For what they did in our country...
Spain
Americans
Japanese

for crimes committed against Filipinos? YES

but that may not have been what you meant
please be more specific

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Well, the law of nature determined us ripe for colonization and foreign rule. At least nde tayo natulad sa mga Indians or Africans... feeling ko mas matindi sinapit nila, kasi sa atin at least the monks and priests took care of the education, kahit formal brainwashing yun, naka-produce tayo ng mga rizal and other scholars that time.

I guess a little bit although I really cant imagine countries if they werent colonized at all

not at all.. we also learned a lot from them tho..

for their abusing of filipinos...yes

they also destroyed some of our old culture to make room for theirs

for everything!!!!

who the heck needs western civilization anyway??!?? we could live without that, and everything they gave us.

Ang maisisisi ko lang sa kanila ay ang pagiging tisoy ko. Hayan tuloy... lagi akong napapagkamalang artista! bwahahahaha

I don't know, I don't think it's good for the soul to hold grudge, because a lot of countries in the world, there was a lot of bad stuff too, but I think times change, and the Europeans during those times had different views and social norms, that are not the same today.

I do think a lot of things need to be changed about the educational system in the Philippines though. I was in Manila recently, and I was shocked when I was helping my nieces with their homework, they're about 8 years old, and they had this Filipino textbook/coloring book that's a course, and it had a question in Tagalog like, "What's the skin color of a Filipino?" And they had 3 choices of pictures, one was dark, one was light, and the other was tan, and they showed that the correct answer was the LIGHT one. Then they had a question that's like, "What's the eyes of a Filipino?" Then they had 3 choices, one was really small Chinese eyes, the other one a medium eye, and the third like big Caucasian eyes, and then the BOOK showed that the correct answer was the Caucasian eyes, and if the kids chose any other answer, it would be marked wrong by the teacher. This was just the tip of it, there must have been 20 questions in the section dedicated to this and about 2 sections dedicated to this topic, and the rest of the answers were so racially biased, I could not believe it, and this was what they were teaching kids in grade school, and it's no wonder the Philippines continues to be brought down by this sort of mentality, they teach it from grade 1, but I guess the studies of a country, reflects the opinions and norms of the people, and the Euro-centric view, whether we want to believe it or not, is a norm in Philippines. But that's gotta change really, I sat my nieces down and told them that the book was wrong, that a Filipino can have dark, light, or tan skin, and can have small, medium or big eyes, and that all they had to do was look around.

Oh yeah, and then they had this question that was like, "What's the hairtype of a Filipino?" And they had 3 pictures, one of a person with curly hair, one with wavy hair, and another with straight hair, and the correct answer was the person with the straight hair! The book was so hypocritical because they also talked about accepting of people of mixed races "Nancy is half-Filipino, half-American, she is a mestiza"etc., but then they turned around and said that only one type of hair, straight hair, is acceptable for Filipinos! This affected me especially, because their dad, my cousin, along with practically everyone in my family has wavy Spanish hair like the one in the book, and my nephew has light brown curls like the picture in the book, but they're teaching the kids that the only hairtype a Filipino has is straight! Oh and then they had a question that's like, What's the haircolor of a Filipino? And the answers, in Tagalog, were yellow (the tagalog word for yellow, forgot what it is, but it meant yellow), brown, or black, and the correct answer was BLACK! Now it's true that the majority of us have black hair, but if the book talks about mixed race Filipinos, then all the answers should be acceptable, brown curly hair, black wavy hair, brown straight hair, dark skin, instead of just the correct answers that the book says: light skin, straight hair, black hair only. That upset me, because I would be thinking, what happens when my light brown haired, curly-haired nephew goes to school and is taught this, that his hairtype is the WRONG ANSWER in his SCHOOL TEXTBOOK! How is that gonna make a small child feel?

My gosh, things have to change really. The government always talks about positive change, but they don't realize that they've got to start the change from the youth today from grade 1, because colonial mentality like this is being taught in schools from grade 1, and I found out later that the textbook that my nieces were studying was a NATIONAL Philippine textbook, and ALL Filipino children are taught it.

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thats not even half of it. there were commercials that i saw in the philippines that can only be seen as the terrible stain the colonizers gave us. im talking about the commercials for skin whitening soap & creams. endless media hype about mestizas being better than morenas.

nung nasa swimming pool ako sa bahay ng uncle ko ay pinagtitingnan ako ng mga pinsan ko bukod na nag ta-tanning ako. its like everybody was freaked out that i like to tan to get darker. weird.

that has to be colonial mentality.

Wow, grabe.

Well I'm with you girl, tanned skin is like the sexiest thing in the world, no?

I like Filipino TV, but it makes me sick to watch the teleseryes because everything is so OVER-white, like first the make up on the face is all white with no blush, even the guys, so they already look like a multo, and then they have the bright bright unnatural lighting, which makes them look like dead people speaking to each other, hahaha, diba? Nakakatawa talaga.

oops sorry i posted twice, oh well now three times, sorry heheh

AngelRebelde, i totally agree with you 100%. tan skin is very sexy but in the philippines, tan skin is considered 'katulong' status. unlike hawaii where most of its natives enjoy the warmth of the sun & get golden tans all year long, sa pilipinas its the opposite.

the very chinita, korean novela look is SO in these days sa maynila. the irony is that we are malay by race. not chinese or korean.

totally true, girl, true