Duality within the Stereotyped Character of the Average Filipino
Your blogger here has always considered himself above the typical racial stereotyping that goes on in societies around the world . He tries to see only individuals and their unique personalities, some of which are component traits that can be observed in a diversity of different societies with little interaction (such as individualism, optimism, rebelliousness against the status quo). But residing and bonding with people who are eager to resort to certain "national/ethnic characters" as the primary means of making sense of their own existences and their places in the world, he finds himself gradually succumbing to similar tendencies...