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The weird mix of the Philippines gives it less culture shock value also because of westernization and the lack of artistic fusion, it makes everything "familiar" and just direct imports losing it's culture shock value. Pre dominantly a Christian nation, the identifiable Spanish influences with obscured diversity suppressed and stereotyped by capital cities. That's why a lot feels unmixed and with Christianity and westernization being the dominant culture. But still, we get plenty of historically Chinese and now Korean migrants and investors, many Islamic groups from the south even moving to the north, Asian style street foods, wet markets, diverse outfits, Asian style sky scrapers, poverty, noodle dishes and rice everything with people generally looking like Austronesians also the dense city crowds, and loud motorcycles everywhere. That's why it gets plenty of mixed opinions every time. But either way, don't mind. They're all cool.

NYT today:

American Jews, long Israel’s strongest domestic backers, have turned sharply critical of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing government over the Gaza conflict. A majority believe Israel has committed war crimes as it has killed tens of thousands of civilians and restricted food aid, and four in 10 believe it is guilty of genocide, a new Washington Post survey found — a charge Israel denies. The shift has created new incentives for even moderate Democrats in Congress to get tough on Israel, including by curtailing U. S. military aid.

The damage is also increasingly bipartisan. Despite Republican efforts to identify their party with Israel and to tag Democrats as providing aid and comfort to its enemies, younger evangelical Christians are breaking with their parents on the issue, seeing Israel as an oppressor rather than as a victim. And the breakup extends beyond evangelicals. "Everybody under 30 is against Israel,” the conservative commentator Megyn Kelly offhandedly told Tucker Carlson on his podcast last month.

The question is whether those younger Americans will be lost to Israel long-term — and what Israel’s advocates will do to try to reverse that. Israel’s dependence on U. S. support had become so glaring over the course of the war — in political, military and economic terms — that Israel would be motivated to treat its possible defeat in the court of American public opinion as an “existential threat.”

Every time I eat Chinese food, I proceed to eat the fortune cookie afterwards. I have never been impressed by the taste of a fortune cookie on a single occasion, at a single restaurant. What a disappointing thing to be called a “cookie.” And the lame fortune stuffed inside of it makes even worse. I think fortune cookies should be discarded and no longer served.