From: mulchand@pyrps5.eng.pyramid.com (Caryl Mulchand)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.filipino
Subject: Re: THANKS TO ALL "Filipino? / Pilipino?"
Date: 4 Sep 92 21:05:24 GMT
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation, Mountain View

In article <1992Sep4.124912.16611@newssrv.edvz.univie.ac.at> A6241GAC@vm.univie.ac.at (Stockinger Johann) writes:
>
>
>Source from Cruz and Arcelo, Philippine Journal of Linguistics,
>Vol. 21, No.1, June 1990:
>
>"Pilipino existed for exactly 27 years. It was created by the executive
>fiat of Department of Education in 1959 and abolished by
>constitutional fiat by the Aquino govenmet 1987...
>Artificially born, it died an artificial death when the newly
>democratic Filipino people decided to declare Filipino as their
>nationa language. Filipino, of course, was not created in 1987;
>it was created in earlier, in 1971, during another Constitutional
>Convention ..."(Cruz)
>
>"The 1987 Constitution is crystal clear about Filipino being the
>national Language: 'The national language of the Philippines is
>Filipino' (Article 14, Section6)"(Arcelo)
>
>
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>
>
>Surian ng Wikang Pambansa noong Abril 1, 1976:
>
>
>Dahil samabilis na pag-unlad at pagbabago ng wikang pambansang Filipino
>na ipinamamalasng pagpasok ng mga salita mula sa iba't ibang wikang katutubo
>at banyaga, at dahil pa rin sa pagdaragdag sa alpabetong Filipino ng mga
>letrang hiram upang makasabay sa progesibong pagsulong ng wika, at bilang
>tugon pa rin sa hinihiling na paliwanag sa paraan ng paggamit ng mga letra
>ng binagong alpabeto ng mga guro, manunulat, mannaliksik at madlang kalahatang
>nagsasalita at sumusulat sa wikang Filipino, itinatakda ang mga sumusunod
>na mga tuntunin ng ortograpiyang Filipino.
>
>Ang maga tuntuning ito ay batay rin sa kalakhan sa dating mga tutuning
>sinusunod ng Surian ng Wikang Pambansasa pagwawasto ng mga aklat at mga
>manuskrito sa wikang Filipino. May ilan lamang pagbabago o modipikasyong
>iniangkop sa pangangailangan ng modernisasyon.
>
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>
>By the way, does anybody know something about the situation in parts
>of Mindanao like Basilan, Cotabato, Marawi and Surigao del Sur?
>Is it dangerous to travell there at the moment?
>What's about the socalled "Mindanao-problem"?
>
>
>            Thanks
>
>Johann


These areas (Basilan, Cotabato, Marawi and Surigao del Sur, Davao, Lanao, etc)
to Philippine Nationals, are not that dangerous.  Its only a matter of avoiding
hot spot areas where government agencies/military run their operations.  Govt.
sponsored activities are often the target of guerrilla attacks, so stay clear.

For Foreigners (particularly caucasian looking) are often the moving target
for abduction, extortion, ransom, or whatever.  According to my mother's side
relatives, the common denominator for this kind of behaviour is purely
ECONOMICS, nothing more nothing less.

The situation there is nothing new.  Same old family-elite jokeying for MORE
power over another family-elite and used the so-called Muslim separatists or
Mulsim reactionaries as smoke screen.

In any country, when people are starved and deprived of their basic resources,
killing (though immoral and illegal) becomes an ordinary routine.

-caryl
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