Category Archives: Culture

Culture, Government, Law Enforcement

Fear Grips Filipinos In U.S. As Federal AGents Look For Protestor With Broom

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WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles, Washington Bureau) – Now that the U.S. Capitol protester photographed sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s chair has been arrested and charged, Federal agents are now focusing their search on the man with the Philippine-style soft broom (see photo.)

The Adobo Chronicles has learned that many Filipinos living in the U.S. are now living in fear because their homes and apartments could be the subject of the nation-wide manhunt (or womanhunt).

The soft broom held by the protester in the photograph matches brooms (walis tambo in the Filipino dialect) that most, if not all, Filipinos keep in their households. It is an essential cleaning item that is unique to the Philippines and is in stark contrast to the nylon brooms most Americans have.

There are even reports that many Filipinos are now discarding their walis tambo for fear that they may be mistaken to be that protester.

Well, there’s always the walis tingting (bamboo broom, broomstick) that’s also popular among Filipinos.

Culture, International, Sports

TINIKLING NOW AN OLYMPIC SPORT

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Olympic sports has always been about skill and that’s why the Olympic Committee decided to add two new sports to its official line-up starting with the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Breakdancing gas been added to the official list of Olympic competitons, along with Tinikling, considered the Philippines’ national dance.

Tinikling has long been recognized as a dance requiring the highest level of skill, with dancers navigating through bamboo poles clapped together in an ever-increasing tempo.

Will this mark the beginning of an increased gold medal haulfor the Philippines?

Culture, Health & Medicine, International, Technology

WHY AMERICANS ARE PANIC-BUYING FOR TOILET PAPER

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SAN FRANCISCO, California (The Adobo Chronicles, San Francisco Bureau) – It happened in the spring at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. It’s happening again as more and more states are mandating stay-at-home instructions to deal with increasing cases of Covid-19.

What’s happening? Consumers are seeing empty supermarket and warehouse shelves where toilet paper used to abound. Americans are in a panic-buying mode.

But why toilet paper, one might ask.

Well, unlike in countries like Japan, American homes are not equipped with bidets in their toilets, and Americans have no concept of the dipper or pitcher (tabo) like it is used and practiced in countries like the Philippines. So they are fully dependent on the good old toilet paper to clean up after a dump.

Tabo, left; bidet, right

America, the most advanced and industrialized country in the world, apparently needs to keep up with Japanese toilet technology, or perhaps adapt to its former colony the Philippines’ tabo culture.

Especially in a pandemic..