it's tough work for the guys but that's not what fair always women are looking for these days ya pay a quarter you know so i just fell. times of change. when i was young it was totally different but i spend i'm going to spend today young women are mainly looking for excitement in the farrows doesn't have as much to offer them as denmark from germany or france for example if you have. more 10 son andreas is also a fisherman his generation in particular is affected by the shortage of women on the pharaohs on trances single but many of his friends have partners from southeast asia. to. the most of the money out often enough these days it's easy to

find a beautiful young woman like you sit down on the computer click enter and they're right there on the floor and there's a big difference between them going fairly easily with a filipino you go all around in circles loaded she cooks orleans and does laundry for a lot of the store. while many ferro east women are leaving the islands philippinas are arriving and taking their place. bang lee thomas among them. she was one of the 1st filipino women to come to the very world my 1st day i was told hired jetlag and. dark and snow. i'm like. so i been seen so much neighbor that time i didn't plan to stay here for just the tribal war

. but also for my ex. for 12 years bang lived her dream life she found love security and started a family. as the mother of 2 daughters she enjoyed her life on the remote pharaohs. but when she discovered her husband was cheating on her on able to accept this she worked up the courage to separate from him since then life hasn't been easy to house it is so much memories again i just stay in the house so i just try i like driving alone. then i can my life my locks now but if you are going to assume. if you're in the you mean.

you. bang wasn't prepared to give up a life she made for herself on the pharaoh's. for you. but she refused to stay with her husband purely for financial reasons so she's found work to support herself and her children. why didn't they create anything maybe add some changes i would do it but i don't think that. it's a very good then i would. i don't maybe there's something in to say. no i don't think that and it's good that i'm satisfied right now no. bank has only ever returned to the philippines wants with her

daughters and johana that's because bank considers the faroes to be her home. she supports her parents in the philippines whenever she can. but never for a 2nd did she consider returning there after her separation. i miss my parents but. i don't miss. i think i'm content with my children my my children. by contrast and she do indeed have since truman wanted nothing more than to leave the parents. like many paralysed women of her generation she headed for denmark as soon as she finished school. after attending university in roskilde she landed

a job in copenhagen. it was more exciting than life in the farrows. that's why many young fairlie's women never return. though in she luhan has. out just to save a life here can be very constraining compared to the big cities it's completely different here so i just wanted to get away and leave it all behind me. that was the main reason why i left back there everything was just too small but after a time i realize that no matter where i go the life here will always be a part of me. and i guess so when she was 24 inches low and decided to return. she was homesick and long to raise a family on the ferry. 3 years ago she entered fair always has been tied to or moved back. not long afterwards their son when he was born.

in june is striving to be an independent and emancipated woman in this traditional society. so certainly. in the past it was a huge problem that the women left and didn't come back how. they are. but i think that things are slowly changing here that someone like me has returned to the islands in their mid twenty's is actually quite unusual i say to a full time mother. for now she's on a mission into the one aims to become a role model for a new generation of self-confidence they're always women. that's why she's running for parliament. she aims to make the pharaoh's a place women no longer feel the need to run away from a place with opportunities equal opportunities freedom we have our leverage that

are not there. at. 32 after being away for so long it was really important for me to return to the pharaoh's broke down that flirting here i realized i can make a bigger difference here than i could in copenhagen or elsewhere. i come from here i know the place and i know how things work now i want to use that to change a few things on the islands there and we are back with spit on them off. her goal is to become the 1st woman under the age of 38 in the new parliament she says it's time to do away with all gender roles. today she's taking to the streets of the capital torsion to get her message out and you know when is the face of a new generation and a new era. you know what this is that she was.

the remote islands are starting to move with the times. this is a pharaoh pride parade held in torch on. not long ago such an event would have been unheard of here for angelou and the parade is an important sign that mindset search changes. yeah yeah yeah it's a fabulous sign that so many people are here to show we don't want to go back to the last century and we want the fairest to be an even more open and colorful country and. that's a great feeling it's fantastic. yeah it was. colorful weir and modern. angelou once hopes for a more diverse future aren't shared by all fair always people.

and reagan's house things are more traditional. got the national holidays just around the corner one on 2 and that's where the traditional dress for the 1st time . seems absolutely beautiful wearing that i've always felt that we swim and look better than the federalist men but especially the foreign women see you my wife wearing the skull sorry. i think a fall fell in love or again when i thought that for antonette the national dress is more than just a garment i feel so proud to wear. every my beauty and to think that all for you so i thought for in there i feel regulates the way national costume. so you feel included.

it's very important for me. feeling you belong and are part of society. that was much tougher for the 1st filipinos who came to the pharaohs some 2 decades ago. i think paris people they are used to hearing the far we're not invincible anymore because we are growing. around 200 filipinas now live on the pharaohs. they form the largest group of newcomers many have also brought relatives or female friends to the islands. the filipino community here holds regular get togethers which are very important to antoinette. so sometimes it's lonely not to have i believe you know. although we are included in.

the feel very. feel home to be with something we know you here is a long ways they're talking to you is the same food that you miss. those kind of stuff. it's really nice to have a community. all of her girlfriends have their always partners. today they've come to me to answer that's new baby girl. i would love for you because i like the life of. the libyans i would not feel safe for her to go out in the night time and i am not sure if you come back a lot of those kind of thing here in the far islands you can go anywhere and. the war is still out even to them. my because i know it's very safe. it's a good. race if i'm going to my right. meanwhile bang is

raising her children on the pharaoh's without relying on a man's help. she's found work at a facility for children with disabilities today she's training a new colleague. bang has worked hard to get where she is today she studied to become a social educator at the university of the pharaoh islands and was the only philippine a students enrolled there. it's very common for foreigners to work in. this society. but then i get my dream. big dreams that's why i haven't scored study. after separating from her husband bang knows that marrying a fairly is man doesn't necessarily guarantee a secure future. so she's learned to stand on her own 2 feet it helped that she didn't just have friends in the filipino community but also mixed with the locals

you can love if you don't know which. child ends in a good thing for challenge because here i have to use the fairest language also in your id but they are very michael. i think i mean. there's a step. forward all but i'm probably where i am now. it's the evening before the fairly easy national holiday thing has invited her colleagues to dinner they love the filipino dishes she prepares. them for being the food they so would and i think it's so many where i think of. i feel like i'm in philippines it's more that we are able to make to be more

forward thinking before it's so. this was how you could. store hearing or. after 12 years of marriage raising 2 children and separating from her husband bangs creating another life for herself. for many years on the pharaohs have made her into a woman knows exactly what she wants and no longer feels she's just another filipino on the pharaoh's. she's become truly fair elise herself. i've been the one for you. i want to grow old. i was. on the internet and rake in are getting ready for the national holiday. a special delicacy is on the menu and whale meat. and naturally enough

arrows slicing it is a man's job. even after spending 5 years in the farrows senate still finds some of the island's traditions hard to stomach. so that there could. be hope. and answer that still isn't entirely sure what they celebrate on the national holiday. they're celebrating. there we thank. king or saint if you're going over a long way and this is that they well they will skip. so they are actually living

right so you are celebrating when he was here yes this is that they won the right to you know i an afterlife. or not serco which means st olaf sway is the most important day of the year in the pharaohs everyone comes out to celebrate this national holiday. it's been a fair always tradition since the 13th century. was i. come. to you you come to all the oh you know. and she was here to before she felt obliged to attend but since her return to the pharaohs she's glad to come she sees how the islands are changing. their day here dad and i guess you know just being here today is something special for her i came home specially

for the national holiday everything in our 1st because they know that i'm heading here again it's just different and it feels right i absolutely want to stay here. for it was. this is the 1st time aunt annette has worn her fair always national dress in public. she's been waiting for this moment for days. i feel so happy and the weather through the nicer day and it adds up everything it's a happy. well there's a beautiful day here we're going to be more lucky with the weather and having my wife and my daughter with me is just fantastic but i don't see anyone else yeah. they reached the city center just in time. for the big parade. is about to begin the highlight of the festivities.

and tonight this right at home. they're always men and women have come from all around to see and be seen. and to celebrate together. used to be the day when the marriage minded would i prospective spouses. these days people flock here from around the world. there always are opening up. one of europe's most remote regions shows how integration can work. thankfully tung has also found her place in fairly society. this is her 18th all of

sitka and she plans to take part for years to come. she has other plans too. i was running for get the nod they give me then i can apply for another job group a more. it's better for our future. if i must i will be along with my kids then i have to have more or. haha you say it's. mark extra i can offer you. what about a new husband. up them up but i'm not.

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