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In many ways, I have built an insular world for myself and I have only included like-minded people into my space. With my non-classical music-loving friends, I have fewer meaningful conversations and connections. Maybe, me breaking down my barriers and letting people into hearing about what I love and why, maybe that will work. At least it might start a conversation, which is more than what will happen if I keep hiding the fact or never discussing classical music. Perhaps if I did more of that, some of those barriers would fall, and just maybe, they might find and like classical music.

Is it the same for you too? For more of the best in classical music, sign up to our E-Newsletter. Thanks for joining — wow — how the heck did you find us? Know someone in the orchestra? I taught instrumental music for 32 years.

Classical music was always an intregal part of my program. I also factored in pop, jazz, etc. I would spend time talking to my students to try and make them involved with the composer as well as his or her composition.

Not flowery language, but in terms they could understand. This seemed to work as many of them would ask to play a classical tune as well as the MJ. Elvis, and others. Yes I am. I came across your group via a website link. A few critics, chiefly Andy Greenwald at Grantland, who had it as his second-favorite show of the year , champion The Americans aggressively.

The Americans does. And more colloquially, it feels like Homeland had a buzz, particularly in the realm of online recaps, dedicated TV obsessives, and magazine thinkpieces, which The Americans has never come close to having. In tenor and style, The Americans is much closer to the thoughtfulness and human drama of Mad Men or The Sopranos , except infused with a shot of espionage camp.

Unlike these other prestige-type shows, The Americans has not been a candidate for binge watching. And as a show on the lighter-regarded FX that airs as far from the hallowed grounds of Sunday night as calendar-possible—Wednesday night, son—it might benefit from this more than most. I watched it after purchasing the first season on iTunes—it wallpapered the four cross-country flights I made in the process of moving from New York to L.

When a person moves away, I think they say to themselves, 'I will forgo my language, my food, my culture to show that I'm the model migrant'," she says. The Philippines was under Spanish rule for over years until when it became a territory of the United States, ceded as part of the Spanish-American war. Guinto says centuries of colonisation developed in Filipinos a trait called "hiya", which is similar to being self-effacing. The opposite is "walanghiya" or shameless.

She shares a story from her family. They had a bit of Spanish heritage and were more Eurasian-looking. They had to hide from the Japanese because they were an easy target to kill to make the point to the Americans: If you fraternise with westerners, you're the enemy. Guinto says in Australia we're still in the infancy of people's understanding of Filipino food, and that it's very Manila or northern-centric, with adobo, pancit and lumpia acting as a shorthand for Filipino cuisine.

In the mountains, it's more plant-based food. In the city, there's a lot of packaged food, which comes from the American influence and the fact that it's harder to get fresh produce in the city. But regardless of the region, Filipino food is inextricably linked to Filipino culture.

In fact, a common greeting is "kumain ka na ba? Love the story? Follow the author here: Instagram cultofclothes. Photographs by Will Mahusay. Meet the hidden Filipino treasure that is dulce prenda Discover the dulce prenda, an increasingly rare Filipino biscuit with Spanish and Chinese influences. Filipino pork and chicken adobo Fry up any leftovers of this tasty braise til crispy and you'll have what's known in the Philippines as adobo flakes. Filipino cuisine has an impressive lineup of cakes, and Brazo de Mercedes is no exception: a roll cake made from fluffy meringue, with a centre of rich egg yolk-based custard.

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