There are countries where everything follows logic. And then there’s the Philippines. Here, logic doesn’t exactly disappear – it simply finds a different job and starts working under a completely different set of rules. The longer you live here, the more often you encounter what I like to call the Filipino paradox. The Filipino paradox…
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In the previous post, I listed the most common (yet often completely wrong) stereotypes about the Philippines and Filipinos. But that was only half the story. So here’s the rest – another five stubborn misconceptions that sometimes contain a grain of truth but collapse like a poorly built sandcastle when applied to an entire nation…
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Is the Philippines truly a place where you can live like a “king” on a thousand dollars a month? Is it inherently dangerous? Is every Filipino genuinely happy, all the time? Many of the assumptions Westerners hold about the country – its cost of living, safety, or the nature of its people – are due…