“Ubos, ubos biyaya, mayat maya’y nakatunganga.” From my wife’s collection of Tagalog proverbs. “The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot. By Rey Moreno Grace loved her family so much. So at age 17, she decided to look for a job… Read More »
Did you know that Canada was referred to as the most gay-friendly country in the world? Canada was ranked first in the Gay Travel Index chart in 2018, and among the five safest in Forbes magazine in 2019. This is supported by the fact that 85% of Canada’s general population had favoured social acceptance of homosexuality as revealed… Read More »
Q. Greetings attorney, ako po Juana. May itatanong lang po ako about sa real property. Bali yung tita ko po kasi, namatay na at meron po syang naiwang property. Wala po syang anak at asawa. Noong araw, ako po ang kasama nya sa buhay. Bali inampon nya po ako at inalagaan nya ako. Hanggang sa mag asawa ako… Read More »
The term “America First” has been bandied about in the US for so long that nobody knows what it really stands for today. After Trump was kicked out of presidential politics last November, remnants of the Trump political family have been struggling to create a new identity for themselves. But none of the top Republicans that include Senate… Read More »
Little did 26-year-old Ana Patricia Non realize that by organizing a bamboo makeshift food bank on a street would make her a celebrity and, ironically, at the same time put her in hot water. All she did was bring to life the time-tested Filipino “bayanihan spirit” of helping people in need. It all began on April 14, 2021… Read More »
According to Wikipedia, “The melting pot is a monocultural metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, the different elements ‘melting together’ with a common culture; an alternative being a homogeneous society becoming more heterogeneous through the influx of foreign elements with different cultural backgrounds, possessing the potential to create disharmony within the previous culture. Historically, it is… Read More »
Hmmm. Looks like fun. How is pandemic jargon understood? Stop the Spread – Does not work on a peanut butter and jam sandwich. Super Spreader – Yummy! (See above.) Public Health Protocols – Rules to LIVE by. Frontliners – Responsible people who work better when those they serve desire to be safer. Stay Home – When adults worry… Read More »
In my column, “Quo Vadis, Tea Party?” (December 14, 2012), I wrote: “Is the Republican Party in disarray? No. Is it dysfunctional? Probably, yes. Is it crumbling? Not yet. Yes, at the rate the bloodletting is going on, the Grand Old Party of Abraham Lincoln is going through like what ‘Honest Abe’ went through during his tumultuous presidency—a… Read More »
In my groundbreaking quantitative modeling study of 620 Bicolano women from Bicol Region, Philippines, I proposed that religion as a way of life encourages people to strive for other values. Consequently, these values yield profound societal impacts. For instance, the practice of religion has been associated with gender-role stereotypes. Illustratively, Filipino feminist scholars regard Roman Catholicism as a… Read More »
Trivia: The recent celebration of the 500th anniversary of Christianity in the Philippines brought by Spain in 1521 brings back the religious nature of the Filipinos. At that, from the early ‘50s, local movie bigwigs produced films with religious theme, all resounding money makers. This attested to the hilt the inherent religious nature of Filipinos. Lebran Productions initiated… Read More »