Comments on: Warlike belligerence

By: marck, edel, benignO | stuart-santiago

marck, edel, benignO | stuart-santiago — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:00:41 +0000

[...] say — mostly benigno heckles and baits and asks hard questions, the latest of which is: what does “the filipino” stand for? Even as we struggle with the low bar of defining an identity, the aim for a stand – the [...]

By: Nationality means nothing « smoke

Nationality means nothing « smoke — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:41:29 +0000

[...] means nothing In several FV posts, benign0 has been asking a very difficult question: What does the “Filipino” stand [...]

By: And then there was silence | Filipino Voices

And then there was silence | Filipino Voices — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:29:34 +0000

[...] enough, I was challenged by Nick to re-consider my assertion that the Philippines is a pigsty. I’ll re-visit it alright, by re-quoting what I said [...]

By: benign0

benign0 — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:25:22 +0000

Tsk tsk, DJB. You simply make the question about what defines “Filipino” again.

I tell my kids we were born in the country known as “the Philippines”. Like the typical “expert” that you are, you try to make it more complicated than that. They eat my wife’s sinigang and pick up a few Tagalog words. That’s natural osmosis and something that you cannot prevent artificially even if you wanted to. Besides, why make them overly conscious of what ethnic background they come from? They can already figure that out themselves.

What about you? You still haven’t answered UPn’s question.

By: justice league

justice league — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:05:28 +0000

Presto,

I think they are natural born rather than naturalized.

By: cvj

cvj — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:34:58 +0000

Phil Manila, yes. Many of us share a common male ancestor (who lived between 30,000 to 10,000 BC) with the Mainland Chinese.

By: Phil Manila

Phil Manila — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:01:50 +0000

Pardon my ignorance, but weren’t the Hans like the Mandarin-speaking, ruling class of Chinese society of lore and yore?

Better tell benign0 of a possible royal bloodline to Beijing before he totally disengages himself from his despised Pinoy lineage.

By: cvj

cvj — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:59:24 +0000

sorry, i meant ‘presto’.

By: cvj

cvj — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:50:14 +0000

I think being pinoy has little to do with genetics. If you think about it, the Filipino people are mainly composed of the Malay race that according wikipedia are Tawainese Aborignes, and some have chinese blood. There are full chinese blooded tsinoys. – peste

Based on genetic sampling of Filipinos, the combination is around 40% Y-DNA Haplogroup O1-M119 (the genetic marker of the ‘Austronesians’ which has replaced the obsolete ‘Malay’ label), 35% to 40% Y-DNA Haplogroup O3-M122 (the genetic marker most prevalent among Han-Chinese) and the remainder mixed including Haplogroup C3-M217 which is the genetic marker of the Mongols who are descended from the Australian Aborigines.

By: Bert

Bert — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:34:38 +0000

There it is, very clear already. benignO has totally severed his umbelical chord from his people and country. The cat is out of the bag, at last.

DJB can really be relied upon, as always, to enlighten us about some of the most unfathomable mysteries of this universe. Thank you, DJB.

benignO can continue labeling us swine in pigsty and we now know the reason why.