Expatriate Communities and Their Cultural Influences in the Philippines

[Mercato]

Filmed in the Cook Islands, Rarotonga

[alheaine]

Originally Posted by Mercato

very nice Bora Bora vid. I know the music theme very well, from Out of Africa starring Meryl Streep & Robert Redford.



Bora Bora. The pics here are sharper.


French Polynesia.

I love that movie..

[Mercato]

[Mercato]

The Tahitians seem to use the colour red a lot.

[RepublicaNegrense]

Originally Posted by Mercato

The Tahitians seem to use the colour red a lot.

The same concept as to why our Cordillera peoples and Chinese love red, which is to drive away evil spirits daw.

[Mercato]

Red was one of 3 primary austronesian colours, I suppose. The 2 other primary colours were black and white.

[Mercato]

Guaján


de fonsucu

Imágenes de Guaján en los años posteriores a la ocupación americana y ahora.

Images of Guam in the years after the American invasion and now.

Música: Playas de Guaján, de Arturo Sandoval.
Música: Luna de miel en Guam, de Arturo Sandoval.

[Mercato]

de kuraku3

El Territorio de Guam (llamado también Guaján en español), es una isla en el Pacífico occidental, perteneciente a Estados Unidos como territorio no incorporado. Es uno de los 16 territorios no autónomos bajo supervisión del Comité de Descolonización de las Naciones Unidas, con el fin de eliminar el colonialismo. Guam fue territorio español desde el siglo XVI hasta 1898. Se trata de la más grande y meridional de las Islas Marianas. La capital es Agaña.

Guam tuvo una importancia estratégica para España en el Pacífico, al ser el principal puerto de escala para el Galeón de Manila, que cubría la ruta (Nao de China) transpacífica Acapulco-Manila anualmente. Dicha ruta duró desde 1565 hasta 1820 aproximadamente, cuando se independizaron las principales colonias americanas.

Welcome to Guam. Video postcard of the island of Guam (in the Marianas Islands.) Enjoy images of coconut palm trees, secluded beaches, ancient sites, colonial structures, island dancers, natural pools, and spectacular Guam sunsets.

[tj_brewed]

Was looking for this page...it was transferred here pala..

[CarltonHill]

very nice Cook Is!

[noli-kun]

Oceania sure has lots of sexy beaches!

[Bosnyboy]

http://ph.news.yahoo.com/korea-dispatch-police-officer-philippines-054002908.html

Korea to dispatch police officer to Philippines

Seoul (The Korea Herald/ANN) - Korea's National Police Agency plans to deploy an officer overseas to help with cases involving Korean expatriates, officials said Wednesday.

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The senior inspector or superintendent deployed to the county will be responsible for the safety of Korean expatriates and tourists in the country and the arrest Korean fugitives.
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"There have been calls for increased protection by police as the number of fugitives and incidents involving Korean expatriates rise," said one police official.

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Hopefully other countries wont follow suit because there has been quite a rise of crimes against westerners too.

[xxxriainxxx]

Originally Posted by manileño

has anyone heard of Forest Hills in Subic Bay?
i believe thats where many koreans and Hanjin executives that work in the area live.



i thought it was Cainta, Rizal.. so that would be east

Sepoys yata ang ibig mo ng sabihin... haha hindi counted yun.. hehhe..Yung sa Batangas daw mukhang yung mga bagong salta..

[PNLENGLAND]

interesting topic........................

[ritche]

This is a Php1 billion++ project of Sen John Osmena aimed to capture the European, American and East Asian market

[hakz2007]

Demand for condos rises as expat population grows in Philippines

MANILA: The growing expatriate population in the Philippines is driving the demand for posh condominiums.

In the fourth of a five-part series on the booming real estate market in the Philippines, Channel NewsAsia finds out why foreigners are investing in the country's property market.

From his penthouse in upscale Bonifacio Global City, Irish national Gerry Lane can see how the Philippines' real estate boom is transforming the Manila skyline.

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[Manila-X]

Originally Posted by manila is booming

That's the Cantonese version, but since 97.5% of the filipino chinese are Hokkien, maybe we should use the Hokkien version "Kiong hi hua chai"

The ironic thing is most commercial establishments especially Non-Chinese ones will use The Cantonese version or even Mandarin.

I'm not Chinese but my Chinese connection is more Cantonese due to living in HK for some time.

[manila is booming]

Originally Posted by Manila-X

The ironic thing is most commercial establishments especially Non-Chinese ones will use The Cantonese version or even Mandarin.

I'm not Chinese but my Chinese connection is more Cantonese due to living in HK for some time.

yeah since HK is probably the most prominent chinese city, cantonese tends to be in the forefront of commercialism

it's like greeting an ilocano in bisaya...it feels kind of an awkward insult

[Manila-X]

Originally Posted by manila is booming

yeah since HK is probably the most prominent chinese city, cantonese tends to be in the forefront of commercialism

it's like greeting an ilocano in bisaya...it feels kind of an awkward insult

The Chinese culture is different from ours. We would have our Fukien Tsinoys react to Cantonese slogans.

But again, to have such written in Mandarin tends to be more acceptable since it is the main lingua franca of the Chinese language.

[manila is booming]

Originally Posted by Manila-X

The Chinese culture is different from ours. We would have our Fukien Tsinoys react to Cantonese slogans.

But again, to have such written in Mandarin tends to be more acceptable since it is the main lingua franca of the Chinese language.

there are people who would not accept that...I've met other fookien from other part south east asia, and they totally reject Mandarin....in fact, the national language during the Tang dynasty is much more closer to the present Hokkien than Mandarin