Please stop SMART SHAMING brilliant Filipinos and free-riding on them when they succeed! Just watching this video sponsored by the Gokongwei Brothers Foundation. This promising 16-year old Filipino student named Maria Isabel Layson may be on her way to revolutionizing the medical world.
Why am I interested in her study of using the aratiles fruit to counter diabetes? It's because diabetes is prevalent among Filipinos. Maybe, you can blame the high sugar diet such as adding extra sugar to the tomato sauce or the bad habit of drinking too much soda. That's why I'm in favor of the sugar excise tax. Many of her loved ones died as a result of complications due to diabetes. It's a motivation and she's not after the screams saying "PENOY PRAYD!". Instead, she's having a noble cause in her research.
The obstacles to this research aside from time and money can take place in the form of anti-intellectuals regardless of age. You can have peers of hers who may possibly smart-shame her or older people who will look down at her because she's young. Hopefully and I pray to God that she will have the courage to pursue in spite of common obstacles that intellectual Filipinos will face!
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