Good morning to all of you. It is a rare pleasure for me to be here in such company to share my own profound insights about a topic that‚ in the light of close scrutiny‚ may as well define our future as a nation. But let me not bore you with such technicalities as an analysis of a cataract several times remove‚ yet persistent as the barnacles on a ship’s hull. Rather‚ permit me to begin with a story‚ one in which all of us might have been a part of at one time or another. A story quite common
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A tumble of violet‚ blue‚ orange and green…the blazing lights of the neon signs‚ the hazy colors of the disco scene. There I was‚ a typical colegiala out to enjoy the world‚ a part of the “let’s make tusok-tusok the fishballs” syndrome. Youth with all its petty follies and foibles. Life was good…sometimes. Other times‚ I found myself stopping to ask‚ “What’s the use?” But I didn’t worry much about it. I mean‚ my life wasn’t a total whirl – it was just a little out of focus. At least I was having
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Main Article: Filipino folk music Philippine gong music can be divided into two types: the flat gong commonly known as gangsa and played by the groups in the Cordillera region of the bossed gongs played among the Islam and animist groups in the Southern Philippines. Kulintang refers to a racked gong chime instrument played in the southern islands of the Philippines‚ along with its varied accompanying ensembles. Different groups have different ways of playing the kulintang. Two major groups seem
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A Portrait of the Artist As Filipino First Scene Nick Joaquin THE SCENES FIRST SCENE: The sala of Marasigan house in Intramuros. An afternoon towards the beginning of October‚ 1941. THE PEOPLE Candida and Paula Marasigan‚ Cora‚ a news photographer Spinster daughters of Don Lorenzo Susan & Violet‚vaudeville artists Pepang‚ their elder married sister Don Perico‚ a senator Manolo‚ their eldest brother Doña Loleng‚ his wife Bitoy Camacho‚ a friend of the family Patsy
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La indolencia de los filipinos (y de los estudiantes tambien) 1. What was the effect of conviction of "inferiority?" -The child or youth who tries to be anything else is blamed with vanity and presumption; the curate ridicules him with cruel sarcasm‚ his relatives look upon him with fear‚ strangers regard him with great compassion. No forward movement -- Get back in the ranks and keep in line! With his spirit thus molded the native falls into the most pernicious of all routines: routine not
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refute the accusations of prejudiced Spanish writers against his race‚ Rizal annotated the book‚ Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas‚ written by the Spaniard Antonio Morga. The book was an unbiased presentation of 16th century Filipino culture. Rizal through his annotation showed that Filipinos had developed culture even before the coming of the Spaniards. While annotating Morga’s book‚ he began writing the sequel to the Noli‚ the El Filibusterismo. He completed the Fili in July 1891 while he was in Brussels
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Parisian life .despite the social parties and the glittering light of the city ‚ he continued his fruitful artistic ‚ literary ‚ and patriotic labor(makabayang pag gawa)‚ he published his annotated(comment) edition of Morgam’s success; founded three Filipino societies‚ the kidlat club‚ the indios bravos ‚ and the R.D.L.M.; AND wrote por telefono ‚ satire against fr.salvador font. Difficulty of finding quarters. on march 1889 ‚ it was extremely difficult For a visitor to find living quarters in Paris
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Our Filipino Values: A Connotation to the World What are Filipino values? What is distinctly Filipino in our value system? The Filipino value system arises from our culture or way of life‚ our distinctive way of becoming human in this particular place and time. We speak of Filipino values in a fourfold sense. First‚ although mankind shares universal human values‚ it is obvious that certain values take on for us a distinctively Filipino flavor. The Greek ideal of moderation or meden agan‚ the
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The last Census revealed that Filipinos have grown to 1‚850‚314‚ the country’s second-largest Asian ethnic group behind the Chinese (2‚341‚537). The Filipino populous has become an “invisible majority”‚ with 49.72% of Filipinos residing in California. These figures beg the question‚ how can a group so large continue to be considered an underrepresented minority in our colleges and universities when in total‚ Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are attending institutions of higher education more
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education for all‚ a problem which becomes more serious each year. The Department of Education‚ Culture and Sports (now the Department of Education‚ DepED) has attempted to implement educational reforms‚ programmes and projects to address the key issues of access and quality of basic education‚ relevance and efficiency of the education system. However‚ many problems are besetting education in the Philippines. Among the school-related causes are the unqualified and poorly trained teachers‚ inadequate
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