Nearly 60 years ago, the Philippines pioneered in cultural diplomacy when a relatively greenhorn dance troupe from the Philippine Women’s University (PWU) performed at the 1958 Brussels World Fair.

The Bayanihan was to make known to the world the existence of a vibrant and diverse culture from a newly emergent country of 7,000 islands in Asia-Pacific, a tabula rasa even for the Europeans.

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