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Across the centuries, the Philippine Islands have been treated as pawns in a vast geopolitical game; colonized, militarized, terrorized. And yet through it all, the homegrown culture of this remarkable archipelago-the first democracy in Asia-has proven to be not only resilient, but defiant, as evidenced by its two recent outbursts of "people power."

About the Author

Damon L. Woods, Ph.D., is a lecturer in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at California State University, Long Beach, CA.