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

  1.  @sophiagonzales8974  Still, we have to protect the languages of our past somehow. We can’t forget our roots. My kids are “white”, but still are going to learn at least a little bit of Ilocano, just to remind them of how they came to be.
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  2. PR is a special case, though. The perception of puerto ricans in the US is seen through the optics of bad stereotypes, which is why only now, 80 years after the first immigration wave do you see puerto ricans finally leaving the urban prisons for the village greens. The whole reason Trump was so cold about PR was because of his own experiences.
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  3.  @himasekiwari155  The reason for that is cultural and ethnic remoteness. When you are so far from the culture in distance and contact and you marry outside your race or are a product of a multiracial marriage, you tend not to care about ethnocultural group a or b or c. You just remember the place as a distant whisper. And the visit to the home country actually does more harm than good, because you recognize fast why your family got the hell out in the first place.
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  4.  @sophiagonzales8974  That could be said of most languages outside of English or Spanish. Maybe Chinese can be considered in the same class but most languages are limited in area of usage. Who outside of Germany cares about the German language?
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  5. Not to engage in whataboutism, but the whole planet was a chessboard in the Cold War with the two last nations reasonably standing after the Second World War trying to checkmate each other. The Soviets placed soldiers and equipment on Vietnam as they did in Africa, Afghanistan, central and South America. Do you think they had just good intentions in doing that?
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  6. The first thing the Philippines needs to do to stop becoming a meal for the dragon is to acquire nuclear weapons. Ever noticed that nuclear armed nations don’t get invaded?
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  7. Well, Kenya had it’s guy, Jamaica is likely to have its lady, so who knows? Of course, you may need to loosen your definition of Filipino American to suit your hopes.
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  8. Followed by “How Britain lost the world”
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  9.  @tanvirapu885  There were quite a few of them, which one are you referring to? Calcutta?
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  10. Back at that time the rule was grow or die. Genghis Kahn and Alexander the Great taught this lesson very effectively.
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  11. He is so obsessed with bashing the USA that he cannot see what you just mentioned.
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