Condé Nast Traveler, with the aid of social networking websites
Facebook and
YouTube, produced a series of videos officially titled
Many People, Many Places, consisting of 13 videos. Each video lasts between three and four minutes long where over 70 people from 70 countries (including English-speaking countries) reveal how to say everyday phrases in their country of birth. The
Filipino representative, an unidentified woman, counted numbers and money, sang
Happy Birthday, and said "Cheers!" in English rather than
Tagalog before stating that the Tagalog language lacked
tongue twisters. Despite being able to sing the national anthem of the Philippines in Tagalog, the videos went viral on social media, with users complaining the woman was not properly portraying Filipino culture in comparison to the other representatives from the 70 other countries did. In response,
Condé Nast Traveler admitted in a Facebook post that "[o]ne of our subjects, a Filipino woman, answered our questions in English rather than Tagalog based on her experience growing up and living in the Philippines... we appreciate your feedback and take seriously our responsibility to respectfully represent the many different aspects of the countries we cover at
Condé Nast Traveler." == References ==