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Turban Legend By: R ZAMORA LINMARK 1 URBAN LEGEND  is a modern genre of folklore, usually consists of “fictional stories,” superstitions, and other fear generating narrative elements. Often rooted in local history and...

Turban Legend By: R ZAMORA LINMARK 1 URBAN LEGEND  is a modern genre of folklore, usually consists of “fictional stories,” superstitions, and other fear generating narrative elements. Often rooted in local history and popular culture. 2 POPULAR URBAN LEGENDS 1. The Hitchhiker 3 4 POPULAR URBAN LEGENDS 2. The Spider Bite 5 POPULAR URBAN LEGENDS 3. The Big Foot 6 7 POPULAR URBAN LEGENDS 4. Momo Challenge 8 POPULAR URBAN LEGENDS 5. Ang White Lady sa Balete Drive 9 10 TURBAN  is a type of headwear based on cloth winding. Featuring many variations, it is worn as customary headwear by people of various cultures. 11 TURBAN LEGEND  these are local stories from middle eastern countries especially to OFWs 12  What is the main reason that we have OFW’s? 13 POVERTY  is the strongest reason why majority of Filipinos work abroad 14 DIASPORA  the movement or migration of a group of people, such as those sharing a national and/or ethnic identity, away from an established or ancestral homeland. 15 DIASPORA  it is the act which Filipinos go abroad to seek jobs. 16 THE REALITY OF FILIPINOS  The Philippines has a population of 94 million. A phenomenon, called the “Philippine Diaspora,” shows that the population is declining significantly with each year of growth. 17 THE REALITY OF FILIPINOS  The concern, however, is that the increasing trend of migrant workers signifies a large- scale human capital flight, also known as a Brain Drain, which greatly affect the progress and development of the Philippines.. 18 What is to become of the country when all the brightest individuals leave? 19 BRAIN DRAIN  the result of Philippine Diaspora. It is the lack of skillful and intelligent workers. 20 VOCABULARY WORDS  Bustling - moving about in an energetic and busy manner 21 VOCABULARY WORDS  Queue - a line or sequence of people or vehicles awaiting their turn to be attended to or to proceed 22 VOCABULARY WORDS  Bottleneck - a point of traffic congestion 23 VOCABULARY WORDS  Glean - to gather or pick up 24 VOCABULARY WORDS  Gargantuan - tremendous in size 25 VOCABULARY WORDS  Metropolis - the chief or capital city of a country 26 Turban Legend by R Zamora Linmark By the time Vince arrives at the Philippine Airlines departures terminal, it is already bustling with restless souls who, with their balikbayan boxes, have transformed the terminal into a warehouse, as if they're returning to the motherland on a cargo ship rather than Asia's first airline carrier. Comedians use these durable cardboard boxes as materials for their Filipino-flavored jokes. "How is the balikbayan box like American Express to Filipinos? Because they never leave home without it." 27 Everywhere Vince turns are boxes, boxes, and more boxes. Boxes secured by electrical tape and ropes. Boxes with drawstring covers made from canvas or tarp. Boxes lined up like a fortified wall behind check-in counters or convoying on squeaky conveyor belts of x- ray machines. Boxes blocking the Mabuhay Express lane for first-and business-class passengers. Boxes stacked up on carts right beside coach passengers standing in queues that are straight only at their starting points before branching out to form more-or converge with other-lines, bottlenecking as they near the ticket 28 counter. Boxes that ought to be the Philippines' exhibit at the next World's Fair, Vince tells himself as he navigates his cartload of Louis Vuitton bags in and out of the maze. An exhibit that should take place none other than here, at the Honolulu International Airport, he laughs, as he imagines an entire terminal buried in the Filipinos' most popular-and preferred-pieces of luggage. 29 With a balikbayan box Filipinos can pack cans of Hormel corned beef, Libby's Vienna sausage, Folgers, and SPAM; perfume samples; new or hand-me-down designer jeans; travel-sized bottles of shampoo, conditioner, and body lotion gleaned from Las Vegas hotels; and appliances marked with first-world labels that, as anyone who's been to the Philippines knows, can easily be purchased at Duty Free right outside the airport or from any of the crypt-like malls that are so gargantuan. They're a metropolis unto themselves. 30 Filipinos will even throw themselves into these boxes, as was the case of the overseas contract worker in Dubai. The man, an engineer was so homesick that, unable to afford the ticket. Most of his earnings went to cover his living expenses and the rest to his wife and children. He talked to his roommate, who was homebound for the holidays, into checking him in. He paid for the excess baggage fee, which still came out cheaper than a round-trip airfare. En route to Manila, he died from hypothermia. 31 Vince, who had heard the story from his older sister Jing, didn't buy it. There were too many loopholes, too many unanswered questions, like wouldn't an x- ray machine in the Middle East detect a Filipino man curled up inside a box? He simply dismissed it as a "turban legend." "You're missing the point brother," Jing said. "It's not the mechanics that matter. It's about drama. The extremes a Filipino will go to just to be back home for Christmas with his family." 32