Interesting articles on discovering different cultures from around the world
How hospitality in tourism can be delusional to a traveler As I upload photos from my new destination, and write-up the first post for next week I just realized something. I’m coming face to face with a lot of new faces with old problems solved. One of them is about who can you trust when you travel? Not trust …
Continue reading “Delusional happy smiles don’t work with travel”
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Islam in The Philippines is slightly different to Islam elsewhere … same as any other religion really … Islam makes world headlines every other day with many a negative headline. Then again so does the Catholic church. One headlines with terrorism, the other with child abuse. And, in both cases its the minority that’s giving …
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Can you ever really fit in socially when living overseas? As my great quest at social integration when living overseas draws to a close here; I find myself looking for answers to prove me wrong. Call them my last desperate attempts at understanding the psyche of trying to fit into a new country, society and culture in …
Continue reading “When locals get tired of you: social integration gone wrong”
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How to Deal with miscommunication when you travel or live overseas Miscommunication happens in every culture, but is highlighted when you travel or live overseas. Think you know a country well? Speak the language so well that there’s no miscommunication? Good, you’ve only just begun. And, you’ll probably never reach the finish line. Travel & miscommunication go …
Continue reading “The Miscommunication of Travel & Life Overseas”
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Avoiding business mistakes when traveling: lessons learned Strange as it might seem, but learning lessons through travel is relatively easy compared to learning lessons through business and travel combined. I’ve learned a lesson on how not to do business when traveling In each country I pass through, there are a different set of rules. Not …
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Why is The Philippines so far behind the rest of East Asia? Why is The Philippines failing on so many levels when it should, by all accounts, be a major contender in South East Asia? What you might not know, is once upon a time, it was just that, a major economic contender in all …
Continue reading “Philippines vs East Asia, where did it all go wrong?”
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I wasn’t going to write in my journal about such a trivial event like being hit by a taxi. Trivial because, because aside from some arm bruising, I am fine. What happened minutes afterwards is however, leaving a lasting impression on hospitality in The Philippines. Why walking is a virtual crime in the Philippines I walk to many …
Continue reading “I got hit by a taxi, but that’s not the worst thing”
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