The passage is in third person because it refers to her as Cathy or "her"
It gives color to the festival and the variety of musical forms, styles, repertoires, and traditions that exist mirror the rich diversity in Filipino culture.
Context clues are hints that an author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word within a book. The clue may appear within the same sentence as the word to which it refers or it may follow in the next sentence. A connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that some word or phrase carries, in addition to its explicit or literal meaning, which is its denotation. A connotation is frequently described as either positive or negative, with regard to its pleasing or displeasing emotional connection.
Because everyone is human. We all look the same on the inside and it's ignorant to judge based on skin color or gender