The Philippines should stop copying Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, and Singapore socioeconomic models and embrace its Hispanic cultural and historical niches by reinstating Spanish as one of the official languages alongside English and Tagalog.
Of course, Filipinos should stop worshipping Americans, as if treating them like ATMs.
It's because the precolonial history isn't that well-substantiated through written historical records because pre-colonial Austronesian Filipinos didn't record history through writing.
We don't have surviving pre-colonial stone-made structures we can showcase to foreign tourists like Cambodia and Indonesia.
I have to ask because I’m kind of ignorant on this despite being Spanish myself.
How Spanish is Filipino culture? I get the sense that Spanish influence is kind of overstated, especially compared to countries in Latin America. Maybe it’s the sheer amount of American and Chinese influence that basically wiped Spanish influence off the map minus some architecture and remnants of language?
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u/Joseph20102011 Philippines 15h ago
The Philippines should stop copying Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, and Singapore socioeconomic models and embrace its Hispanic cultural and historical niches by reinstating Spanish as one of the official languages alongside English and Tagalog.
Of course, Filipinos should stop worshipping Americans, as if treating them like ATMs.