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I lived in the Philippines for two years and while it seems a good majority of the population are used to seeing white people I had a few instances where I was

I lived in the Philippines for two years and while it seems a good majority of the population are used to seeing white people I had a few instances where I was the first white person they had ever seen. Some children were absolutely horrified and ran away screaming and crying! They have a very superstitious culture and have many different types of 'aswang' which translates roughly to 'monster'. We had learnt the local dialect(s) and that terrified them even more, oddly enough, at first. Most of them warmed up to us pretty quickly though not all.

ninjafox 14y ago
Filipinos most likely to incorporate what they see as strange outside their norms to an Aswang, It so famous that it was used to tame a child if they misbehave, so as a child here you get 'programmed' for the fear of it...I started to create a blog about Aswang do check it out http://creaturesofmidnight.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-aswang.html http://creaturesofmidnight.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-aswang.h...