81 Years of Premio Zóbel part 2

This 15-minute documentary traces the history of the longest-existing literary award in the Philippines. The award was established in 1920
by Don Enrique Zóbel, patriarch of the Zóbel de Ayala clan—one of the most distinguished families in the country.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• premio
• zóbel
• ayala
• filipiniana

[misabellem]

Remember that the Americans were also our colonizers. They also oppressed the Filipinos, but they stayed only for 48 years. If they stayed for 333 years in the Philippines, I guess Filipinos would also hate them as much as many Filipinos hate the Spaniards. Honestly, I'd rather be a Spaniard than be an American. We have so much Hispanic heritage in our country. It's only fitting that we also give credits to Spain.

[andalusia442]

I agree. We need to stop focusing on race. NO race is pure anymore; one can claim that Caucasians (Spanish and American) did wrong to us, but they also did wrong to each other (Greeks and Romans to native peoples of Europe, Asians to Europeans and the peoples of the Middle East through the Mongolian conquests, etc.), so technically ALL are at fault - everyone's ancestors has more or less done wrong to each other throughout history.

[Ecchi145]

@misabellem yea we are the only meztiso in asia!! %65 MEZTISO - %35 indio/malay

[fonsucu]

Espléndido trabajo.

[Edomgg]

Yo creo que el gobierno español debería dar el Premio Principe de Asturias a Georgina Zobel de Ayala

[joejurpineda1986]

ilocanos, kapampangan, visaya dialects and mindanoa dialect dese are minority language.so as tagalog i think. so why the government made it the national language. it wud be nice to bring the old language bak, but soz guys it will not happen and english is something we have to stick to. pitty we have lost a part of our identity.

[joejurpineda1986]

maintaining the spanish language shud have been rescue long tyme ago. cos look at it even tagalog use spanish language to start of and now english to extends our vocabularly. and will continue to do so. the post war government didnt made a good decision. cant blame them though.

[joejurpineda1986]

speaking spanish is not really hard to learn like english. matter of fact similarities in words. so loosing spanish language was completely bad to be honest. our language tagalog hasnt even have enough words, therefore we steal some of the modern language from english and spanish, and even speaking tagalog we use long words and now getting so unfamiliar we cant even understand it . the only downside is if we bring the spanish language back, it will be hard to do and i suggest stick to english.

[joejurpineda1986]

I think its true that instead of sticking of wat filipinoes had during that time, we just have to go back to the dark ages. imagine wat the spanish language can give us as well as speaking english. Business to the whole world and understanding. Wat we inherited during that time shud have been maintained. look at us these days, we dont even know our identity. identity as in a complete identity. we don know wer to put ourselves, cos we are completely lost

[tmgebomb]

Generally those filipinos who justify their hate for spaniards because of what their ancestors did in the past really just have their own insecurities about themselves and inability to accept their own race. This is typical among many groups of people in other parts of the world. Many filipinos celebrate their spanish influenced heritage because they see it for the contribution it has made for our people, and how filipinos have taken these cntributions and shaped it to fit their own culture.

[andalusia442]

Whether we are of Austronesian, Han Chinese, Caucasian, African, or some mixture of the above, if we are raised by our parents in the culture that we know and feel to be that of a Filipino, then we are ALL Filipinos inside, regardless of how we look on the outside.

[andalusia442]

It is ridiculous and pointless to try and hold grudges against the ancestors of people who have done nothing wrong today, because if we continue the hate then the cycle will never end and we will keep having wars and genocide. I agree that we should not forget about the bad things that were done to us, but we should also learn how to forgive and to celebrate the cultural contributions that make our heritage as rich as it is today.