Cebuano speakers make up nearly a fifth of the Philippine population and are the country’s second largest ethnolinguistic group. Despite its widespread use, Cebuano is rarely employed as a literary language, however, it is used in newspapers and cinema. ...
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That is why my father fought a colonial economic system for 37 years – to be able to grow and offer his Dilmah Tea direct from our tea gardens.Purpose –We are a family business, and we exist because of my father’s love for tea but equally because of his desir...
In America, the quality of publicly funded early learning programs is often scrutinized, especially in the pre-K years. I wondered how the Norwegian government makes sure all this public money is in fact leading to high-quality kindergartens that are adequately serving children. While there is co...
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These literary icons are protected from such disturbing deconstructions because they are read less in a context than in an intertext, since literature is understood to be produced by international literary movements according to universal literary "laws." The predominance of "influence" ...
“Puzzling but Not Surprising: Speaking English with Filipinos in the Philippines” suggests that one of the readily available ways to stop inequalities in the Philippines is to stop speaking in English. It starts with a brief history of the country’s pre-colonial legacies, how these legacies ...