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by on October 15, 2011 2 Comments

Is this website, Philippine Studies, anti-Filipino? Be the judge.

We have received an email from a certain “Ji” of Hotmail concerning the article “Anti-Filipino Remarks“.

On reading the message, we thought we misread it.

Our reader was claiming that the article is …

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by on September 12, 2011 1 Comment

Martial laws in the Philippines

September 21, 1972 is the date many remember as the date Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos signed Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire Philippines under martial law.

But unknown to many, there were two other …

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by on June 4, 2011 3 Comments

Jose Rizal

Dr. José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was a Filipino polymath, nationalist and the most prominent advocate for reforms in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era [...]

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by on June 3, 2011 2 Comments

Notes on the history of Chinese Christians of the Philippines (Part III)

The first Filipinos were, of course, the vassals of King Philippe the Second of Spain and the Philippines (el Rey Felipe Segundo de España y de Filipinas). Among those vassals were the Peninsulares that settled in these Islands called “Felipenos” [...]

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by on June 3, 2011 2 Comments

Balintawak Arnis Escrima, A Filipino Martial Art

Like all cultures around the world, the inhabitants of the Visayas already had a martial system. Magellan and his crew, who wore armours of steel, confidently took on Lapu Lapu and his men, who only wore cloth. Early scribes reported that the natives were proficient with “esgrima”, fencing [...]

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by on March 18, 2011 Leave a Comment

Some Dreams Must Die

“My dreams when a lad, when scarcely adolescent: my dreams when a young man, now with vigor inflamed: were to behold you one day: Jewel of eastern waters: griefless the dusky eyes: lifted the upright brow: unclouded, unfurrowed, unblemished and unashamed”.

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by on December 4, 2010 Leave a Comment

Let us build each other up

There seems to be a belief or underlying assumption that Filipinos are a corrupt and/or corruptible people and therefore the best way to govern and do business with them is to feed that tendency: be the corruptor [...]

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