A country that’s traditionally Roman Catholic, but where the society is also very tolerant towards all LGBTs. This includes, of course, transgender people and ladyboys. There are also local Filipino terms that could be equivalent to the Thai Kathoey, such as “bakla” or “bayot” which ...
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That changed with the 1997 Asian financial crisis, when the Asia Pacific idea was challenged by a turn towards East Asian regionalism. This was prompted in large part by resentment against the United States for its unwillingness to help crisis-hit Southeast Asia and its heavy-handed rejection of...
» The Matthias Church is the Catholic Church within the Buda Castle, built in the second half of the 14th century in a magnificent late Gothic style. » The bell tower of the Matthias Church is 80 meters high, so that’s the tallest building of Buda Castle. » Almost the entire...
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because living in the United States in this century is just so soul-searingly damaging for such persons of color, having to associate with whites… Which brings to my mind an interesting speculation – what if parents of white, Asian or Jewish students at public schools – especially the ...
daimyō, the portuguese sailors returned a few years later, bringing with them missionaries, among them the jesuit priest francis xavier. within fifty years the catholic church, now also represented by spanish franciscans and dominicans, was claiming some 600,000 christian converts. the centre of...
In 1984, 99 Ranch Market opened its first store in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Westminster, California, an Orange County town. It is family owned and now the largest Asian supermarket chain in the country, with more than 50 stores, mostly in California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, and...
“In Asia, [people] think that Macao is full of casinos, and I think they do not understand the other parts of Macao,” says Lai. “When I go to Europe, when I say I come from Macao, actually they don’t know where it is, so I have to say it’s a small city next to Hong...