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[/caption]“Travel,” Mark Twain wrote, “is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
That we need to travel to unlearn our prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness is true. I've proven this to myself some years back when my classmates and I went to Sitio Namnam, a place situated deep into the hinterlands of East Marahan, Marilog District.
For someone like me who lives in the city, I only have little knowledge on the indigenous people. What do they look like in person? How do they live? What language do they use when speaking?
