I grew up with that policy too - ₱1 for every word that you did not use English in the English class. And for the second language you learned - same thing. It forces everyone to become fluent and practise the language. The money goes into a pot for the class's party or food. The students and the parents thought it was a good policy for learning to be proficient in the languages.
With us, we had no penalty in money, but we were meant to rat on each other if we spoke Tagalog instead of English. I guess it would have impacted our "Conduct" grade. Fortunately, I was in the A-section, and without discussing it at all, we all decided not to tell on each other. Our teachers were never the wiser, because we were all somehow pretty good at speaking English anyway.
Philippine Culinary History in social media just sounds all too pretentious. If 98.75% of the population do not of know of such history, then it is as real as Greek Mythology.
😂 98.75 so specific lol. So to sum it up…if no one knows it, it’s not real? Sidebar, “Greek Mythology” is a white washed version of Egyptian Mythology. Kinda like Jesus ain’t white but 98.75% of the world thinks he is.
Thank you for an excellent conversation. I enjoyed it and learned a lot from your perspective on these important and complex issues. Virtually every cuisine throughout the world is an admixture of other cuisines, just as most languages incorporate words or phrases from other languages. Tagalog, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, for example, have thousands of Spanish loan words from the Spanish colonial era, just as how English has been incorporated in Filipino languages since the beginning of the twentieth century. English itself is an admixture of many European and other languages. Most of the world's languages have roots in other languages, both modern and ancient. Additionally, most languages have recently incorporated at least some English out of practicality or for non-traditional cultural reasons. Listen to a lecture on technology or TH-cam on-the-street interview videos in Japanese, for example. Filipino cuisine has major influences from Vietnam, China, India, Spain, Mexico, and the United States, to name a few, and just as food ingredients were brought to the islands by traders and merchants over at least three millennia, cooking practices have also evolved over that time. So, what is "Filipino food?" Is it the food that was brought to the islands by the original settlers many tens of thousands of years ago? The cuisine prior to traders and their products arriving directly or indirectly from Vietnam, China and India? Pre-Spanish contact? Or pre-twentieth century? The history of Filipino food is one of adaptation and evolution; it is long and complicated, not unlike food everywhere. Regarding the main point, colonization, it has been a feature of the human experience since the dawn of civilization. Colonial legacy is a part of virtually everyone's history. Some more recently and to a greater degree than others. The Aeta or Negrito population of the Philippines might consider the current majority population in the Philippines to be their colonizers. What is now the United States started as a colony of England and that ended in a war of independence. Life under the King of England's authoritarian rule could be and often was cruel and unjust. For Native Americans throughout most of their post-European-contact history and Filipinos especially during the Philippine-American War, the colonial experience was nothing short of genocidal. But for anyone having nostalgia over Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines, just read up on that history. United States policy toward Filipinos was a mixed bag. The American teachers who went to the Philippines did so, for the most part, for altruistic reasons. They "pushed" American food and education in general primarily because that's what they knew. But there was also the issue with pushing an "Americanization" policy on Filipinos, which was not unlike efforts to do the same with Native Americans. (At least the United States had a policy of building schools and universities, medical facilities, and transportation infrastructure for Filipinos, unlike other colonizers.) The Americanization policy, however flawed and misguided, had its origins in charitable groups and organizations. Nonetheless, the ignorance and classroom tactics resulting from those policies were, unfortunately, on par for that time. Non-native school children of my age in the US were subjected to corporal punishment, with inflicted physical pain, for the slightest infraction. For Native Americans, who were placed into boarding schools, often without their parents' knowledge or consent, it was far worse. They were subjected to the cruelest punishments and maltreatment imaginable. Adult Native Americans I know had their knuckles rapped with a stick or ruler for speaking their Native language in the classroom, but others were subjected to far worse, including the rape and negligent homicide of thousands of children under government or church "care." This was also true in other countries such as Canada and Australia. That is truly “horrifying” history. The food, maybe not so much. But regardless, we can and should all learn from all of history and from each other and strive to do better while we are on this Earth. Thank you again for your thought-provoking and enlightened opinions. I am humbled by your words and take them to heart. Life, like history, is complicated.
Maybe now, it seems like beautiful story. The Philippines have suffered more than enough from the hands of colonizers Filipinos developed to be so resilient, to a fault. We somehow adapted very well while being stepped on
It's an interesting perspective. I recently left, but I lived on Haida Gwaii for a few years, and it's just below Alaska. There are folks who worked in canneries like you speak of living where I was. Along with old loggers, fishermen, carvers etc. In no way detracting from 'anyone's' suffering and hardships, please note. Poverty, hardship and isolation were a fact of living in these regions at the time. If you've ever worked with logistics, or the moving of materials, you'll understand how massively difficult moving anything into and out of the northwest pacific truly is. Between shipping the Bearing Sea, and rugged remote overland routes, the actual cost per gram of literally everything was higher just to sustain any sort of supply routes etc. Keeping in mind that others in the region, in the time period were being shunted into Residential Schools as well. Same eras, and these are the populations and geography involved with much of those events. I'm not arguing on how the political structures of the world came to be what they are now, I was born in the era I was, and I'm aware of history. So on my part, I try do more good than harm, and that's what I can do. And I've done more than nothing with myself. I only mention living on Haida Gwaii, as the Haida also had a rough time in Canadian history, and Masset, BC is a salmon fishery for all 5 types of salmon, plus halibut etc. So canneries were a thing, there was even a cannery, although modern, and seemingly a good workplace in the 2020s, down the road from where I lived. I only note this as contrast and comparison. Because talking of the hardships in Alaska (the Yukon, Northwestern BC...upper Rocky Mountain Ranges, at or past the tree line...) you have to understand that no matter who you were, or when you went...those lands are rough. The Inuit up in Nunavut call the north The Land Beyond the Land of People. So impoverishment wasn't entirely the fault of any administration. The reason people went to places like Alaska was gold. Fur. Diamonds. And regardless of the state of colonialism, I promise, from experience (I've been to the North Pole and stuff), once you're out in those lands, colonialism feels VERY far away. Like MEDIEVAC can take upwards of 23, 24 hours to arrive...in modern times. Imagine by dog sled.
colonization is etched into my very being, which is the best desired result of colonizers that is why it would hurt so much for Filipino when they get discriminated upon by Americans we love loved you, and you cant acknowledge us in the very least? effin Filipino hospitality smgdh
Thank you for posting this TRUTH. We Filipinos should really strip down all the colonialism, imperialism, dynasties out of our foods. Learn our cultural roots. It might take a little research, but we need 2do it.
This generation has choices. These vloggers have choices. Their ancestors who migrated were survivalists. Salmon sinigang was the food of creative, resilient survivalists.
It's not a hang up it's just plain facts. It might be a weird mix of emotions seeing some things that came from such a thing was good and some were bad and some were absolutely horrific. If you can't relate then good for you.
@@thomaschristopherwhite9043 Oh, it's a hang up. The way she - and the other speakers - talk about it is a give away. If it were just "plain facts" then the tone of the video and the entire YT channel wouldn't resemble some "take back our culture/can you believe what white people did?" found amongst certain segments of Native Americans, Blacks and Hispanics on social media. It's so, so cringe. I've noticed this growing trend amongst Westernized Filipinos, especially in the States usually located on West coast if not the East coast.
@@thomaschristopherwhite9043 I appreciate your attempt. But ANYONE who puts colonization in quotes, as if it never took place and isn't real, has CHOSEN to ignore history. That's a bubble that won't pop.
I've been married to a Filipina for 17 years gained 50 whole entire pounds. The food is AMAZING! Maybe go get your taste buds checked. You might of had covid for the last eight years LOL.
I dont know you but if you did have one or a few bad experiences of Filipino food, it doesnt mean all of it is bad. To be honest a theres a lot of Filipino foods that arent that different from your food that you could try first if you dont want unfamiliar flavors like lechon. And its also kind of unfair on your gf to just disregard her culture.
Filipino is great. BUT, all this hype in Social Media by foreigners pretending to like Filipino food is more intelligent foreigners think that Filipino is a joke. Plus 96% of Filipino have no idea what Good Filipino food is. They only know of Adobo and other immitation Chinese food that get all the hype.
Oks lang yan. Keep moving forward mga Kapatid.
I grew up with that policy too - ₱1 for every word that you did not use English in the English class. And for the second language you learned - same thing. It forces everyone to become fluent and practise the language. The money goes into a pot for the class's party or food. The students and the parents thought it was a good policy for learning to be proficient in the languages.
Invade a foreign country, force them to speak english and tax them every time they speak their native tongue? Sounds like colonization.
With us, we had no penalty in money, but we were meant to rat on each other if we spoke Tagalog instead of English. I guess it would have impacted our "Conduct" grade. Fortunately, I was in the A-section, and without discussing it at all, we all decided not to tell on each other. Our teachers were never the wiser, because we were all somehow pretty good at speaking English anyway.
At least our language wasn’t erased? Unlike Native American boarding schools.
Philippine Culinary History in social media just sounds all too pretentious. If 98.75% of the population do not of know of such history, then it is as real as Greek Mythology.
😂 98.75 so specific lol. So to sum it up…if no one knows it, it’s not real? Sidebar, “Greek Mythology” is a white washed version of Egyptian Mythology. Kinda like Jesus ain’t white but 98.75% of the world thinks he is.
Thank you for an excellent conversation. I enjoyed it and learned a lot from your perspective on these important and complex issues.
Virtually every cuisine throughout the world is an admixture of other cuisines, just as most languages incorporate words or phrases from other languages. Tagalog, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, for example, have thousands of Spanish loan words from the Spanish colonial era, just as how English has been incorporated in Filipino languages since the beginning of the twentieth century. English itself is an admixture of many European and other languages. Most of the world's languages have roots in other languages, both modern and ancient. Additionally, most languages have recently incorporated at least some English out of practicality or for non-traditional cultural reasons. Listen to a lecture on technology or TH-cam on-the-street interview videos in Japanese, for example.
Filipino cuisine has major influences from Vietnam, China, India, Spain, Mexico, and the United States, to name a few, and just as food ingredients were brought to the islands by traders and merchants over at least three millennia, cooking practices have also evolved over that time. So, what is "Filipino food?" Is it the food that was brought to the islands by the original settlers many tens of thousands of years ago? The cuisine prior to traders and their products arriving directly or indirectly from Vietnam, China and India? Pre-Spanish contact? Or pre-twentieth century? The history of Filipino food is one of adaptation and evolution; it is long and complicated, not unlike food everywhere.
Regarding the main point, colonization, it has been a feature of the human experience since the dawn of civilization. Colonial legacy is a part of virtually everyone's history. Some more recently and to a greater degree than others. The Aeta or Negrito population of the Philippines might consider the current majority population in the Philippines to be their colonizers. What is now the United States started as a colony of England and that ended in a war of independence. Life under the King of England's authoritarian rule could be and often was cruel and unjust. For Native Americans throughout most of their post-European-contact history and Filipinos especially during the Philippine-American War, the colonial experience was nothing short of genocidal. But for anyone having nostalgia over Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines, just read up on that history.
United States policy toward Filipinos was a mixed bag. The American teachers who went to the Philippines did so, for the most part, for altruistic reasons. They "pushed" American food and education in general primarily because that's what they knew. But there was also the issue with pushing an "Americanization" policy on Filipinos, which was not unlike efforts to do the same with Native Americans. (At least the United States had a policy of building schools and universities, medical facilities, and transportation infrastructure for Filipinos, unlike other colonizers.) The Americanization policy, however flawed and misguided, had its origins in charitable groups and organizations.
Nonetheless, the ignorance and classroom tactics resulting from those policies were, unfortunately, on par for that time. Non-native school children of my age in the US were subjected to corporal punishment, with inflicted physical pain, for the slightest infraction. For Native Americans, who were placed into boarding schools, often without their parents' knowledge or consent, it was far worse. They were subjected to the cruelest punishments and maltreatment imaginable. Adult Native Americans I know had their knuckles rapped with a stick or ruler for speaking their Native language in the classroom, but others were subjected to far worse, including the rape and negligent homicide of thousands of children under government or church "care." This was also true in other countries such as Canada and Australia.
That is truly “horrifying” history. The food, maybe not so much. But regardless, we can and should all learn from all of history and from each other and strive to do better while we are on this Earth.
Thank you again for your thought-provoking and enlightened opinions. I am humbled by your words and take them to heart. Life, like history, is complicated.
that's not horrifying at all thats a beautiful story.
Maybe now, it seems like beautiful story. The Philippines have suffered more than enough from the hands of colonizers
Filipinos developed to be so resilient, to a fault. We somehow adapted very well while being stepped on
Fascinating!
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It's an interesting perspective.
I recently left, but I lived on Haida Gwaii for a few years, and it's just below Alaska. There are folks who worked in canneries like you speak of living where I was. Along with old loggers, fishermen, carvers etc.
In no way detracting from 'anyone's' suffering and hardships, please note.
Poverty, hardship and isolation were a fact of living in these regions at the time. If you've ever worked with logistics, or the moving of materials, you'll understand how massively difficult moving anything into and out of the northwest pacific truly is. Between shipping the Bearing Sea, and rugged remote overland routes, the actual cost per gram of literally everything was higher just to sustain any sort of supply routes etc.
Keeping in mind that others in the region, in the time period were being shunted into Residential Schools as well. Same eras, and these are the populations and geography involved with much of those events.
I'm not arguing on how the political structures of the world came to be what they are now, I was born in the era I was, and I'm aware of history. So on my part, I try do more good than harm, and that's what I can do. And I've done more than nothing with myself.
I only mention living on Haida Gwaii, as the Haida also had a rough time in Canadian history, and Masset, BC is a salmon fishery for all 5 types of salmon, plus halibut etc. So canneries were a thing, there was even a cannery, although modern, and seemingly a good workplace in the 2020s, down the road from where I lived.
I only note this as contrast and comparison. Because talking of the hardships in Alaska (the Yukon, Northwestern BC...upper Rocky Mountain Ranges, at or past the tree line...) you have to understand that no matter who you were, or when you went...those lands are rough.
The Inuit up in Nunavut call the north The Land Beyond the Land of People.
So impoverishment wasn't entirely the fault of any administration.
The reason people went to places like Alaska was gold. Fur. Diamonds.
And regardless of the state of colonialism, I promise, from experience (I've been to the North Pole and stuff), once you're out in those lands, colonialism feels VERY far away. Like MEDIEVAC can take upwards of 23, 24 hours to arrive...in modern times. Imagine by dog sled.
colonization is etched into my very being, which is the best desired result of colonizers
that is why it would hurt so much for Filipino when they get discriminated upon by Americans
we love loved you, and you cant acknowledge us in the very least?
effin Filipino hospitality smgdh
Go to the south and northern part of Philippines, it's not very colonized
Thank you for posting this TRUTH. We Filipinos should really strip down all the colonialism, imperialism, dynasties out of our foods. Learn our cultural roots. It might take a little research, but we need 2do it.
There's nothing wrong in incorporating other nations and filipino foods. Some of us likes to eat European, American, and even Chinese dishes.
This generation has choices. These vloggers have choices. Their ancestors who migrated were survivalists. Salmon sinigang was the food of creative, resilient survivalists.
This channel chooses to tell and preserve these stories. Their ancestors were creatives. They made magic with what they had.
I can't relate to this bizarre hang up of "colonization."
It's not a hang up it's just plain facts. It might be a weird mix of emotions seeing some things that came from such a thing was good and some were bad and some were absolutely horrific. If you can't relate then good for you.
@@thomaschristopherwhite9043 Oh, it's a hang up. The way she - and the other speakers - talk about it is a give away. If it were just "plain facts" then the tone of the video and the entire YT channel wouldn't resemble some "take back our culture/can you believe what white people did?" found amongst certain segments of Native Americans, Blacks and Hispanics on social media. It's so, so cringe. I've noticed this growing trend amongst Westernized Filipinos, especially in the States usually located on West coast if not the East coast.
@@thomaschristopherwhite9043 I appreciate your attempt. But ANYONE who puts colonization in quotes, as if it never took place and isn't real, has CHOSEN to ignore history. That's a bubble that won't pop.
@@theestebanserrano Look the dude's weird. I get it but in a way I can agree with his sentiment or at least what I think his sentiment is.
@@thomaschristopherwhite9043 How am I weird? That's the new ironically brain dead ad hom -- calling everything you disagree with "weird."
I have been with a Filipino girlfriend for eight years and never I’ve been in a Filipino restaurant nor I’ve ate Filipino food. It’s just NOT good!!!
I've been married to a Filipina for 17 years gained 50 whole entire pounds. The food is AMAZING! Maybe go get your taste buds checked. You might of had covid for the last eight years LOL.
I dont know you but if you did have one or a few bad experiences of Filipino food, it doesnt mean all of it is bad. To be honest a theres a lot of Filipino foods that arent that different from your food that you could try first if you dont want unfamiliar flavors like lechon. And its also kind of unfair on your gf to just disregard her culture.
@longmao ...Reading a lot of BS 😅😂
Filipino is great. BUT, all this hype in Social Media by foreigners pretending to like Filipino food is more intelligent foreigners think that Filipino is a joke. Plus 96% of Filipino have no idea what Good Filipino food is. They only know of Adobo and other immitation Chinese food that get all the hype.
Wow this is beyond stupidity. Hmm never had Filipino food but all caps saying it is not good.😂😂😂
Colonialism!
Human enterprise!