As I listened to President Barack Obama’s inaugural address before more than million people in Washington DC and beamed on television screens to billions around the world, I felt a sense of American-ness that I had rarely felt before.

When I am asked who my ancestors are, I readily answer Lapu-Lapu, Jose Rizal, Andres Bonifacio, Gabriela Silang and other Philippine heroes. But now this son of a Kenyan foreign student and a mother from Kan... more >>