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Ano pong masasabi mo sa INC bilang religion?
OK. Even tho this is a culture blog, why not answer this? Everyone has opinions on everything.
Every religion has their own sects or schools. Buddhism has Mahayana, Vajrayana, and Theravada. Islam has Sunni, Khawarij, and Shia. (Note, these are like major sects, there are much more other sects I didn't mention). Ofc, Christianity has their own sects.
Whether, these Christian sects are hidden cults or not, I have no right to slander 'em since (1) idek shit (2) idgaf.
Just wait until someone from INC spills the tea and goss on all the anomalies of the religion.
Its the same like, (example) you're Catholic and you have been se****ly ab**ed by fucking priests and is now breaking your silence.
Thanks for the question! whoever you are xD
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What do you think about the upcoming 1521 movie?
I have searched for it earlier. I will search for it more later on. Another movie I would love to cringe at. So XD
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What incredibly strong opinion do you have that is completely unimportant in the grand scheme of things?
the existence of this fucking blog basically xD
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An Open Letter to Ella Cruz and Darryl Yap
Ella Cruz,
History is never a petty gossip. Just like any other academic fields relating to Sciences, Humanities also follows the way of the scientific method. I'll explain to you because you're too fucking dumb for this. Observe, collect evidences, form a null and an alternative hypothesis, perform an experiment, test the hypotheses, and conclude.
The acquisition of information you obviously thought is just some random history authority just typing out on Word whatever the hell they see. The scientific approach towards Humanities has started in the West since the late 19th century. About two hundred years has passed, Ella Cruz! Though early culture studies are not perfect because racism, I can absolutely make sure that the methodologies being used today are far more sophisticated than the ones used in the past.
Let us consider "gossip" in two ways: gossip as true and correct, and gossip as untrue and incorrect.
Starting with gossip as untrue and incorrect. History is the accurate documentation of the events that has transpired in the past. Though early scribes and historians sometimes are biased towards the victors through their manuscripts and annals, modern historians attempt to uncover the truth through the use of cultural nuances that is prevalent throughout the timeline. History affects culture as much as culture affects history. The prime use of evidences (yes, Ella Cruz, plural) is integral to the formation of such decisions. If the evidences are physically complete, there is a possibility that the history being researched on has a shit ton of different accounts, perspectives, and versions that come with it. If the evidences are not physically complete, there is a possibility that the history is fragmented and only contain one or two lines of the source. There are even evidences where you cannot decipher it at all since the society bearing the culture is no longer existing.
And even if the gossip as true and correct, historians and their colleagues are not just fucking attending parties or joining spicy group chats. "Oh, Hatshepsut is cap, girl. She ain't the queen of Upper and Lower Egypt, sis. Her face got cancelled from the murals. Bye, honey." "Oh, the Balinese in 1906 killed themselves. It's not like they died for honor because they did not want to be under the Dutch! It's all a conspiracy theory." Like I said, they follow the scientific method in analyzing different sources. And bitch, they publish journals and publications in sharing those findings with fellow academics. Heck, even in making the paper itself, you need to be verified through peer reviews.
I think you have drew that connection of history and gossip because you think it sounds hip and trendy, that people will get it because Filipinos love entertainment. Girl, it fucking backfired. Badly. And also, we already know that it is a publicity stunt. Then you act as if you're the victim and the world has turned upon you. Ella Cruz, remember that people in the past are not numbers or casualties. They loved, cried, laughed, and tried their best in surviving and being human. Yeah, just do the thing you do best: dancing to BLɅϽKPIИK.
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Darryl Yap,
You are more outrageous than Miss-I-Just-Casted-Into-This-Film Ella Cruz.
Well, I have to say. Sadly, not everything, not every source is readily found on the Internet. Actually, you don't really need to have even a Bachelors on History just to do a productive search through the Net. Why not do this? In the search bar, specify the topic you need. Then add some specific setting you need. You're an acclaimed director. Of course, setting is place and time. Then press Enter. Scroll and go to some sites. Wikipedia can help give you the gist. Press some hyperlinks of related topics. Search using the citations in the bibliography. Educate yourself, you know. And also, I heard that relying on Facebook and Tiktok to get facts right has more salary paid than some historian working in a pharmaceutical company in Canada.
I do this technique even I am in fucking BS Biology right now. Yes, I am as pathetic as you. Also, some sources, you can only access through connections in the academic circle itself. Or even access hard copies for a price. Wanna read the applications of Filipino constellations? Pay for that! Wanna read the Tausug-English dictionary? Pay for that too!
What does being a director do though? We don't even see you on the Gram. I don't know, shout at actors in getting their shit together? Well, actors must get the full praise in a movie. They slayed the characters given to them. The millions of pesos from the box office is obviously for them. They deserved it.
What did you say? Yes, of course! You have found inaccuracies from what I said. That is the authority you have as an experienced director. You have the right to be mad from what I said. That thing also applies to you! Shut the fuck up if you do not have anything good to say.
The humanities academic field gains more money than you. Humanities is an interdisciplinary field. You can see these scholars everywhere. Even in the sciences field. Even in NASA, of all organizations. You, on the other hand, just needed on some media shit.
What you just have said, not only for historians, but it is also a slap on the face for anthropologists, linguists, sociologists, economists, and any other professional under the Humanities field that their efforts are being underappreciated and being told it is worthless. Maybe because the Filipino nation is immensely biased towards the Sciences field, that the Sciences is more useful and more praiseworthy to the modern society.
I have been depressed and anxious towards this issue. Many around me are deeply hating towards me when I talk about humanities in the first place. I am so glad that I have a close friend group that I can be more open to and I am grateful for that. My interest in Humanities has been 7 years already, and still, struggling to survive among the Sciences-related bastards. Add that to universities rejecting my admission requests, and even if I pass, our family has not enough finances to even cover expenses because fucking COVID. I am stuck right now in this hell called STEM.
We are the ones who can break down your societal dilemmas and can offer people solutions to live a happy, meaningful, and purposeful life that brings ethics, morality, and respect on the table. If people could listen to us more, we can solve poverty, corruption, illiteracy, environmental pollution, rising population, racism, discrimination, etc., as a nation who strives to give every citizen and every child the right to live and be joyous.
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Please mind your own business, Ella Cruz and Darryl Yap.
#rants#sorry for the rant#just ranting#anthropology#history#spilled thoughts#venting#philippines#culture#society#historians#ella cruz#daryll yap
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Pride and Prejudice but it’s set during the Spanish Colonial Period in The Philippines.
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if you are god, what mutation would you replace hereditary balding with?
good question
i would just say the basic shit lolz
i'll replace hereditary balding with heterochromia iridium bc it looks cool
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philippines was a territory and/ or province
wow it's been two months since i posted omg. time flies faster and the bitch is here again to rant xD
like i don't really know why the education system, when teaching philippine history, let us think that the philippines is like a country-ish or like a separate entity. u know that feeling right?
when in fact, the philippines is a colony/ province of a foreign power. what i mean is that, we should acknowledge the monarchs (spain and japan) and presidents (america) in history education since they may have big contributions regarding the culture and social landscape of the philippines in the past.
i really can't express it fully through writing it now but i really don't mean harm nor give a misunderstanding.
this video can help me prove my point:
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my point is there are people who keep "rejecting colonization and upholding the filipino way" like bitch u are ignorant if u be rejecting the historically logical shit so
happy surviving corona i guess xD
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filipino vs. tagalog
tl:dr (probably lol) filipino and tagalog are separate languages
i always hate when fucking fil-ams be spewing lies like "oh, i speak tagalog OR and/or AKA filipino." like bitch y'all dumbasses don't even know the shit
so to start, think of it as: tagalog is the mother and filipino is the child. get it? you bitch. both filipino and tagalog are languages, filipino is the national language while tagalog is a regional language.
the thing is, while the philippines is starting out to be a country, its government wanted to establish a national language. the tagalog language isn't picked out of the blue, it has qualifications.
disclaimer: i forgot whether these qualifications are correct. the BASIS of the national language is the language that:
(1) being used by most people
(2) being mostly used as a mode of communication in education
(3) being used by most literatures and government documents; and
(4) being used in commerce and economics.
tagalog fits the qualifications so it became the BASIS of the national language. its not like tagalog became the BASIS of the national language bc of some fucking tagalog imperialism bullshit fucking.
the lingustic formula is: filipino = tagalog + other ph languages + spanish loan words + english, meaning filipino is evolving drastically.
tagalog, on the other hand, is tagalog itself, evolving within its respective regions. so saying pure tagalog is redundant bc tagalog is pure in itself.
examples: window (Filipino: bintana & durungawan) (Tagalog: durungawan); government (Filipino: gobyerno & pamahalaan) (Tagalog: pamahalaan)
so if you know how to speak filipino, you also know how to speak tagalog, meaning you know two languages.
please curb some big-brained fil-ams xD
ok so im sorry i kinda wanna diss fil-ams but really the ignorance sis
im sorry if there's one offended lolz
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a message to nuseir yassin (nas daily)
if you think you are helping in preserving the tattoo cultures (ik, with an -s) in the philippines, WE CAN DO IT OURSELVES, WE DON'T NEED YOUR HELP
imagine, your fucking knowlegde of your culture, the knowledge, sciences, arts, and worldview of your people and your ancestors that has survived up until today, for yassin it only costs 750 PESOS. 15 FUCKING US DOLLARS. an hp printer ($35) is fucking much more expensive than your culture? a fucking lulu my cuddlin' kitty ($150) is much more expensive than your culture? for god's sake
STOP EXPLOITING THE FILIPINO SOCIETY AND IDENTITY FOR YOUR FUCKING MONETARY GAINS. FUCKING NAS DAILY ACADEMY BULLSHIT.
the tattooing art is supposed to be and HEIRLOOM tradition, which means only that family can only get that profession. the bitches from the culture (i don't wanna say tribe bc reasons) itself don't get to learn and get a job out of it bc its their tradition, HOW ABOUT NON-INDIGENOUS PEOPLE??? FUCKING BULLSHIT
and its only maria oggay's permission, that the contract she didnt first-hand understand, linguistically, in the first place. ITS NOT ONLY HER TRADITION, ITS THE TRADITION OF THE WHOLE CULTURE SHE'S PART OF. SO YOU HAVE TO GET THE PERMISSION OF THE LEADERS, AS WELL AS THE GOVERNMENT AGENCY THAT PROTECTS INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.
AND FUCK, SHE IS NOT THE ONLY TATTOOING GHORL IN THE PHILIPPINES AS WELL AS HER CULTURE, THERE ARE SHIT TON OF OTHER CULTURES IN THE PHILIPPINES THAT ALSO DO THE TATTOOING TRADITION.
overall, fuck you nuseir yassin for using philippines for the money. don't deny it. you're vile and disgusting.
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philippine sociocultural influences to family disaster management (edit: and also on fucking traffic xD)
this is just like a shower thought, not really an in depth analysis lol
the philippines is a third-world country, we've established that okay. in that sense, filipinos tend to adhere to the belief of making oneself or one family look rich or to look well-off at least, in accordance to their means. one might beautify their house, or buy cars, or most especially, make the interior design look good by placing a shit ton of ornaments and furniture.
at the same time, the philippines is situated at the edge of the pacific ocean where typhoons form as well as situated on the edge of tectonic plates where earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, and fault lines are found. one must adapt their lifestyle and aesthetics to the common disaster found in the location, but filipinos do the opposite.
that's why there are casualties on houses and objects and ornaments in filipino context. yeah lol xD
if you have ideas, just share through comments. tyyyy
(edit) sis and also to traffic like filipinos are fucking poor and want to be rich and to look rich so they buy fucking cars and motorcycles and shit. so like they be flaunting em shizz until they drive in fucking edsa where the number of vehicles outweigh the number of humans causing a long - ass traffic so fucking shit xD
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why speaking "formal" filipino language isn't really formal
to start, one must know that language evolves through time primarily through phones (in linguistics) and orthography. just like any other language, old english, middle english, and modern english and all other timely variants of english doesn't sound the same as well as the intelligibility to one another.
the mentality of filipino when they think of formal filipino is like this: "oo, ginoo. maaaring tayo ay hindi magkakaniig sa hinaharap, ngunit aking ipipilit ang hindi nais makamtan ng tadhana". like bruh bullshit.
the thing that makes filipino formal are the suprasegmentals (idk the appropriate word lol) being used, as well as the intended and current situation the language is being subjected. not by the words itself.
the usage of such unused filipino words like pumapaimbulog, hiraya, marahuyo, pahimakas, and balintataw is not what makes filipino formal. they are just, again, unused words that are replaced with similar synonymical words that have been used in the mainstream language.
looking at the texts of filipino language from like before early 20th century, one might say, oh it's sounds so formal. bitch nah its just what how language works in the past, like just how a language evolve from time to time.
filipinos in the past would probably speak your idea of "formal filipino" in a very VERY casual way, bc they are people too.
humanize the past, they are not just numbers.
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amaya isn't historically logical
here are the reasons why:
1. the drama's main essence in terms of culture is stereotypically presented which is based on the reoccurring visions of the modern filipino. yeah that's all sis
2. the dresses are sickening, again it is stereotypically presented rather than the recorded fashions such as the Codex Boxer (unknown, c. early 1590s) and History of the Bisayan Islands (Alcina, 1668). all of them fucking men all wear the same style of fashion which consists of a fucking vest and some loincloth bullshit, and oh god, the women, they be wearing croptops (wtf disg0stAng) and the hair accessories are even fucking non-existent. straight hair pins bitch? those gunungan-looking pins, i can't. some are also even borrowed from distant ethnic cultures. ALSO THE NECKLACES ARE JUST FUCKING TBOLI SOUVENIR ITEMS, THE HEADDRESS IN THE PIC IS FUCKING FROM CARegion. edit: ALSO, THE TIMELINE OF AMAYA SEEMS FUCKING LONG, THE DRESSES SHOULD'VE SHOWN EVOLVING THROUGHOUT THE YEARS AND DECADES. IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE HISTORICALLY ACCURATE, ITS ACADEMICALLY GUESSING.
3. the names are fucking tacky, again based stereotypically, names or even words should be of Visayan or at least from Central Visayas that precedes 16th century or even fucking modern visayan. if the creators say, some or most of them are of Visayan origin, it sounds not (i be a bisaya-mostly-understanding-least-speaking bitch, and i know the VIBE of bisaya, so fuck you).
4. the house is just a fucking MARANAO-ish torogan (it's just what i perceive) and them house ornaments are of maranao too. i also see some ming dynasty porcelain dishwares but whatever. i cant find the right pic
5. bruh them music instruments omg, a basic-ass tube zither that isn't even found in the region. and the dancing? girl, my wig didn't flew off.
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6.why of all them men are fucking warriors? i know some are having their professions like fishermen or blacksmiths but like why all of em be wielding weapons wtf
7. THE TOXIC MASCULINITY GIRL omg the main male protagonist be disliking killing someone to earn a fucking tattoo but him daddy (wtf) be like biTCh r u maN? like bRUHV priests in precolonial visayans be fucking transgenders bc they be tapping both male and female energies like Y U SPITTIN BULLSHIT? ugh
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8. bruh idk but polygamy in precolonial philippines (sorry im fucking generalizing) is kinda accepted, am i right? why are them women plotting petty revenges towards their husband's lovers? like idk rbuh
9. THE BAYBAYIN I CANT UGH. IN FUCKING LEATHER-LIKE WRITING MEDIUM?????? no words bitch no words
10. girl there be muslim characters in the drama, but why dress 'em like maranaos? bruh first of all, that dress? fucking tacky. second, maranaos aren't the only muslim ethnic group in mindanao. duh look it up.
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11. THE WEDDING MAKE-UP IS YAKAN, TANYAK TANYAK FUCKING SHI-
i'll update this post when i remember something.
there are quite some parts in amaya that seems logical so applaud to that (meh).
i even saw an exhibit in vietnam i guess in their museum WITH AMAYA SHIT AND CLOTHING I REALLY CANT
overall, AMAYA SHOULDN'T BE A HISTORICAL SOURCE IN LEARNING PRECOLONIAL VISAYAN HISTORY. btw, pls don't hate the creators (i guess)
#filipino#philippines#culture#rants#society#amaya#pinoy teleserye#tv series#tv show#baybayin#ugh#cringe#cringe worthy#disgusting#what the actual fuck
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regarding "bts biot" issue
note to Koreans: THIS BTS BIOT SHIT IS AN INSIDER JOKE MADE BY FILIPINOS AND FOR FILIPINOS ONLY
fucking dumbass young and probably prepubescent filipino girls be fucking posting and commenting shit on facebook saying shit like: "whY aRe you uSiNg vioLET HEarts? wE, armY, oNly Own ViOLeT." or like "oH bTs' mUSIc IS muCh gReaTeR tHan tHOSe oF bEeThoVEn aND mOzArt".
ofc bitch those dumbass armys need some HARDCORE TROLLING so we replied bts biot.
There are two arguments being laid here:
1. Koreans say we Filipinos are homophobic - y'all are more homophobic than us. we have our own separate gay language that is literally being used by everyone, we also hosted the nationwide televised gay pageant called Ms. Q & A, we also have personalities and politicians who are openly members of the LGBT+ community. when one is gay in yo country, y'all probably be fucking dissing a bitch in a heartbeat.
2. If Koreans talkshit on Pacquiao - personally i don't even fucking care. he is also a politician so he also has a fair share of issues and anomalies.
we don't owe y'all an apology SINCE THE JOKE ISN'T EVEN INTENDED TO Y'ALL. you owe us one regarding the bella poarch bullshit issue. tearing and stomping the ph flag, extra much?
shut the fuck up.
(edit) ok i don't mean hate to the koreans but the tone of this post must be aggressive to be effective so im sorry in advance
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sablay is cultural appropriation
it's not only the use of sablay that is cultural appropriation, it's also the concept as well as the ideology surrounding it.
they say that the sablay is based on indigenous garment and they think its "philippine culture".
first of all, IP culture is not your heritage if ofc you are not part of the community
second, its just obviously using one's culture for your own aesthetic and then calling it nationalism for the country
the IP i know that possesses the sash clothing accessory are the Tausugs. the Tausugs are experiencing blatant discrimination because of being indigenous as well as of other things and y'all are using their culture? (edit: the Sama people also use a sash clothing, and probably the people within the Sulu archipelago)
if you are one of them, you're disgusting. change that.
IT'S JUST A BLAND-ASS SASH, NOT A CULTURAL GARMENT
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