Hi, Leloy! I stumbled on your show accidentally today and I have to say, I’m hooked! Your topics are so interesting and it brought back my interest in History. I feel I am back in school at age 75 and enjoying every minute of your “class”. Consider me one of your enthusiastic students! 😉👍
The problem is teachers from the past especially in elementary ignored the term "theory" while teaching this topic, that is why students assume that this is really true story of our origin.
Theory is technically considered facts in science, like theory of gravity, theory of thermodynamics, theory of relatively etc. And also, what they are talking about is also technically a "theory" on how Filipinos became Filipinos.
Thank you for this and sharing the racism with in migration theories... because of that hierarchy based system that many people at present still believe as though it’s been ingrained with in cultures... it dispels racist presumptions, specially for those First Nations people/ tribes.... most definitely more plausible that we are shaped by our environment and adaption for our chosen environment.
Austronesians should know that the Austronesian Language, culture, and genes can be found from Madagascar off the east coast of Africa, to as far east as the Polynesian triangle (Hawai'i, Aotearoa, Rapa Nui). That's two-thirds of the world circumference!
This episode have broken everything I learned & believed my whole life about about the Filipino race. But these new evidences about the genetic make up of southeast asians are really interesting though.
referring to 11:30... My take on this is that what Prof. Aguilar was not confusing, although he tended to discuss of two topics as though he is just discussing about one. On one side, Prof. Aguilar discussed about the spread of Austronesian language and culture during 9,000-5000 years ago through the seas using the outrigger technology, but on the other side, before the Austronesian spread are the spread of a prior group using the land bridges about 30,000years ago where the Negritos and Aboriginal Australians are probably descended from (although at the video only the '30k years ago' was mentioned). The prior group being mostly hunter-gatherers lost the lowlands and being isolated to their respective highland areas they begin to develop their respective cultures. While the Austronesians migrating using outriggers has a much-developed culture when they started their migration and are oriented to sea and trade thus became the dominant culture wherever they went...
Here is a link to a wonderful video from the Geo Nomad youtube channel: mtDNA shows how humans migrated across the World. Watch it and take note at the near end if you want further reference to what I was saying: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BTQd1RrL1sk.html (at the said human migration video, the prior group I was saying will be the N&M types discussed at 5:22 while the Austronesians will be the B type discussed at 9:18)
I was hoping that Maharlika Myth was going to be discussed. What's the thought on this? Where did the term come from? How did Marcos frame this for his politics?
Nagkataon lamang na maliit at naghihirap taung mga Pinoy kaya ayaw natin ng racism. Pero kung "mukhang" American tayo at mayaman, gusto natin na mas mataas ang tingin natin sa sarile pati narin tingin ng ibang tao satin.
