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[satoncho]

As Kevjumba said "the only way to get rid of racism is to have more interracial babies."

[arucon]

@chrisbegoode Hindi obligasyon ng mga Pinoy sa abroad na iahon ka sa kahirapan...Ikaw anung obligasyon mo sa kababayan mong mahihirap??? Ang mga mang mang dapat di basta basta nagbibitiw ng mabababaw na pananaw...tsk tsk tsk...bata, shut your trap!

[nenabunena]

@GaolisVideoLog really? can i ask, y is the univ of singapore the best place 2 study philippinology do u think? i was also surprised that in russia they had quite a number of students studying filipino language. i admit i'm not that much aware of such policies, what would u recommend i read 2 learn more about it? i am aware though that the US greatly influenced our schooling system as well as curriculum. just send me a pm when you have time, tell me something about china!

[nenabunena]

@GaolisVideoLog i know that it's a script very similar to kawi & that it had not adapted properly to filipino language when the spaniards had come. & yes i am aware that it originally came from india as do many indian influences in the philippines came via se asian neighbors. well, when i was in school they never taught any of us fma, we had filipiniana though.

[GaolisVideoLog]

@nenabunena Part 2: The univeristy of Singapore is the best place to study Philippinology. I've given several lectures in Bielefeld University, Germany on the Philippines & their language policy. I would like to talk more with you, but I'll be going to China for a month. We can chat afterwards. I really love my country. Anyway, the USA also created our school curriculum, that's why all schools promote English. And since English is therefore the educated language, all media uses that

[GaolisVideoLog]

@nenabunena Baybayin didn't come from Borneo. It evolved from the Indian Devanaggari, which on Malay peninsula turned into Kawi & was used for governance& business, eventually on Luzon it turned to Baybayin. As for Mindanao, if you look at archaeological findings, Butuan didn't use it, they have it now due to migration programs of the gov & ed. policies. According to curriculum FMA should be taught in 1st yr. HS.. Nat. resources in RP belong to USA, who support certain politicans.

[nenabunena]

You teach arnis? That's cool! i think both filipiniana dances & fma should be promoted & taught in our schools as well via P.E. classes. This is a filipino art, why are we neglecting ours & letting foreigners overtake it more than us? We have so many natural resources yet we're too ignorant to utilize it for the good of the country & the people. we need to have vision, raise our standards/goals in life, & put a halt at our indolence. chinese can band together, why can't we?

[nenabunena]

The governments isn't just neglecting other Filipino languages, they're neglecting tagalog & Filipino as well, bec frankly they don't have the vision nor the drive to promote anything Filipino. We need a unifying language to unite us. & it's all ideas but no implementation & that's the problem. I agree, other Filipino languages should not be neglected, the problem though is everything native is neglected by the govt. We need to stop this tribal mentality, it's killing us & our nation

[nenabunena]

@GaolisVideoLog Baybayin did spread throughout Visayas though & is now in key parts of Mindanao. Don't forget that the Tagalogs got it from Borneo as well, so it is something we all own. I dont recommend it to replace latin alphabets but it should be taught well enough so the general masses are aware of them & know how to use them. The problem is the government & media isn't properly promoting Filipino, look how it's becoming a substandard pidgin language of english?

[GaolisVideoLog]

@nenabunena That's what I tell my Arnis students. Of course we should not forget that baybayin is a phenomenon from Luzon. Visayas or Mindanao didn't have it. One problem with the Philippines is that everything is focused on the Tagalog, completely neglecting the fact that prior Spain, we were independent nations. If the Central Luzon would stop discriminating (in a way they do) against other "nationalities" among our pinoy brethren, we would've accomplish a great deal already.

[nenabunena]

Having cultural pride will be the driving force for us to tackle all of our problems IMO. BTW, according to a book on google, 'Japan views the Philippines, 1900-1944' By Lydia N. Yu-Jose, page 37, we had a population of 8 MILLION 70yrs ago????? Holy Cow! & now we have over 93 MILLION? No wonder we're suffering! How is this possible if Filipinos in the past had 5-10 children? Or were there high mortality rates? & the rich ones survived the most? Now it's the opposite.

[nenabunena]

@GaolisVideoLog I think the way out of this is cultural pride, we should support historians, linguists, artists & archaeologists/anthropologists­. Though I believe Spanish influence is part of our culture, we lack understanding or knowledge of our prehispanic past, therefore Filipinos think they were nothing before the Spaniards. We need to have cultural pride & it should be promoted by the media & in schools like learning baybayin. i think that's the answer to all our problems