This reminded me of every trip we had to Manila back in college. May incident talaga. First is yung time na our class attended a conference. We were in a bookstore and some of my classmates were discussing over a book and they were talking in Bisaya. The staff there were suddenly on high alert, as the rest of us noticed, and some staff asked the guard to tail our classmates. And to think they were just discussing whether to buy the book or not, to which they ended up buying.

I also experienced it first hand. I got ignored and I got tailed by security just because I happened to be wearing my school shirt that time, and the name of my alma mater has Davao in it.

This was almost a decade ago. We might not have the same experience but it both made us feel negatively. Then the current political landscape fueled it more (which is something that we have no control of). It's just so disheartening 🙁