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Turan mo ang iyong kaibigan, sasabihin ko kung sino ikaw

English: Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are.

Explanation: It is said that a person is judged by other people by the company he keeps. This is similar to …

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The Thomasites, Before and After

They were called thus not due to St. Thomas of Aquinas but because they came in a cattle cargo vessel called the “S/S Thomas”.

And they came to teach English as part of the “policy …

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The Filipino State (Another way of looking at Philippine history): Part 7 of 7 Parts

7.  Was the Filipino State mortgaged and hocked? Was it gross betrayed? Will the Filipinos remain to be stateless even in their own country?

Thus, because of the confusion wrought upon the national psyche of …

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The Filipino State (Another way of looking at Philippine history): Part 6

6.   1900: The Filipino people was deprived of its own State

When the American WASPs had, at last, succeeded in imposing their military and neo-colonial rule, one of them, James Leroy, concluded that the Filipinos …

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The Filipino State (Another way of looking at Philippine history): Part 5

By Guillermo Gomez Rivera

5.  Maturity of the Filipino State in 1898

Thus, after 337 years, the FILIPINO STATE became so rich and so vibrant that from a mere missionary outpost it went on to …

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The Filipino State (Another way of looking at Philippine history): Part 4

4.   The integration of the pre-Hispanic ethnic states

The majority of the local Chieftains that came to the 1599 synod, upon learning of the foregoing benefits, overwhelmingly voted Yes to the proposal about the Spanish …

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The Filipino State (Another way of looking at Philippine history): Part 3

3.  What was the status of the Filipino State in 1571?

Its status was that of a Province of Spain administered through the vice-kingdom of New Spain which is Mexico today.

At the beginning, the …

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