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After a brilliant start to our “My Country Is Better Than Your Country” contest, Lorena Valencia de Sosa showed off beautiful Panama. But after a few jabs at the Phillipines, Elaine Yap is here to put up a fight for why her country is the better choice for Term 7! In a two parter, Elaine gives her best argument for a CCMBA trip to the Philippines!
Where are you located? Metro Manila, Philippines
What are your top 3 reasons why Duke CCMBA should do a residency in your country?
1. Friendly and Multilingual People
Filipinos are naturally friendly and hospitable. In fact, the Philippine nation scored the highest in Humane Orientation among the 50 nations observed in the Cultural Dimensions in the GLOBE study. Filipinos are world famous for their nice smile. “The Filipino Smile” is often a key takeaway from visits to the Philippines. It can mean several things. It can mean hello, good bye, I’m sorry, I’m shy, thank you or just plain I’m happy. Filipinos are also multilingual. The Americans established our education system, which is also the reason why our English literacy rate is so high. In fact, the Philippines is the largest English speaking population in Asia with 90% English literacy rate in a nation of 94 million people. It is very easy to speak to any Filipino in English. Filipinos are natural care givers, always willing to lend a helping hand. Care giving is one of our biggest exports in the Philippines, with all the domestic help and nurses proliferating households and hospitals worldwide. According to the Lonely Planet, they are among the most easy going and ebullient people in the world. These are the kind of people you want to be around with if you’re looking for a vacation of pure rest and relaxation.
2. Beautiful Unadulterated Nature
The best thing about our tourist destinations is its variety and unexploited feel to it: From tropical white sand beaches to rain forests to tall mountain environments with stalagmite caves and even sand dunes, we have it all here! With 7,107 islands comprising the Philippine archipelago, this is not a surprise. The only thing we don’t have is cold, bitter snow. We only have two types of weather per year, rain or shine. Our 
coldest temperature here is a cool 22 C, which we consider our “winter” season. Our vacation spots aren’t as crowded or commercialized as other famous tourist spots like Thailand and Costa Rica, where everything seems to be completely packaged. In contrast, there is still a lot of adventure that can be had: A common provincial experience in the Philippines involves riding a rickety bus, a tricycle (our version of a tuktuk), a jeepney, a fisherman’s boat to get from one uninhabited beach to another.
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