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By Rome Jorge, Lifestyle
Editor
Let us depress you with a
situationer. The greed of both oligarchs and besotted consumerists
in America who spent money they didn’t have and sold the debt
along with its supposedly lucrative interest to foreigners the world
over are now dragging the entire global economy down the drain. And
there’s nothing that the likes of us—ordinary folk in this small
nation—can do.
In the 21st century, the world
belongs to Asia. And we Filipinos still won’t belong. We were
wannabe westerners for all of the 20th century. In the new
millennium, we are the most un-Asian of Asians, stilly identifying
more closely to the values and culture to westerners than to fellow
Asians. People still don’t know what to make of our polyglot
culture. In a world full of Chinese, Thai and Indian restaurants,
the world knows little of the Philippines save for stereotype of
nattering illegal immigrants converging at their parks on Sundays.
Our culture is the only way we can distinguish ourselves from the
global competition. And yet we all-too-easily assimilate foreign
cultures and loose our identity.
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