Comments by "xXxSkyViperxXx" (@xXxSkyViperxXx) on "How The US Stole The Philippines" video.

it was a hokkien term which the hokkien traders in ph heard from what people in either mindoro or laguna called Mait in mindoro or Bay in Laguna. in hokkien which is still spoken by elderly chinese filipinos in the philippines, M and B is sometimes interchangeable if a letter A comes after, so not entirely sure as well if they are referring to mindoro or the ancient town of Bay in Laguna which is pronounced like Ba-i
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@emanemz2790 yeah i heard that there was a lot more focus on the idea that spain lost to US, especially losing Cuba and it seems the bulk of the focus was on Cuba and whatever lost generation there then the others like philippines, puerto rico, guam, and others were just like brief mentions, right?
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@emanemz2790 in the philippines, we're taught more about what happened in the philippines, of course. its around generally the same kind of stuff that johnny was saying in the video, but then cuba, puerto rico, guam, and the other micronesian countries are also just briefly mentioned. the only thing we're taught about cuba is that the national hero, Jose Rizal, once went to cuba to be some sort of volunteer doctor there cuz of the war. theres a good chance tho that the revolutionary movements in the philippines, cuba, puerto rico all coordinated with each other since the flag designs are generally similar with mostly the colors just switching positions. i think the catalan flag these days also tries to copy the same sort of idea with the masonic triangle and stars.
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this isnt a video about How Japan tried to then come steal the Philippines from US hands
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never taught what? what school did u go to in ph?? lol this was all taught in our history classes in the schools i grew up in ph...
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i wouldnt expect as much from johnny if he thinks filipinos are just black and brown hahaha... cuz theres more to ph demographics than just saying that...
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sounds more like confused Fil-am things....
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are u from guam? what do you think about the other countries around micronesia that were not mentioned too?
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12:28 hahaha i was expecting he was gonna say "The White Man's Burden" as it is in the title of the soap ad, but of course, johnny is a white man himself so, of course, he wouldnt... hahaha
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it wasnt just guamanians too... the americans took over the rest of micronesia, that includes northern marianas, guam, palau, fs of micronesia, marshall islands, but of course, the others managed to get their independence with free association protectorate these days and commonwealths.... all still linked to the US... guam is just that one that they never did let off the hook....
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spain's education curriculum also tries to hide it. i think the official position of the spanish government on the matter is also just that they sold the philippines off to the US but also never mentions and does not want to admit that they lost anything in the philippines themselves before
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many filipinos who go to US, like white people. be it native filipinos or chinese filipinos or spanish filipinos. they all go the US to marry in with white americans hahaha
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@jhanedoe the japanese would probably still invade by ww2 times just like they did with dutch-controlled indonesia and french indochina. those guys just got their independence as well after the japanese came in ww2 and gave them weapons to rebel against the dutch and french from coming back.
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imperial japan also thought of itself as an asian liberator. thats why they had the greater east asia co-prosperity sphere and the anti-colonialist stuff that imperial japan was spreading. they wouldve still invaded the philippines if it was still under spain or the US. they wouldnt be able to do it if the US had released the philippines free after the commonwealth period, as promised by the americans. thats why they bombed pearl harbor before the promised year of independence to make sure they could still have a reason to invade the philippines and "liberate" them, but we all know most empires "liberate" for their own gain.
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@Jose.AFT.Saddul and then, nuked japan transforms into weeb land? hahahahahaha
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9:57 hold on, hold on. willing to surrender to white people??? but not to the filipinos?? ummm... Johnny. I know you're american, and this is a common american mistake, but... the term "Filipino" itself used to only refer to ph-born local pure spaniards in the philippines, so technically, "Filipinos" are white people back then... of course, before the ph revolution made it so every citizen of the new philippine republic is now called a "Filipino"...
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@Jose.AFT.Saddul no, u dont get it. many filipinos today also dont know about this as much because its not talked about as much. in spanish colonial times, the spaniards were called "kastila", but more specifically those from spain were called "peninsulares", those from latin america were called "americanos", those who were born and raised in the philippines were originally called "filipinos" or "insulares"(if compared to the peninsulares). these are terms used in spanish for the spaniards in the philippines, while the term used to call the native filipino groups is "indio", which is the same as what they used for the natives in latin america. of course, these aren't the only terms too. the term they used to call chinese in the philippines before was "sangley". for the indians, it was "bombay". for the japanese, it was "japon" or "xaponeses". in spanish colonial times, both the natives and chinese were the more common average people in the philippines and soon they intermixed as part of assimilationist plans by the spaniards themselves. this produced mixed descendant peoples called "mestizo", more specifically "mestizo de español" for the mixed spanish and native descendants, and "mestizo de sangley" for the mixed chinese and native descendants" and "tornatras" for the mix of the former two or mixed spanish and chinese. historically, the mestizo de sangley were more common among the colonial urban middle class and eventually, they are the ones who would also become rich and climb the social ladder as illustrados being european-educated intelligentsia in europe. these guys would later be the masterminds of the revolutionary movement in the philippines and the later philippine republics that declared every citizen as all just "Filipino" is their idea.... so now, everyone in the philippines is deemed "Filipino" and since the more populous people that many think about are the native filipinos, the american especially think it only refers to them, but this is but a nationality concocted by mestizo filipinos themselves...
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@Jose.AFT.Saddul yeah many light skinned filipinos sometimes brag about being light skinned or having spanish surnames or some old relative who spoke spanish thinking they mustve had some sort of spanish ancestor but actually many of the lighter skinned filipinos these days in ph and abroad are actually more likely to have had chinese or generally east asian admixture instead
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