what is the development of wrtting of the filipino people.?
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The first form of alphabet that was used by the natives was the Alibata.\n\nAnd then it was followed by an alphabet containing the following letters: A B K D E G H I N L M Ñ NG N O P R S T U W Y\n\nThen the Americans added these letters to the previous alphabet: C F J Q V X Z\n\nThat's all I can remember. Pardon me if my previous answer wasn't clear enough.
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The sunset at Manila Bay, Balut, Manggang hilaw w/ bagoong, People Power, Tiangge, Hopia, SM Malls, simbang gabi, mga magagandang dilag, mga guwapong lalaki, Kare-Kare, Baguio, Boracay, Dinuguan w/ Puto, Manny Pacquiao and Lechon.\n\nThese are what my relatives and friends from abroad are asking for/talking about when they come here, so I guess these must be what comes to their minds about the Philippines.
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I think they migrated.\n\n\nare u filipino?\nI am.
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It depends on where that certain Filipino lives...\nMost of my Filipino friends that live in America act more "western" and have more of a connecting with American habits...
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export of manpower and services like call center and support. other than that. the philippines is slumping
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There are two faces of education in the Philippines first is for the rich which this children are very privileged to learn and experience anything second is for the poor which they only know what there teachers are presenting at them.\n Education in the philippines is not given a big budget.
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Jake Montana, you are dead wrong.  The Filipino uprising in at the turn of the 20th century was caused by equally abusive administration of those islands by their new colonizers as compared to their previous owners the Spaniards.  The US Army in the Philippines conducted a campaign of genocide against entire villages in attempts to quell very minor dissent incidents by the local populace. \n\nIn the year 2006, these are acknowledged facts and not the work of fiction as depicted in the 1950's era history books you apparently have been drawing your information from.
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i really think they (Filipinos) have a very rich culture. yes, discrimination is really rampant for asians but the good thing about them is that they keep on smiling and fighting for who they are and for their culture. you just have to know them more..be with them for some time and see how they live their lives positively.
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yes am a filipino.. been browsing this thread for the past few days..
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Don't worry most Filipinos know English.It's their official language.I have a foreign English teacher he is a Filipino.I can give you his yahoo ID if like.
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The gross domestic product of the Philipines are consist of primary all the pina whores and nannies world wide income.  Gitt it beeotch!
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Your questiom is vagued. Just, the same, let me try to answer-\n\nPolitics in the philippines (1945-2006) has not changed. It is still a regime of one set of traditional politicians versus another in competition for the control of the wealth of our nation at the expense of the majority Filipino people.\n\nTry to get hold of a certain Prof Emanuel Yap - founder of the People's Patriotic Movement (PPM) he has a more learned and indepth analysis of the Philippine Political Situation vis-a-vis china, the usa and the world.
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Ala-eh magandang umaga!  I'm an American...have many Filipinos working for me aboard my ship...some are from Batangas...Batangueños are hard-working, smart, and funny, just like all Filipinos (and Filipinas).  Would love to go there some day.
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I could go in the wrong direction here...but where were you in the Philippines or here in USA.\n\nI know one thing...whatever amount you have been with have had experience...filipinas save themselves for marriage,unless they have been married before or had to work to earn money.\n\nI have only been with one woman and I'm still married to her.so I couldn't give you any personal experience on the matter.other than my wife makes me happy.
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Filipino is a term that originally referred to the Spanish population who were born and settled in the Philippines. During the nationalist movements of the late 19th century and after the revolt and independence from Spain in 1898, it came to refer to the general population.\n\nFilipino can refer to any of the following:\n\n    * From or related to the Philippines.\n          o Synonym: Philippine is also used as a qualifier in certain instances.\n    * The Filipino language, which is heavily based on Tagalog\n    * The Filipino people\n    * In the plural, it can refer to cookies named Filipinos which are manufactured by Artiach and Nabisco in Spain. \n\nORIGIN OF THE NAME "PHILIPPINES":\nThe country's name originated with Ruy López de Villalobos naming both the islands of Samar and Leyte, Las Islas Filipinas after King Philip II of Spain during his failed expedition in 1543. The archipelago was known under various names such as Spanish East Indies, New Castille (Nueva Castilla), and the St. Lazarus Islands (Islas de San Lázaro). Ultimately, the name Filipinas came to refer to the entire archipelago.\n\nNATIONAL LANGUAGE DEBATED:\nThe national language of the Philippines has been subject to several controversies and misunderstandings, even to this day. The 1987 Constitution of the Philippines, Article XIV, Section 6 merely states: "The national language of the Philippines is Filipino. As it evolves, it shall be further developed and enriched on the basis of existing Philippine and other languages." The development and formal adoption of a common national language to be known as Filipino had been mandated in Section XV of the 1973 Constitution. Whether the Filipino language should be based on Tagalog is not stated, although a large number of people assumed that the Filipino language is the same as (or at least is based on) the Pilipino language, which was the national language at that time and was clearly defined to be based on Tagalog. Most Filipinos will have one of these three views when asked regarding the Filipino language:\n\n   1. Filipino is just plainly Tagalog and is just another name for the language, along with its older name, Pilipino.\n   2. Filipino is the amalgamation of all the Philippine languages, with English and Spanish also possible vocabulary sources.\n   3. Filipino is Tagalog with borrowings from English and other Philippine languages and is Tagalog as it is spoken in Metro Manila.\n\nMost people in the Philippines still consider Filipino essentially and practically the same language as Tagalog. It is more likely that Filipinos ask others if they know how to speak "Tagalog" rather than if they know how to speak "Filipino." Proponents of the second view however, specifically state that Tagalog does not include words such as "guapa" (beautiful), those terms whose meaning can be easily guessed by native Tagalog speakers but are not generally considered or used in the Tagalog-speaking region. Some people also point out that Filipino should include English words commonly used by Filipinos whereas Tagalog does not. During the time when the language was still known as Pilipino (before the name was changed to Filipino), the tendency was to use pure Tagalog, even trying to replace words of Spanish or English origin with new artificially coined words that are based on Tagalog. To some people, this differentiates Filipino from Pilipino.
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Yes, that is true.  There are about 200 different native languages spoken in the Philippines.  Tagalog is only one of those languages.  If people don't need to interact with the central government, there is no need for them to learn Tagalog (Filipino)
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the Philippines is a country of diverse cultures although some cultures have similarities with other cultures.\n\nThere are six groups:\n\nHispanic - The majority of the population comprising about 72% of the population. They are mainly Christians and because Spain ruled the Philippines, the Hispanic Filipinos were greatly influenced by Latin America and Spain. But still on the core, they are Asians, retaining their indigenous Malay root culture and significant influences from Hinduism and Taoism. These group have 11 ethno-linguistic groups.\n\nMuslim - They are also known as Moros, a term assigned to them by the Spaniards after the Islamic Moors who ruled Spain for some time. They comprise about 20% of the population. Unlike their Christian or Hispanic brothers, their culture is still greatly influenced by their first religions: Animism, Hinduism and Taoism, evethough they are brutally converted to Islam by the Arab traders from Indonesia, Brunei and Malaysia. Many of them have some admixture of Arabic blood. These groiup have 10 ethno-linguistic groups.\n\nTribal - they are the hereditaries of true Philippine culture becuase they are never influenced by the Hindu and Taoist traders, the Muslim missionaries and the Spanish colonists. These group although only 2% of the population composed of 65 ethno-linguistic groups, each comprise of scattered clans all around the Philippine archipelago.\n\nChinese - They came here to the Philippines and introduced their religion Taoism and it came to mingle with the indigenous animistic religions of different ethnic groups. Many of them married locals and gave birth to a breed called "Tsinoy". They comprise 2% of the population.\n\nIndians - Like the Chinese, they came here as traders. They introduced the religion Hinduism which also mingled with the local religions. Many of them also married locals and their breeds are called "Sepoys". They comprise 2% of the population.\n\nSpaniards - They were the descendants of the creoles, Philippine-born Spaniards who never came back to Spain. They also married many Filipina women and their breed are commonly called "Mestizos". They comprise 3% of the population.\n\n\nAlthough the Philippines maybe a one country, it has many ethno-linguistic groups who are still proud of their ethnic group and boasting it to other ethnic groups even fellow christians, muslims etc. A muslim group, the Tausug, are struggling to form a separate nation, although they are the only muslims who likes to. They end up terrorizing and bombing malls and other buildings all over the Philippines because they are still under the Philippines. They even hate their fellow muslims, those of the other ethnic groups, thinking of them as traitors because these other muslim groups are cooperating with the christian majority.\n\n\ni hope you understand what i've said. :p