. . . I do not have problems sa Pinoys who are now Canadian or USA citizens. To ask them to mind-your-own-business forget Pilipinas (is) over the limit, sa wari ko. Eh these Pinoys katulad ni Abe Margallo . . . Normal na sila ay kibo pa rin ng kibo tungkol sa Pilipnas hindi lang [...]
Temporal, Spatial in UP Diliman
April 6, 2009 By 25 Comments
Caffeine_Sparks ruminated on the meaning of building a future in the Philippines. Now those who are geographers know that these constructs like “prosperous Philippines” have to be situated in space. So I find Caffeine_Sparks’ essay quite interesting. What is the future? Where is the future located? And how can we build it there?
Temporal, Spatial
April 5, 2009 By 61 Comments
A useful measure of one’s ‘nationalist’ fervour is the degree to which one can imagine a future in this country. To imagine one building a career, making investments in solid purchases – such as a house, giving birth and raising children in this locality. Imagining a future here, and making a living here, gives one [...]
Observations on FilAm, OF, FilPil discourse in the Internet
November 24, 2008 By 9 Comments
A few years back (when I was a new returnee from overseas “exile”), not a few grad students doing their theses on Pinoy identity and the internet interviewed me. One of the students got a best thesis award from her college for her work. At that time the internet for a majority of Pinoys was being [...]
The quadrilingual Pinoy
November 17, 2008 By 17 Comments
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