tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post113826160153621143..comments2023-09-28T05:38:56.877-07:00Comments on THE FILIPINO MIND: Economic Hit ManBert M. Dronahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06864941770380173324noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-1139134516879962102006-02-05T02:15:00.000-08:002006-02-05T02:15:00.000-08:00Misot,Oh yeah. That's mainly part of the reason wh...Misot,<BR/><BR/>Oh yeah. That's mainly part of the reason why the "Righteous & Harmonious Fists" movement, aka in western world as "Boxers" led to the "Boxer Rebellion" at the turn of the 20th century happened.<BR/><BR/>With their homeland being divided into "spheres of influence" by foreigners (Europeans, US and Japan), Chinese nationalism, that is national pride, unity and action, in mid-19th century started to blossom. <BR/><BR/>After the defeat of the Boxers by the combined foreign troops, "Open Door Policy" formulated by America was forced on the Chinese which furthered the parcelling of China by foreigners. <BR/><BR/>In reaction, nationalism slowly but strongly began with Sun Yat Sen. Thereafter they planned and fought to free China from foreign control.<BR/><BR/>The Chinese under Chiang Kai Shek then Mao Tse Tung were successful by 1949 in kicking out the foreigners and control their own destiny. <BR/><BR/>Post WW2, our homeland has started to be parcelled out by foreigners lead by local American businessmen, US and Japanese TNCs, their local Chinese and native partners; most especially via the WTO signed by President Fidel Ramos in 1995 and reinforced by the subsequent regimes of Estrada and now, Macapagal-Arroyo. <BR/><BR/>American and foreign business interests are overtly protected by Philippine-based US troops in the past, though now under the guise of VFA ostensibly to fight terrorism. Note that the US even labels the NPA and MILF as "terrorists: to rationalize their agenda.<BR/><BR/>Maybe we may need the abuse and insults by foreigners to our patrimony and people before we, majority of Malay Filipinos, begin to open our eyes and assert our sovereignty within our borders.Bert M. Dronahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06864941770380173324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-1139132028955885762006-02-05T01:33:00.000-08:002006-02-05T01:33:00.000-08:00PaulV,Thanks for your response.Strictly speaking, ...PaulV,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your response.<BR/><BR/>Strictly speaking, the term trustees implies planning, deciding and acting on behalf of beneficiaries, i.e. the Filipino people, which of course did not happen. <BR/><BR/>Anyway, trusteeship for our homeland is a misnomer. It's plain neocolonialism which evolved from the previous colonialism in our homeland by America. Then and now beneficiaries are the American transnationals in cahoots with the local/other foreign businessmen and politicians.<BR/> <BR/>Yes that piece you linked regarding Korea is informative. Note that their Korean nationalism, the seed of which in recent 20th century history was fortified with the the blood of their young students and people, propelled them to national unity and economic progress in the present.<BR/> <BR/>As to our homeland, unless the majority of the populace are made to raise their national consciousness and thus gain national unity and united action fundamental changes for the generations of Filipinos, for their common good will never come to fruition.Bert M. Dronahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06864941770380173324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-1139034455655493332006-02-03T22:27:00.000-08:002006-02-03T22:27:00.000-08:00Nice find. It seems implied that Pinas is under tu...Nice find. It seems implied that Pinas is under tusteeship in the past like http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/pd-c-01.htm --see page 7 and I wonder if we ever got out of it. <BR/><BR/>Under trusteeship, leaders are just figureheads. I tend to agree with John's outlook going forward but hope it does not come that soon.<BR/><BR/>-PaulVAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-1139032924446646722006-02-03T22:02:00.000-08:002006-02-03T22:02:00.000-08:00There were other sources of money for the baron an...There were other sources of money for the baron and baroness of America...it was told by a writer during one of the OCA affair I attended....that the pioneering tycoons of USA, those who raked in money from all fronts like building the railroad from east to west...also made more money than they ever could trading opiums to opium traders in China (mostly Europeans who were there...), which made it easier for them to divide China for themselves. <BR/><BR/>-MisotAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com