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dalawapo
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Indeph Philippine History as i know it
« Thread started on: Oct 2nd, 2004, 4:10pm » |
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hey you guys, my first post on here, i want to make it meaningful, so
here it is!
Quote:1. Cronological history of the Philippines:
- Philippine Pre-history; First Inhabitants: 40,000 BC (Negritos)
- Agricultural Revolution in China: 6,000 BC (Proto-Malay of China)
- Austronesian Expansion in Taiwan: 4,000 BC
- Hindic-Buddhist Kingdoms: 200 AD
- Moslem Sultanates 1300 AD
- Spanish Colonization: 1565-1898
- Nationalist Movement and Katipunan Rebellion: 1834-1897
- Spanish-American War - War of Philippine Independence from Spain:
1898-1901
- [Philippine-American War - War of Philippine Independence from
America: 1899-1902]
- American Colonization and the Philippine Commonwealth: 1901-1941
- World War II and Japanese Occupation: 1941-1945
- Republic of the Philippines: 1946-1965
- Marcos Dictatorship: 1965-1986
- Lakas Ng Bayan: The People's Power/EDSA Revolution: 1986
- Return to Democracy: 1986-1998 |
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dalawapo
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Re: Indeph Philippine History as i know it
« Reply #1 on: Oct 2nd, 2004, 4:11pm » |
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Quote:2. SETTING
The region of Insular Southeast Asia aka MALAY Archipelago today
consist of several island Nations, principally the Philippines,
Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei. These Nations are more or less formed
as a result of several European colonizers who divided the whole
Malay Archipelago around the 1600s into territories and the people of
territories eventually gained their independence yet retain the names
and identity given to them by their European colonizer. This topic is
specifically to discuss the ppl of the Philippine islands whose
Collective identity was contrived by the Spanish colonizer around
1521 when the Spaniards first tired to claim the entire philippines
as a territory of Spain. And National identity concieved when the
native inhabitants eventually revolted and fought to be a free people. But the
Heritage of the native inhabitants of these islands is far more
ancient than 1500s when the European first came to divide and conquer
and our Native Austronesian heritage goes far beyond the present day
boarders. |
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dalawapo
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Re: Indeph Philippine History as i know it
« Reply #2 on: Oct 2nd, 2004, 4:11pm » |
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Quote:3. The Negrito: the First People
During Last Ice Age
The Negritos are the original inhabitants of the Philippine
Archipelago who first settled the region by crossing PRE-EXISTING
land bridges some 40,000 plus years ago. They are so ancient that
they have witnessed the change of our region's geography from what
once was a connected landmass before the last ice age into
islands as the water levels rose and formed the region into the
beautiful islands which is how we know them today! |
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dalawapo
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Re: Indeph Philippine History as i know it
« Reply #3 on: Oct 2nd, 2004, 4:12pm » |
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Quote:4. the Malays: the Newcommers
The Philippine people today are prodominately descendants of the
Malay people. We were the 2nd wave into the Philippine islands who
first sailed South from Taiwan but ultimately "the land of the 100
Yuet" which was located in Southern China some 10,000+? years ago.
But the malay ppl not only sailed and settled in the Philippine
islands but the Whole Malay Archipelago (Philippine and Indonesian
islands.) And not only that but our Malay ancestors sailed even
further east and west to settle and populate the islands as far as
Madagascar to the West and Easter island to the East. This Great
event is known today as the Malay Disphora.... or the Austronesian
Disphora (the distribution of our native culture and language around
the world) over a distance of more than 2/3 the Earth's Circumfrence
a feat unmatched in the history of Mankind! |
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dalawapo
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Re: Indeph Philippine History as i know it
« Reply #4 on: Oct 2nd, 2004, 4:12pm » |
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Quote:5. The Austronesian Culture & Language of the Malay
http://www.unc.edu/~nielsen/soci011/hs6/hs6026.gif
Austronesian aka "Malayo-Polynesian" is very important word which
identifies not only the Malay's native culture, but also the
languages we speak. No matter what island u are on, from Madagascar
to Easter island, each islander speaks a language classifed under
only one Language Family and that is called Austronesian. And so it
is with the Culture. We all began practicing the beautiful
Austronesian culture. A culture which practice the rare and honorable
customs of Matriarch, Brotherhood, and Seafaring traditions. Some of
our brothers retain this native culture and were able to cultivate it and yet some of our brothers
on other islands blended this beautiful native culture with foreign
cultures as foreign ppl sailed to certain islands and influenced and
enriched the individual histories of various islands. But still the
ties of Native culture and language between one islander and another
should not be forgotten but celebrated as it is the very foundation
of our history and the beginning and the link to one another; and
possibly the key to peace because it shows that we are truly a single
family having similar native languages & native culture and similar
origins and that we have merely been influenced by different cultures
and became unique but let us not forget our sense of Brotherhood, a
concept of our beautiful Native Austronesian Culture!
Festival of Austronesian Cultures: http://www.iov.org.tw/english/event_2002/ event200212.htm |
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dalawapo
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Re: Indeph Philippine History as i know it
« Reply #5 on: Oct 2nd, 2004, 4:13pm » |
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Quote:6. The Foreign Adoptions of the Philippine islands PART I
Today the Philippines is a beautiful cosmopolitain of various
cultures as many foreigners have sailed to our islands and left their
imprint as some natives adopted various parts of these foreigner's
cultures and lifestyles and yet we still managed to retain parts of
their native Austronesian aspects as well.
The Main Cultural influences of foreigners who sailed to Our
Philippine islands are:
Hindu
As early as 900 AD Indian traders left a very early and relatively
prominent impact in the Philippine islands. Some of their influences
include:
- and Indic form of writing used throughout the islands which we know
today as Kavi & Baybayin
- and an unorganized Religion and Martial art both centered around
the Hindu Goddess: Kali. The influence of this Hindu culture covered
much of the entire Philippine Archipelago.
Chinese
Early Chinese Traders are another foreign ppl who influenced the
Natives of our islands, their influence can be seen prominately in
the cusine of the Philippine people such as Balot an egg delicacy,
Pancit a noodle dish, and Lumpia which is a type of egg roll etc..
All these foods however have been altered by adding native touch and
thus became unique to our people!
Muslims
Indian Muslims also influenced the Philippine region, starting as
early as the 14th century. They introduced the Culture and Islamic
Religion of the Arabs. Though this too would be mixed with the native
Austronesian and Indic/Chinese traditions already adopted and
practiced by the natives of the Philippines. Although unlike hindu
influence, Arab influence was confined prodominately in the southern
islands in parts of Mindanao island and the Sulu Archipelago.
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Re: Indeph Philippine History as i know it
« Reply #6 on: Oct 2nd, 2004, 4:14pm » |
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Quote:6. The Foreign Adoptions of the Philippine islands PART II
Spanish
(BATTLE OF MACTAN OF 1521; between Rajah Lapu-Lapu of Mactan island & Ferdinand
Magellan, a Portuguese explorer on behalf of Spain. This year is the 1st meeting between the natives and
European (Spaniards) and also the 1st battle against Spanish
Colonialism in the Philippines... which turned out to be a Victory
for the Visayan Rajah (king) Lapu-Lapu, but sadly the spaniards would return
a mere 50 years later and would sucessfully subjegate much but not
all of the philippine islands)
Spanish had a far greater impact than the previously mentioned. They
were very influencial as a result of 300 years of imperial rule which
was unlike the other foreigners who were more or less traders. At the
time, the Spaniards were rutheless colonial dictators who imposed
their culture upon the natives that they could conquer and sadly even
desired to replace the native's culture and religion with his own
Spanish culture & religion because the Spaniard deemed all
aboriginals he came across as "savages" who needed to be "civilized"
etc. But nevertheless, something good came out of this, the Spaniards
are accredited with being the one to more or less unify the native
inhabitants of the philippines by making the struggle for
independence and freedom of oppression a common goal amongst the once
soviergin and independently scattered island states of the
philippines. The Spaniards also gave us the name of "Philippines"
which is the name we carry today. The Spaniard named our islands in
honor of his King at that time King Philip II of Spain. Today the
spanish presence in our history can be seen prodominately in the
Religion as the majority of the Filipinos today are Roman Catholic.
Another influence can be seen in our name, as many filipinos adopted
spanish surnames. (though this does not mean all native filipinos are
mixed with spanish, in fact those who are mixed are called "Mestizos"
and are said to account for only 2% of the total philippine
population while ethnic malays are said to accound for 95% of the total population. Surnames themselves were an introduction of Spaniards as
we native Malays of the Philippines had no customary practice of
Surnames)
American
Americans are the latest foreigners to influence the Philippine
islands! They were also a colonial ruler of the Philippine islands
who replaced the spanaird's 300 years of rule. The Americans ruled
the Philippines for almost 50 years! Their pressence however, is as
prominate as the Spaniards. The Americans taught the Native Malays of
the Philippines their language of English, unlike the Spaniards, who
did not attempt to widely teach the Malays their language of Spanish.
And so today the Philippines is said to be the 3rd largest English
speaking nation of the world! Though We still have our own native
Austronesian languages! and one of those languages known as Tagalog
was chosen in 1937 to be the basis of the Natiional Language of the
Newly indepedent Philippine Nation and this national language was
renamed Filipino. English of course is the 2nd unoffical language of
the country! So today many Filipinos are trilingual speakers! They
speak Filipino, English, & their regional language such as Ilokano, Cebuano, Bikolano etc! The Americans
also taught us the Democratic government which is the form of
government we have today in the Philippines although we Filipinos
struggle to implement Democracy at its best with the many corrupt and
abusive officals we have appointed. But all is not lost! |
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Re: Indeph Philippine History as i know it
« Reply #7 on: Oct 2nd, 2004, 4:15pm » |
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Quote:7. Unconquered Tribes of the Philippines
As i have discussed, the Philippine islands was a place where many
foreigners sailed and influenced the native's Austronesian culture.
Some foreigners were belevolant traders and others were imperilst &
were much more malovalent.
Even so, there were still some Natives of the Philippines who
successfully fought those foreign imperilists and were able to
preserve their individual cultures! The native Austronesian
practioners of the Philippine islands who successfully resisted all
foreign dominon and preserved the truly native culture are the Igorot
tribes of Luzon and the Lumad tribes of Mindanao.
IGOROTS
LUMADS
Today they are the best expression of our truly native Austronesian
way of life! And they show how cultivated and elegant our native
culture already was even before any foreigner sailed into our islands as the Igorots have constructed immense towering rice terraces out of a whole mountain range that seem to reach to the
heavens and the Lumads are famous for being among the finest metal
workers and most colorfully dressed ppl of the Philippine islands
today!
Another Unconquerable ppl are the Moros who are prodominately found
in the Sulu Archipelago and also a small area of Mindanao!
They are the Muslim practioners who successfully resisted the
imperialist! Today they are the best expresion of our refined pre-
colonial culture that is a fusion of native austronesian, indic, and
muslim cultures! They are the best example of the pre-colonial
foreign adopted civilizations of the Philippine islands! They are
known to be fierce and independent spirited warriors who weild mighty
hindu styled weapons! |
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Re: Indeph Philippine History as i know it
« Reply #8 on: Oct 2nd, 2004, 4:16pm » |
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Quote:8. And what Filipinos are Today:
And together, these Unconqured indigneous malay and muslim malay,
along with the conquered christanized malay and even foreigners who
decided to reside on our islands and live their lives, we are are
brothers bond together under the Independent Philippine Nationality.
We just need to find a way to co-exist with each other. And i think
the best way to express our Multi-cultural/religious nation is
through the cultural dance, like the Philippine`s National Bayanihan
Dance company, which does the dances of all the cultures of the
philippines from Indigenous to Muslim to Christian.
The Word Bayanihan itself is a very appropriate word, which loosely
means Community, Brotherhood, Family, Unity and working together. It
is a native concept, and it is good because we were all once native
people before some were converted to islam, before some were
converted to christanity. we were all indigenous. and indigenous
aspect of one`s culture is very important because it is our bed rock
and foundation and also my people`s common bond. |
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Re: Indeph Philippine History as i know it
« Reply #9 on: Oct 2nd, 2004, 4:17pm » |
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I welcome any corrections & commentary! ty
Sincerely,
Tony Dacanay
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