tv The Faroes Deutsche Welle July 19, 2020 2:30am-3:01am CEST
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discover the i. subscribe to documentary on you too. 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 firelight. 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
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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. so i think for in there i feel regulates the way. here's a few. beers. antonette has created a new life for herself. to be with her great love reagan eg 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
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rains $300.00 days a year in the farrows. at the height of summer temperature reaches just 12 degrees celsius. and in winter it's only light for a few hours each day. i don't know how it feels to be i know because the 1st time i am writing fire and i think there are not going to be no ifs or between us in the far right so i was just like going to grad thing that. i go and borrow i love ny and think oh how can i make friends they don't understand my dang 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 raking to the pharaoh's
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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. as fits right it's time to say hey. hey hey how are you going to. make the baptism has proved a bit of a challenge for antonette there's one fair always custom she still struggles with.
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yes he already had the name but the follow the through the fire while it's the secret we are not allowed to do. so only thing i knew one another less. the only allowed to say is history in the service and we are ready to give her and him being the prince when you get pregnant you already thinking of her name i do the same i was so annoyed because i can let you know who i feel like i can have her name. internet 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.
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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 it's there fire part of it so i was thinking oh you're leaving. all the stuff. but he said this part of denmark and i need to google. denmark. and looking very spiral i love it kind of crying. and then i go far i learn. in denmark at the end and i guess you know my grandmother tried to go off the very far away from go mark . 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
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comprise 18 islands made of volcanic rock. some pity 1000 people call this european outpost home. but living on an island surrounded by 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 charlotte motor new honasan 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. hey you tell us what your fell. out the times of change well you knew him but it's not you know when i was young it
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was totally different but i spend a lot of spending today young women are mainly looking for excitement in the farrows doesn't have as much to offer them as denmark germany or france for example which. morton son andreas is also a fisherman his generation in particular is affected by the shortage of women on the pharaohs andreas is single but many of his friends have partners from southeast asia. to the looks of the models often enough these days it's easy to find a beautiful young woman you sit down on the computer with a click to enter and they're right there on the floor and there's a big difference between them going for always one. with a filipino you go all around circles loaded she cooks orleans and does laundry for involves them. while many ferro east women are leaving the islands philippinas are arriving and
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taking their place. mainly thomas among them. she was one of the 1st filipino women to come to the barracks. my 1st day i was horrified jetlag and. dark. i'm like we don't like so i've been seen so much nature that time i didn't plan to stay here for just the tribal war. like. 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
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why it hasn't been easy the house is so much memories thing again i just think. oh i just try i like driving alone and. then. my life my locks now. if you are going to be soon. if you're in the army. you. bang wasn't prepared to give up the life she made for herself on the pharaohs. but she refused to stay with her husband purely for financial reasons so she's found work to support herself and her children.
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i didn't regret anything mean being some changes i would do but i don't think that it would. if i could then i would. i don't maybe there's something in. me no i don't regret and it's good that i'm satisfied right now the. bank has only ever returned to the philippines wants with her daughters carina 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 missed my parents but i missed me i thought. i don't miss.
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i think i'm here with my children my. my children. by contrast and she do indeed have since truman wanted nothing more than to leap 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 faroes. that's why many young fairlie's women never return. though in loon has. out just said 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 like everything was just too small
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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 had her 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
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the islands in their mid twenty's is actually quite unusual fate your mother. for now she's on a mission. and you're 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 may have our leverage that are not our best lunch or at. 32 after being away for so long it was really important for me to return to the pharaoh's protonix floating here i realized i can make a bigger difference here than i could in copenhagen or elsewhere. i come from here here i know the place and i know how things work now i want to use that to change a few things on the island there and we are back with spit on them off.
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her goal is to become the 1st woman under the age of $38.00 in the new parliament. she says it's time to do away with old gender roles. today she's taking to the streets of the capital tor shot to get her message out and you know one is the face of a new generation and a new era. there was 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
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the last century we want the fairest to be an even more open era kind of country and. that's a great feeling it's been tested. yeah it was. colorful weir and modern. angelo ones hopes for a more diverse future aren't shared by all ferals people. and reagan's house things are more traditional all about soak up the national holidays just around the corner when antonette where the traditional dress for the 1st time. looks absolutely beautiful wearing that i've always felt that we swim and look better than the fairest man but especially the foreign women see you my wife wearing those clothes i know i think
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of for fell in love all over again when i thought that for antonette the national dress is more than just a garment. probably where. everybody. in the theater. so i thought for in there. relates there were national costs. for you feel included. and if you're wearing it. sort of 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. they are used. were no more because we are growing.
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around 200 filipinos 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 aunt annette. 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 there's thought here is the same food that you miss. those kind of. it's really nice to have a community. all of her girlfriends health care always partners. today they've come to me to answer that's new baby girl. i would love for you
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because i like the life. there if you did good libyans i will not feel safe or hurt in the night time and i am not sure if you come back alive those of us here in the far islands you can go anywhere and. the war is still outside even in my head because i know it's very. good. to raise my right. meanwhile bank 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 student and wrote there. it's very common for foreigners to work in fish it's not
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necessary. but then i get my dream. big dreams that's why i haven't school 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 be integrated if you don't know the nun which. child ends in a good thing for challenge because here i have to use the fairest language also in their id but they are very michael leunig so i think i mean. there's a step. i'm proud of where i am now. it's
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the evening before the pharaoh he's national holiday bang has invited her colleagues to dinner they love the filipino dishes she prepares. the bring the food they so good and i think it's so many where i think of things. i feel like i'm in favor of beads it's one of the we are able to be more forward thinking before it's so. obvious but now you can find a store here in our lives on. after 12 years of marriage raising 2 children 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 to say no longer feels she's just another
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filipino on the parents. she's become truly fair elise herself. i have a new one for you. i want to grow all. the internet and rake in are getting ready for the national holiday. a special delicacy is on the menu and whale meat. and naturally in the farrows slicing it is a man's job. even after spending 5 years in the farrows and it still finds some of the island's traditions hard to stomach.
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for your. mom. and aunt and that still isn't entirely sure what they celebrate on the national holiday. they're celebrating. they're always thankful not. king will say if you are away and this is that they want he will skip. so there are actually right so you are celebrating when he was here yes this is that they won the right 29 of july. only serco which means st olaf sway is the most important day of the year in the fair us everyone comes out to celebrate this national holiday. it's been a fair always tradition since the 13th century. was i.
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come to you you come. oh you. know. and she was here to the before she felt obliged to attend but since her return to the pharaohs she's glad to come as she sees how the islands are changing. their day here and with that i ask you just being here today is something special for me i came home specially for the national holiday everything in our 1st 2nd thing now 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 mountain that has worn her fair always national dress in public. she's been waiting for this moment for days. after stopping and the weather through the nicer day and if you add up everything that's happening.
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well it's a beautiful day here we cannot 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 is right at home. there always men and women have come from all around to see and be seen and to celebrate together. the used to be the day when the marriage minded would
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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 tongue has also found her place and fairly society. this is her 18th all of sitka and she plans to take part for years to come and she has other plans to. i was planning for get the nod they began then i can apply for another job or pay more. it's better for our future. if my mother and i will be along with my kids and i have going to have more or. higher you say it's mark extra i can offer it but. what about
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