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The End of Veneration – Rizal and Constantino – Part 5 | Bob's Philippines Blog
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Bob's Philippines Blog. 01:02:47 pm on April 23, 2007 1. Contantino presents us first with a list of national heroes: Washington, Lenin, Bolivar, Sun Yat Sen, Mao and Ho Chi Minh. All led successful revolutions. What Constantino fails to do is to present us with a list of national heroes who led. Bonifacio remained a largely forgotten, minor figure in Philippine history until resurrected under American tutelage with a memorial in 1917 and a brass plaque in Malacanang two decades later which put his name ...
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The End of Veneration -Rizal and Contantino – Part Three | Bob's Philippines Blog
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Bob's Philippines Blog. 09:06:18 am on April 19, 2007 2. Morga writes that Governor De Vera established a foundry to make artillery under the hands of an old. Called Pandapira, a native of Pampanga. He and his sons served in this line of work until their deaths many years later . Rizal clarifies the reference to Pandapira, or Panday Pira: an. Who already knew how to found cannons even before the arrival of the Spanish . Let’s talk about boats. De Morga describes Filipino vessels big enough to carry 1...
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Rizal and Constantino – The End Of Veneration – Part One | Bob's Philippines Blog
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Bob's Philippines Blog. 09:14:44 am on April 16, 2007 4. I would submit that while myth plays an important role in creating and maintaining national identity, deliberate falsification does not. A nation’s myths reflect those values it regards as unique to itself and which separate its identity from other nations. Nazi-era Germany, the Stalinist Soviet Union, Khmer Rouge Cambodia and modern North Korea are examples of the sort of dysfunctional ‘nationhood’ produced by such falsification. It is now almost ...