Bisaya Short Films Globalization Update: Americans and French and Germans Travel To Moalboal Cebu Because They're Giving Up New York and Supposedly Progressive Countries

1. Define progressive, better and first-world and third-world without sounding condescending and douchebaggerly patronizing.

2. New York has no beach as great as the one in Panagsama. What New York has is purely digital, not visceral. Philippines is better because we do not pretend we are not messed up.

3. Beside me a girl listens to Taylor Swift and she wears glasses so she is OBVIOUSLY a smart person. She's in a public cafe right and not at home wasting the energy of the parents and she's not with her adorably pretentious friends talking about boys and what's the next most expensive car today and how to stay thin like Kris Aquino without being punched to the head by a lovably abusive boyfriend/husband, like what Ai Ai had, right? She is in a public cafe, probably reading James Salter on her second Google Reader account, and she's beside me so she knows digital security like Jobs and she knows Prism and she's a hacker and she is brilliant. She is a person who can only be found in Moalboal, Cebu, the place of genius. She is eight.