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Well, Halloween is over. Today is the UNICEF day... time to donate some "Old Presidents" as this United Nation's organization helps educate and nourish young minds in developing countries. Yes, I still cannot forget those years in the early 60s, when I helped my grade school teacher-mom, opened those huge tins of golden cheese and bags of powdered whole milk from the UNICEF. To many Filipinos, who live in the rural areas, cheese was never a part of their meals; hence, cheese was absolutel... Read More
With an advanced education in sociology and anthropology, I commend Channel 18’s Kababayan LA, the only live Filipino TV program in California, for talking about the issues on ethnicity, particularly on the identity as perceived by three young Filipino-American guests, who are offspring of interracial couples. Unfortunately, I also have to spurn the statement of the host that the Filipino food is not healthy. Excuse me? That’s an ostensible label of negative stereotype and outright over-... Read More
Winding up my blog on the Olympics was suppose to be my topic this mid-week; however, the report on the toilet problem, which I read on Weekend Balita (Aug. 23-26 issue)caught my attention. The Associated Foreign Press report on the toilet problem was from the World Water Week forum, which was participated by 2,500 sanitation experts, recently held in Stockholm, Sweden. Checking theinternet on the issue, I also found the following: 1) It was reported by World Health Organization... Read More
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