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The theme of “Don't Ever Tell Me You Can't" an autobiographical non-fiction story, is how a young, immigrant female Filipino engineer overcame the nearly insurmountable obstacles of absolute poverty, gender discrimination, racial prejudices, and language barriers and succeed in the non-traditional profession.
At the peak of the Viet Nam war, President Lyndon Johnson invites professional engineers from the free world to immigrate to the United States to alleviate the country’s shortage of engineers. Celia Ruiz, then already an established civil engineer and surveyor in the Philippines, responds. She comes by herself, confident that her $300 pocket money and her education are enough to found a new life in the land of opportunity, or so she thinks. When she sets out to look for a civil engineering job, she immediately realizes that being an Asian woman, she is faced with a formidable wall to climb. S |
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