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What’s In A Name? P.I. (Philippine Islands.) is Politically Incorrect
I teach Phillippine history in a American community college and I flinch everytime a bright-eyed student would refer about his/her or recent trip to P.I. with their parents. P.I., of course means Philippine Islands and to most Filipinos familiar with U.S. colonialism of the Philippines, it is a politically incorrect term. That much I learned […]
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From: Alfredo Roces <alfredo.roces@gmail.com>
Sent: Tue, June 21, 2011 4:28:04 AM
Subject: Fwd: Sagot ng Pinoy
SAGOT NG PINOY
Ang Pinoy hindi tumama-tama ang sagot kahit maayos ang tanong… 🙁
Q: Kumain ka na ba?
A: Busog pa ako.
Q: Saan kayo galing?
A: Lumabas lang kami sandali.
Q: Paano mo ginawa ‘yan?
A: Madali lang.
Q: Bakit wala ka kahapon?
A: Absent ako.
Q: Anong oras na?
A: […]
(Screenshot from “Karnal” )
The passing of director Marilou Diaz-Abaya at the young age of 57 is a loss for Philippine cinema. Just as she was evolving a more complex visualization of the Filipino/a character in her later movies in their struggle for dignity amidst suffering and violence, and the eternal hope for peace, she herself […]
I teach Phillippine history in a American community college and I flinch everytime a bright-eyed student would refer about his/her or recent trip to P.I. with their parents. P.I., of course means Philippine Islands and to most Filipinos familiar with U.S. colonialism of the Philippines, it is a politically incorrect term. That much I learned […]
Asian Art Museum, Thursday Talks May 21 2015 7:00-8:30 P.M.
After a decade of not following the Filipino-American “art scene” (I was busy completing a doctorate), I was treated along with some 200 people, to a visual feast of works by five Filipino/American artists presented by the Asian Art Museum Thursday Series. It […]
Pope Francis is visiting Manila on January 15. His fans and supporters saw it fit that he travels on a jeepney, that quintessential vehicle Filipino makers fashioned out of US WWII reparations junk into a Filipino version of a stretch limo. Only this time, according to writer, Jason Ang, the Pope mobile is fully custom-built for His […]
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