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James Soriano Article Draws Criticisms – Language, Learning, Identity, Privilege

Posted by JM Maninang on August 27, 2011, filed in: Philippines 3,662 views

Language, learning, identity, privilege
Ithink
By JAMES SORIANO
August 24, 2011, 4:06am

English is the language of learning. I’ve known this since before I could go to school. As a toddler, my first study materials were a set of flash cards that my mother used to teach me the English alphabet.

My mother made home conducive to learning English: all my storybooks and coloring books were in English, and so were the cartoons I watched and the music I listened to. She required me to speak English at home. She even hired tutors to help me learn to read and write in English.

In school I learned to think in English. We used English to learn about numbers, equations and variables. With it we learned about observation and inference, the moon and the stars, monsoons and photosynthesis. With it we learned about shapes and colors, about meter and rhythm. I learned about God in English, and I prayed to Him in English.

Filipino, on the other hand, was always the ‘other’ subject — almost a special subject like PE or Home Economics, except that it was graded the same way as Science, Math, Religion, and English. My classmates and I used to complain about Filipino all the time. Filipino was a chore, like washing the dishes; it was not the language of learning. It was the language we used to speak to the people who washed our dishes.

We used to think learning Filipino was important because it was practical: Filipino was the language of the world outside the classroom. It was the language of the streets: it was how you spoke to the tindera when you went to the tindahan, what you used to tell your katulong that you had an utos, and how you texted manong when you needed “sundo na.”

These skills were required to survive in the outside world, because we are forced to relate with the tinderas and the manongs and the katulongs of this world. If we wanted to communicate to these people — or otherwise avoid being mugged on the jeepney — we needed to learn Filipino.

That being said though, I was proud of my proficiency with the language. Filipino was the language I used to speak with my cousins and uncles and grandparents in the province, so I never had much trouble reciting.

It was the reading and writing that was tedious and difficult. I spoke Filipino, but only when I was in a different world like the streets or the province; it did not come naturally to me. English was more natural; I read, wrote and thought in English. And so, in much of the same way that I learned German later on, I learned Filipino in terms of English. In this way I survived Filipino in high school, albeit with too many sentences that had the preposition ‘ay.’

It was really only in university that I began to grasp Filipino in terms of language and not just dialect. Filipino was not merely a peculiar variety of language, derived and continuously borrowing from the English and Spanish alphabets; it was its own system, with its own grammar, semantics, sounds, even symbols.

But more significantly, it was its own way of reading, writing, and thinking. There are ideas and concepts unique to Filipino that can never be translated into another. Try translating bayanihan, tagay, kilig or diskarte.

Only recently have I begun to grasp Filipino as the language of identity: the language of emotion, experience, and even of learning. And with this comes the realization that I do, in fact, smell worse than a malansang isda. My own language is foreign to me: I speak, think, read and write primarily in English. To borrow the terminology of Fr. Bulatao, I am a split-level Filipino.

But perhaps this is not so bad in a society of rotten beef and stinking fish. For while Filipino may be the language of identity, it is the language of the streets. It might have the capacity to be the language of learning, but it is not the language of the learned.

It is neither the language of the classroom and the laboratory, nor the language of the boardroom, the court room, or the operating room. It is not the language of privilege. I may be disconnected from my being Filipino, but with a tongue of privilege I will always have my connections.

So I have my education to thank for making English my mother language.

Former President GMA at Saint Luke Hospital

Paglabas niya ..........

"Yung mga taong hindi nagigising sa kahit anong kalabog ng katotohanan, yan yung mga taong nagtutulog-tulugan dahil kontento na sila sa pekeng panaginip ng pag-asa."

Merong mga taong ayaw, o takot kumilos para sa solusyon ng problema nila. Pinapa-ubaya na lang nila sa mga "posibilidad". Iniisip nila na posibleng lumipas ang problema pag dumating ang oras na may mangyareng iba sa buhay nila. Hihintayin nila ang oras na yon, at pag hindi parin nawala ang problema nila, iisip na naman sila ng ibang posibilidad at maghihintay lang ulit na mangyari yon. Paulit-ulit na proseso. Walang katapusan na paghihintay. Nagiging tau-tauhan sila sa sarili nilang buhay. Yan ang pagtutulog-tulugan sa katotohanan para sa walang katapusan na pekeng panaginip ng pag-asa. Maswerte ang mga nagigising at kumikilos para sa pagbabago.

Malas ng iba dahil napipilitan lang silang gumising dahil may dumating na "bangungot". Kunin mo ang pagkakataon na 'to para isipin kung ganyan ka. Kung ang sagot mo ay hindi, pag-isipan mo ulit, baka nagtutulog-tulugan ka pa. Wag kang mag-alala kung sa tingin mo nagtutulog-tulugan ka, dahil kung na-realize mo na ganyan ka ibig sabihin gising ka na. Kailangan mo na lang bumangon.

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Tanong galing kay Pining Gersiya:

Mga idol may tanong po ako. Anong pagkakapareho ng School, Trabaho, at Misis?

MaEpal:

Hindi namin alam kung baket mo natanong yan. Hindi din namin alam kung joke ba yan, pero sasagutin na lang namin dahil wala kaming magawa. Madami ang pinagkapareho ng school, trabaho, at misis. Pareparehong dapat pagtuunan ng sapat na oras para hindi mawala sa buhay mo. Pareparehong dapat kilatisin para maintindihan ang mga dapat mong gawin sa kanila. Pareparehong dapat alagaan kung gusto mong makinabang ka din. At pareparehong pinapasukan.

Welcome to homophobic Philippines

Sa isang article ng Yahoo! Philippines tungkol kay Vice Ganda, lumabas sa comments ng mga readers na madami paring Pilipinong may lason sa utak pag dating sa pagtanggap sa mga bading. Bago natin umpisahan 'to, gusto muna naming sabihin na hindi kami fan ni Vice Ganda, at hindi ito pagtatanggol sa kanya.

Eto ang ilan lang sa mga comments na kumuha ng atensyon namin:

"It is high time TV stations should think twice before glamorizing gay entertainers and TV hosts. They are now occupying majority time in the entertainment world in almost all TV stations. They send negative signals to our children. If you have noticed children in grade schools are already showing their 3rd sex preference. I don't intend to condemn gays but most perverts are gays. And they are hardly considered as good models for young children."
"Sa lahat na ang pinaka-sinungaling sa mundo ay ang mga bakla....."

"Dapat kasi hindi i-encourage ang mga bakla na magkaroon ng show kasi ang impact sa mga bata ay ginagaya nila ang kabadingan sa show. sa america walang show na ang host ay bakla, meron man pero straight yong kilos. nagpapaganda pa i vice pero ang bayag pala nya ay naka-hanging parang saging..ay hindi pala iniipit parang mapipisa na. Ito kasing MTRCB parang bulag. Ang bakla sa atin ay nagpro-propagate rapidly. They are not neglected but they must not host the show. Sa totoo lang I don't like vice ganda his way of making comedy because he is gay and his attitude in acting is " trying hard ". He has the attitude like Willie Revellame"

"Di ko nga alam sa Pinas kung bakit pati bakla nilalagay sa pedestal, tuloy mga bata sa pinas daming bakla kalokah!"

"langya ka Vice Ganda. ANong pakialam ko sa buhay mo? Dahil sa iyo, maraming bata ang lumalaking bading. Masyado malaki na ang ulo mo. Sa comedy bar ka na lang at wag na sa tv. Bad influence ka sa nakakarami. Ba't ba ang mga show sa tv kailangan may bading? Puede namang wala di b?"

Mga comment na walang basehan. Gusto naming bigyang pugay ang mga taong nag-comment nyang mga yan sa pamamagitan ng isang masigabong put*ng ina nyo. Madami pang anti-gay slurs ang pinutok ng mga tao don. May mga ayaw sa kilos ni Vice Ganda. May mga hindi gusto ang treatment nya sa ibang contestants sa show nila. At may mga nayayabangan sa kanya. Ang common denominator nila? Ang pagdurog sa pagiging bading ni Vice Ganda at ang bagiging bobo.

Nagiging punchline minsan dito sa MaEpal ang kabadingan. Ang ok dyan, hindi pikon ang mga bading. Kahit minsan, wala kaming punchline na naglagay ng kabadingan sa pagiging mali. Kung matagal ka nang basahero dito, malamang nakita mo na din ang mga pabasa naming sumusuporta sa pagkakapantay-patay. Patas kami, pinagtitripan namin ang mga nakakatawang ugali mapabading, lalake, o babae. Hindi kami nagmamabait. Gago kami alam nyo yan, pero hindi mo naman kailangan maging mabait para maintindigan na ang mga karapatan nating mga straight ay hindi dapat bawasan kung bading, tibo, o bisexual ang pinag-uusapan. Bakit nila iniisip na dumadami ang mga batang bading dahil kay Vice Ganda? Put*ng ina ano yan uso? Mga gago.

Sinabi namin na hindi kami fan ni Vice Ganda. Totoo yan. Pero halimbawa lang na makasama namin sya sa casual na sitwasyon, kung anong pakitungo ang ilalatag nya, ganong pakitungo din ang kaya naming ibalik. Sa society natin na sobrang daming "moralistanga" na mali o kasalanan ang tingin sa pagiging bading, ang success na naabot ni Vice Ganda ay bagay na may respetong katapat. Madaming tao na pag tinanong mo kung ok lang ba na magkaron sila ng anak na bading, mabilis nilang isasagot ang "Hinde!" na may pahabol pang "gago ka ba?" dahil mali ang tingin nila sa pagiging bading. Kung kami ang tatanungin kung ok lang ba kung magkaron kami ng mga anak na bading, mabilis din na "Hinde." ang isasagot namin, hindi dahil mali ang tingin namin sa pagkabakla, kundi dahil sa takot na saktan sila ng mga tulad ng nag-iwan ng mga comment na yan. Welcome to homophobic Philippines.