KAY CALPO LUGTU
Did you know that Filipinos are probably the only people that test a lightbulb when buying one in a hardware or supermarket? Did you know that we’re probably the only country where a cashier transfers the trouble of giving change to a paying customer by asking him or her for spare coins? In my travels in different countries and having worked in the region, I observed these and other amusing practices among Filipinos that normally aren’t present in other nationalities.