muntingprinsipe:

ellobofilipino:

pinoytumblr:

this site is dedicated to the proposed name change of my beloved nation, the philippines. as described on the site:

We want to change the name of the country to once and for all escape the chains of colonialism. While we may by physically free, we are still bound by mental slavery. Every time we say Philippines, Filipino or anything derived from it such as Pinoy or Noypi, we are in essence bowing down and showing our allegiance to the ghost of King Philip II of Spain.

so what do you think about the proposed name change of our nation?

You guys have to be joking! Don’t you remember Shakespeare?

What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet…

Changing the name of the country achieves nothing. It is superficial. It’s best if we accept it as it is and do something about who we are as people. The problem with this country is not its name, but its people!

You guys must have been born after Marcos’s dictatorship because if you were born before those dark days in our history, you might have supported his plans to calls us Maharlikas. The name might sound noble, but what is nobility if one does not have a job, a house, something to eat, and most of all, freedom? Would you still be considered noble? A Maharlika?

I recommend you all read @iwriteasiwrite and @brownmonkeytheory’s exchange on why we are called Filipinos what it means. Maybe by then you will all realize the value of the name of the country.

Oh! And in case you didn’t notice, we have a neighbor who used to be called Burma, its oppressive military dictators renamed it Myanmar to herald a new age for the country and its people. It didn’t make any difference. The people, despite being poor, deprived, and uneducated, would rather be called Burmese than Myanmarese (?). The former name represented a long history which, though shamed in recent years by the military junta, still represents the nation which their founding fathers fought and died for. We should learn something from them.

I super duper AGREE with these!!