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 are five more stubborn misconceptions that sometimes contain a grain of truth but collapse like a poorly built sandcastle when applied to an entire nation of more…
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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…