Three dialects are of national importance: Cebuano in the southern islands, Ilocano in the north, and Tagalog, the language of the National Capital Region. When Tagalog was chosen as the basis for a national language, Cebuanos refused to use Filipino. "Taglish," a mixture of Filipino and ...
Are you Scared of heights? Or Thrilled? — These 25 death-defying photos will help you to find out. CULTURE | LIFESTYLE Somewhere in Vietnam CULTURE | LIFESTYLE Ken, a Filipino 9-year old boy, and his “NO-Kill” animal shelter. This kid has a big kind heart! CULTURE | LIFESTYLE...
Eiji Niizuma drawing a Super Saiyan Goku's eye along several other Shonen Jump heroes, when explaining that Moritaka has eyes like a manga hero. The silhouette of one of the 5 heroes who appear in the background when Ashirogi Muto (Takagi and Mashiro's pen name) are thinking about creati...
Dennis encouraged me to highlight the importance of the sociocultural perspective and his influence can be seen in my doctoral dissertation. For my dissertation, I investigated the achievement motivation of Filipino students within a sociocultural framework. I focused on social goals, defined as ...
She describes the failure of a community in the Domincan Republic to throw their efforts behind a greenhouse project for vegetables, undertaken without any initial drawing of the community into the project, and without any engagement with issues such as competing burdens on the women's time due ...
Global Care Chains in the Filipino Au Pair Migration to Norway This study explores the phenomenon of Filipino au pair migration to Norway through the lens of the global care chains framework. For the past two decades au pairing has grown alongside other forms of paid domestic labour, also in ...
Welcome to the third and final part of the “TCKs in Love” interview series. Join me as I interview part Chinese-Malaysian, part Filipino-Chinese Third Culture Kid Jackie who is married […] Third Culture Third Culture Kids in love: MaDonna’s story ...
During the Civil War, the key rule about drawing cards to improve one's hand was added. A variation - Stud Poker - appeared at about the same time. There are hundreds of versions of Poker, and the game is played not only in private homes, but also in countless Poker rooms at famous...
The more art that is made, the more it spreads and the more problematic it becomes: we talk about a problem rather than addressing it.’ Here the Filipino artist looks back over his past output, executed in a variety of media, both through the lens of the exhibition’s title and as a...
Mexican, Filipino, and Thai these are just a few of the diverse cultures in this group. To begin with, some interesting aspects of the Mexican culture is that the primary language of the culture is Spanish, the primary religion is Catholicism, and in Mexico one of the popular celebrations ...