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At The Core
Sunday, March 09, 2008

If there's one thing doing the Filipino Term Paper made me realize, it's that the Filipinos' concept of nationalism is a total sham. It's vague, and is entirely different from the read definition of it.

You see, the concept nationalism began in France, when the Enlightenment thinkers labeled the unbelievable unity of a million men (no hyperbole present) as such. It's something that works for the betterment of the whole nation.

We Filipinos have this beautiful trait that keeps us rather exceptional. Utang na loob. UTANG. NA. LOOB. However good this it, however ethical it is, it is the cause of our downfall. It's the very core of the political crisis and military crisis our country is experiencing today, and even during the decades that passed. Ronald E. Dolan expressed in his book Philippines: A Country Study, that this concept drove the military to defy their leader and follow the informal commands of another. This also happened during the French Revolution, when loyalty to Napoleon overpowered loyalty to the nation, to Louis XVIII. The soldiers' loyalty to Fidel V. Ramos gave them the will to defy their authority, their commander-in-chief, Ferdinand Marcos.

I'm neither pro-Marcos nor anti-Marcos. I am apathetic about the People Power 1. It's history, no one can change history. You can alter how it is told, you can alter what people know, but what happened can never change. We can never turn back time.

Utang na loob.

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Bianca Ruiz;
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Assumption Antipolo;
Ateneo de Manila University;
Management Engineering;
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