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AT one time, I used to think of the 1521 centennial as a once-in-a-lifetime event that would signify the Filipino nation’s coming of age and taking a bow as a new tourism power. We would say to everyone, to the tune of W. H Auden’s line, “Look, world, on these islands, now.”

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