PRIMARY BLOG POSTS/READINGS FOR MY FELLOW NATIVE (INDIO/MALAY) FILIPINOS-IN-THE-PHILIPPINES

" Fear history, for it respects no secrets" - Gregoria de Jesus  (widow of Andres Bonifacio)

"Upang maitindig natin ang bantayog ng ating lipunan, kailangang radikal nating baguhin hindi lamang ang ating mga institusyon kundi maging ang ating pag-iisip at pamumuhay. Kailangan ang rebolusyon, hindi lamang sa panlabas, kundi lalo na sa panloob!" --Apolinario Mabini,  La Revolucion Filipina (1898)

"To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful." - Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965)

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LET US NOT KEEP OUR HEADS IN THE SAND

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CACIQUE DEMOCRACY. DEJA VU.

WE NATIVE FILIPINOS LEFT BEHIND IN ASIA.

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From the time our Katipunan revolutionaries fought and died against the Spanish rule, and against American interference and colonization then, our society has been administered by a "cacique, " the socio-economic elite in cahoots with foreigners against their fellow native Filipino majority, keeping them poor, illiterate, and thus ignorant.

A socioeconomic and political system designed to perpetuate a class-defined society, a class-conscious country, divided and never really becoming a nation.

We are schooled heavily about political democracy but do not know that economic democracy is a prerequisite to fully realizing it. We have been conditioned to believe that mere and regular election makes a democracy; an illusion in reality.

We native Filipinos keep ourselves ignorant of history, of “what’s really going on” in our homeland then and now; and thus, by default, never learn.

We continue to be lost -having failed or refused to look in the mirror- believing in fate rather than about us people causing the cliche “history keeps repeating itself” true and valid.

That is why it's Deja vu every time.

- BMD

#primaryposts

OUR CULTURE: (Knowing and Understanding Ourselves: our learned values, attitudinal & behavioral patterns)

1. What We Native Filipinos Should Know
2. What Is Nationalism, Filipino Nationalism?
3. Native Impediments to Filipino Nationalism
4. Our Colonial Mentality and Its Roots
5. The Miseducation of the Native Filipino MInd (or Formation of our Americanized Mind)
6. Understanding Our Native Filipino Value System
7. The Ambivalence of Our Filipino Traits (Good/Bad Aspects of our Filipino Attitudes/Behaviors)
8. Our Kind of Filipino Politics and Politicians
9. The Filipino Elite - Our Current Breed of so-called Leaders/Rulers in the Homeland
10. The Vanishing Native Filipinos
11. Corruption in our Homeland: Its Roots and Manifestations

OUR RELIGION IN SOCIETY: (Belief Systems)

1. Our Filipino Kind of Religion & Use at Desperate Times
2. Our Filipino Christianity and Our God-concept
3. When Our Religion Becomes Evil
4. Split-level Christianity, "Theory versus Practice," Part 1 of 2
5. Split-level Christianity, "Theory versus Practice," Part 2 of 2
6. Our Filipino Norm of Morality

OUR NATIVE RULERS (PRESIDENTS and A DICTATOR)

1. President Manuel A. Roxas (1946-1948)
2. President Roxas Railroaded the Approval of the Bell Trade Act (aka Philippine Trade Act),1946 & Military Bases Agreements
3. President Elpidio R. Quirino (1948-1953)
4. President Ramon Magsaysay (1953-1957) & President Carlos P. Garcia (1957-1961)
5. President Diosdado P. Macapagal (1961-1965)
6. President Ferdinand E. Marcos (1966-1972), as Dictator (1972-1986) LATER
7. President Corazon C. Aquino (1986-1992)LATER
8. President Fidel V. Ramos (1992-1998)LATER
9. President Joseph Estrada (1998-2001) LATER
10. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (2001-2010) LATER
11. President Benigno C. Aquino III (2010-2016)LATER
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OUR HISTORY AND HEROES: (Nationalist point-of-view)

1. The Purpose of Our Past, Why Study (Our) History?
2. Studying and Rethinking Our Philippine History
3. History from the Point of View of the Native Filipino People
4. General Macario Sakay - An Authentic Native Filipino Hero, A "Bandit" According to the U.S. Colonizers
5. Jose Rizal - Reformist or Revolutionary?
6. About Our Heroes: Andres Bonifacio, Apolinario Mabini, and Jose Rizal
7. Our Unrecognized Native Filipino Heroes
8. The Filipino Martyrs - An Eyewitness Report (Published 1900), Part 1 of 5
9. The Chinese in Philippine Society (1955-1965)
10. The Chinese in the Philippines: Power & Prejudice
11. Muslim Separatism in the Philippines
12. Apolinario Mabini - Reasons for Deportation/Exile to Guam by the U.S. Army 

OUR HISTORY WITH THE UNITED STATES: (U.S. Intervention and Colonization of our Homeland: Mostly glossed over and/or hidden facts; not in school textbooks)

1. The Philippine-American War (First Vietnam)
2. The "Water Cure" - From the Annals of U.S. History We Never Learned in School
3. "Manifest Destiny" - The Rationale for U.S. Expansion, Military Intervention, and Imperialism
4. "Kill Everyone Over 10" - General Jacob H. Smith
5. The Mock Battle of Manila Bay - The Beginning of A New War
6. To Serve The Devil - The Unknown History of the U.S. And Why It Is Kept, Hidden
7. Mark Twain and the Philippines - The Mark Twain They Did Not Teach Us in School
8. The United States "Hidden War" (Philippine-American War, 1898-1913)
9. America's Skeleton In The Closet
10. The "Granting" of Our Philippine Independence - Revisited
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OUR  ECONOMY:  (Post-WW2 Agreements That Made and Kept Our Homeland Underdeveloped and Natives Impoverished)

1. President Roxas Railroaded the Approval of the Bell Trade Act (aka Philippine Trade Act),1946 & Military Bases Agreements
2. Bell Trade Act 1946 or Parity Rights - History and Details
3. The Fallacy of "Philippines First" Policy (versus "Filipino First" Policy)
4. The Friar Lands Scandal - How Filipinos Were Being Robbed of The Soil
5. Agrarian Reform - Conflicts During Implementation
6. The Farce of Land Reform: Exemplified at the Hacienda Luisita
7. 16 Years of Agrarian Reform: The Lands Are Back in the Hands of the Lords, (Part 1 of 2)
8. 16 Years of Agrarian Reform: Are Filipino Peasants Better Off Now? (Part 2 of 2)
9. Globalization (Neoliberalism) – The Road to Perdition in Our Homeland
10. Globalization – Corporate Greed, Corporate Evil Exposed
11. Five(5) Years of Reasons To Resist WTO's Globalization & Learn WTO's Multilateral Punishments to the Philippines
12. Resisting Globalization (WTO Agreements)
13. The Filipino OCW/OFWs As Domestic Workers - A Case Study
14. Virtues of De-Globalization
15. What is the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Why We Should Oppose It?
16. The Philippines, The World Bank (WB) and Race to the Bottom, Part 1 of 2

OUR  MILITARY:  (Post-WW2 Agreements That Make Our Armed Forces Dependent On and Serve Foreign Masters)

1. President Roxas Railroaded the Approval of the Bell Trade Act (aka Philippine Trade Act),1946 & Military Bases Agreements
2. US Military Bases & Military Assistance Agreements (1947)
3. US Bilateral Immunity Agreement (BIA) aka Article 98 Agreement
4. Status-Of-Forces-Agreement (SOFA): Template for Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA)
5. Corruption in the AFP/Military, Suicide of General Angelo Reyes, and Need for Military Reform
6. Sins of the Cavaliers - PMA Corruption and GARCI  Tapes

THE RECTO READER BOOK ( Collection of Speeches of the late-bloomer and foremost Filipino nationalist, is presented in several postings.) Click each to open/read:

1. THE RECTO READER: Nationalism, Internationalism, Ultra-Nationalism, Part 1A of 6
2. THE RECTO READER: Mission of Nationalism, Part 1B of 6
3. THE RECTO READER: Economic Independence, Economic Nationalism, Part 2A of 6
4. THE RECTO READER: Economic Nationalism Means Industrialization, Part 2B of 6
5. THE RECTO READER: Industrialization: The Alternative to Poverty, Part 2C of 6
6. THE RECTO READER: The Fallacy of "Philippines First," Part 2D of 6
7. THE RECTO READER: Parity Rights, Currency Dependence, Foreign Loans versus Foreign Investments, Part 2E of 6

(MORE TO FOLLOW)

NOTE: Recto's cited cases, examples, or issues were of his time, of course; but realities in our homeland in the present and the foreseeable future are expected to be much, much worse. Though I am tempted to update them with current issues, it's best to leave them as they are since Recto's paradigms about our much deepened national predicament still ring relevant, valid, and true. In short, Recto saw the forest and never got lost in the trees. We native Filipinos have not learned from or not heeded his advice - Bert

LET US NOT KEEP OUR HEADS IN THE SAND

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