I am not one of them!

Last week, I found a very interesting site, The Brown Raise Movement. It wasn’t until today that I actually started reading one of the articles, INFERIORITY COMPLEX: A FILIPINO MALADY?, I still have to read the others.

When I found about the website, all i did was navigate through it. I never had any intentions before of reading it, but one article caught my eye, it was INFERIORITY COMPLEX: A FILIPINO MALADY?.

It has a very interesting insight on how Filipinos actually feel about themselves. I am not saying, “I am not one of them”, because I hate being a Filipino, I am actually separating my self from self-haters. And majority of Filipinos are self-haters.

This part is the most interesting part for me.

However, the most shocking aspect of this lack of national pride, even identity, endemic in the average Filipino, is the appalling ignorance of the history of the archipelago since unified by Spain and named Filipinas. The remarkable stories concerning the Galleon de Manila, the courageous repulsion of Dutch and British invaders from the 16th through the 18th centuries, even the origins of the independence movement of the late 19th century, are hardly known by the average Filipino in any meaningful way. And thanks to fifty years of American brainwashing, it is few and far between the number of Filipinos who really know – or even care – about the duplicity employed by the Americans and Spaniards to sell out and make meaningless the very independent state that Aguinaldo declared on June 12, 1898. A people without a sense of history is a people doomed to be unaware of their own identity. It is sad to say, but true, that the vast majority of Filipinos fall into this lamentable category. Without a sense of who you are how can you possibly take any pride in who you are?

Source: http://www.thebrownraise.org/articles/IC_082508a_en.html

Yes, it is the most shocking!

I hate it when Filipinos, especially Filipinos born outside of Philippines, call themselves Filipinos without the knowledge of where their pride is coming from & knowledge of what to be proud of.

Some even pride themselves of being a Filipino because to a success in sports by a Filipino like Manny Pacquiao, in arts by the likes of Charice Pempengco, Leah Salonga, etc..

It is enough for them to call themselves Filipinos because of those success.

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I’m adding The Brown Raise Movement to my Useful Read links.

I am proud to be brown!

I support The Brown Raise Movement!

~ by A World of My Own on September 10, 2008.