Kasta met laeng ti “Alsa Masa 1763” ni Bernardino C. Alzate a maipapan iti tignayan dagiti mannalon iti Tayum, Abra kontra kadagiti Espaniol idi 1763.

Never mind that these peoples, while they are also peoples of the Philippines, are also Ilonggos, Sebuanos, Bikolanos, or Ilokanos—peoples with their own nation before that Philippines nation was ever invented or dreamed of.

This is written with so much hope—a hope that multicultural and linguistic justice education will soon see the light of day in the form of an enabling law in the 2008 Multicultural and Literacy Education Act of the Republic of the Philippines, or House Bill 3719.

Uray ti lakay a beterano iti “Puon” ni Lorenzo G. Tabin, iramanko met, ta malaksid a nakipartisipar iti maysa a nakahishistorikal a nagpasaran ti pagilian, historikal pay, siempre, ti pannakipasetna manen iti migrasion ken wenno exile dagiti Ilokano iti America.

In sum, HB 3719 argues for a multicultural education for the Philippines, a template for education that values the basic human experiences of peoples, experiences that are mediated by their own languages and not by other people’s languages, and grow from that experience in keeping with the duty to relate to and with other people [...]

Ken kasta met, siempre, ti pakasaritaan dagiti “comfort women” iti panawen ti Japon, kas iti “Iti Kapanagan, Nalunes dagiti Sabong” ni Salvador A. Espejo. Awan duadua, bannuar met dagitoy a nakakaasi a babbai. (Ken dagiti bai — ed) 

With the illogical isomorphism in that equation Tagalog=Pilipino/Filipino—a curious thing that many knowledgeable linguists would reject for its flawed claims in a bioculturally diverse country like the Philippines—Tagalogism and Tagalogization have become the official path to creating the ‘new’ Philippine nation-state, a political dream that was valorized when the center of power came to Imperial [...]

Ket iti met historical fiction, mangtedak iti sampol dagiti patiek nga obra iti fiksion a historical, nangruna iti Iloko (dagiti dadduma a reaksion, dinillawda ti kaawan kano ti nadakamat ni Apo Duque nga obra nga Iloko historical fiction kadagiti imbinsana a sinurat).

Saan ngarud nga asi-asi nga aramid a talaga daytoy. Ta kas naibatad pay iti Wikipedia.com definition daytoy a genre ti fiction, nawayaka a mangsurat ken mangiparang iti karakter ken pasamak, “so long as it does not deviate in significant ways from established history.” Nasken a dika a sumiasi iti es-estoriaem wenno iyes-estoriam a partikular a [...]

The powers-that-were that continue to incarnate and reincarnate as the powers-that-are and the powers-that-be in our midst and wearing many hats, entrenched as they are in the academia and in the corridors of power are to be judged by our ethnolinguistic communities as Pharisees and Sadducees of Philippine culture. Here come the conquered becoming conquerors, [...]