Looking Out for Your Own in the Philippines

Because often there’s nobody else to look out for you

By: Criselda Yabes

The Philippines’ iconic symbol of nation-building stems from the graphic caricature of townsfolk carrying a family’s hut on bamboo poles to a new location, symbolizing more than anything the virtue of helping each other in times of need. The term for this is the ‘Bayanihan,’ a spirit of unity in a country divided by archipelagic island…