identity of the Filipino? I have thought about this concept as I read through Linda Revilla’s “Filipino American Identity”. According to Rivera‚ the two main factors that have affected the sense or definition of “Filipino American Identity” are colonization and immigration. The vision of a Filipino in my mind is someone whose identity is culturally resilient in adapting and overcoming adversity and yet so culturally fractured in our identity. For me the concept of being Filipino had always been exotic
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I am a Filipino I am a Filipino‚ and I’m proud to be a Filipino. And what happens to our ancestors in the past. From the Malayan pioneers sought our land and live on their own. Make home on what they see on the nature‚ land‚ hills‚ mountain and seas‚ hoping to have a better life with their family in the nature. How they care to their nature is what I will pass to the next generations. I’m proud to be a Filipino‚ to our ancestors who became a hero. They battle against the aliens who want to
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“The Indolence of the Filipino People” Summary On the first chapter‚ it primarily deals with the admittance of Rizal that indolence does exist to Filipinos and he also pointed out reasons why it existed. Rizal also elucidate that the term indolence was greatly altered in the sense of no love or little love for work. In the Philippines‚ Rizal pointed out that the disaster‚ hardships‚ and weakness of the others are blamed to the indolence of the Filipino. Rizal agreed that laziness has been present
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FROM INDIO TO “FILIPINO” The history of the Philippines is believed to have begun with the arrival of the first humans via land bridges at least 30‚000 years ago.[1] The first recorded visit from the West is the arrival of Ferdinand Magellan‚ who sighted Samar on March 16‚ 1521 and landed on Homonhon Island southeast of Samar the next day. Before Magellan arrived‚ Negrito tribes roamed the isles‚ but they were later supplanted by Austronesians. These groups then stratified into: hunter-gatherer
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Educated Filipino? (Francisco Benitez) (From an address before the General Assembly of the University of the Philippines‚ 1923.) The educated Filipino should‚ first‚ be distinguished by the power to do. The Oriental excels in reflective thinking: he is a philosopher. The Occidental is a doer; he manages things‚ men and affairs. The Filipino of today needs more of this power to translate reflection into action. I believe we are coming more and more to the conviction that no Filipino has the right
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| INDOLENCE OF THE FILIPINO PEOPLE Doctor Sancianco‚ in his Progreso de Filipinas‚ (1)‚ has taken up this question‚ agitated‚ as he calls it‚ and‚ relying upon facts and reports furnished by the very same Spanish authorities that rule the Philippines‚ has demonstrated that such indolence does not exist‚ and that all said about it does not deserve reply or even passing notice. Nevertheless‚ as discussion of it has been continued‚ not only by government employees who make it responsible for their
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What is an Educated Filipino? -Francisco Benitez 1 What is an educated Filipino and what qualities should distinguish him today? The conception of education and of what an educated man is varied in response to fundamental changes in the details and aims of society. In our country and during this transition stage in our national life‚ what are the qualities which an educated man should possess? Alterations in Our Social Life Great changes have taken place in the nature of our social life during
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Nutritional status of Filipinos Filipinos has been experiencing many problems. One of those problems is their nutritional status. Filipinos are one of the unhealthiest persons in the world and are considered malnourished or obese. We may seem physically fit but are we truly certain that it is true‚ that we receive our proper nutrition‚ the personal nutrition our body needs? Our country has a very young population‚ it consists mostly of youth and despite that we are experiencing malnourishment
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BAHAY MAGILIW: THE MODERN FILIPINO FAMILY Page 8-11 During the time that I come to realize what their role is in the family‚ is about the same time that I come to realize that the way of life highly differs from the traditional American ways. Their friends do not live as they do with so many people around them; their friends are not prohibited from being with others outside their own race; their cultural beliefs‚ traditions‚ superstitions – everything that the Filipino child had grown up with
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Colonial Whip A Filipino Response to Flogging in 1835 I. Cracks in the Parchment Curtain – 17 essay compiled into one to reveal factual information on the 300 year master-and-slave relationship of the Philippines and Spain. In here‚ we’ll see desolate angle of Filipinos living through the Spanish shadow for three centuries. An American author with Dutch-Lutheran decent uncovers the Philippine’s neglected history with an aim to put a window on every angle during the three century colonial
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