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We all know someone whose presence makes us tip-toe around because culturally, we are not the confrontational type. In this episode, we explore word Taha and its ability to influence our behavior towards and perception of other people.
In this episode, we talk about how Garbo is a double-edged sword that can be intrinsically motivating and can boost one’s self-esteem yet can pierce through one's self-worth with criticism and can injure relationships.
There is this expectation that how you present yourself to the world must align with your economic and social status in the society. Once you cross that line , you subject yourself to the social backlash and be tagged as HILAS. For our fourth episode, we try to make sense how we have built our own prisons in fear of being labelled as Hilas.
They say moderation is key because anything in excess could be put to better use. Anything that goes beyond the limit of acceptable consumption is KALAS for many of us. In this episode, we are joined by Lewey Jimoya to talk about what the existence and use of the word Kalas reveals about our unique sense of moderation.
There comes a point when you have to make do with what is only available because there is a potential scarcity of something or that something is hard to come by. DAGINOT is the Sebuano word that captures this specific act of economizing. In this episode, we look into the several ways Daginot reminds us of why we value certain things.
In times when you don’t have enough, you can’t afford to waste anything, not even the last grain of rice on your plate or the last drop of shampoo in the bottle. This is where the concept of TILOK comes to mind to Sebuano speakers. In this episode, we’ll talk about how we use Tilok in different circumstances in our everyday life.