Thursday, August 01, 2013

PRIMARY BLOG POSTS/READINGS FOR MY FELLOW NATIVE (INDIO/MALAY) FILIPINOS-IN-THE-PHILIPPINES


" Fear history, for it respects no secrets" - Gregoria de Jesus  (widow of Andres Bonifacio)

"Upang maitindig natin ang bantayog ng ating lipunan, kailangang radikal nating baguhin hindi lamang ang ating mga institusyon kundi maging ang ating pag-iisip at pamumuhay. Kailangan ang rebolusyon, hindi lamang sa panlabas, kundi lalo na sa panloob!" --Apolinario Mabini,  La Revolucion Filipina (1898)

"To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful." - Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965)

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2. Click the following underlined title/link to checkout these Essential/Primary Readings About Us Filipino Natives:
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4. The postings are oftentimes long and a few readers have claimed being "burnt out."  My apologies...The selected topics are not for entertainment but to stimulate deep, serious thoughts per my MISSION Statement and hopefully to rock our boat of ignorance, apathy, complacency, and hopefully lead to active citizenship.
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LET US NOT KEEP OUR HEADS IN THE SAND
REMINDER: March 3, 2022. The total number of postings to date =578. Use keywords in the sidebar: PAST POSTINGS, Click LABEL (sorted by number of related posts)
    to access.
    CACIQUE DEMOCRACY. DEJA VU.
    WE NATIVE FILIPINOS LEFT BEHIND IN ASIA.
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    From the time our Katipunan revolutionaries fought and died against the Spanish rule, and against American interference and colonization then, our society has been administered by a "cacique, " the socio-economic elite in cahoots with foreigners against their fellow native Filipino majority, keeping them poor, illiterate, and thus ignorant.
    A socioeconomic and political system designed to perpetuate a class-defined society, a class-conscious country, divided and never really becoming a nation.
    We are schooled heavily about political democracy but do not know that economic democracy is a prerequisite to fully realizing it. We have been conditioned to believe that mere and regular election makes a democracy; an illusion in reality.
    We native Filipinos keep ourselves ignorant of history, of “what’s really going on” in our homeland then and now; and thus, by default, never learn.
    We continue to be lost -having failed or refused to look in the mirror- believing in fate rather than about us people causing the cliche “history keeps repeating itself” true and valid.
    That is why it's Deja vu every time.
    - BMD🤔
    #primaryposts

    OUR CULTURE: (Knowing and Understanding Ourselves: our learned values, attitudinal & behavioral patterns)


    OUR RELIGION IN SOCIETY: (Belief Systems)


    OUR NATIVE RULERS (PRESIDENTS and A DICTATOR)
    1. President Manuel A. Roxas (1946-1948)
    2. President Roxas Railroaded the Approval of the Bell Trade Act (aka Philippine Trade Act),1946 & Military Bases Agreements
    3. President Elpidio R. Quirino (1948-1953)
    4. President Ramon Magsaysay (1953-1957) & President Carlos P. Garcia (1957-1961)
    5. President Diosdado P. Macapagal (1961-1965)
    6. President Ferdinand E. Marcos (1966-1972), as Dictator (1972-1986) LATER
    7. President Corazon C. Aquino (1986-1992)LATER
    8. President Fidel V. Ramos (1992-1998)LATER
    9. President Joseph Estrada (1998-2001) LATER
    10. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (2001-2010) LATER
    11. President Benigno C. Aquino III (2010-2016)LATER


    OUR HISTORY AND HEROES: (Nationalist point-of-view)
    1. Apolinario Mabini - Reasons for Deportation/Exile to Guam by the U.S. Army 

    OUR HISTORY WITH THE UNITED STATES: (U.S. Intervention and Colonization of our Homeland: Mostly glossed over and/or hidden facts; not in school textbooks)
    1. The "Granting" of Our Philippine Independence - Revisited


    OUR  ECONOMY:  (Post-WW2 Agreements That Made and Kept Our Homeland Underdeveloped and Natives Impoverished)


    OUR  MILITARY:  (Post-WW2 Agreements That Make Our Armed Forces Dependent On and Serve Foreign Masters)

    THE RECTO READER BOOK ( Collection of Speeches of the late-bloomer and foremost Filipino nationalist, is presented in several postings.) Click each to open/read:

    (MORE TO FOLLOW)

    NOTE: Recto's cited cases, examples, or issues were of his time, of course; but realities in our homeland in the present and the foreseeable future are expected to be much, much worse. Though I am tempted to update them with current issues, it's best to leave them as they are since Recto's paradigms about our much deepened national predicament still ring relevant, valid, and true. In short, Recto saw the forest and never got lost in the trees. We native Filipinos have not learned from or not heeded his advice - Bert

    LET US NOT KEEP OUR HEADS IN THE SAND

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    1 comment :

    Bert M. Drona said...

    Hi Jonafe,

    During discussions, it is always helpful and important to define the terms that will be used.

    Thus, to address your query I say that the best definition for the term " Filipino nationalism," which I can not improve on and to which I fully agree and always refer to, was clearly defined/expounded by Mrs. Leticia R. Constantino.--the posted link to her essay is:

    http://www.thefilipinomind.com/2005/05/what-is-filipino-nationalism-mrs.html

    Also, see the listed linked Readings on: Our Culture and the RECTO READER on this blogpost.
    Thanks!