Damn Marie.... get out of that sh*thole.....
Kids often don't put alot of thought into what they say, but it's their parents that bring them up.
Oh, my. I agree with Danny. GET OUT!
America is still a VERY racist society.
MANY Americans say that they won't vote for politcal candidates
simply because of their race:
www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/opinion/09blow.html?_r=1&oref=sloginI also find Americans to be very ignorant about the rest of the world
and indifferent to waging war and committing atrocities overseas.
I think most - not all - Americans are corrupt, greedy, racist, evil people.
Americans are also responsible for rigging elections in countries
like the Philippines and stifling our native industries.
Unfortunately, many Filipinos are victims of American propaganda.
After committing some of the worst atrocities in its history
in the Philippines in the form of mass murder of civilians,
Americans even brought racial segregation to the Philippines!:
Crossing the Race BarrierIt has always been a puzzle to me that very little academic attention is focused on the Philippines in graduate and post-graduate university programs on Southeast Asia abroad. Maybe it’s the fact that the Philippines isn’t as exotic as Burma (Myanmar) or Cambodia. Maybe it’s the fact that a student or scholar does not have to learn Filipino to undertake research in the Philippines because they can get around with English. I have always wondered about the lack of interest in Spanish and American universities to study their former overseas colony. To think that Filipino historians must undertake archival research abroad because much of our library and archival holdings were destroyed during the Battle for Manila in 1945.
I also wonder why Filipino students are not given some Spanish or American history in order to help them understand the colonial days and the way in which our republic today relates to former colonial masters.
Gaps in my inadequate education in American history are filled by TV and movies, which are sometimes more effective than teachers or textbooks. For example, I remembered Rosa Parks while reading the memoirs of Victor Buencamino. Parks made history by challenging segregation. She simply refused to move from a front-row bus seat reserved for whites to a seat in the rear set aside for people of color. I had forgotten that segregation was also practiced in the Philippines during the American period, until I read about people like Buencamino and, of course, Manuel Quezon who literally crossed the line and made history that we have unfortunately forgotten.
By his own reckoning, Victor Buencamino’s claim to fame is that he was: the first Filipino to earn a doctorate in veterinary medicine; the first Filipino to hold the post of director of the Bureau of Animal Husbandry; the first Filipino to establish a veterinary hospital in the Philippines. He was one of those responsible for the founding of the College of Veterinary Science in the University of the Philippines.
I don’t normally read material outside my area of expertise but, kept indoors the other day by rain and flood, I decided to sit down and see what Buencamino had to say about the Philippines of his times. What caught my attention was that he was one of the founders of the present Philippine Columbian Association way back in 1907.
The Columbian clubhouse today is better known as a venue for sports. I used to swim in the club in its old place along Taft Avenue, and I remember entering its formal, wood-paneled library feeling intelligent even if I didn’t open or read a single book. I didn’t realize that the Columbian was originally founded as a social club for Filipinos who were denied membership in other clubs like the Polo Club, Manila Golf Club, YMCA and the Army and Navy Club.
Buencamino and nine other friends decided to found the Philippine Columbian Association exclusively for Filipinos who had studied in the United States. Later they relaxed membership rules, and Jorge Vargas was admitted even if he had not studied in the United States. The association became nationalistic and its clubhouse in 1934 became the headquarters for the national Congress for Philippine Independence. Manuel Quezon held many strategic meetings there.
Buencamino narrates that segregation was not confined to “Americans-only” social clubs, but also to the dance floors of the Lerma and Santa Ana cabarets. Quezon was the first to cross the line with the support of US Governor-General Francis Burton Harrison, who should be better remembered aside from the street running along seedy parts of Pasay and Manila today. Harrison reserved a table for a small party at the Lerma cabaret and was given one in the “Occidentals-only” section. Then the governor-general arrived with his guests, among them Manuel Quezon, Buenaventura Barona, Victor Buencamino and their ladies. The management was too stunned to do anything as they sat in the segregated part of the cabaret, feasted on juicy steaks. Buencamino recounted: “[W]e danced all night, somewhat pleased inside us that we were making a little bit of history. Thus was demolished forever the race barrier in these once exclusively white cabarets. Gradually, the other exclusive clubs also dropped the racial barriers.”
Time has softened the sharp edges of colonial history. Many of us today cannot imagine that the only Filipinos allowed in the Manila Hotel were servants. Or that the Wack-Wack Golf and Country Club was founded by William Shaw because his wife and “mestizo” child were not welcome in the Manila Golf Club then in Caloocan. Or that Manuel Nieto, aide to Quezon, was denied membership to the Manila Polo Club so the President encouraged the Elizaldes to establish the alternative Los Tamaraos, now a residential subdivision in Parañaque.
Crossing the race barrier seems insignificant today, but it must be remembered as a footnote in our development as a nation.
Source: opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view_article.php?article_id=81655.
People around the world must learn to stand up to Americans
and fight them wherever they are! And never ever give in!