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We already had trading for instance with China, Middle East etc.<br /><br />There is nothing wrong with learning foreign language, culture, etc. but if it is intended to manipulate and control society's culture, then something must be checked.<br /><br />If we observe, the Philippine Economy is export oriented and import dependent. It exports raw materials as the Imperialist US needs for its Industry and it imports commodities to accommodates finished products from the same Imperialist too.<br /><br />These mean that our government is not interested in local industrialization, anyway they are also controlled by the US, and the US would not allow that otherwise we become their competitor on raw materials and market.<br /><br />Thus, the concept of a nation building in the Philippines is a myth. We even import our skilled labor forces that are vital for nation building instead of leading Filipinos to become productive in their own land.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-10960132826958134922007-08-11T22:29:00.000-07:002007-08-11T22:29:00.000-07:00And the last thing we need in the regions is to be...And the last thing we need in the regions is to be dominated again. It is hypocritical how Filipino-language fighters EVADE the idea that lots of Filipinos are not born Tagalogs. Tagalog, like English is merely a foreign tongue to us.<BR/><BR/>And how dare Tagalogs deny us of the chance for global competency by replacing English with their own sweet Tagalog, while leaving our mother tongues to rot in the household?<BR/><BR/>Excuse me. If this is your idea of nation-building, you can have Philippines on your own and allow us to secede from your nation which you mold using Tagalog hands - alone.Jason Paul Laxamanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11647261796957959034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-1143528757706611042006-03-27T22:52:00.000-08:002006-03-27T22:52:00.000-08:00Nonoy,Thanks for your comments.You know, there are...Nonoy,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your comments.<BR/><BR/>You know, there are several recently published books entitled "What If?" That is, speculating on "what ifs" than what was/were. I do not want to waste your time and mine on such. <BR/><BR/>Frankly, to see Filipino nationalism as anti-American by a fellow Filipino is doubly disappointing and disturbing, I know your feeling and thought may not even be that of a minority.<BR/><BR/>That only shows how subtle and effective was our Americanized education. If you reread the posting and some others, you may not miss the point. <BR/><BR/>Seeing Filipino nationalism as anti-American is to misunderstand the causes and content of our nationalism. Filipino nationalism was there even before the Americans came to intervene (in our forefathers fight for independence against Spain), brutalize, occupy our homeland and transform our people into a herd of sheeps. <BR/><BR/>Filipino nationalism is to assert our sovereignty,i.e. control within our territory just like any nation, including America, to be assertive in the control of its economy, politics, etc. within its borders (in fact, America is avowedly internationalist,i.e. wanting and having control BEYOND its borders in reality).<BR/><BR/>We native Filipinos are not in control. And we the educated are to blame; not the uneducated masa. Thus the masa has to be educated (for employment and including so-called educated, for critical thinking to understand "what is really going on."<BR/><BR/>Then with that understanding, they will be transformed to be assertive and act to pressure, or fight for and replace subservient leaders in all sectors of society and thus regain control of the homeland. <BR/><BR/>To finish the unnfinished revolution of our native heroes.Bert M. Dronahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06864941770380173324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-1143526392563289812006-03-27T22:13:00.000-08:002006-03-27T22:13:00.000-08:00Hello Gil, Thank you for your response. Though I h...Hello Gil,<BR/> <BR/>Thank you for your response.<BR/> <BR/>Though I have read, reread and keep many of his published works, I never came to know him personally and do not know whether he really hated America and/or Americans as a people. As you may know, nationalism is a sentiment and may serve as an ideology too. <BR/> <BR/>Like you I believe in education as a possible solution to the long-term improvement of the Filipino masses; an education that teaches a means to decent livelihood AND a means to understand his and society's realities, to identify the symptoms versus the roots of his daily personal misery and that of his society. <BR/> <BR/>Of course such education will need to touch on the geopolitics of international economics, capitalism in terms of individual persons as investors versus corporate/transnational and institutional investors, etc. In a globalized economy the ordinary, individual investor is really a nonfactor. We seem to forget that, although we hear a lot of talk (propaganda or advertisement) about the "foreign investors", as if we still have much individual foreign investors. <BR/> <BR/>I understand your valid points especially on education. However, the prior questions that we need to address are: how do we implement that kind of education, how and who will finance it? Can we see that happening in present realities where the national leadership have been/are corrupt and have only demonstrated selfish and subservient interests? Can we see that occurring when our educational system is designed to follow the IMF/WB/ADB "recommendations" as preconditions to continuing loans; and we know these supposedly neutral and benevolent international institutions are prophets of economic and cultural globalization (neocolonialism)? <BR/> <BR/>Gil, I frankly do not see such an education being realized without a strong motivation from a leadership, supported by a nationalistic populace, that would push for a nationalistic educational program. Here again, the prior issue asks how can we have a nationalist leadership and a nationalistic majority? <BR/> <BR/>Not from the recent, present and foreseeable governments and institutions. But it really has to start somewhere, somehow. It is discouraging indeed. I feel and think that we Filipinos seem to have significantly lost nationalism among the younger generations since the Marcos Dictatorship, but we just have to continue fighting for nationalism (that's what I try to do in my own little way). <BR/> <BR/>Else, a nation of decolonized Filipinos will not come to reality. And the Filipino will perpetually be having his "damaged culture," continually living his life of selfish individualism inherited from his culture and reinforced by the historical neglect from his government; with no sense of national community beyond his circle of family and friends. A country not his own since it will not be under his control, and therefore not a nation he can call his own. <BR/> <BR/>A bleak future for a country and a people that only a thinking Filipino can appreciate and sadly long for especially when he looks at his homeland from afar, in a foreign soil.<BR/> <BR/>Regards,Bert M. Dronahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06864941770380173324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-1143526163272664242006-03-27T22:09:00.000-08:002006-03-27T22:09:00.000-08:00Hi Bert:Many thanks for your emails on Tato Consta...Hi Bert:<BR/>Many thanks for your emails on Tato Constantino's<BR/>miseducation of the Filipino(s). Allow me to put in my<BR/>two-bits thinking at the this point.<BR/><BR/>As some of us in the FEU group (I was with them<BR/>occasionally in the campus from 1950-52 until I<BR/>decided to drop out of college and never came back--<BR/>for any degree but to teach as I do now) pointed out<BR/>to Tato in our coffee sessions (regulars were faculty<BR/>members Ike Joaquin, Salvador Laurel, Benito Reyes,<BR/>Nick Joaquin, students Dante Calma, Ernesto Banawis,<BR/>Tony Joaquin, Arsenio Fabros, Isabelo Crisostomo, Jose<BR/>Abcede, Greg Datuin, Alfonso Policarpio, artist<BR/>Duldulao and others whose names I can't remember): he<BR/>was too much negatively affected by his hate for the<BR/>Americans that he forgot to use the situation to the<BR/>Filipinos' advantge.<BR/><BR/>I regard(ed) it like jujitsu: throw the enemy by his<BR/>own weight and use his own mass against him.<BR/><BR/>The Americans can be beaten in their own game--in<BR/>their own language too. I think of Tony Escoda, Tony<BR/>Arizabal, Al Valencia and myself who had become<BR/>correspondents and bureau chiefs in the Associated<BR/>Press and AP-Dow Jones here and abroad. Think of Mike<BR/>Marabut, Joselito Katigbak and Ernie Mendoza who had<BR/>been bureau chiefs of Reuters, or Teddy Benigno of<BR/>Agence France-Presse. Or authors Frankie Sionil-Jose,<BR/>the Tiempo couple etc. Or Sixto K. Roxas who was vice<BR/>chair of American Express International, Bobby Romulo<BR/>of IBM in his younger days. There were also one<BR/>Victoriano Yamzon who was the most successful<BR/>correspondent (better than the American reporters) of<BR/>the old Manila Tribune in 1910 in the judgement of his<BR/>American editors. A lot more name there are.<BR/><BR/>My point is our educational system must include a<BR/>subject on how teach the Filipinos the hard facts of<BR/>life--of geopolitics and international relations, and<BR/>international political-economics. Teach them how to<BR/>work out for themselves in the field of international<BR/>competition. Learn more of the enemy because without<BR/>that information we are dead meat even before we<BR/>start. Work with what is possible and improve on our<BR/>national lot. Be part of the solution, not the<BR/>problem. <BR/><BR/>Cheers GilAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-1143482030277061232006-03-27T09:53:00.000-08:002006-03-27T09:53:00.000-08:00If the Americans didn't educated us, I just dont k...If the Americans didn't educated us, I just dont know how we look like today. Perhaps we still believe in primitive witchcraft medicine. Imagine the millions of overseas filipino contract workers if they can find a job in their own country. Their edge is that they speak english. Maybe we are still a colony of Spain or after the colonizer left most people are still illiterate who could not even speak english to compete in the world job market ex Guatemala & Ecuador. It's true that nationalism is less a priority. Why? because our leaders coming from the wealthy and rich class are not nationalist either. During the time of Jose Rizal, Aguinaldo, Mabini, etc who belongs to the middle and upper class of the society had a sense of loyalty and nationalism to their motherland. Now politicians have numerous bank accounts abroad. <BR/> <BR/>Some of the ideas in this article are true but the analysis and opinions I resent because it fails to compare the old and new attitudes of Filipino leaders. Todays Filipino leaders are corrupt so that is the reason why the country can't move on and people are leaving to migrate to a better land.<BR/> <BR/>We must be thankful that we are educated by the Americans however education whether Americans, British or Spanish if use for personal gains and corruptions then its eco-socio-political system suffers.<BR/> <BR/>Nonoy RamosAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com