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Alright so you're officially a member of the Hispanic club, but I don't get why Filipinos are so keen on keeping their Hispanic past alive even though the Spaniards invaded your country,committed atrocities,forcefully converted the people and tried to destroy the culture.
Don't you see Filipinos accepted Catholicism. People who are not Catholics will always say bad things about our religion blaming Spain or someone else. A lot of Filipinos accepted the culture that was already installed. Embraced their surnames, names, food even if it's already a mixture or fusion of cultures. We already accepted that Hispanic is part of our identity that we have both native and Hispanic and other cultures that was already part of Filipino Culture.
If we are not Catholics I guess we won't enjoy our Christmas tradition, Our All Saints day or Todos Los Santos, Our Santa Cruzan, Our Fiestas, and other related Catholic tradition. Is that hard to understand in Filipino Culture. Those churches that you see in the Philippines is already part of our heritage same as Indonesian value their temples of Hinduism & Muslim Mosque in Southeast Asia. They value their own religion, they change their surnames to Muslim from being Animist.
We, Filipinos have different Customs & Religion and practices. Some remain Animist, some value their Catholic Religion or Christianity, etc. and some also value their religion being a Muslim.
Alright so you're officially a member of the Hispanic club, but I don't get why Filipinos are so keen on keeping their Hispanic past alive even though the Spaniards invaded your country,committed atrocities,forcefully converted the people and tried to destroy the culture.
EDIT:IMO,Just because the Philippines is part of Hispanidad it doesn't make them Hispanic, my country of origin is a member of the commonwealth organisation but we don't claim to be Anglo-Saxon because of that.
Pakistan was a British colony but is your religion and culture British ?
Doesn't seem the same in the Philippines since Philippines is predominatly catholic plus Spain and Mexico contributed so much in our culture. We cannot deny their contribution because if not for them, we will not have our religion and culture, traditions, customs and food.
Pakistan was a British colony but is your religion and culture British ?
Doesn't seem the same in the Philippines since Philippines is predominatly catholic plus Spain and Mexico contributed so much in our culture. We cannot deny their contribution because if not for them, we will not have our religion and culture, traditions, customs and food.
I wonder how the Philippines got so Hispanicized without a lot of Spaniards coming in? Most Asian colonies, be it Indochina, India or even Malaya, don't seem as affected, although Malaya was quite a lot in recent years and actually after independence. I would say Penang is decidedly more colonially influenced than Kolkata.
I wonder how the Philippines got so Hispanicized without a lot of Spaniards coming in? Most Asian colonies, be it Indochina, India or even Malaya, don't seem as affected, although Malaya was quite a lot in recent years and actually after independence. I would say Penang is decidedly more colonially influenced than Kolkata.
Wondering why we don't have temples too.. Why Indonesian or other neighbor country never shared those temples and built in the Philippines. There is no traces of temples like Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia or Thailand etc.
Wondering why we don't have temples too.. Why Indonesian or other neighbor country never shared those temples and built in the Philippines. There is no traces of temples like Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia or Thailand etc.
Did Hinduism or Buddhism ever even reach the Philippines? Wasn't there a Muslim kingdom in Mindanao before the Spanish came? Actually weren't there Chinese before that too? No Chinese temples from before that era? I think there are some Chinese temples now though right.
Did Hinduism or Buddhism ever even reach the Philippines? Wasn't there a Muslim kingdom in Mindanao before the Spanish came? Actually weren't there Chinese before that too? No Chinese temples from before that era? I think there are some Chinese temples now though right.
There are traces yes it reach the Philippines but no temples. only those gold artifacts of kinari and golden tara the Malayan Goddess etc.
Pakistan was a British colony but is your religion and culture British ?
Doesn't seem the same in the Philippines since Philippines is predominatly catholic plus Spain and Mexico contributed so much in our culture. We cannot deny their contribution because if not for them, we will not have our religion and culture, traditions, customs and food.
So you feel "Hispanic" because of your religion and "culture", I could claim that I feel semitic because of my religion but we don't claim to be semites because we're not.
I don't see Caribbean people claiming to be British even though they share the same religion,language and similar cultures.
I don't really think Filipino culture is that similar to Spanish culture, they seem really distinct.
I don't think it would be fair to call Spanish colonization and atrocities a "contribution", that's like showing off a hickey you got from an abusive un-consensual relationship , why take pride in that?
The 9th century probably those Chinese traders and Pirates who went to the Philippines. But Filipino natives are Animists.
How much kinship do Filipinos feel towards indonesians? Both are diverse and multi-ethnic, but they have many obvious similarities. How do the two relate to each other? How do they differ in personality? I know the culture differences, religion and food being the main ones. I think Javanaese and Sumatrans as being 'typical' Indonesians, while those from Luzon are 'typical' Filipinos. How similar is Bahasa Indonesia and Tagalog in your experience?
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