TEKA LANG MGA BRADER!
Bago tayo magalit sa kawawang Soriano, hindi ba't ang sanaysay na ito ay isang pangungutya sa kutlurang kinagisnan nya?
I used to be this way as well, at isang kahihiyan iyon para sakin. pero marami syang tamang sinabi at marami syang isiniwalat na katotohanan tungkol sa anyo ng pamumuhay ng taong maraming pribilehiyo sa buhay.
I was appalled when he said "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", not because he said it, or because of the content of the statement, but because some parents, families, and societies would actually miseducate kids like him in such a way. You cannot raise a kid in a rotten way and expect him to come out unscathed.
Poor parenting, poor upbringing, poor education.
When he said, "[Filipino] might have the capacity to be the language of learning, but it is not the language of the learned.", I was furious not at him for learning this trash but at the institution that cultivated this trash.
Poor parenting, poor upbringing, poor education.
When he said "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.", I was in rage at the systems in place that perpetuates this flaw. And we wonder why we're so caught up in imperial America. It's all true, our text books, our law books, are laws, our court cases are all written in English. We're killing our own language.
Finally, when he said "So I have my education to thank for making English my mother language.", we have our schools to blame for the shit that they're feeding us. So instead of saying Fuck Soriano, i say Fuck Ateneo!
Ang mali nya, meron na syang ganitong epiphany, wala man lang syang ginawa kundi manisi.
