pinoys are tagalogs!!!

October 31, 2007 3:54am CST
according to andres bonifacio in his book "kasaysayan ng lahi" the true spirit of the filipino is his being a tagalog! from the river, a water person!!! bacolod, bacolor, bacood, bacoor! nababakudan ng tubig! bounded by water! luzon, visayas, mindanao! the pinoy not only lives near water, he loves to drink it!! before, during and after eating, pinoys are the only ones who drink water! takes a bath!! at least once a day!! even when saying i love you! ini irog kita! irog ko!!! irog being the old filipino word for ilog - river!! anong say ninyong mga irog?
3 responses
HULYO
@julyteen (13252)
• Davao, Philippines
23 Feb 08
not all pinoys are tagalog...i am a cebuano...language that spoken by more than 60% of Filipino...Bisaya me bai.
kalipulaku
@kalipulaku (24)
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1 Mar 08
You are so right!!! The conflict is in the understanding that Tagalog is just a language, dialect or vernacular! Bonifacio's contention as well as mine is that Tagalogs define a culture not just language. Tagalogs being RIVER PEOPLE (TAGA ILOG) attached to WATER! Water, our source of life! Water, our source of livelihood! Being Cebuano doesn't exempt you from being from a culture entwined and entrenched in our watery history! We are archipelagic and proud of our individual islands' heritage! You'ld be surprised that Cebuano is about 60% Malaysian (of which 80% is Arabic) and 30% Sanskrit and a mixture of Spanish, English and Tagalog! Maayong Buntag! Bai!
ArcticZero
@ArcticZero (52)
• Philippines
8 Apr 08
filipinos are strong!! di kami sumusuko!!!!Bwahahhahaha
mensab
@mensab (4200)
• Philippines
16 Nov 07
probably, it is better this way, tagalogs are pinoys, but pinoys are not only tagalogs. yours is an "imperialistic" statement. tagalogs to the rest of the philippines are like the americans to the rest of the world. both try to impose their language and narratives. they overwhelm the others. allow me to say that, i am no tagalog. but somehow, i consider myself pinoy for formalities in travel and introduction. by heart and soul, i am a bicolano. of course, i learn tagalog in school because it is a required subject. but given a freedom whether to take it or not, i will prefer another language or foreign language. so long as one group of people in the philippines see them as the defining feature or culture of who we are, we will find difficulty in having a unified country; or probably we are not really unified at all; we must be superficially unified by a tagalog government.