{"id":315133,"date":"2020-01-07T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T20:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=315133"},"modified":"2020-01-07T06:00:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T20:00:40","slug":"the-hybrid-shop-celebrates-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/the-hybrid-shop-celebrates-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hybrid Shop celebrates diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-315133 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/the-hybrid-shop-celebrates-diversity\/hybrid-pix-1\/'>Hybrid-pix-1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-315140'>\n\t\t\t\tJames Rabauliman has achieved his dreams by opening The Hybrid Shop last year in his own home island. (Bea Cabrera)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/the-hybrid-shop-celebrates-diversity\/hybrid-pix-2\/'>Hybrid-pix-2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-315141'>\n\t\t\t\tThe Hybrid Shop is located along Beach Road in Garapan. (Bea Cabrera)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The Hybrid Shop located along Beach Road, Garapan promotes community culture as it encourage and promotes diversity and inclusiveness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a hybrid\u2014I am half Carolinian and half Filipino. I\u2019m a mix of two cultures that have a rich heritage, which today represent the CNMI as a whole. We are so diverse and we bring to the table many things and that brings out the best  of the many worlds,\u201d said The Hybrid Shop manager James Rabauliman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe shop has two businesses\u2014a printing and a retail shop. The former is focused on customizing orders of shirts, caps, tank tops, sublimation, any request whether original or anything you see online, we could do it with an influence of local touch. We are also a shop that sells budget clothes, apparel, security system, and vintage clothes that the CNMI was producing before during the garment factory days,\u201d Rabauliman added.<\/p>\n<p>The Hybrid Shop opened last year and was borne out  of Rabauliman\u2019s passion for family and home. \u201cAt 23 years old, I was travelling the world as a flight steward for Dynamic International Airways. I saw the potential of having my own business because travelling for work is very tiring and it may also be lavish but it\u2019s lonely. Opening The Hybrid Shop meant I didn\u2019t have to leave home and family,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cater to the young ones who likes fashion\u2026and my prices are very affordable as I put myself in their shoes because I know what it is like to be a student and not have a lot of money\u2026 I also do shirts for public school students\u2026we carry high fashion items like Adidas\u2019 Yeezy\u2019s, Nike Rubber shoes for the \u2018hyperbeast\u2019 crowd who likes to have the latest trends,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from his shop, Rabauliman also has a strong following in his online shop. \u201cWe have a \u2018local market hafa adai\u2019 series which is sellable both here in the shop and online. We get clients from the U.S. mainland, Russia, and other parts of the world. Locals who now live somewhere else love our products because they say it\u2019s a piece of home and design is up to date so you can wear it every day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>For the new year, Rabauliman is transitioning into basketball jerseys for local teams \u201cWhether it is a team or family shirts, this is a necessity on island and we are here to make those for them. As for design, I am inspired by  whatever is out there as I go with the flow and the wave but we try to  put our own version,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo other goals are expanding the shop and having a 100% fully functioning printing shop. I will try to be the first of my kind to do that as there are not a lot of Carolinian\/Filipino entrepreneurs\u2026I do it for my family and the youth of today,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Hybrid Shop is open Monday to Saturday from 11am to 6pm. For more information, call (670)788-57-22 email: 670hybridshop@gmail.com Instagram: @hybridspn Facebook: @highbreedshop and website: www.hybridsph.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hybrid Shop located along Beach Road, Garapan promotes community culture as it encourage and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":313411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}