Word: ruralism
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...responded by saying his ultimate goal is to demonstrate that “art can be rural or urban, popular or elite, and white or rainbow-hued...
...case of Allan Dizon illustrates, no place is immune from the murky interplay of poverty and crime that pervades many areas of Philippine society. Things are especially bad in the cattle towns and fetid jungle outposts, where the cowboys of publishing rule. Many journalists at small rural papers don't receive a salary, but are instead paid piecemeal, earning a few dollars per story ($10 is roughly the going rate for a front-page exclusive at a provincial daily). To make ends meet, some take on public relations work or sell advertising, placing them in direct conflict with their supposed...
...perception of journalists as self-serving, streetwise operators, the truth is that many young, idealistic Filipinos entering the profession are simply too ingenuous to cope with the bruising feuds and bloody grudges that pass for local politics in the developing world. It's easy to make enemies in the rural Philippines. Given the wide availability of handguns and hit men, exacting revenge is also a trifle. And assassinating an irksome reporter strikes some media targets as a much easier and cheaper solution than going through the country's notoriously inefficient judicial system. "Some people have the feeling that the only...
That’s not to say that Mallozzi is a simple person. From the very beginning of her life, she’s had to grapple with the frustration of an unclear cultural identity. Mallozzi grew up in rural Ohio as the child of a Chinese-born mother and an Italian-American father. “There were no minorities [where I grew up],” she recounts. “So we were considered very exotic, even though I was half-Chinese, and my mom didn’t even speak Chinese...
...spent two and a half weeks in India in January, researching the use of Internet kiosks as bank accounts in rural areas...