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One day, in the late afternoon, when street life had resumed after siesta, I stopped off to talk to a neighbor named Ana, and as we sat chatting we were joined (1) an older woman I had not seen before, Aling Binang, who had recently returned (2) the country. ... Yet in the handling of death, Filipinos behave in a manner which Americans might characterize as "brutally frank" and seem to go out of their way to evoke the expression of emotion, while Americans can only be called euphemistic and indirect, going to great lengths to avoid emotional outbreaks.
――工学院大学 (2月15日実施)――2004年
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