Confieso que perdí los estribos ayer.
I went ballistic yesterday.
Nag-wala ako kahapon.
He estado viendo un buen número de videos sobre el creciente interés entre mis compatriotas en aprender castellano.
I've been watching a good number of videos recently on the growing interest among my fellow Filipinos in learning Spanish.
Kamakailan napanood ko ang maraming video tungkol sa lumalaking interes ng mga pilipino sa pag-aral ng wikang espanyol.
-Nakakaintindi ka naman ng Tagalog o Espanyol, hindi ba?-
-Por supuesto que tú entiendes tagalo o español, ¿verdad?
"You surely understand Tagalog or Spanish, right?"
Me fascina sobre todo leer los comentarios y a menudo meto la cuchara y doy mi opinión.
I love reading the comments and I often can't help but add my two cents.
Aliw na aliw ako na basahin ang mga comentario at madalas na sinasabi ko rin ang sariling kuro-kuro.
Hay un gran cambio en curso en la mentalidad del filipino, ref el castellano y nuestro pasado.
A sea change in Filipino attitudes is already underway. About Spanish and our past.
May isang malalim na pagbabago na nangyayari sa pagisipan ng mga pilipino tungkol sa wikang espanyol at ang ating kasaysayan.
No se trata de un cambio de ideas solamente. Es un cambio de sentir, y a menudo tiene que ver con la visión del pasado, un re-valorarlo mediante un sentimiento de vínculación significativa, personal, con los antepasados.
It's not merely a change in ideas. It is a change in feeling, often having to do with our vision of the past, a revaluing of the past through a sentiment of meaningful connection, at a personal level, with one's forebears, one's ancestors.
Hindi lamang ito tungkol sa isang pagbabago ng pag-iisip. Ang damdamin ng ating kapwa pilipino ay nagbabago, ang tanawin sa nakaraan, bumabalik na ang makabuluhan at malalim na kaugnayan sa mga ninuno.
Sin embargo, el sistema es muy inteligente, muy hábil para apropiarse de todo lo nuevo que va surgiendo, para asegurarse contra los vientos de lo nuevo, y convertir lo nuevo en abono para proteger su raigambre en la mente popular.
However, the system is very intelligent, very astute. It knows how to appropriate the new that is arising, to ensure its survival, ensure the new winds blowing will not uproot it. Rather, it converts the new into more fertilizer to protect its deeply rooted hold over the people's minds.
Gayunpaman, ang sistema ay napaka-intelihente, napaka-matuso. Alam niya kung paano ma-angkop ang bagong tumutubo, upang matiyak ang kanyang kabuhayan, na ang malakas na bagong hangin ay huwag siyang bunutin. Sa halip, papaniwalain niya ang simpleng tao na tinatangkilik niya ang bagong tanawin at damdamin, upang ipagtanggol ang kaniyang autoridad at hindi mawala ang pagtitiwala sa kanya ng mga simpleng tao.
Ahora bien, yo no tengo ninguna duda, no siento temor, yo sé que no hay posibilidad alguna de que los hombres y mujeres de ayer puedan seguir frenando el avance del tiempo y de la historia, de la evolución de la especie humana. No podrán seguir frenando el retorno de nuestro amor por aquel Pasado que nos fue robado por el extranjero blanco.
Now, I want to make it clear that I have no doubt at all, I feel no fear, I know there is no possibility whatsoever that the men and women of yesterday can keep holding back the progress of time and history, the progress of the human race. They cannot hold back the return of our love for that Past that the white foreigner stole from us.
Ngayon, nais kong sabihin ng malinaw, na wala akong alinlangan, wala akong kabá, alam ko na wala nang anumang posibilidad na maaaring pigilin ng mga lalaki at babae ng kahapon ang buweltahan ng ating pagmamahal sa iyong Kasaysayan na ninakaw sa atin ng dayuhang puti, ang pag-unlád ng kasaysayan at ng panahon, ang kaunlarán ng Sangkatauhan, ng Humanidad.
Pero soy una persona común y corriente, y a veces pierdo la paciencia. No soporto ver a mi pueblo condenado a seguir soportando la mediocridad y el aburrimiento de los "formadores de opinión pública" -- la institucionalidad filipina, que, a veces con las mejores intenciones del mundo, persiste en aplanar y achatar la consciencia popular con las mismas canciones de cuna y letanías de siempre.
But I am an ordinary human being and sometimes I lose my patience. I cannot bear to see my people condemned to continue subsisting on a dried-fish + kangkong diet of mediocrity and boredom, served by the "opinion makers" -- the Filipino institutions that in some cases, with the best intentions in the world, persist in flattening out and dulling the awareness of the people with the same old lullabies and litanies of clichés and tired concepts.
Ngunit ako'y isang taong karaniwan lamang at minsan, nauubos ang aking pasensya. Hindo ko na matiís ang makita ang aking bayan na patuloy na kumakain ng daing at kangkong, na sinisilbi sa kanila ng "mga marunong, ang mga may-nalalaman ng sociedad". Ang mga manggagawa ng opinyon na sa ilang kaso ay may mainam na intensyon, ngunit nagpapatuloy ng pag-yupi and pag-wasak ng kamalayan ng tao, kinakantahan pa rin nila tayo ng walang hinto, ng lumang litaniya at pagod, upod na, na konsepto.
Vean este video y sabrán de qué hablo.
Take a look at this video and you will know what I mean.
Tingnán ninyó ang videong ito at malalaman ninyó kung anó ang ibig kong sabihin.
Quedé tan abismada que no pude reprimirme y dejé el comentario que pegaré más abajo.
I was so stunned that I couldn't stop myself from leaving the comment that I will paste below.
Labis akong nasindak; hindi ko mapigilan ang sarili ko at iniwan ko ang comentario na nasa ibaba.
VIBAL es la casa editorial de los textos del Ministerio de Educación. Con eso lo digo todo.
VIBAL is the publishing house of the Ministry of Education. You can figure out the rest.
VIBAL ang imprenta ng Ministerio ng Edukasyon. Alam na ninyo ang ibig sabihin nito.
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This is the conventional look at Filipino
history and culture, from academe.
It gives a lot of weight to the arrival of Islam before the Spanish, Christianization,
anthropological practices, all very well. But these perspectives avoid the core
issues that Latin American historians and thinkers have developed --- the clash
between the indigenous and the medieval
world. Filipino talking heads never penetrate the surface. And this is the problem. It's telling fairy
tales to overgrown children,
entertaining infantilized adults. "We cannot live in the
delusion that we are Hispanic, ...our
legacy is Malay." And with
that, you're supposed to be satisfied.
What about the situation of the country, the
social contradictions, the horrendous disappearance of the middle class, the destruction of the
environment...no, nada, none of those things have
anything to do with anything. They don't mention the American neocolonization. It doesn't matter,
simply. They promote these big names in
academe, with that happy-happy background music, and throw in some who are respected like
Ileto and Zalcita.....but they can only
be window dressing. Man oh man. Hasta
cuándo. Hasta nunca. Quieren cosas
superficiales, y que no cambie nada. Que hablemos español pero que sigamos en
la misma mierda de siempre. Me avergüenzo de todos ustedes. Me avergüenzo de VIBAL. Teniendo tantos
recursos, siguen en lo mismo. Zapatos.
Lamesa. Bintana. Eso es nuestro
"legado español", niños y niñas.
O SEA: LA NADA MISMA.
O SEA: LA NADA MISMA.
Pobre de Filipinas. Pobres
filipinos...
Pues no. Se acabó la miseria.
But no. No more of this poverty.
Tapos na ang karálitaán.
Pues no. Se acabó la miseria.
But no. No more of this poverty.
Tapos na ang karálitaán.
Mestiza chino-hispanofilipina.
Aco'y malumbay. Aco'y malungcot.
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