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AJ: How important is that to collaborate with ethnic communities like you had mention during the presentation the Hispanic, and now possibly the Asian market?
RD: It’s very important but it’s not just ethnic. Banks are supposed to be in the community. In the original days, 150 years ago, when banking started it was all about helping the community. Banks basically took money from customers that needed to be safely kept and would turn around and lend it to people who have a dream. And a 150 years later, here we are in different communities. What’s so neat about this and Historic Filipinotown and everything that you guys have all done is it gives us another place to find that core or that nerve center so we look forward to opportunities like this to get closer to communities and [the Filipino community] has done a great job creating a place to gather.
AJ: You just toured Historic Filipinotown, what’s your reaction? What do you think of this place?
RD: We did [tour Historic Filipinotown]. It’s great. It seems to me you [Filipinos here] have a great opportunity to tell your story outside of Filipinotown… From what I understand this is the gateway for people as they immigrate into the states, they often come here to this community and what I would say to you is when they move out to the Greater Los Angeles County and Orange County and other places to keep coming back here [to Historic Filipinotown] as their place to keep connected.
AJ: Last question, where do you go from here now that you know about the Filipino community and have attained all this knowledge about us?
RD: Well, I came here with the head of our business in California. We have a number of [Filipino] employees. So we are going to go back and learn more about our own involvement with the Filipino community, Filipinotown, and our own employees who are Filipino. We’ll take this as a learning step to see what we can do more for us, for you [the Filipino community] and together we’ll be better. (Joseph Pimentel)
( Published on April 4, 2009 in Asian Journal Los Angeles p. A1 )
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