The culture history of the Philippines

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The history in general of the Philippines

Dialog on Pre-Colonial Literature: From the philippinestudies-l, April 1995. I.a., re. copper sheet bearing a legal document of ca. 900 A.D.
My cup of tea ETTA's at it again: Sexuality in films: By Ninez Cacho-Olivares, 4 September 1995. Film censorship.
IPAG Pre-Festival shows: Announcement of 11 January 1996 by the Integrated Performing Arts Guild (IPAG) of three performances of the musicale on Moro history, Datu Matu. This historical play is about the Moro uprising from 1899.
Jitney, jeepney, and dypni: By Vincent Kelly Pollard, 2 February 1998. The dyipni (Tagalog for jeepney) is the most widely used form of public transportation in the Philippines. Jeepney derives from jeep and knee. Immediately after World War II, those two words combined to describe the face-to-face seating of Filipino passengers in refurbished American military jeeps.
Our language predicament: By Angela Stuart-Santiago, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 15 August 1998. Only some 20 percent high school studnets are proficient in oral and written English. In the '70s Marcos decreed a bilingual policy for education: English would still be taught and used in teaching math and the sciences but other subjects would be taught in the mutant Filipino, the Tagalog-based national language.
The Buklog Festival: Sounding the Subanen's sacred lumber: By Iris Sheila G. Crisostomo, The Manila Times, 20 November 2000. A visit to Lakewood, Zamboanga del Sur for the Buklog Festival of the Subanen cultural community is certainly a rewarding (and trying!) experience.
Jueteng: ‘Opium’ of the Filipino masses: By Yeoh En-Lai, The Straits Times, 1 January 2001. Jueteng, illegal numbers gambling, is alive and thriving in many different ways. Some people are scared of it, but for many households. it is the only hope out of poverty. Most of the people live in depressed areas.