A pinched, aquiline nose: the typical Filipino nose is flat and wide (pango), that’s why the beauty-obsessed get pressured into getting a nose job and end up having Michael Jackson’s nose. An aquiline nose just doesn’t sit well on an…
The sporting body is a member of the Philippine Olympic Committee and recognized by the Philippine Sports Commission. It is also a member of the Fdration Internationale de Gymnastique and the Asian Gymnastics Union. What is the most famous gymnast…
Catholic Filipinos will hold a wake that typically lasts three to five days – enough time for distant relatives to come to pay their final respects. Some wakes last a full week. During this time, the deceased loved one is…
What is ‘Filipino’? We are proud of our heritage at the rim of East Asia, the meeting point of the many Asian groups, as well as Europeans from Spain. Our culture even 100 years ago was already a mix of…
As of May 2020, Anne Curtis remains at the top spot with 14 million followers, followed by Liza Soberano and Kathryn Bernardo, with 13 million followers and 12 million followers, respectively. Who are celebrities that are Filipino? Filipino Celebrities Solenn…
Filipinas are known to have a great personality. They are bubbly, cheerful positive and they always try to maintain a sunny disposition in life. Sometimes you will even think where they get all their smiles! When you date a Filipina,…
Within the Southeast Asian community, the largest group living in metro Atlanta is the Vietnamese, who were featured in an earlier Global Atlanta Snapshot. This Snapshot highlights Cambodians (3,500), Filipinos (8,200), Laotians (3,900) and Thai (2,100) in the region. What…
Filing (pronounced feye-lihng; rhymes with wiling) has multiple meanings. it can mean putting papers in their proper folder for organization. it can also mean submitting papers to a central authority, like the IRS, as a record of taxes paid on…
The nickname Fiji came from the Phi Gams at New York University, when they were trying to decide the name for a fraternity-wide magazine and Fee Gee was suggested (a play on the Greek letters Phi and Gamma). In 1894,…
Phi Gamma Delta Phi Gamma Delta (also known as FIJI and Phi Gam) is a social fraternity with more than 142 active chapters and 13 colonies across the United States and Canada. It was founded at Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, in…