Can you suggest some solutions for the problems you have mentioned before?
As most people are friendly and helpful, don't get discourage and keep trying to make new friends and have fun
To be included in a Filipino community, or to be visited by family or vice versa, to have Filipino food every now and then
Frequent homecomings. Obviously this would cost a lot of money, but if you had the option to study abroad, you are assumed to be in the upper middle class in Filipino society.
Not really, since they solve themselves through experience