THE GAME OF MY LIFE – Bill Velasco – The Philippine Star February 28, 2022 | 12:00am “With a small, dedicated group, there is nothing that cannot be accomplished.” – Brian Cox as Ivan Simanov, “RED” The Philippines is a study in contradictions. Deeply nationalistic, its people have also absorbed much of the culture of its political, economic and pop culture colonizers: Spanish, American, Japanese and lately, Korean influences. And although it is Catholic, it has maintained many of its precolonial traditions. Filipinos themselves, arguably the nation’s leading export, have likewise been assimil…