PILIPINAS VS FILIPINAS

The following is the report by The Commission on the Filipino Language (Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino) on the relationship of the use of the term 'Filipinas' to the recovery of unity of the whole nation as based on history, logic and the constitution.  Following the report is an observation regarding the report.  To read the whole and original of the aforementioned report from inquirer.net, click the next group of extracts:   
      
" BUWAN NG WIKA

From ‘Pilipinas’ to ‘Filipinas’

By The Commission on the Filipino Language (Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino)

11:39 pm | Saturday, August 17th, 2013

 

“HIBIK ng Filipinas” is the poem by Katipunan Supremo Andres Bonifacio, an example of the use of Filipinas to refer to the country. Bonifacio led the Philippine Revolution against Spain in 1896.
“ANG PAGSASARILI” is a brand of cigarette in the 1920s during the American period, another example of the use of Filipinas to refer to the country while struggling for independence.
Photos courtesy of The Commission on the Filipino Language

 
1 WHY go back to “Filipinas?”

There are three reasons behind the Board of Commissioners Resolution No. 13-19 (April 12, 2012) of the Commission on the Filipino Language or Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF):

First, history. There are now three forms of the name of our country.

Filipinas, the name given by Ruy López de Villalobos in 1548 and used officially by Miguel López de Legazpi when he established the Spanish colony beginning 1565, which was used continuously for 300 years until the time of Rizal and Bonifacio, and again used as the name of the first Asian republic—the “Republica Filipinas” established in Malolos in 1898.

“Philippines,” the name used by the Americans when they entered our country in 1898 and officially used by the Constitution of 1936 and up to the current Constitution of 1987.

“Pilipinas,” used starting around 1941 when the abakada without the F was promoted for general usage and continued as the translation of Filipinas and Philippines in works and documents written in the Pilipino language (which was the name given in 1959 to the national language using the abakada).

Second, language change and development. In the 1973 Constitution,  it was stated that “Filipino” instead of Pilipino should be the name of the national language.

This was restated in the 1987 Constitution, together with the proposed modernization and enrichment of the national language by way of the native languages.

The first step in this language change was the eschewing of the abakada and the promotion and spread of the alpabeto with the additional letters C, F, J, Ñ, Q, V, X and Z.

Now that the national language has an F and is called Filipino, isn’t it simply logical to restore Filipinas and gradually  discourage the use of Pilipinas?

Third, to be consistent with the method of using the eight additional letters in the Ortograpiyang Pambansa (National Orthography) being promoted by the KWF.

This is the first comprehensive examination of the new alphabet and should be read closely by users of the the Filipino language and other native languages.

The case of Filipinas is ...

 ... it is also a symbol of the linkage and union of the barangay, tribes and islands of our archipelago.

Before Filipinas, what Legazpi referred to as Indios were a disjointed, scattered lot. He colonized us but also gave us a first means toward national unity.

On the other hand, it is rather difficult to say that just calling our country Pilipinas is already nationalistic. This happened merely because of ...

... with the eight additional Filipino letters is reflective of the aim to include and involve the native languages of the country,... "

Read more: http://opinion.inquirer.net/59035/from-pilipinas-to-filipinas

                    

The succeeding report is an observation regarding the preceeding report.  This is based on the developmental intercourse of our nation as the basis for our nationhood.

If we reject the way our founding fathers pronounced our nation, we reject the way they acted towards our nation as a result of their development.  If we reject their action towards our nation as a result of their development, we reject their development.  If we reject their development, we do not anymore recognize them but somebody else.  Since these somebody else are not the ones who came into existense thru our historical development, these so called founding fathers are not anymore real but synthetics.  Therefore, if the founding fathers of our nation we recognize are already synthetics, the nation we recognize today as founded by synthetic founding fathers is also synthetic.  If the nation we recognize today is synthetic, what kind of people of this nation do we have today then?

If the nation we recognize today is synthetic, how can we have love for it?  If the nation we recognize today is already synthetic, how can it produce a people that is organic the way our nation of the 1900s was founded by our organic founding fathers?  How then can we have bond with our real founding fathers?  And how then can we have bond for a people already a product of a nation founded by people who are already synthetic?  The only bond we have then is only thru a piece of paper.  With only a piece of paper devoid of flesh and blood developed thru history, how can a bond with a people that is part of our Determinant of National Actions directing us for generations, be ever formed?  Without it, how can we have a functioning social order such as that of an organic nation?

How then, can we have a nation with people acting cohesively for the life of our nation and  not individually to the detriment of such nation?  What we have been experiencing after the mid 1900s are the abandonment of the nation for the pleasure of the self and family.  This was the time our developmental defenses against the north americans of the United States invaders have finally been dismantled.  This was the time our developmental defenses against the chinese creeping invaders of our economy have finally been dismantled as a result of U.S. blocking of our efforts to wrest control of it from them.  It was then that our Determinant of National Actions in our political, economic, defense, and educational systems have been severely corrupted by these foreigners who have taken over control of direction of development of those systems.

Is it still a wonder that after the mid 1900s until today, our archipelago has become the breeding place for corruption, littering of wastes, taking advantage of the weaker by the stronger, destruction of our mountains and forests, mass exile to foreign lands, all legitimized for individual and family survival?  Is it still a wonder that those among us who act to correct the deviation that occured along our organic development to recover the nation we inherited from our founding fathers in the form of recovering our clean environment, our original forest lands, our real independence, our original resources, our sovereignty, and our original DNA are identified as the ones who are deviants?

If we are to recover from a corrupted DNA of a people that we are today, let us recover that love of nation we had as a people united in the 1900s.  If we are to recover that love of nation we had as a people united and determined at the cost of our individual and family life in the 1900s, let us recover that development of the founding fathers of our nation that directed them to act towards our nation the way they did.   

Jose Miguel Garcia

Korea's ethnic nationalism is a source of both pride and prejudice, according to Gi-Wook Shin - Shorenstein APARC

Korea's ethnic nationalism is a source of both pride and prejudice, according to Gi-Wook Shin - Shorenstein APARC

One of the major factors why South Korea has developed into one of the major economies of the world and a leading exporter of cars and electronic goods.

MY SHORT ESSAY ABOUT THE PHILIPPINES by Jaeyoun Kim

(Here is an essay written by a Korean student for the filipinos out of love for the filipinos:)

Filipinos always complain about the corruption in the Philippines . Do you really think the corruption is the problem of the Philippines? I do not think so. I strongly believe that the problem is the lack of love for the Philippines

Let me first talk about my country, Korea. It might help you understand my point. After the Korean War, South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world. Koreans had to start from scratch because entire country was destroyed after the Korean War, and we had no natural resources.

Koreans used to talk about the Philippines, for Filipinos were very rich in Asia . We envy Filipinos. Koreans really wanted to be well off like Filipinos. Many Koreans died of famine. My father & brother also died because of famine. Korean government was very corrupt and is still very corrupt beyond your imagination, but Korea was able to develop dramatically because Koreans really did their best for the common good with their heart burning with patriotism.

Koreans did not work just for themselves but also for their neighborhood and country. Education inspired young men with the spirit of patriotism.

40 years ago, President Park took over the government to reform Korea. He tried to borrow money from other countries, but it was not possible to get a loan and attract a foreign investment because the economic situation of South Korea was so bad. Korea had only three factories. So, President Park sent many mine workers and nurses to Germany so that they could send money to Korea to build a factory. They had to go through horrible experience.

In 1964, President Park visited Germany to borrow money. Hundred of Koreans in Germany came to the airport to welcome him and cried there as they saw the President Park. They asked him, "President, when can we be well off?" That was the only question everyone asked to him. President Park cried with them and promised them that Korea would be well off if everyone works hard for Korea, and the President of Germany got the strong impression on them and lent money to Korea. So, President Park was able to build many factories in Korea. He always asked Koreans to love their country from their heart.

Many Korean scientists and engineers in the USA came back to Korea to help developing country because they wanted their country to be well off. Though they received very small salary, they did their best for Korea. They always hoped that their children would live in well off country.

My parents always brought me to the places where poor and physically handicapped people live. They wanted me to understand their life and help them. I also worked for Catholic Church when I was in the army. The only thing I learned from Catholic Church was that we have to love our neighborhood. And, I have loved my neighborhood. Have you cried for the Philippines? I have cried for my country several times. I also cried for the Philippines because of so many poor people.

I have been to the New Bilibid prison. What made me sad in the prison were the prisoners who do not have any love for their country. They go to Mass and work for the Church. They pray everyday.

However, they do not love the Philippines. I talked to two prisoners at the maximum-security compound, and both of them said that they would leave the Philippines right after they are released from the prison. They said that they would start a new life in other countries and never come back to the Philippines .

Many Koreans have a great love for Korea so that we were able to share our wealth with our neighbor-hood. The owners of factory and company were distributed their profit to their employees fairly so that employees could buy what they needed and saved money for the future and their children.

When I was in Korea , I had a very strong faith and wanted to be a priest. However, when I came to the Philippines, I completely lost my faith. I was very confused when I saw many unbelievable situations in the Philippines. Street kids always make me sad, and I see them everyday. The Philippines is the only Catholic country in Asia, but there are too many poor people here. People go to church every Sunday to pray, but nothing has been changed. My parents came to the Philippines last week and saw this situation. They told me that Korea was much poorer than the present Philippines when they were young. They are so sorry that there are so many beggars and street kids. When we went to Pagsangjan, I forced my parents to take a boat because it would be fun. However, they were not happy after taking a boat ride. They said that they would not take the boat again because they sympathized with the boatmen, for the boatmen were very poor and had a small frame. Most of people just took a boat and enjoyed it. But, my parents did not enjoy it because of love for them.

My mother who has been working for Catholic Church since I was very young told me that if we just go to Mass without changing ourselves, we are not Catholic indeed. Faith should come with action. She added that I have to love Filipinos and do good things for them because all of us are same and have received a great love from God. I want Filipinos to love their neighborhood and country as much as they love God so that the Philippines will be well off.

I am sure that love is the keyword, which Filipinos should remember. We cannot change the sinful structure at once. It should start from person. Love must start in everybody, in a small scale and have to grow. A lot of things happen if we open up to love. Let's put away our prejudices and look at our worries with our new eyes.

I discover that every person is worthy to be loved. Trust in love, because it makes changes possible. Love changes you and me. It changes people, contexts and relationships. It changes the world. Please love your neighborhood and country. Jesus Christ said that whatever we do to others we do to Him. In the Philippines, there is God for people who are abused and abandoned. There is God who is crying for love. If you have a child, teach them how to love the Philippines. Teach them why they have to love their neighborhood and country. You already know that God also will be very happy if you love others.

That's all I really want to ask you Filipinos.

Zionism On The Web: A History of Zionism and the Creation of Israel

LESSONS TO BE LEARNED

This is an information material for study on the development of a nation. This is not a foreign, political, nor religious policy propaganda material. In fact, information on a certain nation is always and must always be studied, not only by the friends and allies of that nation, but also by the enemies of that nation which will be only beneficial to the recipients.

The value of Zionism as a movement to us filipinos, is in our struggle to be free of the degenerative disease of alienated identity and defense syndrome. At present, we filipinos are divided into classes, sectors, profession and individuals with conflicting interests. Each of our classes, sectors, profession and individuals are dependent on the americans for protection, and economic sustenance, as well as intellectual, cultural and social prestige. We have added another sector among us which we designated as the militant left, who are clamoring for the dismantling of american militarization of the different areas of our country. This means that only the militarization of the different areas of our country are being objected. The more subtle but deeper invasion which is the control of our economy, education, culture, and the whole of our developmental code which is the control of our destiny is being overlooked.

This information is about how a people was able to keep intact a national identity inspite of their having been driven out of their land and scattered around the world for 2000 years, and came back to recover the original land of the birth of their nation. We filipinos, who have been driven out of our inherited identity, our own origins of our nation, our inherited constitution, our inherited defense institution, our inherited national culture, and the whole of our national developmental code of excellence, and our loyalty to our nation was scattered for decades, and need to recover them, can learn a lesson.

Simón Bolívar, Liberator of South American Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Simón Bolívar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

RE: "GEN LIM FIGHTS BACK...VS PNP CUSTODIANS"

AND WHY DO WE LET PEOPLE IN OUR COUNTRY LIKE GEN DANILO LIM, CONTINUOUSLY BE WRONGED BY PEOPLE LIKE GMA, WHOM WE ALLOW TO CONTINUOUSLY BE DEFENDED?


WHO IS IT THAT WE ALLOW TO BE WRONGED WITH IMPUNITY?

Brig Gen Danilo Lim has already a proven record of integrity and combat effectiveness as a soldier and as a filipino, before he, together with other patriotic filipino soldiers among us, resisted the GMA government. Many of those who have known Gen Lim in one way or another, spoke of his being a gentleman and of his sterling qualities in his responses to situations and his treatment of his fellowmen. He has been consistent before and up to now that he and other patriotic filipino soldiers among us are already prisoners and one who was able to escape, after having lost in maneuvers against the GMA puppet government of our foreign invaders. What then, can be the basis of arrest and put to prison of the patriotic filipino soldiers among us? There is only one so far. That is, tactical. Gen Lim and the patriotic filipino soldiers among us were out maneuvered tactically by the enemies. This for us, is a temporary loss in the tactical battle. The will of our enemies, as of today, prevailed.

Apparently, many of the police and soldiers among us confuse the enemy of our nation with that of self, and self with that of the enemy of the nation. There is a need for us to go back to elementary.


WHO IS IT THAT WE ALLOW TO CONTINUOUSLY BE DEFENDED?

The GMA government has, by the use of sophisticated as well as brute legal, economic, and military instruments, suppressed the presentation of legal evidences which could have proved legally the initial report that the Armed Forces of the Philippines was used in the tampering of the 2004 election results by GMA. Members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines were prevented by GMA from testifying before the senate inquiry on the initial report. The Mayuga Report on the circumstances surrounding the incident in the military several years back in the Philippines, which would determine the guilt or innocence of those filipino soldiers among us as prisoners, has never been released.

The suppression of legal evidences to legally prove the initial report, is a validation of that initial report that the Armed Forces of the Philippines was indeed used in the tampering of the 2004 election results by GMA. These facts establish the status of the GMA Government as an illegitimate government of the Filipino Nation. This government, is a corrupted government.

Why do we allow those who have been continuing to suppress the evidences, to be defended by our security system? Why do we allow those who resist this suppression to be wronged with impunity?


WHAT HAS THE DEFNDING OF THE GMA GOVERNMENT COST OUR FILIPINO PEOPLE?

Because the GMA Government is already a corrupted organism in our nation. It's actions must also be corrupted, which incur damage to our people such as:

• 27,600,000 is the number of us filipinos in 2006 which increased by 2.9% from 2003, who could not afford to sustain ourselves with minimum basic needs for food, health, education and shelter.(1)

• Our towns in Aurora and Quezon provinces were buried in mud, tens of thousands among us were left homeless, or some 1500 of us either died or were left missing by the flood that hit sometime around 2004. These were caused by among others, the allowing of the GMA Government of Belen Chua, Toplight Lumber Corporation owner, to continue logging on 8000 hectars of land in Aurora province.(2)(3)

• Small retailers in Clark Pampanga were displaced by the giant SM company owner Henry Sy who was allowed by the GMA Government to operate in the area, despite of protests by the small retailers existing in the area and in spite of the anomalous processes.(4)

• A filipina among us was raped and the convicted U. S. Marine Corps personnel was released thru a legal, economic, and public relations maneuver by the GMA Government, continuing the historical pattern of convict-free or jailess criminal offenses by the americans in our country.(5)

• Handing over of our Sabah, our islands, agricultural lands, and economic bases to foreigners.

• Attempted anomalous $330 Million deal with the chinese providing our government broadband network services which would give the foreigners access to our information and communication.(6)

• The continued collaboration of the GMA Government with foreign invaders controlling our defense system in terms of policies, armaments, and the whole of our defense developmental code thru military education programs, as well as economic, military, political, and cultural package deals with our top officials and critical mass which have been generating and perpetuating the dependency processes in our nation.(7) A result of this defense developmental code of dependency, is a defense which could not anymore develop beyond counter-insurgency capbility. This results to our orientation towards attacking only of self in defending the foreign invader who is resisted by the self. This is an autoimmune disease at the social level.

Is it not yet clear to us that GMA has been collaborating with foreigners who have been continuing their invasion of our nation since 1899? Is it not clear to us yet that GMA has committed acts of treason? Is it not common sense to us that our foreign invaders have maneuvered their invasion into a more subtle but deeper level of penetration?


WHAT HAS OUR ALLOWING THOSE WHO RESISTED THE GMA GOVERNMENT TO CONTINUOUSLY BE WRONGED, COST US?

For having resisted this infection in our society, we filipinos paid even further for the cost, the GMA Government has inflicted upon us:

• 800 of us filipino journalists, students or ordinary folks who were guilty of having defended in our own way our people against human rights abuses and one fertilizer scam witness against the GMA Government, have been killed since 2001 as of today.(8)

• Jun Lozada was jailed and harrased for having refused to deny that he was kidnapped by the GMA Government agents to prevent him from testifying before an investigation on the GMA involvement in the $330 Million anomalous ZTE broadband deal with the chinese.(6) The very ethical values of his children among us, is now in danger of being eroded.

SO WHY DO WE CONTINUE TO ALLOW THIS INJURY BEING INFLICTED UPON US?

GUILT OF EXISTENCE AS A FILIPINO NATION

We are not refering to our pride in having been associated with a filipino boxer as the champion of the world, or wearing a shirt with words "I LOVE MY PHILIPPINES" in bold, blue, red and yellow colored letters. These are good. But what we are refering to, are matters that affect the lives of the people of our nation. We are refering to us, individuals who should be taking upon ourselves, not to throw our wastes on our creeks or rivers. We are refering to those among us who should be taking upon ourselves ensuring that our trees are not cut unless a matter of life or death. We are refering to us, buying shoes and guitars that are locally made instead of from China because we know that those products used to be our domain in the world but has been lost because of the maneuvers of foreigners economically dominating us and displacing us out of our access to our own resources. We are refering to the soldiers among us not allowing ourselves to be controlled by foreigners in charting our own destiny by protecting our own brother filipinos before a conflict of interest between the foreign invader and us filipinos resisting the invasion. We are refering to those personnel in the immigration bureau among us, who are not allowing entry of illegal aliens even when bribed with a huge amount of money. We are refering to each and everyone of us filipinos not allowing corruption of our nation and leaving others in injury inspite of huge amount of material rewards for us and our family in exchange.

We can only allow this continuation of injury being inflicted upon us if we have either lost our reason for national existence, or have developed a national existense guilt. This is the same as an adolescent who developed schizoprenia as a result of having lost differentiation of self from the world because of the lack of maternal love resulting to an experience of deprivation in childhood. The adolescent individual lost interest and confidence in the self.(9) This is the same as a girl, who having been raped and drugged, without spiritual and psychological counsel, lost all interest in her dignity and her future except in a fix of dope and survival. For having a disintegrated nation, we, by the nature of preservation instinct, have been experiencing a regression towards individualism. From a nationcentric, we regressed to familial or egocentric. But man is by nature, a social being. To fill the vacuum, we have been looking for the biggest a social home we can find, where we can belong to. That is why, many of us find ourselves placing our loyalty above anything else, to a family, a clan, a benevolent politician, a professional organization we can be proud to belong to, a social class, or a benevolent foreign invader. Anything, as long as we can get the needs for our flesh, our security, self-worth, and fullfilment. But above all, we are really looking for a social home where we can experience love for others.


BUT WE HAVE A NATION-- AN INHERITED HOME FROM OUR FATHERS(10)(11)

We need not look for something else beyond us. We need not place our future in the hands of foreigners. We need not develop a nation thru synthetic process. We already have an organically developed nation. Why should we let such treasured home go into waste and spend resources trying to look for new materials from which to fabricate something new? Such treasured home is our inheritance. Why let our own inherited treasured home be eaten by worms only to spend extra energies experimenting in trying to synthesize another home we conceive of to be of treasures?

We already have a spiralling upward direction towards developmental maturation of mutually complementing individuals for the national interest. They are existing, and they are ours.

We already have an existing national developmental code for sustainability when we were born as a nation. This is a natural inheritance of every living entity at whatever level. This is also accompanied with weaknesses and imbalances with an inherent balancing mechanism towards stability thru the process of maturation. This occurrence remains in motion until an intervention takes place which is not part of the organic process. This organic process occurred in France, Germany, Finland, Israel, Japan and Vietnam. Today they have some of the highest scores in global performance in their particular categories. We were heading in that direction when we were born as a nation in 1898 when we became independent from Spain. We were in the process of sustaining our excellence and addressing our sociological imbalances. This, we were struggling to settle among ourselves under a condition of a sovereign, independent and republican nation. We, conflicting among ourselves as we were, were charting our national destiny as a filipino nation, just like any newly born living entity struggling towards balance and proper coordination of the different parts of it's body.


WHERE IS OUR INHERTED NATION? WHY CAN WE NOT FIND IT?(11)(12)(13)

Weak as we were, being a newly born nation, foreign matters who happened to be americans, invaded us. Weak as we were, we resisted fiercely. Thus in 1899, our sociological temperature rose which was the manifestation of the start of the Filipino-American War.

Gen Artemio Ricarte, Gen Antonio Luna, Gen Malvar, Gen Macario Sakay, Maj Torres Bugallón and all our elder warriors, our national heroes resisted fiercely our foreign invaders and their filipino collaborators who have been grabbing our newly born nation of 1898 away from us starting from 1899 up to now. Our foreign invaders damaged the development of our code of nationalism by:

• having suppressed, terrorized, and killed those nationalistic filipinos among us who resisted their invasion by which 500,000 to 900,000 of us filipinos died initially at the physical stage of invasion;
  

• having protected, promoted and sustained filipino collaborators among us, of foreign invasion;

• having replaced our inherited institutions such as academia militar, defense, education, political, culture, hero designations, legal, national identity and values with apparently filipino but having transmitted into them a corrupted and replicating developmental code of worshipping dependence on our foreign invaders.

The enemies have replicated their forces at the cultural level which broke our link with each other.

Today, we have a group of islands which happen to have a boundary inhabited by different individuals with interests conflicting with one another. These result to dysfuntion of the different systems of our nation that the only way these individuals have been able to survive was the handing over of the interest of the nation to the foreign invaders and receive material rewards. We have leaders dysfuntioning because of interest of self is in conflict with national interest. We have a security system which has likewise been infected and now dysfuntioning because the interests of individual members are also in conflict with national interest. We have individuals populating our archipelago whose interests are in conflict with the people of the nation as a whole. Our individual interests in exchange for the destroying of each other with what is left of the nation still in existense is in a spiralling downward direction.


ETHICAL OR TACTICAL?

From the aforementioned situation, it is clear that the continued imprisonment of Gen Danilo Lim and the patriotic soldiers, has no moral ethical basis. It is based on the GMA Government prevention of the status quo from being dismantled by the defending forces of our nation.

This battle is, tactical for those who want to preserve the status quo. This battle is also tactical for those among us who have a clear ethical basis for our actions regarding this issue. This is ethical for those among us who still have love for our nation and sincerely want to have a moral ethical basis for our actions.

Let us disseminate this knowledge to our brother filipinos so that we can have a moral ethical basis on who should we defend.


SO WHAT IS OUR ETHICL BASIS FOR HAVING ALLOWED OUR NATION TO CONTINUOUSLY BE WRONGED BY PEOPLE WHOM WE ALLOW TO CONTINUOUSLY BE DEFENDED?

We have long lived to serve the needs of the flesh of our self and maybe that of our family. But now we know we can live beyond this. Gen Danilo Lim and the patriotic soldiers among us who are in prison or who have escaped, long to come home. But that home is beyond the personal homes. It is the home for all of us homesick filipinos. Like good soldiers among us, who see to it that no one is left behind, we now regard self as the big brother or big sister for the filipino people to find our home for us. We can have a nation where we can live in dignity. And we actually have a nation. We inherited it. We only have to recover what has been deprived us.

Let us work for this. Let us recover our own nation for every one of us filipinos. It will be a very long day! But we have a nation we can come home to. We will be home, brothers!

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José Miguel García

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Alas Filipinas: La Constitución Política De Malolos

This is our original constitution written in it's original language.

This should be the reference in establishing the spirit behind the constitution. The spirit behind this constitution must have been the spirit of our nation which was at that time still uncorrupted by the process of infection which resulted to an American Imperialism Defilipinization Syndrome. This is an aftermath of our weakened resistance against the American invasion of 1899. There are always nuances of meanings between a translated version and the version in the original language. This is because languages do not have exact equivalent words for each other. This would result to meanings already different from the intended meaning as written in the original language.

In fact many of our documents, records and literature were written in Spanish. These are records of our past. Without records of our past, we do not have access to our common origin as a nation. Without our common origin as a nation, we do not have a common identity. Without a common identity, we do not have anything to do with each other as a nation except as 80,000,ooo co-inhabitants of a land: organized as artificially as a state; and of survival of the fittest. One of these valuable documents of our past, is our original national constitution.

The question now is, "Why was this replaced?".


José Miguel García