tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post2686243213784522035..comments2023-09-28T05:38:56.877-07:00Comments on THE FILIPINO MIND: We Belong to a Hispanized PhilippinesBert M. Dronahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06864941770380173324noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-69818529602552300602010-09-25T02:03:54.611-07:002010-09-25T02:03:54.611-07:00This is out true identity. We Filipinos are Hispan...This is out true identity. We Filipinos are Hispanics. Nothing to be ashamed of it. And once we learn to accept this fact, once we have been freed from WASP mind-conditioning, once we have been freed from textbook-based hatred, then and only then can we shake of the shackles of almost everything that has been putting us Filipinos down. It is time we have a fresher appraisal of our history.Pepe Alashttp://alasfilipinas.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-55377144183115466282010-09-19T21:12:01.329-07:002010-09-19T21:12:01.329-07:00Hi Bert,
I hope you can read this, as two years h...Hi Bert,<br /><br />I hope you can read this, as two years have passed since the last exchange I am reading here. This is Elizabeth Medina, thanks for posting my essay in your blog.<br /><br />I like your way of thinking; I too have very good feelings toward the Spanish, most of all the ordinary hardworking people I've seen and interacted with in ordinary ways in Madrid, the friends I made with young historians.<br /><br />I also love our people, I feel Filipinos are very very special, we just have been distorted by our past. But understanding that past helps us reconcile with everything, including our image of self and thus image of the others. I learned in Chile that I can accept the Chileans with their virtues and faults and be at peace with that. I feel the same about my fellow Filipinos. <br /><br />All the best, un abrazo grande -<br />Elizabeth<br /><br />P.S. I really would like to study classical Tagalog. It is the other part of my heritage that my education deprived me of.Lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04953652787667823702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-14761750188719660092009-06-07T05:18:08.966-07:002009-06-07T05:18:08.966-07:00Jose Miguel,
I agree with you.
Much of our writ...Jose Miguel,<br /><br />I agree with you. <br /><br />Much of our written history, written or re-written by our then American colonists, has been distorted and/or the truth kept hidden from us; lending truism to the saying that victors write history.<br /><br />The use of the term "bandits" or "insurgents" have been used throughout history, as was employed by the American colonists. This tactic by the colonists (and its native, trained servants/soldiers of today) has been useful in demeaning and demonizing the enemy and rationalizing their own brutality towards the latter.<br /><br />BertBert M. Dronahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06864941770380173324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-87847090103765155202009-05-25T18:52:45.178-07:002009-05-25T18:52:45.178-07:00To me, the thesis of Elizabeth is seems more of a ...To me, the thesis of Elizabeth is seems more of a report than a thesis. She stated more of facts than opinion or even of her own analysis.<br /><br />The fact is, it was hidden by the American invaders in 1899 to destroy our identity so as to destroy our capacity to differentiate self from foreign.<br /><br />The fact is, a disease of the immune system known as autoimmune disease, exists at the biological level. It is a development malfunction of the immune system in which there is a failure of an organism to recognize it's own constituent parts as the self. It attacks it's own cells. Example of this is systemic lupus erythematosus.<br /><br />The fact is, this also exists at the social level. This is the case in the Philippines. An example of this is the killing by Filipino soldiers of our brother Filipinos tagged by the government as insurgents. this label originated from the Americans who labelled our brother Filipinos who resisted their invasion as insurgents. This is being continued today. Any Filipino who undergoes training in a Filipino military unit would enter in an orientation where the only recognized enemy is a Filipino. Never is there in the orientation, any possibility that the enemy is a foreigner. That is why combat training is basically oriented in counter-insurgency.<br /><br />We need to pool our resources and coordinate if we are to accomplish the realization of this truth in existence but is deeply hidden by an existing subtle enemy.<br /><br />We need to communicate more often.<br />Thanks for this channel.josé miguelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05152769788400819011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-36398689309937452992008-06-28T23:52:00.000-07:002008-06-28T23:52:00.000-07:00I believe you misread me and think your considerat...I believe you misread me and think your considerations are somewhat about our superficial expressions of colonial mentality. As to talk of renaming etc., well let's do that when we have attained true nationalism not just of Rizal kind -which is of the ilustrado, but more of Bonifacio and Mabini when nationalism flows deeply among a significant majority.<BR/> <BR/>By Hispanized, I meant learning more from our Spanish history, we can know and understand more of ourselves. We have limited ourselves to the American and fellow Americanized version of our history.<BR/> <BR/>We can not reject everything in our history, including about our former colonists; our Malayan heritage is also incomplete and much less known if not mostly forgotten; thanks of course to our former colonists (actually Spaniards helped us maintain it by not teaching the Filipino natives/masses the Spanish language and thus ignite our nationalism). <BR/> <BR/>I have written about Hugo in my blog and am coincidentally reading his book HUGO!. The great difference is he comes from the masa, did not forget his roots and uses his acquired knowledge of Simon Bolivar, of Ali Rodrigues and Petkoff, Fidel and Che, etc. to sincerely fight for and improve the plight of the Venezuelan masa. That's why America is demonizing him.<BR/> <BR/>Thanks for your comments.<BR/> <BR/>BertBert M. Dronahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06864941770380173324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-24897901971246306342008-06-28T23:50:00.000-07:002008-06-28T23:50:00.000-07:00WHY SHOULD THIS BE A PROBLEM? WHAT FILIPINOS NEED ...WHY SHOULD THIS BE A PROBLEM? WHAT FILIPINOS NEED IS TO FIND REINFORCEMENT FOR ITS UNIQUENESS BASED ON ITS TRUE NATURE - THE MALAY-ASIAN ROOTS. ANTHROPOLOGICALLY ASIAN (AUTRONESIANS FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO MIGRATING TO SOUTHEAST ASIAN ARCHIPELAGOS UP TO AUSTRALIA. THE MEZTIZO COLOR ALONE ALREADY CREATES A CULTURAL DISLOCATION, LOOK AT THE CRAQVING FOR GLUTATHIONE TO WHITEN SKINS HERE! DROP THE COLONIZING CULTURE AND FIND OUR ORIGINAL AND NEW BIRTH IN OUR HISTORY - FAR LONGER THAN THE FOUR HUNDRED YEARS NDER SPAIN. THERE IS LITTLE TO BE GAINED FROM THAT. HUGO CHAVEZ DID RIGHT IN CHASTIZING THE ARROGANT KING OF SPAIN. I ADVOCATE RENAMING THIS NATION AND ITS COUNTRY - THE REPUBLIC OF RIZALIA, FOR THE MALAY SYNTHESIS OF PAST AND FUTURE --- SOMETHING 500 MILLION MALAYS CAN AGREE TO, FROM BRUNEI TO MADAGASCAR... LET'S QUIT BEING BROWN CAUCASIANS NOW. THERE'S FAR MORE TO GAIN FROM LIGHTING THE VIRES OF MALAY-ASIAN NATIONHOOD...<BR/> <BR/>HTLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com