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Stories of Filipino Artisanship

As Filipinos, we take so much pride in being good English speakers. Foreign luxury brands are what’s reputable when it comes to standard and quality. Our measure of success is global recognition. Although our soul remains rooted in our homeland, we crave to speak the language of the world. Zooming out of these things, they seem acceptable. Harmless, even.

But in retrospect, we need our country and our country needs us now more than ever. Our languages—the code of our identity—comes in several forms and are found in different facets. With the emergence of pushing Filipinos for a global mindset, we are lost in translation on how

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