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The Antique Circle U. S. A., Inc.

Antique Circle U.S.A (ACUSA) is a duly incorporated, non-stock, non-profit and non-sectarian organization of Antiqueños living in America. Its members are based in the southern counties of California in Los Angeles (L.A.), Orange, Long Beach, San Bernardino, Riverside, Ventura, Lancaster, San Diego and Las Vegas, Nevada in the United States of America.

Antiqueños are people living in, or coming from, Antique which is one of the provinces in the Philippines. (The latest 2007 census says there are 480,000 documented Filipinos and Filipino-Americans in southern California, 370,000 of them in the Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties alone.) Persons with a strong bond to Antique by reason/s of birth, marriage, residence or adoption are also invited to join the association.

Antiqueños speak a distinct Philippine dialect called Kinaray-a. It is one of the world's few surviving ancient languages spoken in Antique and most of Panay Island.

Antique is pronounced "An (as in APPLE) - ti (as in TEA) - que (as in KELP, if used in English or as in KEY, if used in the native dialect Kinaray-a)",

ACUSA's Objectives

1. To provide a forum for the members to interact and exchange ideas in order to assess their needs

2. To identify and, if possible, help solve the pressing problems of the members, especially the new immigrants to the U.S.

3. To initiate and formulate programs and activities that will provide members with opportunities for intellectual, social, cultural and spiritual growth

4. To promote cooperation among members to undertake community improvement projects in Antique and U.S.A. with emphasis on the intellectual and cultural areas

5. To help fund scholarships to Philippine and U.S. schools for poor but deserving, brilliant and promising Filipinos of Antiqueño descent

San Diego,California U.S.A.

March 2007