tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post4414602767089418410..comments2023-09-28T05:38:56.877-07:00Comments on THE FILIPINO MIND: About Our Heroes: Andres Bonifacio, Apolinario Mabini and Jose Rizal Bert M. Dronahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06864941770380173324noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-51187176496749411282014-05-23T04:12:13.570-07:002014-05-23T04:12:13.570-07:00Malinaw na malinaw ang sakit ng mga Pilipino. Sa d...Malinaw na malinaw ang sakit ng mga Pilipino. Sa daang taon na nakaraan, kung ano man ang tinatamasa ng bnsa at ng kanian mamamayan, ay wala sia dapat sisihin kundi sng kanuan sarili. Panay ang sisi sa mga ibang lahi, pero simpleng pag iisip makakamtan, na wala sia dapat sisihin kundi ang kanian sarili. Ang sistema ng pag iisip ay nagagatungan, at tumatatak sa ating mga dna, bagayna ipinapasa natin sa ating mga anak, apo, so on and so forth. At ang pagtangkilik at pagmamahal sa lupang tinubuan, ay bagay na tumatatak sa dugo at dna ng isang tao na siguradong ipapasa nia sa kaniang anak, apo .At kaya na rin masasabi natin na ang mga liders na naka upo na binoto ng mamamayan, ay sadiang ganian ang kilos at isipan ay dahil sa ito ang isa sa mgs karskteristikong naipasa sa kanila ng kaniang magulang, lolo at lola.Ang abilidad ng pag tangkilik at pagmamahal sa lupang tinubuan ay tiyak na nagmula sa dna, genetic make up ng mga magulang, na nakuha din nila sa kanilang mga magulang. So ngayon ang sagot sa katanungan kng bakit ganian ang estado ng bnsa, ay dahil sa heneral na karakteristikong nailimbag at nakaukit sa dugo ng bawat Pilipino na ipinalalakas at ginagatungan ng Kultura, na sia ring nagmumula sa dugo ng partikular na lahi. Kaya ang tanong, bakit ganian kayo sa bnsa ninio? Bakit ganian kayo sa kapwa at ka lahi ninio? Bskit kontento kayo at hindi nababagabag sa.estado ng mga kababayan nio,? Bakit hindi kayo nababagabag na pinapadala nio sila sa ibang bnsa upang maging trabahodores kng dapat nasa Pilipinas sila kapiling ang kanilan pamilya. BAKIT hindi kayo nababagabag na isa isa ninanakaw ang islas ninio at imbis na mag pundar kayo ng pondo ng sa gayon mag da dalawang isip ang mga abusadong magnanakaw? .Bakit kayo na ko kontento na hindi nio na bibigay ang opportunidad sa sarili niong bnsa ng sa gayon likas na mapaunlad ang mga talento at kaisipan ng inion kababayan? Sino ang inaasahan at hinihintay nio, mga dayuhan?Ito ay mga simpleng tanong.KAYONG MGA PILIPINO, HUMARAP kayo sa salamin, at huag nio IPASA ang sisi sa ibang lahi, king sino mn ang dapat sisihin, ay walang iba kundi kayo mismo. Ito si R.GALVEZ.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12094910154430360288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-58279429437256091532013-01-25T15:51:48.913-08:002013-01-25T15:51:48.913-08:00(from Perry Diaz's Global Balita)
Perry,
Romy...(from Perry Diaz's Global Balita)<br /><br />Perry,<br />Romy Monteyro’s, “What the Spaniards failed to do during their more than 300 years–to Hispanize the Filipinos, the Americans succeeded in doing [TO ANGLICIZE?] in just a little more than 40 years.” … IS NOT quite accurate.<br /><br />… MORE ACCURATE: “What the Spaniards accomplished in hispanizing the Filipinos in more than 300 years was reversed to a great extent, by the Americans in 40 years”.<br /><br />Hispanization, no doubt, was a successful experiment in the Philippines – precisely why we have Catholicism, civil law and criminal justice system (NOT COMMON LAW OR JURY SYSTEM), system of governance (DOWN TO TENIENTE/CAPITAN DEL BARRIO), school system (ESCUELA, LAPIZ, PAPEL), etc. And, the reason Filipino names are 90% Hispanic, and 50% of our VOCABULARY contain Hispanic / Italian root words.<br /><br />Except for Mexico, Chile, Argentina and possibly one/two others – Spanish colonies that gained independence in the mid-1800s, the Philippines WAS MORE Hispanic than the rest of South America. <br /><br />The fact is, after the American’s three-year conquest, the Spanish university and school systems were still using Spanish up to 1920. It took the American Peninsular government thousands of Thomasites to be deployed all over the archipelago, and the re-oriented Guardia Civil turned Philippine Constabulary, echeloned by American officers, to bring order and obedience from the starving people. <br /><br />With majority of the illustrados becoming ‘American Balimbings’ the substitution of the Spanish civil institutions with American equivalents was facilitated.<br /><br />Don’t you know that all Spanish friars / faculties in all schools were banished to Spain, including the Spanish Jesuits at Ateneo? In their place, American and German Jesuits were brought in. SVD-run schools with German / American priests were also established. One exception was Pontificia et Regalis Sancti Thomæ Aquinatis Universitas Manilana, for which the continuance of the Dominicans was interceded by the Pope, because the university had a pontifical charter!<br /><br />What is unfortunate is that the Americans demonized the Spanish – calling them backwards and all sorts of names, as what the yellow journalists Pulitzer and Hearst did in justifying to the American people the pretentious Yanqui invasion of Cuba and Puerto Rico. One has only to recall how President McKinley invented his dream of divine ordinance to deliver the Spanish possessions unto America’s tutelage (and BONDAGE!).<br /><br />This explanation will not be complete without the mention that the American brainwashing of the Filipinos was only made possible by first slaughtering 10,000 Filipino ‘insurrectos’ under Aguinaldo and the un-surrendered generals (who were branded as wanted thieving criminals), and starving or decimating by disease 250,000 civilians who were zoned in the poblaciones to deny the persistent guerrillas of logistic support.<br /><br />Yes, the Spanish were no perfect colonial masters. But their contribution to the formation of the Filipino consciousness of one nation under a Christian God must be acknowledged – for better or for worse. After all that is you and the rest of us are today – quite Malay, quite Chinese, unique Filipino – Herederos de la Hispanidad en el Oriente, of whatever remains of it in our collective memory.Guy Camachonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-72682233746598016372013-01-25T15:45:11.823-08:002013-01-25T15:45:11.823-08:00(from Perry Diaz's GLOBAL BALITA)
Thanks. The...<br />(from Perry Diaz's GLOBAL BALITA)<br /><br />Thanks. These stories should be told and re-told to the Filipino children.Victoria M. Segovianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-30601869508003058342013-01-25T15:43:31.217-08:002013-01-25T15:43:31.217-08:00(From Perry Diaz's GLOBAL BALITA)
Unbelievabl...(From Perry Diaz's GLOBAL BALITA)<br /><br />Unbelievable but true. <br /><br />What the Spaniards failed to do during their more than 300 years–to Hispanize the Filipinos, the Americans succeeded in doing in just a little more than 40 years. Rizal’s dream was not for an independent Philippines. He wanted the Islands to be made a province of Spain. He declined to lead the armed revolution since it was his belief that the Filipinos were not ready for self-rule. To a great extent that belief was proved right.<br /><br />Aguinaldo, after usurping the top leadership of the Katipunan botched the revolution started by Bonifacio, and sold out to the Spaniards. He was so naive to believe the Americans came as liberators and not as conquerors. Too bad he lived too long and was not made to account for his failures and his crimes–the murders of Bonifacio and Antonio Luna. <br /><br />So who should be the Philippines national hero? I believe it should be Bonifacio. And Sluggo is right, Lapu-Lapu should be higher if not the same level as Bonifacio.Romy Monteyronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-81535564434250530242013-01-25T15:41:03.044-08:002013-01-25T15:41:03.044-08:00(from Perry Diaz's GLOBAL BALITA)
Bert, thank...(from Perry Diaz's GLOBAL BALITA)<br /><br />Bert, thanks for publishing these articles on rizal, bonifacio and mabini by soliongco, his columns in the pre-martial law chronicle, i assiduously followed. <br /><br />The writings on our heroes have been so asinine and trivial that they miss the real lessons that present and future generations of Filipinos should learn to have a strong and prosperous country.<br />Manuel F. Almarionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-57377660457983220332013-01-25T15:38:54.798-08:002013-01-25T15:38:54.798-08:00(from Perry Diaz's GLOBAL BALITA)
Hi Sluggo,
...(from Perry Diaz's GLOBAL BALITA)<br /><br />Hi Sluggo,<br /><br />Did you mean to say, Lapu-Lapu instead of Magellan? If so, I can make the correction to your comment.Perry Diaznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-86064089358605499562013-01-25T15:37:18.678-08:002013-01-25T15:37:18.678-08:00(from Perry Diaz's GLOBAL BALITA)
If we were ...(from Perry Diaz's GLOBAL BALITA)<br /><br />If we were to go by historical facts, Magellan ought to be up there in the list as he was the first to defend our patrimony. But alas, the Gringo educators thought he was too violent and instead, through clever propaganda, his name was attached to a popular fish. Since I was in grades school, I had always wondered: Did Filipinos ever go to the polls to choose a National Hero? Or were they superimposed on our collective minds without anyone protesting?Sluggo Rigornoreply@blogger.com