Orientalism and President Duterte

By Antonio Contreras

Nov 16, 2017 12:20 am

ANTONIO P. CONTRERAS

DURING the gala dinner at the Asean summit, President Rodrigo Duterte broke into an unrehearsed and impromptu song number to oblige a request from visiting US President Donald Trump. His vociferous critics immediately labeled him a little brown monkey for doing what the leader of our former colonial master had asked him to do.

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