To address accessibility issues, starting March 2025, all tours in Filipino will be offered for FREE! For our ‘why,’ please seethis post. Please bear with us as we slowly, but very surely, reproduce each tour in the local language. ...
Philippine wheat, then, presents two contradictions. First is the long delay in its initial cultivation, despite its importance to the colony. Second is its lackluster reception and ultimate rejection as a cultivar, despite its ritualistic importance to an increasingly Christianized colony. To understan...
In many circumstances, remittances are so large that they can carry the po- tential for a "Dutch disease" type of phenomena; however, it appears that Morocco is not experiencing Dutch disease effects (Bouoiyour 2013). At the microeconomic level, these results are consistent with remittances ...
WhyILoveDisrespectingMyElders Coming from a Filipino family‚myparents taught me to use “po” and “opo” every timeIwill be talking to elders and of course‚ to never dare to talk back— constantly telling me that these show respect. In addition‚myformer teachers would also repeat to...
SCHOR: The curse of Babel is an existential condition in which we live every day. WEBER: This is both the blessing and the burden: the large number of languages; and different societies dealt with it in different ways. SCHOR: We use language to communicate, but we cannot rely on it to...
Dutch is really his first language as he was raised there his whole life and it was difficult sometimes while traveling — the biggest time I noticed it was when we were in bars…local girls would treat him like scum — even in the expat bars, because they assumed he was local Chinese ...