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From: ph111-bx@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;7202)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re: What is your "Race" ?
Date: 15 Dec 1992 05:50:18 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
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In article <1gdlelINN3bh@agate.berkeley.edu> tito@ocf.berkeley.edu (Tito Domine) writes:
->	The earliest humans or proto-humans, as the diggings in
->Kenya of Robert Leakey et al., have shown the presence of humans,
->known today as Australopithecus, as early as 4 million years. While
->the Tabon cave findings in the Phils, have shown the presence of
->human beings in the Phils (Tabon Cave is in Palawan, I believe) as
->early as 25,000 years. Diggings in the Cagayan Valley show tools
->and implements (not human remains) dating back 75,000 years.
->If you remember, Chinese civilization is only 10,000 years, while
->Indian civilization is around 7,000 years old.
->
->	So your common-and-average tagalog, ilokano or kapampangan,
->is actually speaking a language that is at least 25,000 years old -
->pre-dating the coming of Christ and the Chinese civilization.

The Tabon cave findings show evidence of a language related to
tagalog spoken 25,000 years ago?  And the tools and implements found
in Cagayan Valley are evidence of a 75,000 year old civilization
comparable to the Indian and Chinese civilizations of seven to ten
thousand years ago?
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: CMIS27@maccvm.corp.mot.com (Roda Farrell)
Subject: Re: Yuletide Dialect Translations
Organization: Motorola
Date: 17 Dec 1992 09:14:42 CST

------------------------- Original Article -------------------------
From: andym@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM (Andy Means)
Subject: Yuletide Dialect Translations

  Philippines has hundreds of dialects.  I'd like to see anyone of us
  write/speak "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year" in their native
  dialect.  I'm Visayan but grew up in Cavite City.  Therefore some
  part of the town speak "Chabacano" which is really some form of
  Spanish language.  Since I neither speak Visayan or Chabacano, can
  anybody translate.

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The only way I know how is Maligayang Pasko at Manigong Bagong Taon.

My father speaks Chabacano; I'll ask him too.

By the way, in what part of Cavite City did you live?  Sta. Cruz, San
Antonio, San Roque, or Caridad?  I lived near Ladislao Diwa Elementary
School.


A happy and healthy holiday season to all!
Roda
From: ang@theory.lcs.mit.edu (William S. Ang)
Subject: Re: What is your "Race" ?
Organization: MIT Lab for Computer Science
	<92347.164848JA6769A@auvm.american.edu>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 21:47:07 GMT

In article <92347.164848JA6769A@auvm.american.edu> Juan T. Avecilla <JA6769A@auvm.american.edu> writes:

   Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 16:48:48 EST
   From: Juan T. Avecilla <JA6769A@auvm.american.edu>
   Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino

   If I am not mistaken, doesn't nationality refer more to citizenship
   than where you are actually from? This has always been my
   perception of the word. No, yes,  maybe?

Seriously,  the concept of race, nation, are the root of all evils.  Just
look at the troubles in former Yogoslavia, USSR.  Just as John Lennon says,
imaging there is no country,  someday?  may be I am just a dreamer...

  William

Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: c150-fg@po.berkeley.edu (Francis Mendoza)
Subject: Re: show-offs III
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:19:08 GMT

Kumust na kayong lahat.

Gusto ko lang tanungin sa mga kababayang
PRO-INTERRACIAL MARRIAGES itong mga tanong na susunod:

1.  Ano ang magiging religion nang mga bata kuong hindi pareho and
    religion nang babae at lalake?

2.  Tatawagan ba nang Non-Pinoy Spouse (NPS) and mga in-laws by their
    first names? or will NPS manifest a sign of respect by calling
    them the proper Filipino terms?

3.  Pagka mayroon ka nang anak, tuturuin mo ba siya nang Tagalog,
    Pangasinan, etc.?


FJ Mendoza
U.C. Berkeley Undergrad
Computer Science / Ethnic Studies

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: tjehl@sedona.intel.com (Timothy Jehl)
Subject: Re: What is your "Race" ?
Originator: tjehl@sedona
Reply-To: tjehl@sedona.intel.com
Organization: Intel Corporation.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:31:53 GMT


   The Indianapolis 500.

Tim
-- 

"It really only matters to the people who care."

Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: CMIS27@maccvm.corp.mot.com (Roda Farrell)
Subject: Interracial Marriages
Organization: Motorola
Date: 14 Dec 1992 16:28:22 CST

I don't have the original post, but here are my answers to the
questions re: interracial marriages.

1)  I think if there are two different religions/denominations, the
person who is stronger in his/her faith may have a more valid reason
to ask a spouse to convert.  I don't have a problem with a couple
belonging to different churches.  In our case, my husband felt more
at home and spiritually fed in my denomination than I did in his.

2)  My husband calls my parents what they wanted to be called -- Papa
and Mama D.  I think it should be up to the parents to let the in-law
know the acceptable term of address.  My in-laws have asked me to call
them by first name, but I am still uncomfortable with it.  Perhaps I
will get used to it, but for now I just try not to address them
directly.

3)  Yes, we want our daughter to learn Tagalog.  Even if she can't
speak it, I want her to at least understand what people around her are
saying.  My husband agrees completely.  He has asked my parents and
our child's nanny to speak to her in Tagalog as much as possible.  He
also took a Tagalog class in college and can pick up on conversation.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: mbernar@erenj.com (Marcelino Bernardo)
Subject: Re: Motherland, Fatherland, Nativeland
Followup-To: soc.culture.filipino
Organization: Exxon Research & Engineering, Co.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:22:52 GMT

In article <1gek41INNdpm@morrow.stanford.edu>, GE.TEG@forsythe.stanford.edu
(Tito E. Gervacio) wrote:
> 
> >
> >From: vxv4@po.CWRU.Edu (Virgilio Velasco):
> >
> >In a previous article, mbernar@erenj.com (Marcelino Bernardo) says:
> >
> >>In article <1g8pa0INNrr1@morrow.stanford.edu> GE.TEG@forsythe.stanford.edu (Tito E. Gervacio) writes:
> >>>
> >>>       Another  2-cent  addition  to  the  'Theory'..   Some
> >>> people tend to like those who resemble someone  that  comes
> >>> from  their  Motherland.   In  our  case,  Spain  (and  the
> >>> Spaniards).   I   just   heard   this   from   an   upstart
> >>> anthropologist, so I can't accommodate any rebuttal.
> >>>
> >> I think that since this is the soc.culture.filipino newsgroup
> >>most people here consider the Philippines to be their motherland.
> >>Are you on the right newsgroup?
> >>
> >
> >I, for one, absolutely REFUSE to call Spain my motherland.  So did
> >Rizal.  After all, which nation do you think he referred to as
> >"my motherland (fatherland?), clime of the sun caressed"?
> >
> 
> [stuff deleted]
> 
> I can go along with those who profess  extreme  nationalism,
> but  it's  beyond  me to ignore history as part of someone's
> attempt to learn more about today.
> 
I don't think Virgilio or I are ignoring history.  We're merely
putting it on the right perspective.

> And to suggest  that  invoking  a  subject  which  might  be
> sensitive  to  some  people's  ears is a wrong usage of this
> newsgroup, that's barking at the wrong tree.  Why not  shoot
> it to those looking-for- a-partner postings?
> 
I made no such suggestions.  Your post was so far off-base that I 
wanted to make sure you knew which newsgroup you were posting to.


> We can't be putting blinders on issues dealing with Filipino
> evolution, can we?
> 
Perhaps we should be a bit more careful in addressing other people
whose views differ from our own.  Are we blind because we don't 
agree with your belief?


Marcelino Bernardo
mbernar@erenj.com
From: GE.TEG@forsythe.stanford.edu (Tito E. Gervacio)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Motherland, Fatherland, Nativeland
Date: 12 Dec 1992 22:10:09 -0800
Organization: Stanford University
NNTP-Posting-Host: morrow.stanford.edu

>
>From: vxv4@po.CWRU.Edu (Virgilio Velasco)
>Subject: Re: Pinay/Pinoy Follow-up
>
>
>In a previous article, mbernar@erenj.com (Marcelino Bernardo) says:
>
>>In article <1g8pa0INNrr1@morrow.stanford.edu> GE.TEG@forsythe.stanford.edu (Tito E. Gervacio) writes:
>>>
>>>       Another  2-cent  addition  to  the  'Theory'..   Some
>>> people tend to like those who resemble someone  that  comes
>>> from  their  Motherland.   In  our  case,  Spain  (and  the
>>> Spaniards).   I   just   heard   this   from   an   upstart
>>> anthropologist, so I can't accommodate any rebuttal.
>>>
>> I think that since this is the soc.culture.filipino newsgroup
>>most people here consider the Philippines to be their motherland.
>>Are you on the right newsgroup?
>>
>>Marcelino Bernardo
>>mbernar@erenj.com
>
>I, for one, absolutely REFUSE to call Spain my motherland.  So did
>Rizal.  After all, which nation do you think he referred to as
>"my motherland (fatherland?), clime of the sun caressed"?
>
>--
>    Virgilio "Dean" Velasco Jr., CWRU grad student & roboticist wannabee
>                      ** Wise men still seek Christ. **
>  "Perhaps we would have more power if Engineer Scott  |    My boss is a
>      connected your mouth to a generator, Doctor."    |  Jewish carpenter.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Your choice, just as some people of countries who  underwent
colonization  decided  to  let  go of any ties, in any form,
from their colonizers.

Motherland, Fatherland, Nativeland, all points of reference.

I can go along with those who profess  extreme  nationalism,
but  it's  beyond  me to ignore history as part of someone's
attempt to learn more about today.

And to suggest  that  invoking  a  subject  which  might  be
sensitive  to  some  people's  ears is a wrong usage of this
newsgroup, that's barking at the wrong tree.  Why not  shoot
it to those looking-for- a-partner postings?

We can't be putting blinders on issues dealing with Filipino
evolution, can we?

-TEG
From: grtorlba@sumax.seattleu.edu (George Torralba)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re: Am I In the Right NG?
Date: 16 Dec 92 21:45:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: sumax.6123
Organization: Seattle University

In article <1gdrtgINN6op@morrow.stanford.edu> GE.TEG@forsythe.stanford.edu (Tito E. Gervacio) writes:
>
>Yes, Spain is the motherland.  I hope you are not oblivious to
>history that the 500-year rule of Spain did not do anything to
>the Filipino culture, both good and bad.
>
>Can't close our eyes to this, can we?
>
>Just like Great Britain being the motherland of the United
>States.
>

I'm not quite sure what you mean by motherland, or how it is used as a
word, or how you're using it.  From your analogy of GB & USA, I would
think that "the motherland" is the place where you came from (i.e., roots)
Now I don't think Filipinos came from Spain, we were occupied by them but
we sure as hell didn't come from there.  It would be like saying that the
American Indians' motherland is GB.  Is it? 


George

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: arnie@imag.imag.fr (arnulfo azcarraga)
Subject: Merry Christmas in tagalog ...
Followup-To: Merry Christmas in the Phils
Organization: Institut Imag, Grenoble, France
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 08:31:11 GMT

Though there may be other ways of saying "Maligayang Pasko at Manigong 
Bagong Taon" ---- filipinos normally greet each other with a "Merry 
Christmas". In Zamboanga City, we see signs which read "Felices Pascuas 
y Prospero An~o Neuvo con todos". This is really "chavacano" as I think 
in Spanish, it is more "Feliz Navidad". Besides, "con todos" is gramatically
absurd in Spanish (literally means "with all"). Another interesting thing 
is that "pascua" or "pasko" is actually Easter ("Pascua (Florida)") or 
"Paques" in French. It seems though that "pascua" may be used to refer
to X'mas - but it is not common ....

"Meri Krismas na lang sa inyong lahat!!!"

-Arnie-

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LIFIA, Institut-IMAG, 46 av Felix Viallet, 38031 Grenoble cedex, France
From: news@netnews.upenn.edu (USENET News System)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: US Firms Investing in Phil
Date: 15 Dec 92 19:49:56 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.filipino
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

MANILA, Philippines (UPI) -- About half of U.S. firms in the
Philippines expect to invest $600 million over the next three years, the
American Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the Philippines said
Tuesday.
	The chamber, in its 1992 audit report, also said 83 U.S. companies
contributed $3 billion to the local economy in 1991, compared to $2.2
billion by 89 firms the previous year.
	These contributions included wages, export earnings, local purchases,
dividends, capital inflow and tariffs, among others.
	A year-on-year comparison of 72 companies covered by both the 1991
and 1992 surveys showed there was a 51 percent increase in export
earnings, 33 percent in local purchases, 36 percent in tax payments and
30 percent in expansion funding, the survey said.
	Last year, 83 U.S. corporations in the Philippines employed 57,600
Filipinos and only 127 expatriates. Of these, more than 10,000 Filipinos
occupied management positions, the survey said.
	The U.S. corporations in the Philippines are engaged in
manufacturing, processing, insurance, services and wholesale and retail
businesses, the chamber said.
From: GE.TEG@forsythe.stanford.edu (Tito E. Gervacio)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Am I In the Right NG?
Date: 12 Dec 1992 15:17:04 -0800
Organization: Stanford University
NNTP-Posting-Host: morrow.stanford.edu

>
>From: mbernar@erenj.com (Marcelino Bernardo)
>Subject: Re: Pinay/Pinoy Follow-up
>
>In article <1g8pa0INNrr1@morrow.stanford.edu> GE.TEG@forsythe.stanford.edu (Tito E. Gervacio) writes:
>>
>>       Another  2-cent  addition  to  the  'Theory'..   Some
>> people tend to like those who resemble someone  that  comes
>> from  their  Motherland.   In  our  case,  Spain  (and  the
>> Spaniards).   I   just   heard   this   from   an   upstart
>> anthropologist, so I can't accommodate any rebuttal.
>>
> I think that since this is the soc.culture.filipino newsgroup
>most people here consider the Philippines to be their motherland.
>Are you on the right newsgroup?
>
>Marcelino Bernardo
>mbernar@erenj.com
>
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Yes, Spain is the motherland.  I hope you are not oblivious to
history that the 500-year rule of Spain did not do anything to
the Filipino culture, both good and bad.

Can't close our eyes to this, can we?

Just like Great Britain being the motherland of the United
States.

Or should have I construed instead to the Fatherland.

One way or another, I am in the right newsgroup.

And thank you,

TEG
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: 16852RLC@MSU
Subject: Dams in the Philippines
Organization: Michigan State University
Date: 17 Dec 1992 08:14:26 EST

Greetings everyone.  Maligayang pasko po sa inyong
lahat.  I am trying to locate literature related to the
distribution of vector-borne diseases in the Philippines.
Halimbawa po nito ay malaria, schistosomiasis, filariasis
at Japanese encephalitis.
Among others, I need a list that contains the names, locations,
and basic characteristics of dams and small human-made water
impoundments.  Can anyone point me to a source where I could
get the info?
Maraming salamat po.

Renato L. Cerdena
Department of Geography
Michigan State University
315 Natural Science
East Lansing, MI 48824-1115
USA
e-mail: 16852rlc@msu.edu
fax: (517) 336-1076
phone: (517) 355-4649 (messages)
       (517) 353-9940 (direct)
From: j_isler@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re: show-offs III
Date: 12 Dec 92 21:46:24 +0800
Organization: University of Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: fennel.cc.uwa.edu.au

In article <92344.150136U61618@uicvm.uic.edu>, <U61618@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
> Hey maybe you can take me when you go pinay hunting considering we attend the
> same school.  Forget Pinays lets go for lovely blonde babes with big beautiful
> eyes.....I don't like pinays for one reason.......... All of them are naggy.
> and to all pinays out there that thinks they are an exception, take a good
> look at yourselves and think again...... and we wonder why they date
> white guys?  Simple answer.... white guys like being slap around specially
> when they are going out with orientals..... all my friends are white and they
> say the same thing.....possie on out....word.
>                                              Doble G.
... OUCH ..... I think this is a bit below the belt.
From: calveros@ava.bcc.orst.edu (Silvino Calvero)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: ATTN: Renato Cerdena
Date: 18 Dec 92 20:30:16 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Biological Computing Consortium, OSU
NNTP-Posting-Host: ava.bcc.orst.edu




ATTN: Renato Cerdena of MichiGAn State (or is it Univ of Michigan?)

Kindly email me once you read this message. I lost your email message
to me and your address. 

Thanks,
Nong Calvero
E-mail:  calveros@bcc.orst.edu
From: keithg@cnmhnet.UUCP (keith garrard)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re: show-offs III
Date: 11 Dec 92 21:46:05 GMT
Organization: California-Nevada Methodist Homes

In article <1992Dec10.143146.1344@sbcs.sunysb.edu> albert@xi.mathlab.sunysb.edu (Jose Ramon Albert) writes:
>Theorem : If all Filipinos had this kind of attitude, then 
>the extinction of the Filipino race will happen with probability one,

				^^^^

I must correct Jose on his use of this term "race" regarding the
Filipino people.  Filipinos are not a "race" of people.  They are
an *ethnic* group.  I'm not trying to flame anybody here, most people
make this mistake.  Actually, there are only 3 races that comprise the
human race.  They are, Caucasoid, Negroid, and the Mongoloid.  That
is it.  As humans, we are all members of one or more of these races.
I say "one or more", because of the mixing of the races.  For example,
when an "American" or Caucasoid has children with a member of the
Mongoloid race, then that offspring is a "mestizo" or multi-race
individual.  Caucasoid refers typically to whites; Negroid to
the blacks, and Mongoloid to those of Oriental derivitives, or who
have "slant eyes".  I don't mean any offense with that term; it
is a condition known as "Mongolism" and deviates the Mongoloids
from the other races.  Actually, the Filipino is a "mongrel"
ethnic group, having historically been comprised of a mixture of
Japanese, Chinese, Middle Eastern, Spanish, Indian, and indeed
American mixes.
--Keith
From: grtorlba@sumax.seattleu.edu (George Torralba)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re: Software Houses (was: Good business in RP?)
Date: 11 Dec 92 20:56:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: sumax.6076
Organization: Seattle University

In article <1g0cb4INN5qg@cascade.cs.ubc.ca> johnt@cs.ubc.ca (John Tanlimco) writes:
>
>Isn't there an abundance of foreign owned Software Houses that "exploit"
>the cheap computer scientists over there?
>

That's exactly my sentiment.  I don't think foreign investors set up shop
in the Phil. so they can sell their wares locally.  Why the hell would it
matter (to them) if software was pirated locally?  Are they just using
bad logic in their argument to "encourage" local enforcement agencies to
act on their behalf (own interest) at the expense of local taxpayer's money?
I say BS!!!

George

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
From: francia@nmt.edu (Guillermo A. Francia)
Subject: Tax on Assistantship stipend
Organization: New Mexico Tech
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:46:43 GMT

Inorder to get my passport renewed, I need to pay my 1991 income tax.
Does the Philippine government have any form of tax break/exemptions
on Graduate Assistantship stipend?

Thanks in advance for any info.

Sonny

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From: tito@ocf.berkeley.edu (Tito Domine)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Cont'd Tabon Cave excavations et al
Date: 17 Dec 1992 01:33:45 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: headcrash.berkeley.edu

	In Article 7501 of soc.culture.filipino:
<From: ekevik@media.uio.no (Oystein Ekevik) > writes :

>In article <1gdlelINN3bh@agate.berkeley.edu>, tito@ocf.berkeley.edu (Tito
>Domine) wrote:
>> 
>(stuff deleted)
>
>> 	The earliest humans or proto-humans, as the diggings in
>> Kenya of Robert Leakey et al., have shown the presence of humans,
>> known today as Australopithecus, as early as 4 million years. While
>> the Tabon cave findings in the Phils, have shown the presence of
>> human beings in the Phils (Tabon Cave is in Palawan, I believe) as
>> early as 25,000 years. Diggings in the Cagayan Valley show tools
>> and implements (not human remains) dating back 75,000 years.
>> If you remember, Chinese civilization is only 10,000 years, while
>> Indian civilization is around 7,000 years old.
>> 
>> 	So your common-and-average tagalog, ilokano or kapampangan,
>> is actually speaking a language that is at least 25,000 years old -
>> pre-dating the coming of Christ and the Chinese civilization.
>> 

>- This is amazing. Please share with us your sources of information
>(Philippine escavations).

- Oystein Ekevik, P.O.Box 1093, Blindern, 0317 Oslo

	Yes. Please refer to "The Filipino Heritage" a ten volume
	series by Alfredo Roces, editor. It might not be available
	in Norway though.


Tito
From: markh@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Mark Holladay)
Subject: smiley-2
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 05:19:16 GMT



	Good Day To You,

Just thought I'd post my opinion.  Different news group, same story.
Why are people so afraid of intercultural stuff.  It's my race this,
your race that.  It's clear to me that God's plan is to bring us
together by intercultural attraction.  Who cares how the flower was
made as long as it is beautiful!  We are one race, the human race.

	May we all go into the future with love and joy for all...

				MERRY CHRISTMAS
					markh@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu

=B:)  <==== smiley
From: andym@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM (Andy Means)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:18:26 GMT
Subject: Yuletide Dialect Translations
Organization: HP Stanford Park - Palo Alto, CA
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino

  Philippines has hundreds of dialects.  I'd like to see anyone of us
  write/speak "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year" in their native
  dialect.  I'm Visayan but grew up in Cavite City.  Therefore some
  part of the town speak "Chabacano" which is really some form of
  Spanish language.  Since I neither speak Visayan or Chabacano, can
  anybody translate.