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Should we feel grateful for Spain to name our country the Philippines?

  • The Philippines had been colonized by Spain for 300+ years much longer than the Americans yet I do not see any appreciation whatsoever from our part in proclaiming the legacy that Spain had contributed for the country. For example if Spain didn't colonized our country we could have a different name like PANSITAN ISLAND or KANGKUNGAN REPUBLIC to begin with or perhaps a different legion of foreign power could have conquered us and probably a different history or if no foreign power then perhaps we could have also be a MUSLIM State in the far east. Just for argument. Anywhere you go in the Philippines you will find Spanish remnants like a street name or a building. In 1521 we could fall in any foreign power of the world, the British, the Dutch, the French, the Italian, the Portuguese etc. We should be speaking eloquent Spanish language but instead we embrace the American English language and its culture. Elvis Presley, KFC,Mcdonald,Hollywood etc...We should be familiar with two foreign languages, Spanish and English. But sad to say we adopted only one. You will probably say NO. For why should we be grateful for with Spain contribution to our country? We still have them even in this age and time, there is nothing in the Philippines that cannot connect to Spain legacy in the Philippines. The name sake alone-Philippines is already a testimony of Spain legacy. It was taken from the name of the King of Spain then King Philip II. Our language alone have Spanish in them like lamesa, silya, lamisita, kusinilya etc....What do you think about this? Thanks.

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    minor correction: philip wasn't a king yet when villalobos named the country "filipinas" (in his honor). true, philip was still then a prince but was heir apparent to the throne anyway. so for the historical purists, we were technically named after a prince who later became a king. no need to show our undying gratefulness for being named after a king. it's enough that we take pride in our history by acknowledging that we were once a colony of spain. we should not deny it nor should we cling to it like leeches. spanish was once one of our 3 national languages. why did it lose its prominence? i would like to say it's because of our educational system. since it was patterned after the US system,, we were being educated the american way. so while we were praying in spanish, we were reading and learning in english. guess what? slowly but surely, we have become more americanized than hispanized. 300 years of "unpleasantness" can be forgotten with just a few years of "niceties".

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the spanish colony could have named our country ,la isla bonita .

lolit

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Fsaf

I guess so, even though they mistreated some of our brethren back in the old days. We still owe them a lot.

jasoncape

Sometimes it's hard to think that Philippines had been controlled by Spanish colony for hundred of years, although we adopt English language but be aware that spanish language still stick on Philippine country wherein it is being use at Zamboangga city, and they call it "Chavacano." See this reference from Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chavacano_language Spain influence is one thing we can't totally neglect that it really affects Philippines history, asides from the name that been get from Spanish King but you can't get back the history. There are lots of attempt to change the country name to Maharlika and even Marcos try to promote such words during his terms, but things get rejected and Filipino people denied it, see such from Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharlika Name change for the Philippines; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_the_Philippines But the problem is, Philippines had been influence by many language like, spanish, english, malay, sanskrit, hindi, gujarati, arabic, min nan, yueh, mandarin chinese, japanese, Nahuatl (Aztec Mexican) and Arawak–Taíno–Caribbean/Central American. This is the reference; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tagalog_loanwords So, Tagalog language had been influence by many dialects, it had been develop by adopting things from other country, we just accept what history been made Philippines as what they are now, because such is already a part of Filipino's / Filipina's life. Future may say if they want to change it, like what others did like; Ceylon - Sri Lanka Mongolia - Ulan Bator Siam - Thailand Leningrad - St. Petersburg Good luck ..............

Kemjiu ®

They could have named us Magallanes. And declared that Spanish or Portuguese (Magellan was Portuguese) be the national language. But for some reason they didn't think about it. I guess they thought that teaching Christianity was the more important legacy than the Spanish language. Bear in mind that they did leave remnants of the Spanish language in our culture, as you said.

Chopin Nemesis

I SUPPOSE THAT IF IT WAS IMPORTANT ENOUGH THEN IT PROBABLE COULD BE LEGALLY CHANGED TO SOMETHING ELSE. STILL , THERE WOULD BE SOME WHO WOULD NOT APPROVE OF THE NEW NAME. SO, WHY PISS IN THE OATMEAL?

well if your speaking during the spanish era then most people would say i'm not grateful for the name but speaking in the 2011 year i would say i'm just grate full to live in a country with a historical and beauty full name... do not see any appreciation for spain? hey look around... do you see small, medium and large church around the country? talk to people... don't you hear some spanish word being said by the people around you? ask the people their last name... don't you think some of them have spanish sounding last name? i would agree that spanish has been swept aside by english in this new generation of filipinos but dont declare filipino's does'nt appreciate some spanish influences.. actually why would we appreciate spain? they colonized us and put their laws to our ninuno's and make it hard for most filipino's as history say's during their entire colonization period of the philippines. yet some of the spanish influences can still be seen and practice here in the philippines and roman catholic is still the main religion in the country... so spain is really not being forgotten BUT it is just being step aside or to term it putting to 3rd place behind english... why? well because english is the "new in" in the world... english language is the primary word to do business and to inter act with most people in the whole world... just look at us here answering your question, people are speaking english not spanish because english had become the secondary language of the people leaving in earth (obviously peoples primary language is their local dialect)...

M

NO. Spain's net contribution to the country is a big negative number. But don't be ashamed, not a single one of Spain's colonial conquests has succeeded post-independence either. Those pricks really did a number on your psyches.

Bhuwisit

You're that French dude again, right? By the way, you can't include Italian, because they only reunified in 1870.

Pablo Adriano Trajanez

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