9/21/2023 0 Comments Globalization and development on the health of the citizens of Baguio City, Philippines![]() There are diverse peoples and cultures living permanently and temporarily in the city. Throughout its history, Baguio has revealed how a small remote village turned into a highly urbanized settlement, from a "hill station to a highly urbanized center," and from a monocultural village to a multicultural city. Accordingly, it "has made its mark as a premiere tourist destination in the Northern part of the Philippines with its cool climate, foggy hills, panoramic views and lovely flowers." To have a better grasp of the context of interculturality in this paper, let's dig deeper into the underlying backgrounds and developments of Baguio City. It is typically described by both local and foreign travellers as "a highland in the Grand Cordillera in Northern Luzon, with pine trees, crisp cold breezes and low verdant knolls and hillocks." This has made the city very attractive to visitors, tourists, learners, and business-minded people all over the world. "Multiculturality", which characterizes the people in Baguio today, is one of the new forces that challenges and shapes the Church's missionary endeavors in the 21st Century.īaguio City is the Summer Capital of the Philippines. ![]() The developments of the place and its becoming a city intensified all the more these diversities due to the irresistible phenomena of migration and globalization. ![]() This place has diverse people and culture because "most of the ethnic groups are concentrated on the northern mountain ranges of the Cordillera area." According to William Henry Scott, "Filipinos born on the Gran Cordillera Central are generally known as Igorots," and they were the earliest inhabitants of Baguio City, too. Baguio City belongs to the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) in the Northern part of Luzon.
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