A Brief History of Woke

People have taken waking up in the morning on a whole new level. Apparently, opening your eyes for the first time requires a great deal of responsibility and is a shining badge of honor because “woke” is not just the past tense of wake. You will never use the word “woke” the same way again after knowing what it means and where it came from.

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Published on 16/07/2019 by puertoparrot
Categories: Society
Tags: people

Pakikipagkapwa-tao

Pakikipagkapwa-tao means relating to someone else as a fellow human being. Filipinos most evidently exemplify pakikipagkapwa-tao through the practices of bayanihan and the ‘boodle fight’. The former is more widely done in rural areas of the country. When one person needs to accomplish a task (such as moving house) for example, the whole community pitches in to help – no questions asked.

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Published on 28/04/2019 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, Society
Tags: Filipino, people

Possessed and Repossessed in T’Boli Country

Situated about 70 kilometers from the port city of General Santos, Lake Sebu municipality spans 89 kilometers and can be found in the upper Allah Valley near the municipality of Surallah. It has rolling hills, mountain forests and three lakes devoted to aquaculture, the largest of which is the beautiful Lake Sebu, which covers 354 hectares.

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Published on 12/12/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture
Tags: Cotabato, Tboli, indigenous, lakes, people

Birthing in the Time of El Niño: Marlinda's Story

On the morning of October 26, 2015 some 700 indigenous peoples from Mindanao arrived at the University of the Philippines in Diliman to a rousing welcome from a huge crowd of supporters. Wearing their native costumes, the Lumad people were in a caravan called “Manilakbayan” that had traveled from Surigao City to Eastern Visayas and then had crossed over to Luzon to highlight their call to stop human rights violations in various Lumad communities.

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Published on 29/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: People, Stories
Tags: Mindanao, indigenous, people

Traveler Explore Basilan & Discovers Something Beautifully Vibrant in Its People

The Yakan people is considered as one of the 13 Moro groups in the Philippines. Originally from the island of Basilan, the tribe has spread to the nearby islands of Sulu, Tawi-Tawi, and Zamboanga City. Colorful and vibrant, the tribe is known for their intricate weaves, culinary treasures, and rich culture.

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Published on 22/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Culture, Documentary, Travel
Tags: Basilan, people

A Valiant People's Army

Oftentimes, to remember Philippine Independence on June 12, 1898 is to engage in contentious debate: Was the independence declared by President Emilio Aguinaldo truly a national call for sovereignty or just a tactical ploy against impending American occupation?

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Published on 17/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Documentary, History
Tags: people

30 Years Ago: Coup D'etat and People Power

February 22, 1986 has gone down in Philippine history as the day the revolution began, when then- Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and Philippine Constabulary chief of staff Fidel V. Ramos publicly withdrew their support for President Ferdinand Marcos.

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Published on 14/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Documentary, History, Stories
Tags: Power, people

The Last Tribes of Mindanao, the Maguindanaons, People of the Flood Plains.

The name means people of the flood plains or derived from the two word maginged and danaw which means people of the marshy. In the early 15th century, Sharif Muhammad Kabungsuan, an Arab-Malay preacher from the royal house of Malacca, introduced the Islamic religion, customs and the Sultanate system of governance.

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Published on 05/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, Documentary
Tags: Mindanao, people, tribal

The Last Tribes of Mindanao, the Higaonon, People of the Living Mountains

The indigenous tribes of the Higaonon share a common root language, history and culture, they can be found in the northern and central regions of the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.

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Published on 05/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, Documentary
Tags: Higaonon, Mindanao, people, tribal

The Last Tribes of Mindanao, the Bagobo, the New People.

Scattered throughout the Southern Philippine Archipelago slowly disappearing tribes untouched by neither time nor colonization still exist in present time. Along the desolate eastern coast of the Davao Gulf, centuries ago, new migrants mixed with the native population, forming a new community that was given the name Bagobo.

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Published on 05/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, Documentary
Tags: Bagobo, Mindanao, people, tribal

The Last Tribes of Mindanao, the Manobo, River People of Cotabato.

Manobo, the name may came from Mansuba from man (person or people) and suba (river), meaning river people. The first Manobo settlers lived in northern Mindanao, at present Manobo tribes can be found at the hillsides and river valleys of the northeastern part of Cotabato.

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Published on 05/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, Documentary
Tags: Cotabato, Manobo, Mindanao, people, tribal

The Last Tribes of Mindanao, the Tausug, People of the Current.

Tausug or Suluk is the name of an Islamized tribal group in the Sulu archipelago, and is taken from the words taumeaning man and sug meaning current. Traditionally the Tausug are sailors, pearl divers and traders, their ancestral homelands in the Sulu Archipelago have vigorous tidal currents that flow from the Sulu and China Seas to the Celebes Sea. This translates literally into the name people of the current.

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Published on 05/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, Documentary
Tags: Mindanao, Tausug, people, tribal

8 Places in the Philippines for Extroverts

Party animal, adrenaline junky, outdoorsy, life of the party, loves meeting new people, and getting oneself out there — if you match the criteria, you are definitely an extrovert. If you are looking for the best places in the Philippines for your outgoing personality, here’s a list to help you out.

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Published on 03/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Lifestyle, Travel
Tags: people

Filipino People of Spanish Ancestry

Spanish settlement in the Philippines first took place in the 16th century, during the Spanish colonial period of the islands. The conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi founded the first Spanish settlement in Cebu in 1565, and later established Manila as the capital of the Spanish East Indies in 1571. The Philippine Islands is named after King Philip II of Spain, and it became a territory of the Viceroyalty of New Spain which was governed from Mexico City until the 19th century, when Mexico...

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Published on 03/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, Documentary
Tags: Filipino, Spanish, ancient, people

The Bagobo People

Quezon City - The Bagóbo are a proud people with proto Malayan features and with a strong social structure enabled them, as a group, to integrate with the main body politic while retaining much of their indigenous customs, beliefs, and values. That said, most of the Bagóbo have suffered dislocation due to the loss of their ancestral lands and the effects of modern day insurgency.

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Published on 02/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, Documentary
Tags: Bagobo, people