Tag: Filipino
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We Are Not Filipinos
We Are Not Filipino . “The term “Filipino” originally refers to an individual born in the archipelago by Spanish parents. Currently, many of us regard Filipino as our superior identity that is upheld by many groups, tribes, ethnolinguistic identity and geographical affiliation in the archipelago. This goes for basically everyone except tribes that remain isolated…
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Cultural Hijacking
Imagine any given advertisement used around this time of year and you most certainly arrive at one where the faceless, soulless corporation infamous for overworking its staff while refusing livable wages manages to utilize traditional Filipino values to sell ChickenJoy. The parasitic Bee uses every single aspect of how Filipinos identify with our collective culture,…
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Enrile: The Blood Sucking Parasite
“Marela looked around and saw an infant who had been grabbed by an Special Forces man and then flung to the ground. She tried to nurse the crying baby, whose elder sister Elsa came and told Marela to put the baby down for it was already dying.” —from “The Las Navas Incident: A Village Weeps…
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The Philippines vs Jesus
When asked to define what it means to be Filipino there is inevitably a sizable portion of pinoys who will reference a belief of in god or an adherence to Catholicism/Christianity as a defining trait of Filipino culture and identity. While only subjectively true in the context of their own identity and the construction of…
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Why Didn’t Pre-Malay Migration Languages Survive Among Negrito Tribes?
Etymology studies during the 1900s routinely attempted to tackle the puzzling consequences of migration upon the language and culture of the Negrito tribes. Having been in the archipelago long before the Malay ethnic groups began migrating into the Philippine Islands, the Negritos had largely, though not entirely if you knew where to look, lost language…
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From Bullets To Germs
From bullets to germs – the transformation of the American war to occupy the Philippines due to the 1902 cholera epidemic..In March of 1902 a vessel from Hong Kong arrived in Manila carrying the bacteria that causes cholera. The disease arrived with a vengeance as it rapidly spread across social, racial and economic classes; cholera…
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Adjacency, Toxic Masculinity and Vice
When Makati police decided to use excessive force against Awra at the end of Pride Month they did so with intent to belittle a person they viewed as lesser than any cis-male Filipino. We know this because the police have refused to apologize, they released evidence to sympathetic troll networks to back their behavior, and…
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Sweet Nothings
As the Becoming Filipino Canadian finally becomes a naturalized Filipino, we are left to ask why? Not why he wanted to be a Filipino. We can guess that personal interests and the financial benefits of vlogging in one of the most online countries on earth helped guide that decision. What we are interested in is…
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Filipino Bodies, American Minds
The nature of the internet and how it connects the world today means that ideas can spread instantly across borders and cultures. No matter how bad the narrative is, it can infest communities around the world with the ability of each to borrow or alter it as needed. Generations ago people believed this kind of…