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Last January, Jay Jaboneta flew to Montpellier, a city in Southern France. He packed his story of a modern-day version of the Filipino practice of bayanihan.
He was to be a speaker at a TEDx event, an independently-organized TED-like event. This particular TEDx program focused on how new and digital technology has reinvented and affected life.
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There’s an elevated level of feistiness in Anna Oposa. It may be indicative of her age: just recently turned 24 and barely a year out of college.
But that’s beside any point.
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You’re from the Philippines! You must know how to dance!” I was at a wedding in Los Angeles and was trying to blend into the wallpaper the best I could. An old lady was pulling me to the dance floor, insisting I join a folks strutting their stuff. Because I have no rhythm in my body, I slowly sank b...
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Over a cup of coffee,
a foreign classmate, a French girl in a student-exchange program, confided to us about her Filipino neighbor whose penchant for singing puzzled her.
“Don’t get me wrong,” she immediately clarified, “I love my neighbor. He’s a fun dude. But my first days here, he just drove me cra...
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We encounter a lot of heroes everyday – the unlikely, the overlooked, the quiet ones who may speak in whispers but are strong in the lessons they silently teach us. Their names may not be found in school text books or the front page of the news, but they influence our lives more directly.
They are th...
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