Comments on: The Kid’s Couture Halloween Party Costume

By: mary michelle buenviaje

mary michelle buenviaje — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:39:25 +0000

hi, im from umagang kayganda, morning show of abs-cbn, im interested to feature the kids couture halloween party custome, just want to know the contact numbers

tnx

By: Grace

Grace — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 19:45:45 +0000

Bravo, that is an excellent point of view, Marketman. I am truly enjoying this website.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:09:01 +0000

Jean, why don’t you move home then instead of reaping the benefits of living in a Western society but feeling so adamant about it? Why not do something to encourage our cultural heritage? Why not leave comments in fully fluent Pilipino? Adaptable doesn’t mean we have no self-worth…I think that is bit strong, no? As for the Ako’y Pilipino speech, 70+% of the population were never native Pilipino (a made up National language, predominantly tagalog, I might add) speakers and the ones that are are often lacking in fluency so that speech is gone… And how can we be proud of countrymen who CHEATED on a baseball game? Are you saying we copied the cheating or is that a typically national trait??? Hmmm… As for taking on other’s traditions, what about Christmas, New Year’s Eve, the Three Kings, Easter penetence, November 1st, Labor Day, Lent, Chinese New Year, etc. HAVEN’T WE TAKEN ALL OF THOSE HOLIDAYS FROM OTHER CULTURES?!?! At what point would you consider us pure Filipino, before the Spaniards arrived in the 1500’s, before the Chinese traders, the Malay cousins, the Vietnamese tourists in the 800’s??? When do we do the cut-off? Should we all gather around the rice bowl and do a fertility dance as they do in Bontoc or Sagada…what is NATIVE, after all? I’m not really sure that we have a single native holiday… even a fiesta is imported! Even most of our names are IMPORTED! And why should Europeans adopt anything American when European culture is incredibly old itself and far more developed at the time the U.S. even declared its independence (not to make light of native Americans who roamed the plains before…but not many Americans today send smoke signals)… It’s partially in jest and partially serious…how can you diss Halloween when we celebrate Christmas, et al with such gusto?

By: Jean

Jean — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:35:31 +0000

MM, I’ve lived in Europe for three years in the local economy and never have I seen any of the locals “copy” American culture. I would say that, more or less, Europeans detested Americans in their community. That told me a whole lot.

Adaptable?! I find that an insult to our own self worth. So in other words, every Tom, Dick or Harry can screw us over and we are willing to accept that because we are adaptable?! Are we whores?! Adaptable?! We shouldn’t be! What ever happened to our “Ako’y Pilipino” speech. Worthless now, eh?

I recall (about a decade ago) the Filipino baseball team who cheated in the league and was disqualified for lying about their age. It was all over the news here in the states. Yea, we Filipino/Americans bowed our heads in shame. We had to face that. Yeah, WE CAN BE PROUD OF THAT……… Yet it doesn’t phase you guys to still feel the need to take anothers identity and make it your own.

I’m not upset, just wish we, as Filipinos got our head screwed on straight and thought for a change instead of thinking of what makes it cool to “copy” our western neighbors (who, by the way, don’t want us here to begin with).

Geez, take pride of who we are. We are Filipinos and we should stay that way!

By: Marketman

Marketman — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:59:50 +0000

Jean, one side of me agrees with your view… However, the other says we are precisely incredibly adaptable and take on new things as the culture evolves, for better or worse. It is precisely this characteristic that has allowed over 8-10 million Filipinos to assimilate so quickly in nearly every country on the globe… Notice how we quickly are absorbed into countries from Northern Europe to Australia to Africa and North America… we were a “damaged” culture in the negative sense from Spanish colonial times, but a positive “melting pot” of sorts during the same period…

By: Jean

Jean — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:02:48 +0000

MM, we’re a bunch of sell outs. When and if I ever go back to the PI I want to see what our culture is all about. I don’t want to go back and see the things that I’ve grown up with. Whats sad is, my kids will never see true Filipino culture cuz its so friggin’ westernized.

Bow our heads in shame.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 04:39:29 +0000

Jean, if you could see the malls now. Village trick or treating in Manila started in the 1970’s…today tens of thousands of kids engage in this… and now the malls have picked it up. Shoemart sells tens of thousands of costumes and masks from their department stores per season…

By: wil-b cariaga

wil-b cariaga — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 04:38:23 +0000

its genetic MM. . . mana sa iyo. . . creative and has taste…

By: Jean

Jean — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 03:11:44 +0000

MM, Halloween is part of our traditional culture? The six years that I’ve been there, never witnessed anyone with costumes. None whatsoever. Where the heck does the PI come up with this custom?

By: Jean

Jean — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 03:03:41 +0000

Lol…

Susan, Filipinos really don’t have trick or treat on the 31st. Never had it. We do embrace “All Souls Day”. That much I do know.