We Who Seek to Settle: Part 7
The Ambiguities of Settler Identity What we get therefore is a mess of an identity, an identity that refuses to recognize and actuate itself: the settler’s ignorance of the…
Imagining the city
The city has a place in our political imagination. We associate it with progress, wealth, civility and modernity. The imagination is so strong that it drives everyone to move from one place to another until the city is reached. The city to some extent has become the imagined community, the imagined place of utopian dream.
It got Halloween too
This Halloween got almost every parent preparing for a party that the children "want" to attend. Costumes that range from horror to action heroes-inspired are available everywhere. Trick or Treat became the main thing with children getting loads of sweets in the end.
Agency in solidarity
The debate sparked by the Apo Whang-od, Kalinga tattooing, and Manila FAME expo controversy is a long time coming in a country like ours which is still striving to find a unifying identity in the face not just of local cultural diversity, but acute social inequality.
Attracting positive vibes, teaching good values
We, Filipinos have an odd way of commemorating the loss of our dear departed. If one takes a cursory look over the world.wide.web, during the past two days, it would seem that we are the only “Christian” world that spends so much time over lost opportunities.
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