Ditch The Accent

Nickel · Nov 27, 2014

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One of the reasons I fell in love with the Philippines was an odd sense of familiarity when I first went there, the communities and friendliness even now are much more like where I grew up in Scotland than where I currently live in England.

I grew up in a tenement building, 9 flats, 9 families, everyone was my auntie or uncle even if they weren't really, everyone looked after everyone else's kids, our flat was small but we had the whole building to play in and all the space outdoors, everyone would help everyone else and nobody was rich all that has changed in many ways these days.

In the Phils I feel like I am back in my childhood, I feel like I am at home as even though all the accents are different and it's warm and in many ways very different, it is still so reminiscent of the old days in 1960's Scotland.

One of the first times I was in Ana's mothers house they served me fried luncheon meat, it was so close to Lorne sausage, square slice that I could hardly believe it and a lot of other Philippine dishes reminded me of Scottish stews and so on.

Odd that such distant places have so much in common, Filipino's share something in their nature with the Scots but I can't define it precisely.
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I agree with you Oss, and and with the distance apart it's that's hard to believe , but it's true.Imagine even the way porridge is eaten, with either salt or a wee bit of sugar , we also do the same lol! (tho that was a long time ago)
I don't know how it happened, but i saw a lot more of common things,foods , places and etc .

Scotsbloke · Dec 9, 2014

I only joined yesterday so have been browsing some of the more recent threads. This one is incomplete without a link to this:

Timmers · Dec 9, 2014

Nice one Scotsbloke,I enjoyed the video clip very much.

And welcome to British Filipino.

Nickel · Dec 10, 2014

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I only joined yesterday so have been browsing some of the more recent threads. This one is incomplete without a link to this:

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Welcome to British Filipino !

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