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Just when I was beginning to feel like Scrooge of Charles Dicken’s “Christmas Carol,” a group of young people sent me an email asking if they could serenade me with the season’s well-loved songs. Humbug! Scrooge would have screamd. But I am not like him, I am always interested in what young people are up to these days, Christmas or not. So, I happily set the date for the virtual serenade of the MACC, the Mindanao Arts and Culture Council. Intriguing, isn’t it?
The “Rationale” of the MACC gives you an idea of the brainstorming sessions they must have had to formulate the following: “With the coming of our colonizers, the whole of the Philippine archipelago has been forcibly subjugated to diverse influences of Hispanic, American, and Japanese cultures, while keeping an Indo-Chinese-Malay way of life . The pluralistic identities that ensued have brought about a complex evolution of change in customs and traditions among Filipinos in their�