Yeah. When I first saw vids where people are screaming being caught in hurricanes and landslides I was like "Shut up bish and just wait for to finish!".
I never realized this living here in the Philippines all my life, but seeing natural disasters almost MONTHLY is apparently not a normal thing globally. Just shows how much natural disasters we get relative to other places
I can only imagine how people coming from let's say the Srivijaya or Majapahit Empires felt when they experienced one of those typhoons that rammed through Luzon every year... Prolly they called Luzon "that stormy island"! 🤣🤣🤣
@@mrconfusion87 The name Luzon came from the Tagalog word lusong which is an instrument used in milling rice. It was named after that because of the shape of the island although I don't know how they came to that conclusion because it looks way off tbh.
also, other nations would be more weirded out when we say stuff like "it's just a flood", they don't realize that, we mean it. You get used to the disasters pretty quick lol
@@arkcliref in short, we, Filipinos, are used to disasters, like earthquakes, typhoons, and other disasters, LONG STORY SHORT, we call it "flood", but either and neither, we used to it, OR, we just need that to water our crops
In the Philippines it's pretty normal for people to say things like: "It's just another typhoon, it's fine" "Another year, another flood!" "Our countries drowning again" "Did you guys feel an earthquake or something?" "How many times have they rebuilt this place?" Or even "Damn, there's so many news about burning buildings again this year" And funny enough, I thought those were all pretty normal for every country to experience every year.
It has got to a point where only Cat 5 super typhoons, 6+ magnitude quakes, and major volcanic eruption terrify me lol. If the disaster isn't on that level, it's normal
@@henrymugello3387 Well I do that's why I added them. Don't tell me you never heard someone ask "Did you just feel an earthquake?" Or say something like "Theres so many news about burning buildings again" when they see it on the news. Maybe not accurately saying them like how I typed them, but I'm pretty sure there are people who say these things. I mean the "another day another flood" was something my classmate said once, and I just happened to like it and use it whenever I see floods again in the news. That's why I added it.
I love the tiny detail of the flag flipping during wartime! I don't think most people caught that but during peacetime we have the blue side on top while we have the red on top during wartime
As a Filipino, I would argue that it's not the actual geography that doomed us, it's the lack of planning and structure to maximize our geography that doomed us. I honestly believe we have a great geo. First of all we are strategically located on a major trading route. If you would look at the map we are the gateway of asia in the pacific and located near one of the most vital choke point which is the south china sea. But we have failed to capitalize on our geographical positioning. Second, I agree that cagayan river pale in comparison w/ other significant river in the world like nile, yellow, missisipi and rhine to name a few. But historically it was the Pasig river that became the center of commerce. But today the river is basically a stagnant creek due to neglect of both government and citizen. If only it was developed as a main waterway to facilitate trade easier since it goes trough most industrial complex and cities and goes out of the manila bay having easy access to the south china sea. It could have given our economy a major boost. I would even include pampanga river as well. But basically the earlier politician had no understanding of what perfectly situated rivers can do for an economy since most Filipinos are dumb and keeps on voting politicians that are dumb and corrupt. And lastly, the thing about the typhoons and and volcanism is just a sorry ass of an excuse. Look at japan, they basically get the same number of storm and gets hit by earthquakes more frequently and with higher intensities but they have the third largest economy in the world and we have more natural resources than them. The difference is that japanese people are well educated and have a great sense of honor and they care. Unlike most of my countrymen who are oblivious, gullible and will believe everything they'll see in social media.
Um the Pasig River is already rehabilitated and is currently used. Not as much as in precolonial times or even colonization times but there are plans in using them more and cleaning other waterways connected to it
Although Philippine didn't have much shared identity back in the past. Modern science has proven that almost all tribe/ethnicies in the Philippines speak the same branch of Austronesian languanges that is Phillipine languages. I myself am not from Philippines but my home ethnicity speaks a Philippine languange. I wish the best for Philippine people and their country from Indonesia
Damn, being a Filipino, I didn't know having a typhoon/earthquakes/[insert a natural disaster] broadcasted weekly or daily is a thing people don't experience much. I always thought it's just normal to have a childhood where when there's a new typhoon discovered in the news you're just like "damn, another typhoon? What are they gonna call that this time?". Glad to know
I live in south Louisiana we deal with seasonal flooding with most of the land being below sea level and hurricanes are devastating. But I cant imagine dealing with the earthquakes and volcanoes and landslides on top of everything we deal with. This video has been very informative
Hilarious enough the first Asians in the US were Filipinos and the first settlers settled in lousiana after being freed from being a slave to Spaniards
@@lan-w6956 Perhaps Indonesia as well, in fact, most maritime countries are vulnerable to it, where Malaysia faced severe flooding in KL last December, and just like the Philippines, Indonesia is moving its capital to Kalimantan because of rising sea levels, just like we're moving to New Clark City because it has a higher elevation. Perhaps it's how we will handle the crisis that matters
@@Peko1a I just said that Haiyan didn't do anything to our house. How is that an asshole? You might want to look at the mirror to see who is the asshole here.
@@1800-CJ I doubt any of us are THAT uncivilized though, even the natives and indigenous people, the people who managed to escape the influence of colonialism, are already feeling the effects and influence of modern technology, it’s not like we’re dealing with uncontacted tribes from the Amazon or North Sentinel Island (Add the fact that communist and Islamic insurgents also tend to hide in remote places…. Which is also where you’d usually find the indigenous people) (Correct me if I’m wrong though regarding specific facts)
I remember my parents telling me that the pinatubo eruption was so bad that in manila and its surrounding provinces had 2 days of pitch black darkness due to the ash-fall, it also caused global temperatures to drop by 1°C because of the sheer amount of sulfur it emitted to the atmosphere. The only reason that the sky cleared was because a strong typhoon came in just 2 days after the eruption thus sending the ash to the south china sea through strong winds, but unfortunately it also caused massive flooding of mixed sulfuric ash and rain waters to residential areas all through the sea, it is said that it increased coastline distances by around 10 to 100 meters within the western part of the capital island.
I remember what they did with all that volcanic ash: bag it up and sell to construction companies. Some started hollow block factories. Others mixed it into plastic resin and made all sorts of kitsch stuff: ash trays, paper weights, vases...
living in the Philippines myself, about 20 typhoons annually is normal :D was wondering why hurricanes cause major MAJOR panic and distress to the west and had just realized in this vid that 20+ typhoons every year ain't normal in other countries
Our Hurricanes can have more powerful winds than the typical typhoon. Also the Philippines uses concrete in typical buildings, so they're more resistant to damage
@@The_Conspiracy_Analyst oh i dinit know that welp it feels like out typhoons ate normal because of it lol Why still other country scared of it even tho its there typhoons is weaker that us!
@@jsm8190 exactly! geography can't be used as criticism of the Filipinos when they can't changed their location at will, so there is no criticism in the video. What I would criticize is if we Filipinos do not improve ourselves, our infrastructure, our ways of living on these Islands, then the blame is on us if we are not prospering as well as we should have.
As a Filipino, I've always equated living here to turning on every natural disaster scenario in City Skylines on and aiming them in highly populated archipelago city
Also, the colonial architecture in the Philippines is very unique, as due to these same natural disasters, Spanish churches are noted to be shorter, wider, and thicker than their Latin American and Iberian counterparts. Those same churches also provided refuge when Moro raids would occur where they kidnap people to sell as slaves to other Southeast Asian countries.
@@safuwanfauzi5014 You mean prehispanic? very little, although I would harken a guess that there's very little pre-indus, pre-islamic, pre-sinic architecture in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Cambodia. The Philippines was very late in terms of architecture mainly because we were a largely animist/pagan culture for a lot longer than Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, etc. This is due to the fact that the region is geographically divorced from mainland southeast Asia and it doesn't have the benefit of either being near the Indus valley or having a very popular strait like the strait of malacca to expand the cultural bubble in which the peoples of other areas were able to draw their inspiration for architecture from. And then you have the extremely mountainous terrain making it even leagues harder to transmit ideas across the islands. Yet once the Spanish landed on our islands, it expanded the cultural bubble of the Philippines creating Filipino baroque style or structures like Bahay na Bato or the Malacañang
@@safuwanfauzi5014 There was no significant stone structure big enough before the Spanish came, with much of the structures being made of wood. That's why none survived. Also, that's why the early churches here were made of huts, as that was the prevailing architecture during that time.
Our geography kinda explains why regionalism still persists to this day. Citizens and politicians alike tend to appeal more to their regional groups, plus the corruption on all levels does not really help. Great video! Cursed with geography, indeed. Sincerely, a Filipino. EDIT: Since it's election season here, I do hope our next President and Vice-President, as well as legislators downwards, will have more plans and actions to deal with climate change.
I was shocked to see so many Filipinos in the Philippines going about their business. The biggest issue I have with the Philippines is that once you are in the country its kind of hard to leave, as if they make you feel so comfortable that you don't want to go home
When I was a kid my biggest disappointnent living here is not experiencing snow. I used to look forward to it every Christmas. Edit: Just to be clear I do know about the homelessness and poverty in the country. I live in the province so I know how it is. I just wanted to experience snow even if once. A kid can dream, right? Maybe one day when I can travel to other countries.
@@callingyou903 I'm sure squatters in the capital are the first one to say goodbye on this world if there's winter 🤣 That's why most cold countries are more developed and industrialized than on tropics
As a resident Filipino here on this channel, I agree with these points, and so I propose that Vietnam, Cambodia and all the other Southeast Asian countries behind the Philippines pay us a tribute for blocking all the typhoons over the past millennium. Also you butchered mostly all the Filipinos words, but I forgive you Edit: this is a joke
The Philippines also has a similar base of culture for most of its population, with most people being Catholic and being united under the Spanish empire, although regional differences can be pronounced, with people voting candidates based on their ethnic groups, no matter how corrupt or benevolent that person is.
@@carlosandleon you're an example of Visayan supremacists who care little about the quality of the candidate or the bigger picture, your vision has little to do with the betterment of the entire nation, all you want is the increase of power and prestige of Visayas.
@@johnisaacfelipe6357 There’s some Hispanistas who actually talk like that, they are more opportunistas who are more concerned with themselves and are blind in their own echo chambers
@@johnisaacfelipe6357 Supremacist? Really? Just because I'm not tagalog centric doesn't mean I'm a Supremacist. Travel around and see the disconnect the capital has with it's southern regions. True my comment was more of a joke, but realistically speaking just linguistically, a more centered capital around the visayas can make the administration reach more to both extremes of thr country. Mindanao has a very heavy cebuano influence. Bringing them closer to you will keep the country together. Visayas is the glue that keeps both the upper and lower regions of the country together. It's the cream of the oreo. You can have the most delicious cake topping but without the structured middle you cannot form a proper base. The only one with a Supremacist idea is you who fail to see things strategically and realistically and pretend you have a more profound ideology that ends up with you adopting a heavy luzon biased policy. You may not think so, but you already effectively are a tagalog supremacist with your complacent actions. Voting more southern centric administration is exactly what we need right now
watching this, while being filipino and having lived through a super typhoon that destroyed a majority of the infrastructure in my city just a month ago, hits differently
As someone who lives in the Philippines, the simplest way to explain our struggles is to describe our internet connection. Too many islands to sufficiently and efficiently make internet infrastructure. Living on the Pacific Ring of Fire frequently causes natural disasters. As a result, destroying newly built infrastructure.
@M J "in major cities" yes xD But there's still the problem with the earth, water, fire, air causing damage to the lines and towers everytime the avatar gets mood swings
@M J Read the comment again. As a Filipino myself most Filipinos do have access to good internet however since our country is an archipelago its hard to make internet insfrastructure on a lot of our Islands considering that we have 7,640 Islands in the Philippines an example being Squijor where there is decent internet access on the major parts of the Island on most areas its very slow
Idk about you but Fiber internet here is fast enough, living in a mid-size city in the province (and cheap, in middle income standards). I agree with the comment above, it’s not an excuse. Fiber-optic cables run through the seas. Compare the internet (or basically any other services) from years ago to today. Progress doesn’t happen overnight, but I can see why it’s frustrating at times.
Best of luck to Philipino from Thailand, my country while has a stable climate and not so many natural disasters have other systematic problems, especially from politics and coups.
The most recent coup happened in the early 2000s. The instigators ended up jailed, pardoned, and went through the democratic processes instead. Now running for a Senator. Contrary to what some might suggest, he is patriotic. And didn't sellout one of our islands to China.
why japan has the same situation a the phils, but they are on of the richest in the world. that shows that geography is not a hindrance to become prosperous
We are always multilingual people, we have to speak tagalog in classes, speak english online and speak the local language, there's even an entire dialect called Taglish that mixes Tagalog and English words in a sentence.
Taglish is the language of Millenials and GenZ. The problem that I have with that, is most Filipinos are very fluent in taglish but not fluent in languages that it is composed of, which are English and Filipino. The problem with that is, tests and books are not written in Taglish, they are either Filipino or English, which a lot are struggling to master. There are also those who refuse to speak Filipino because they feel that their regional languages are being marginalized and oppressed by the "Tagalistas" or "Manila Imperialists" which are ofc bs. There's also the Hispanistas, who are like the Bisayas, but worse because they advocate for the establishment of Spanish as one of languages to be taught and to fully deestablish the National language status that Filipino enjoys, which according to them is racist because it is just Tagalog in disguise. That is the language problem here in the Philippines. How can we even start building a tower, if all of the workers can't understand one another and tell each other where the bricks and the tools are located without fighting due to miscommunications? Thank God I'm Filipino 🙏😑
@@kobalt6927 It's not an issue for me, rather, it's culture now. You have to keep in mind, English is a Romance language (what I mean is that there's a lot of French loan words) that descended from a Germanic language.
@@arkcliref the problem with that argument is that English formally recognizes those loan words from Latin, and French as theirs. Also, English is not considered a Romance language despite it having lots of borrowed Latin and French word. How about the Greek words? By that logic English would be considered as Hellenic, and by the way, English is considered as a Germanic language and not a Romance language even though it borrowed lots of words from them. Also, would you consider Filipino a Romance Language. According to you, correct me if I'm wrong, but you said that English is a Romance language for it consists alot of Latin and French loan words. If that was the case then Filipino would be considered as a Romance language as well because it has alot of Spanish loan words like: La mesa, cómo estás, tienda, trabajo, cinturón, verde, azul, regalo, más, de masiado, gusto, I can go on forever. Even though that was the case with Tagalog, just like English it is not considered as a Romance Language for there are still lots of difference, the grammar aspects which I will not talk about, but you get the point, grammar wise English relates more to germanic langauge, and Filipino relates more to the Austronesian languages. I really have no issues on using Taglish. I use it on a daily basis when communicating with my friends. With issues or not, just like what I've said before, it is still important for people to become fluent in the two languages that Taglish is composed of. Fluency in both languages will make the student be able to understand academic works, and works that are formal. Taglish has no standards or rules. You can speak 80% english, the grammar structure is entirely english but some words are tagalog and it will still be considered Taglish. "I really hate to say this, but ayaw ko na sayo. I just can't take it anymore, we were so happy back then, but now ewan ko. Thanks alot for being with me kahit na napaka tanga ko." You can also speak 80% Filipino, the grammar structure is entirely that of Filipino, but some words are english and it will still be considered Taglish. "Hindi ko to gustong sabihin, pero I no longer want you. Hindi ko na ito kaya, sobrang saya natin dati, pero ngayon, I dont know. Lubos ang pasasalamat ko saiyong pagsama sa akin even though I was stupid" It is a young quasi-language. I'm not against it as a language, the only issue that I have is most of its speakers aren't fluent in the two languages that it is composed of. It is not good because it makes learning hard.
Actually we speak Tagalog,English and Spanish in our daily lives, Some words like kaldero,pero ect. are Spanish words and we didn't realize it since we're used to speak those words since our birth so we thought it's Taglog but it's not.
Mountainous terrains do tend to have rivers. It's true that the Philippines doesn't have any larger rivers, but there are many smaller ones that make up for it. We have 412 river basins according to the Water Environment Partnership in Asia, compared to the 189 river basins that Malaysia has despite having a slightly larger land mass.
Yh I didn’t really agree with his rivers bit since it really isn’t about the length of the rivers. We have plenty of rivers which is good for agriculture.
Uhh, Austronesians were not hunter-gatherers - that would be the aboriginals (Aetas, Atis, Agta, Batak, etc.). Austronesians were agricultural people that had rice as a staple crop. Filipinos were already pretty connected with each other and their neighbors (specially lowlanders such as Tagalogs, Kapampangans, Cebuanos, Tausugs, Maranaos, etc.) because of trade.
This reminds me when i called my friend lowlanders or from the lowlands and he got offended, apparently its not a common term to use like how we use it in baguio
This video is ignorant. The Philippines is abundance. Not doomed. Geography and mother nature blessed your country with an abundance of gold. See the Boxer Codex. Early Filipinos were swimming in gold while other countries were fighting over it. Why do you think you've been colonized so much? So they can steal all your gold. Colonists risked their lives through seas just to come to your country cause they were living in the dark ages and had nothing.
@@MM-qp4pd all our gold has been stolen and geographically we get 19 typhoons a year. We saw none of the profit from the wealth the gold provided after we were colonized. As much as I love my country, natural disasters happen way more compared to other countries. Having to ride a boat everytime you want to travel is also a pain in the ass. It really isn't a stretch to say we are geographically cursed
@@psy_99 you still have tons of gold there that they don't want you to know about and lots of other metals and tons of resources made possible because of the environment/ geography you're living in. Why do you think these people want to keep colonizing your country? Watch on UA-cam "how the US stole the Philippines" . The speaker portrays your country and people as doomed and cursed but I can guarantee you his country is living off your riches they stole. Because it is them that have nothing. Sorry you have to experience the typhoons but if those colonizers didn't steal your riches and continue stealing what you have still, your country could have bulit better infrastructure to deal with it.
9:55 What's even more chaotic is when a volcano and a typhoon tag-teamed to produce devastating results. Happened on 2006 with Typhoon Durian. Earlier eruption from Mt. Mayon a year ago deposited large amount of ashes near the summit. So when Typhoon Level 4 Durian landed on the Bicol Region, entire villages are buried under. And its not just mudflow, they came with freaking huge ass boulders. I believe the biggest I have seen is 6 ft. More or less. The rain hits so hard that a freaking chasm was carved out of the volcano's body, adding more fuel for the mudflow and creating a new water ways for it, meaning that previous advisories became obsolete and caused a lot of casualties. The rain also took out a huge and very noticeable chunk from the Mayon's summit, damaging its perfect cone.
I have been living in the Philippines for 37 years without leaving the land, other than going fishing or swimming. And as a foreigner, I've never been happier in my life. The Filipino people are strong and kind. With all the problems caused by nature, the country rebuilds and continues. Malakas na Bansa! Malalakas na tao!
@@nutbuster4204 There were several reasons. I was told often I didn’t belong in the country where I was born. But, I was told “Welcome to the Philippines”, as a young Airman. I fell in love with the country. And the people here. The exchange rate was 7.32 to the USD, but I lived on base at Clark AFB, so that was not a problem. I was able to see lots of Luzon, riding a motorcycle. I meant the love of my life during those years. When I rotated back to the US, I sent for her. We were married in Elko. At first, we disagreed, because she thought I would stay in the US. After I told her, that there is a divorce law in the US and I could find her replacement, no matter how long it took. We returned to the Philippines in 1983, after I retired from the US Airforce. She has no regrets about this now. All of her family were happy when I brought her back home. Her mother always sided with me when things got touchy. Her sisters told her to stop trying to get me to send her back to the US. We bought two lots. We had a home built, and she started raising pigs. She used that money to help her family. All I had to do was pay our bills and feed the pigs. I wanted to live in her home area, but she wanted to live in Manila. We settled halfway between the two. We adopted a baby boy here because I got clipped before we meant. I didn’t want any kids because of how I was looked upon in my birth country because of being a dark-skinned person. Living in the Philippines has almost erased the upsetting childhood memories I have. My life is wonderful here. I know my wife loves me. She shows me love every day.
@@nutbuster4204 And my best life just keep getting better. Last month we bought an EV bike to avoid all the problems of fuel. I'm working toward putting solar panels on my roof.
I'm a Filipino and this is a fair assessment with accurate information. Tho one thing I'd like to put out is that we don't really feel that separated from each region. We do feel we're one Filipino people despite the differences in language, religion, and meme culture. Kudos kapatid!
Speak for yourself. Most of the people I encountered who are from Luzon look down on people who are not from the region, specially people who are from Mindanao. They go as far as saying that Mindanaoans eat people alive or do not have electricity nor cars. Meanwhile, most Christians in Mindanao do not trust Muslims, while most Muslims do not trust anyone else except other Muslims.
@@karlusarn yeah that was unfortunate. I'm a Catholic and grew up in a Muslim area and I can attest that they're pretty chill (most of them). Not so different from us. Elitist Luzonians on the other hand, that's a different story. I try to understand where their discrimination against Mindanaoans come from, but it's too much at times that I can't help but develop contempt against them lol
I am from the Philippines. Most of what you said is true to life. Especially on the part when you mention about typhoons. Every month in a year we often expect for the worst and got used to it. Yet in my entire lifetime I only experienced being in a raging typhoon (signal#4) last December 2021. I will never forget it; me and my family almost got hit by a 110-year old mango tree when Super Typhoon Odette hit Cebu. It was like inches away from our home, only it tilted a bit from having a direct fall. That was my second or the third life by far (?) I ain't sure how many times I got close calls with death tho lol.
1:36 This map was originally made by me. It is not a very good map I have to say, which was the reason that project was abandoned and was to be restarted. It might seem offensive to some so I didn't intend to publicize the map, but an old friend did try to complete the rest of it and uploaded it on Reddit which was how it got popular. If any are interested in a better map it will be on my UA-cam channel, as I plan to redeem myself from these potentially offensive inaccuracies. Nonetheless I am honored to see my map in this good video. One inaccuracy tho is "kumusta/como esta", it is not kumutsa but kumusta, a Filipinized spelling of como esta
Ah yes, the country that invites every member of their families. Including Mother Nature Seriously, I'm surprised that the Philippines (along with Indonesia) managed to keep their sovereignty on these cluster of territories.
@@blackpowderuser373 yeah, Tagalogs I can't say for sure but Visayans vote for Visayans, Ilocanos vote for Ilocanos (mostly, I know relatives of mine who will vote for Leni, and I know they're Ilocanos, it's more of a generalization than a rule)
@@arkcliref Aside from Bicol Region, Leni's other major balliwick is Western Visayas. Cebu and Central Visayas is a free-for-all between Leni, BBM, Isko and PacMan. Eastern Visayas is BBM mostly. Northern Mindanao is Leni vs. BBM. Central Mindanao is Pacman vs. BBM. Bangsamoro is where BBM could be weakest. Leni or Isko here, but Sara would still dominate the VP race in Mindanao. Again, generalizations only.
As a Filipino with Chinese ancestry, We suffered major racism due to the media how they portray us as an enemy not a citizen. Both of my parents who serves the military for a decade always tells me that it's unhappy to sacrifice your own life to a country that doesn't unite. Edit: Both of my parents have ibaloi decent too that's why we suffer racial attacks whenever we visit manila or any tagalog provinces.
Hmmm, 50/50. My grandma is a Chinese herself and even she, is against China. Not necessarily Chinese people, but it's government, the communists. They keep laying claim on our Islands in the west. It's not really about race, lots of Filipinos actually envy China in terms of looks, East Asian people. Edit: Chinese-Filipinos aren't oppressed either. They literally own most of the wealth, just look at the list of billionaires in the Philippines, most of them are Chinese lol. And even some Filipinos are racist against themselves, colorism is a thing in here. The Chinese have lighter skin.
Yup, this is an issue which is sad since a lot of our most patriotic members are Filipino Chinese. I think the insularity of the Filipino Chinese community is a reason why the malay people of the philippines distrust them although I don't really mind that the Filipino Chinese community sticks to itself, as long as they work, bleed, and die for the nation, then they are my brothers and sisters.
You know, I always found it a bit 'weird', when I see news from abroad, being very worried about a coming typhoon on their country, when only a 'super' typhoon (in my mind) was the only one to be really wary about. But then I realized that getting around 5-7 typhoons a year was only 'normal' in my country. I thought our neighbors had it as much as well (taiwan, malaysia, thailand, indonesia, etc.) Apparently they don't get it as frequently as we do?! That was news to me! And now 1-2 'super' typhoons are expected yearly moving forward.... so yeah, that's fun.
it’s amazing how diverse my country is. yet it breaks me heart that due to 3 major colonizations (and the geography as said in this video), key parts of our culture is being discriminated by the same people who live in the country.
Is that why I have some minor discrimination against Tagalog people?... It's not really something major... They just sound snobbish to me sometimes, maybe it's just because I speak Bisaya...
@@CommissarChaotic honestly, as someone who only speaks tagalog and English, do not feel bad for feeling a bit discriminatory against tagalog speaking people 💀 i live in visayas, went to Luzon because of this church camp thing a few years ago, they made fun of my accent because it sounded "harsh". and the people i met--they literally make fun of anyone who has an accent when speaking tagalog, my relatives told me to just speak English because my accent isn't very noticeable
2020 was a fun adventure in the Philippines. At the start of the year, Taal Volcano Erupted, causing an immediate shortage of masks due to ash. Then Covid-19 happened, causing another shortage of masks. Then a shortage of water happened. Then by June, at least 1 typhoon every month. Fun
Typhoons are so common here that as I kid, I was surprised to know that not every country experiences it. But well, at least Filipino students can have class suspensions at any point of the year because of those spinny bois lol
@@dalian8677 no, I live in negros oriental, specifically bayawan city, and It wasn't just our city that had classes, only the 3 major high schools had classes in the whole freakin island
@@moonbug7252 Pretty sure students who have to go through raging rivers, rotten bridges, hills, and heavy rain or hot days would like to have a word with you
In terms of cultural identity, I wholeheartedly believe our identity issues could be solved through federalism. As a Filipino born in California, I don’t identify nor really care about the problems facing Texans. However, through having a federalist government, my identity as a Californian is preserved while still maintaining strong ties with Texans. In the same way, Filipinos living in Cebu don’t care for Manila, but making Cebu a bonafide state with the same powers and responsibilities as those in Manila would empower both to invest in their own cultural identity while preserving the ties between them through a federation.
Some corrections/clarifications without passing judgment on your premise: 1. Typhoons are bigger problems than earthquakes. We have 20+ typhoons every year, there are super typhoons roughly every 3 years. 2. There's no significant forest fires in the Philippines. Too wet and not much to burn. 3. Destructive volcanic eruptions are more frequent than earthquakes. 4. The portion about the national language is inaccurate. Filipino (Tagalog) and English are now well used throughout the country.
Super typhoons are, in my opinion, getting more and more common nowadays. Just last year we had one major super typhoon and now just after christmas season starts we already got another super typhoon. It's honestly really scary.
Correction on number 3. Earthquake is always more frequent than Volcanic Eruptions because an Earthquake is a sign of a possible Eruption and there are hundreds of Earthquakes every year that aren't being felt enough on the surface of the ground but the government's seismograph always detects it.
We do have some forest fires but they aren't the mega monsters that countries like Indonesia have dealt with. I remember just before the Pandemic Lockdowns began that some of the forests in Benguet were actually burning. The funny thing was on the other side of Pulag, it was still mostly cloudy and rainy (I was in the Banaue area that time in late Feb 2020).
love your series! got me thinking more about geo-political powers at play. as an age2 player as a kid, these videos hit the spot i didnt know i wanted. thank you.
This is my original comment to the uploader of the video. Excuse me, but this is extremely over simplified... kindly read (Transforming Manila: China, Islam and Spain in a Global Port City) by Ethan Hawkley... it's free and google. You're speaking as if the Spaniards created the colony out of nothing, when in reality the Spaniards highly relied on the locals and Manila's trading colony, that extended across the archipelago even before European contact. Manila basically had some form of economic dominance over the other polities. The Spaniards then based their colony on Manila's trading empire. Secondly, kindly study about anthropology... when a culture has strict social stratification and a recognized elite/ruling class, that culture isn't a "tribe", it's either a chiefdom or a state society. Meanwhile, tribes are more egalitarian and don't have strict social stratification, which means that they don't have a distinguished elite/ruling class. Spanish accounts were definitely clear about encountering influential rulers across the archipelago. If Tui Tonga in the middle of the Pacific could be considered an "empire" then I don't see why Manila's trading colony can't be considered an "empire" as well, if the native Lakotas in the USA could be considered an "empire" despite not having a central ruling figure, then I don't see why Manila's trading colony, couldn't be considered an empire as well. Lastly, you used images of the isolated Igorot mountain tribes to represent the whole archipelago as "tribal", when in reality, people in the lowland cultures were more connected to each other due to trade, they spoke Malay as a trade language or lingua franca, they also wore similar silk clothing, which are clearly depicted in the Boxer Codex, one of Manila's cultural exports is the writing system Baybayin, which spread all over Luzon and the Visayas. In reality Manila's trading colony is what held the archipelago together, and the Spaniards took over this network when they arrived. Like I said, they didn't create the colony out of nothing. That's why I highly recommend the article of Ethan Hawkley, (Transforming Manila: China, Islam and Spain in a Global Port City). The utter misinformation in this video is appalling, UA-camrs should be cautious when uploading historically and culturally sensitive content.
@@The-ZebraFinch-Channel - His content is historically inaccurate. UA-camrs should be responsible when making historically and culturally sensitive content.
Jollibee: exists McDonald's: Hey, I've seen this....wait, who are you? Jollibee: I'm you, but stronger Filipinos are literally the embodiment of " this is fine" meme
The geographical description is correct, but the allusion and conclusion from that is skeptical. Anyway, thanks to the effort made to come out this video
Agree with most of the video except for the part where it talks About being unable to communicate with other settlements due to the being divided by water. In the Visayas and Mindanao region, there was always communication and commerce, because the people adapted into a seafaring society.
But he is right. Most people will just stay in their own island if they are content with how their life with their neighbors. Sure there would be traveling between islands but I am pretty sure it would be significantly lesser
@@DunKirk1st That's how it usually works even in the continents before better means of transport were invented. Even without the sea in between settlements, a lot of people never leave their villages for their entire lives. It's also just traders that can afford horses that are able to go in-between settlements. We just have boats as our means of transport.
The Latest Typhoon that hit Philipines really pissed me off. The flowers I garden as a hobby got demolished, my uncle's farm got screwed over, and my old friend's house went from being on the side of the road, to a random pile of sticks and metal sheets 500 meters downhill
This is why I want Filipinos to also know that one of the hardest things for Philippines to develop as a country is because of its Geography, its not the same as other Asian countries like Japan, Korea or Singapore to where their Geography are mostly in tact. Rail roads would be hard to develop, trading routes all have to go through a ship every time or in air. Infrastructures like a bridge for every Island to island connection would be impossible.
As a Filipino, I never realized that having too many typhoons happening all at once wasn't a normal thing. The Philippines truly is a unique place, being rich in natural resources and having distinct cultures on each island. However, it is true that the geography of the Philippines is cursed; namely its position on the globe and the way each islands are distributed. It is also true that there are many ethnolinguistic groups in the Philippines, influenced by all the different colonizers. That is why instead of having Tagalog as our national language (because Tagalog was often used in literature and speeches), we now call our national language as "Wikang Filipino" or simply the Filipino language to not leave out those other languages that are used in other islands. Overall, I think that this was a great video :)
This video is ignorant. The Philippines is abundance. Not doomed. Geography and mother nature blessed your country with an abundance of gold. See the Boxer Codex. Early Filipinos were swimming in gold while other countries were fighting over it. Why do you think you've been colonized so much? So they can steal all your gold. Colonists risked their lives through seas just to come to your country cause they were living in the dark ages and had nothing
When I first arrived in the Philippines in 1976, I was on my way to Manila. There was a guy that got on the (Rabbit) bus. He was trying to talk to the bus driver. The bus driver kept saying ANO, ANO. I didn't understand but my girlfriend told me with a giggle, they don't understand each other. A different person on the bus started translating for both of them. The Filipino language must not have been spoken by both of them.
Even after so many foreign conquest and doomed geography Philippines is still growing very fast I have nothing but respect for Filipino Love from India
Just before a supertyphoon crossed the province where i live, my neighbors were singing on a karaoke machine (loudly) until electricity was cut. And because we have so many typhoons, we name them alphabetically per year and there is a backup of the first few letters in case we use all up to Z. Disasters are not surprising, it's more seen as seasons since we expect them every year. An entire year without typhoon landfall is some sort of divine intervention.
Island nations like UK, and Australia are really lucky as they are one big Island where pretty much the entire population lives, while Japan, New Zealand are lucky too as their main Islands are big and aren't very distant from each other by water, but Philippines has none of these.
UK, Indonesia and Japan are proper comparisons, they have massive island masses with easy access to even bigger landmasses, mainland Europe, mainland Southeast Asia and mainland East Asia. Luzon is completely isolated and it brings into light why the Sabah issue is important, access to Borneo(which is an island too unfortunately, but at least it's huge)
Philippines: a country on hard mode Australia: Finally, a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary! "The first people groups to inhabit the Philippines were the Austronesians." not true in the slightest. The Negritos showed up around 30,000 years ago. Austronesians settled in the Philippines around 4,000 years ago
@@princerosevelt Constant Forest fires 🔥, Emu war ,constantly burning, always seem to be at war with the locals [by that i mean the hell spawn they call animals there]
Negritos are Austronesians came from ofc africa great migration during ice age settled in China and went to taiwan then the Philippines and spread throughout Oceania.
I respect The Philipines a lot, because it's like a shield for us blocking the typhoons, waves,etc. protecting us from those horrific disasters. Love from Vietnam🇻🇳❤️🇵🇭
Im a filipino but our ppl that got hit by the disasters died and the philippines being the shield and foreign ppl just dance in tiktok while some of us die bruh
When a super typhoon hits other counties, the first thing people in those countries do are prepare and probably panic. The same super typhoon hits the Philippines, and the first thing that comes to mind is if there will be class / work suspensions so they could just sleep.
ive been reading the comments and ppl seems to use filipino and tagalog interchangeably. we already learned that those are two different languages in school, my fellow filipinos. ive said this before and im saying it again: filipino is heavily based on tagalog incorporating words from other major languages in the country along its creation, with the addition of taglicised english, arabic, and spanish words. on the other hand, tagalog does not have foreign words but do amount some other native words albeit not that known. for example: filipino mostly use 'pero' from the spanish 'pero' while tagalog does not have that in its vocab, it instead have 'ngunit, subalit, bagamat' and others. (note: ngunit, subalit and bagamat are formed by nguni+at, subali+at, bagaman+at)
To put it simply Filipino language is a bit formal for day to day use you'd usually see news networks use them but for day to day interaction Tagalog tends incorporate words from every language as long as it gets the persons point across. You even have english words being tagalogized just by adding a few letters to it even tho its not in the dictionary. But your right tagalog is highly modular and it kinda works for the most part
A bit of correction about "English" and "Tagalog" being the only language thought in school. IDK for the rest of the country but we have the subject "Mother Tongue" which is a subject where we are though a certain language from that region (in our case it's Ilocano) though it was only from Grade 1 - 3 and also yeah, Our municipality literally has 3 ethnolinguistic groups with just 10km apart from each other
The Philippines has always contended with many problems and has always survived. Now becoming an industrialized country, it has performed well economically but best of all, when one area or province is hit with a typhoon or earthquake the whole nation comes together to help the stricken ones. This is what unites the country into a good nation of 111 million Filipinos.
Nah, not necessarily "comes together." Some opportunists, mostly politicians, take advantage of those donations from other countries or private sectors who just wanted to help the areas affected. The politicians, once they get a hold of those donations, spend those moderately (when they shouldn't be, because the affected areas needed it the most) so that they can corrupt some of those donations that are left when they spent little amount of money for the affected areas.
@@havenbreaker7956 I agree that media is biased as shit, but Chinese debt trap? It just takes a short amount of time to know that the Philippine's public exposure debt to China is the lowest in Asia
Ignorant video. The Philippines is abundance and filled with resilient people . Not doomed. Geography and mother nature blessed your country with an abundance of gold. See the Boxer Codex. Early Filipinos were swimming in gold while other countries were fighting over it. Why do you think you've been colonized so much? So they can steal all your gold. Colonists risked their lives through seas just to come to your country cause they were living in the dark ages and had nothing.
Fun fact:The super typhoon he mentioned is locally called Yolanda in the Philippines and when I was 5 years old me and my family experienced it....It was very scary!
Wow such a positive summary. Let me say something about the Philippines 🇵🇭 it might have a lot of issues with terrain and natural disasters but it by far compensates these issues with the fact that Philippine people are the most wonderful and beautiful hearted people I have ever known.
My friend (we're from PH) moved to Australia. He goes to an Australian school now. And everyone thought he was a saint by just the common gestures you would expect from someone over here. Weirdest second hand culture shock I had this year.
@@alexandercarder2281 Yeah so now he's apparently "the cool kid". The teachers love him, the students love him, and he's not going broke every month from buying school supplies. One example he gave me was the teacher dropped something and he picked it up for them as you do because it's convenient for them and of no consequence to you. And every ones mind was absolutely boggled at how naturally he made such a common gesture. He's smart (by their standard lmao he was struggling over here), and Asian so people were naturally curious. The biggest difference was how much easier school was over there. Let me give you a run down of how school is for us. You wake up at 4 - 6 am, get ready, leave for school immediately, rush hour is 6 - 7am, school starts at 7am sharp, you get a 15 minute recess as a brake in the morning, you go home to have lunch or eat packed lunch (cafeteria if you're feelin a little *weird* ) at 11:45am. Then class starts at 1pm sharp. You get no afternoon brakes and you go home at 5pm. Now unlike alot of other countries, our schools don't provide very much for their students and staff. You get some land, some rooms, a path, a cafeteria, a gym, and some bathrooms. In the the rooms are just chairs(ones with tables kind of as an arm)for students a table for the teacher and a blackboard to write on. Everything else, and I mean EVERYTHING, including events, is on you. Compared to that, his school experience in Australia was like going back to 1st grade, it gave him time and energy to start working out and work on himself which only further impresses the people there. The thing about our people is that we are to broke to complain about much, we are very diligent if it allows for reliable benefit. We also come from the Bikol region where the dialect diverts incredibly from tagalog (pronounced taGAlog) which means we're basically expected to be trilingual as a default, our friend group is especially fluent in english because of Internet and TV media so we have alot of trouble in comprehending some more verbose sentences and phrases in our language lmao. I don't even know the difference between how you say 12 and 20 anymore, I just either give them extra so they can figure it out or say it in english in a thick accent. Anyways thats a few reasons why we can't really afford to just be mean or cold to any or everyone, actually now that i think about it I have never had a bully experience quite like they do in america, the bullies just kind of insult or tease me and i can just chase after them aggressively and they'll run off, sometimes I even have friendly conversation with some of them, kind of like siblings. Hope that was interesting for you to read because that was way longer that I anticipated it being.
Geography? The Philippines doomed the Philippines But the Geography issues gave the corrupt or short sighted politicians excuses We didn't get a proper train system. I don't get why we don't have an inter train system
If anyone wonders how much typhoon Philippines faces yearly , the country faces 22 typhoons yearly with some of it has a possibility of being a super typhoon which causes Billions of infrastructure damage and other sorts of crisis.
as the filipino living in the NCR, i do agree with the points of the video. Let us hope na maganda kapalaran ng bansa natin sa mga susunod na taon. also the timing is great since its election season
@@carlosandleon doesn't really make sense to move the capital since it'll only spell a crisis for the country lol compared to Metro Manila, Cebu is underdeveloped. Plus Cebu already is a capital, a regional capital for the whole of Visayas, so is Davao for Mindanao.
A nice comparison my professors used to describe pre-colonial 'Filipinos' (i used quotation marks because the concept of Filipinos didnt exist yet, they didnt identify as one people from one country). Pre-colonial 'filipinos' were the Vikings of south east asia, both in how their religion was Pagan and Animist, and how they were a bunch of sailing warriors, raiding islands.
I'm a Filipino, i've experienced the Earthquake (aftershock), Typhoon (also flooded in Typhoon Ondoy). I always listen on the News Headline that happened here in the country. But still i experienced some of the Natural Disaster here on the Philippines.
Exactly the way how you explained why it is doomed is the same way how I see it why it is hone through adaptation. It's amazing how the inhabitants of the islands could still put a country together despite all the differences in languages and culture; despite the more than 300 years under Spain dominance, 50 years under USA, and over 3 years under Japanese control the Philippines can now enjoy its sovereignty. One can argue that he is a Tagalog or an Ilocano or a Kapampangan or a Cebuano or Waray or Davaowenyo or Tausog or Mangyan or Agta or whatnot, but he won't argue that he is a FILIPINO. Despite the disperse island locations, the people of the Philippines is one connected through their " filipinoness " It wasn't an easy process but though resoluteness they did it. It is exactly the geographical location of the Philippines as one of the important reasons why foreign powers wanted to control it and that is still true today concerning China, and it is exactly the experience that the Filipino people had with them that conditioned the Filipino character to be resilient, steadfast and resolute --- If they can withstand that they can definitely withstand hurricanes and earthquakes. The Philippines and its people was conditioned and honed to be resilient through adaptation. History has taught them to be.
The Philippines and Spain already have a good relationship. Spain is noted for having good relations with nearly all their colonies, compared to Algeria and France or Britain and India.
Philippines already has good relations with Spain in the modern day same with other the former colonies. but imo Philippines best partners outside of Asia is definitely Latin America, given the shared culture. lots of Filipinos and Latin people where i live often date and marry one another
Tagalog and Filipino are two different languages. Filipino is an official language (English being the other) which is based off of Tagalog comprising of more loan words than the latter to serve as a lingua franca to the archipelago. Tagalog is the more traditional language commonly found in the southlands of Luzon. English: Affected Filipino: Apektado Tagalog: Napinsala/Nasalanta (Disclaimer: This is based of my knowledge and is probably inaccurate.)
Those words may not be the best example for differences between Tagalog and Filipino, since apektado (like the word it's a direct translation of) is a pretty general term while napinsala specifically means suffering damage and nasalanta is that, but with connotations usually attached to natural disasters. But yeah, I otherwise agree, Tagalog and Filipino should not be conflated because there's a pretty significant difference.
Filipino has two different meaning. Filipino is what you call to the people who live in the Philippines, regardless of their tribes, language and tradition. The Filipino language is sometimes referred to as all of the language that exist or did exist in the Philippines. But most of the time people mistaken it as the standardized of Tagalog because it's the language that has the most speaker in the country. The apektado and nasalanta/napinsala are both Tagalog, making the apektado one of the 'hiram na wika or loan word' in the Tagalog language. Bisaya, Ilocano and other languages in the country also have loan words from cultural influences so you can't compile all of the loan words from the Spanish and tell that it's Filipino. There is a language that mostly consist of Spanish language that's still alive and spoken in the country- the Chavacano (spoken in Ternate Cavite, Zamboanga and Cotabato). It's also a language that is part of the Filipino language along with Tagalog, Bisaya, Kapampangan, Ilocano etc.
Tagalog its the people who speak that laguage native in luzon while pilipino the national laguage used and that laguage is used is tagalog, so means tagalog is also a language, and a people who live in luzon. While pilipino is also a national language used, as well as the people in whole philipine island, both same talk about the people and language.
this video really does prove a lot of points about us with the loads of dialects we have here, i am still struggling to understand the ilocano. (i grew up in the city) there are disasters nearly weekly (literally) typhoon yolanda sucked and typhoon rolly had more strong air than rain all the eruptions were equally painful (except mt pinatubo) but the latest eruption of taal was really placed before the pandemic, only giving at least 2 months to recover without covid being on the way during the dry season, it's blazing hot and we need nearly 7 electric fans to be okay in one house, and during the wet season, it's so cold we need to shut all the windows and doors. not only that, but whenever it's raining, sometimes ice starts falling from the sky. i don't know how often this happened, but i did witness it once. also Christmas 2022 was very windy now, it may seem like a pain, but we can keep up with it.. unless disaster strikes near your area stay inside during typhoons, prepare canned food, wear clothing appropriate for the weather, and all that stuff but to be honest, the Philippines is amazing, just that there's messed up stuff that happened in history regarding invasion and some natural disasters, and also the fact that disasters still ruin the country every month or so, but we still have the philippine culture and other stuff
Good work on the video, just some critiques though. I found the whole notion of "the philippine islands are divided by water and thus they are seperated and cannot connect to one another" strange, especially the part where it suggest that pre-colonial filipinos had no way of leaving their islands to interact with one another which is just wrong. Recent archaelogical findings suggest otherwise, as artifacts from all around southeast asia paint the image of a more connected Philippines as said artifacts act as proof of interaction from the various polities that made up the pre-colonial island all over SEA, its only natural for a group that can cross the south china sea to other islands to sail into islands near them. The notion of water serving as barrier for groups of people isn't a universal one, in certain groups it is seen as a way to connect people rather than seperate them, a sea would just be really wide highway to them. Additionally, the notion that the Philippines is "the only christian asian nation" is just inaccurate, while it is the largest it is not the only christian majority with East Timor being another SEA country with a majority catholic population. I just wanted to share my thoughts as I've seen quite a lot of people cover Philippine history especially the pre-colonial era with dated references that had no access to modern archaelogical findings .
Yeah, Austronesian culture's strength is the water travel, stuff like the Polynesian diaspora happening shows wide stretches of can't truly separate these groups, ironically it is land in the form in mountains that does it more.
@@zjzr08 The Austronesian peoples are indeed the masters of ancient seafaring, they're essentially as close as the pre-modern world had to space travelers considering the insane distances of water they regularly traveled relying mostly on what little they had on their ships to survive. They were so good at it that for a long time their ships could run circles around even the greatest designed European ships.
This video is pretty bs. My reactions watching this video are mixed Yes and No's, a LOT of lies. Aside from Filipino and English, Native languages are now being taught in schools for years, not this 5:06 . And despite being very diverse when it comes to culture/tradition/languages, most Filipinos speak Filipino/Tagalog to communicate around the Philippines, and we use english to communicate around the world. We might have major problems with Typhoons and Earthquakes, but that doesn't mean we're doomed. Other countries have problems too, maybe not with Typhoons but some other issues. This video is scaring away investors and making me feel inferior.
9:27 *VOLUME WARNING* Audio jump scare. I had to up the volume because his voice was a bit low, only to have my ears and heart blasted away at the timestamp.
As someone living here for basically my whole life, I've always thought that havinga storm hit us like every month or 2 along with the constant heat wave and temperature changing like a metronome was normal. Apperently not.
Ignorant video The Philippines is abundance and filled with resilient people . Not doomed. Geography and mother nature blessed your country with an abundance of gold. See the Boxer Codex. Early Filipinos were swimming in gold while other countries were fighting over it. Why do you think you've been colonized so much? So they can steal all your gold. Colonists risked their lives through seas just to come to your country cause they were living in the dark ages and had nothing
The Philippines experienced a lot of challenges. Despite all these, the Filipino people remain resilient and are a bunch of happy, optimistic and proud people.
Ignorant video. The Philippines is abundance and filled with resilient people . Not doomed. Geography and mother nature blessed your country with an abundance of gold. See the Boxer Codex. Early Filipinos were swimming in gold while other countries were fighting over it. Why do you think you've been colonized so much? So they can steal all your gold. Colonists risked their lives through seas just to come to your country cause they were living in the dark ages and had nothing.
You know the geographic situation in the Philippines is bad when its top trending songs from the last two years are about climate change. 2023: Raining in Manila 2024: Pantropiko (Tropical Island)
I think the incorporation of climate change in videos like this are often neglected and i think adding it is a good and more complete analyses of a nation's geopolitical future I only wish more videos like this.
Fortunately, with advancements in communication technology and better interconnected infrastructure, the Philippines may be able to better weather the coming storms both literal and metaphorically. With a large young, educated, and determined population, coupled with improved infrastructure, market friendly economic reforms, and more foreign investment, the Philippines may still stay true to it's motto being "The Land Of Promise". Already we are the 3rd largest economy in ASEAN with a gdp size of 406 billion as 2022, growing annually at 6-7%, potentially even becoming a trillion dollar economy by 2030.
@@joeldelica8706 I'm just trying to be nice 😅 the Phillipines is going to need a lot of work before they get to the point of other South East Asian nations. Last I checked, Phillipines ranks at the top or number one of "balikbayan" that sends money back to the country. That's too many hands and minds overseas.
True. It is definitely hard when it comes to natural disasters. I couldn't been more happier to live in an area in the Phils where we almost, ALMOST dodge every typhoon by a small bit. Sandwiched between north luzon and visayas, though we still experience harsh typhoons sometimes but it's not always the case. I pity people living in the furthest north where most typhoon goes. It is also surprising if a typhoon forms in the Visayan and mindanao region. Then again, we in the south luzon area, specifically Batangas, isn't too lucky because Taal volcano decided to erupt. We Filipinos can't really catch a break.
You are right my friend. The deforestation and the the eventual global warming made it worst. Studies showed that Philippines is the most deforested country on earth as compared to all other tropical countries (IndoChina, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, the African and the Latin American countries). Philippines has lost 90% of its rain forest since the arrival of the colonizers. We can blame these on them and now the big businesses, the foreign lenders and investors and the cartels, who are feeding the politicians for their uncaring interest and corporate greed. For them it's all about money and self interest. Please spread these awareness . . . Please save the Philippines.
My wife is a Filipina and she had an interesting thing to say about the cultural separation. Filipinos are separated by mountains and joined by the sea. As an example is my wife's home island: Negros. Negros is split by a line of mountains into Negros Oriental and Negros Occidental, and both sides of the island share much more culture with islands across the sea from their shores, than with eachother. They have more separate history, speak different languages, and even in the modern day the two halves exist as separate provinces.
About not having a 1 common language is totally false. Majority of the Filipinos speak Tagalog and we can use this to communicate wherever we are in the country (almost). Even English is widely spoken.
I kinda disagree. majority of Filipinos that are not in Luzon such as visayas and Mindanao do know tagalog but we don't use it to communicate locally but rather just our mother tongue. no one speaks tagalog unless u speak in tagalog mostly in these regions. also kinda tired peeps from Manila who keeps asking people to speak in tagalog. I'm more confident in English so I usually speak English when someone speaks tagalog coz Im not comfortable speaking tagalog. . . . . after speaking English they'll say conyo daw ako o pa feeling smart na englishero hhahahahahaha
im actually a native Filipino, and can speak tagalog( di mabihasa pru sapat para magka intindihan ) and can communicate in English too, and speak my native language and also visayan dialect, I can't speak for others but as far as i know and the people I've met they can speak both visayan and tagalog Edit : they can speak but not too deeply tagalog.
@@abnerdoon4902 yes, we Filipinos have persevered throughout many horrific events yet they didn't stop us from growing. For the outsiders perspective, they might think we are doomed or cursed but for us, we're just doing fine
Living in the Philippines i never realised how having a typhoon hit us every 10 weeks or so was a natural disaster i just saw it as stronk rain
Fr it took me a while to realize bagyo meant typhoon in english cause like you said I thought it was just something that happened occasionally lol
Yeah. When I first saw vids where people are screaming being caught in hurricanes and landslides I was like "Shut up bish and just wait for to finish!".
Filipinos when the country is hit by a superomegatyphoon that moves at 999999999 mph: yay no school
@@nunyabiznes33 no man they experience those over and over again like they are hit at least 4 typhoons per year
@@ammagon4519 The question is did they even have school in the first place
I never realized this living here in the Philippines all my life, but seeing natural disasters almost MONTHLY is apparently not a normal thing globally. Just shows how much natural disasters we get relative to other places
I can only imagine how people coming from let's say the Srivijaya or Majapahit Empires felt when they experienced one of those typhoons that rammed through Luzon every year... Prolly they called Luzon "that stormy island"! 🤣🤣🤣
@@mrconfusion87 The name Luzon came from the Tagalog word lusong which is an instrument used in milling rice. It was named after that because of the shape of the island although I don't know how they came to that conclusion because it looks way off tbh.
also, other nations would be more weirded out when we say stuff like "it's just a flood", they don't realize that, we mean it. You get used to the disasters pretty quick lol
@@poikoi1530 in short, people get used to what they see everyday.
@@arkcliref in short, we, Filipinos, are used to disasters, like earthquakes, typhoons, and other disasters, LONG STORY SHORT, we call it "flood", but either and neither, we used to it, OR, we just need that to water our crops
In the Philippines it's pretty normal for people to say things like:
"It's just another typhoon, it's fine"
"Another year, another flood!"
"Our countries drowning again"
"Did you guys feel an earthquake or something?"
"How many times have they rebuilt this place?"
Or even
"Damn, there's so many news about burning buildings again this year"
And funny enough, I thought those were all pretty normal for every country to experience every year.
yea, we used to it, dw abt it unless an earthquake or volcanic eruption happens
Ah, pretty normal yes
It has got to a point where only Cat 5 super typhoons, 6+ magnitude quakes, and major volcanic eruption terrify me lol. If the disaster isn't on that level, it's normal
What the? No one ever says that realistically.
@@henrymugello3387 Well I do that's why I added them.
Don't tell me you never heard someone ask "Did you just feel an earthquake?"
Or say something like "Theres so many news about burning buildings again" when they see it on the news.
Maybe not accurately saying them like how I typed them, but I'm pretty sure there are people who say these things.
I mean the "another day another flood" was something my classmate said once, and I just happened to like it and use it whenever I see floods again in the news.
That's why I added it.
I love the tiny detail of the flag flipping during wartime!
I don't think most people caught that but during peacetime we have the blue side on top while we have the red on top during wartime
Every Filipino knows that. It's taught in school.
@@delconagher12he’s probably talking about the non-Filipino viewers
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Most flags are flown upside down in "distress" even the UK flag, which looks like it's symmetric
As a Filipino, I would argue that it's not the actual geography that doomed us, it's the lack of planning and structure to maximize our geography that doomed us. I honestly believe we have a great geo. First of all we are strategically located on a major trading route. If you would look at the map we are the gateway of asia in the pacific and located near one of the most vital choke point which is the south china sea. But we have failed to capitalize on our geographical positioning. Second, I agree that cagayan river pale in comparison w/ other significant river in the world like nile, yellow, missisipi and rhine to name a few. But historically it was the Pasig river that became the center of commerce. But today the river is basically a stagnant creek due to neglect of both government and citizen. If only it was developed as a main waterway to facilitate trade easier since it goes trough most industrial complex and cities and goes out of the manila bay having easy access to the south china sea. It could have given our economy a major boost. I would even include pampanga river as well. But basically the earlier politician had no understanding of what perfectly situated rivers can do for an economy since most Filipinos are dumb and keeps on voting politicians that are dumb and corrupt. And lastly, the thing about the typhoons and and volcanism is just a sorry ass of an excuse. Look at japan, they basically get the same number of storm and gets hit by earthquakes more frequently and with higher intensities but they have the third largest economy in the world and we have more natural resources than them. The difference is that japanese people are well educated and have a great sense of honor and they care. Unlike most of my countrymen who are oblivious, gullible and will believe everything they'll see in social media.
Wow
Pretty much sums up everything
I agree, it all depends on how you view things. Philippines will just need to take these "natural challenges" into account when planning development.
wala naman alam ang kamoteng gumawa ng video
Um the Pasig River is already rehabilitated and is currently used. Not as much as in precolonial times or even colonization times but there are plans in using them more and cleaning other waterways connected to it
Although Philippine didn't have much shared identity back in the past. Modern science has proven that almost all tribe/ethnicies in the Philippines speak the same branch of Austronesian languanges that is Phillipine languages. I myself am not from Philippines but my home ethnicity speaks a Philippine languange. I wish the best for Philippine people and their country from Indonesia
Thanks Indon
Speaking a similar language due to centuries of trade doesn’t mean they are ethically similar.
@@Lucas_Antar Bruh. Filipinos and Indonesians are both Ethnically Austronesian.
@KakaSean I do kinda enjoy being catholic and being the odd one out in Asia, makes us special.
@@johnisaacfelipe6357 I don't.
Damn, being a Filipino, I didn't know having a typhoon/earthquakes/[insert a natural disaster] broadcasted weekly or daily is a thing people don't experience much. I always thought it's just normal to have a childhood where when there's a new typhoon discovered in the news you're just like "damn, another typhoon? What are they gonna call that this time?".
Glad to know
I live in the US and was surprised that most countries don't have a tornado season
"Bagyong Beylat" 😁
Bagyong kanor
Damn bro when theres a typhoon i always think about going into the eye and when theres a flood i think of swimming there
We just had a mega typhoon last month the size of the map of our country
I live in south Louisiana we deal with seasonal flooding with most of the land being below sea level and hurricanes are devastating.
But I cant imagine dealing with the earthquakes and volcanoes and landslides on top of everything we deal with.
This video has been very informative
there was even a typhoon during the eruption of pinatubo
Just makes you thankful we dont those problems! My heart goes out to them!
Hilarious enough the first Asians in the US were Filipinos and the first settlers settled in lousiana after being freed from being a slave to Spaniards
If you’re in the Philippines, you’ll get used to it
that's what being a filipino is like (yes, i can comfirm this, because i am one)
I saw the words "Geography", "the Philippines", and "Doomed" in one sentence and I immediately agree.
I disagree, with all the progress we have seen for the past decade, it's hardly "doomed"
Because of climate change, Philippines is hardly doomed......yet
@@lan-w6956 Perhaps Indonesia as well, in fact, most maritime countries are vulnerable to it, where Malaysia faced severe flooding in KL last December, and just like the Philippines, Indonesia is moving its capital to Kalimantan because of rising sea levels, just like we're moving to New Clark City because it has a higher elevation. Perhaps it's how we will handle the crisis that matters
@@bagongumaga1330 or maybe we can do like what Netherland do with their sea
edit: probably not
@@mei4195 *looks at the MOA area*
*hears that it's slowly sinking*
Yike.
I experienced Typhoon Haiyan and I swear that is only one that tear the roof of my house
Hey ur here noice
@@wavemaker2077 doesn't mean you can be an asshole for it
water got in our house and we were on the second floor
Our house flooded cause water leaked from the tiles. It wasn't that bad tho.
@@Peko1a I just said that Haiyan didn't do anything to our house. How is that an asshole? You might want to look at the mirror to see who is the asshole here.
Being culturally separated makes the experience of exploring the country really fun
Also might get your head cut of by tribes! Isn't that fun too!
@@1800-CJ part of the experience lmao
@@1800-CJ I doubt any of us are THAT uncivilized though, even the natives and indigenous people, the people who managed to escape the influence of colonialism, are already feeling the effects and influence of modern technology, it’s not like we’re dealing with uncontacted tribes from the Amazon or North Sentinel Island (Add the fact that communist and Islamic insurgents also tend to hide in remote places…. Which is also where you’d usually find the indigenous people)
(Correct me if I’m wrong though regarding specific facts)
@@boaoftheboaians It was a joke bro, don't take it seriously. But thanks for the info though.
this guy's more optimistic than his name
I remember my parents telling me that the pinatubo eruption was so bad that in manila and its surrounding provinces had 2 days of pitch black darkness due to the ash-fall, it also caused global temperatures to drop by 1°C because of the sheer amount of sulfur it emitted to the atmosphere. The only reason that the sky cleared was because a strong typhoon came in just 2 days after the eruption thus sending the ash to the south china sea through strong winds, but unfortunately it also caused massive flooding of mixed sulfuric ash and rain waters to residential areas all through the sea, it is said that it increased coastline distances by around 10 to 100 meters within the western part of the capital island.
A blessing that comes from a disaster
I remember what they did with all that volcanic ash: bag it up and sell to construction companies. Some started hollow block factories. Others mixed it into plastic resin and made all sorts of kitsch stuff: ash trays, paper weights, vases...
@@christbenitez8797and that same blessing becomes a disaster lmao
@@tunasandwich8049 the IRONY lmao hahahaha.
Nature really did fvcked us up back then. And even now she throwing us strong typhoons every year.
living in the Philippines myself, about 20 typhoons annually is normal :D was wondering why hurricanes cause major MAJOR panic and distress to the west and had just realized in this vid that 20+ typhoons every year ain't normal in other countries
Same
Our Hurricanes can have more powerful winds than the typical typhoon. Also the Philippines uses concrete in typical buildings, so they're more resistant to damage
I didn’t even know other countries don’t deal with typhoons every month💀. I thought every country did.
@@The_Conspiracy_Analyst oh i dinit know that welp it feels like out typhoons ate normal because of it lol
Why still other country scared of it even tho its there typhoons is weaker that us!
@@fidelwagon7021 same
This is not a criticism of the Philippines, but a fair assessment that point out where we can improve ourselves.
that's still criticism
@@mayabartolabac We are no longer divided as before.. I don't speak Tagalog before, I do now.
It's not criticism at all, it's just facts. I mean how can Filipinos be criticized for the geography of their country? They didn't make it...
@@jsm8190 exactly! geography can't be used as criticism of the Filipinos when they can't changed their location at will, so there is no criticism in the video.
What I would criticize is if we Filipinos do not improve ourselves, our infrastructure, our ways of living on these Islands, then the blame is on us if we are not prospering as well as we should have.
But some Filipinos are known for not taking such criticisms seriously.
Foregined, lived in the PH for 3 years. Amazing country, but frustrating. Corruption is rampant and everything is inefficient.
Yes
As a person living here in the philippines i agree
As a Filipino, I agree.
mhm agreed.
Tama ka diyan
With all these natural disasters, they had developed to one of the most resilient and carefree people i have met. I love the filipinos.
As a Filipino, I've always equated living here to turning on every natural disaster scenario in City Skylines on and aiming them in highly populated archipelago city
Great analogy
Nice pfp
Mother Nature really seems to hate the Philippines
@@shturm602 its a love hate relationship I mean nature did create beautiful things here like the different species of animals here
@@shturm602 Mother Earth is a Yandere to us Filipinos
Also, the colonial architecture in the Philippines is very unique, as due to these same natural disasters, Spanish churches are noted to be shorter, wider, and thicker than their Latin American and Iberian counterparts.
Those same churches also provided refuge when Moro raids would occur where they kidnap people to sell as slaves to other Southeast Asian countries.
This is correct.
any local fililipino architecture like Indonesian, malaysian, thailand, cambodian have?
@@safuwanfauzi5014 You mean prehispanic? very little, although I would harken a guess that there's very little pre-indus, pre-islamic, pre-sinic architecture in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Cambodia. The Philippines was very late in terms of architecture mainly because we were a largely animist/pagan culture for a lot longer than Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, etc. This is due to the fact that the region is geographically divorced from mainland southeast Asia and it doesn't have the benefit of either being near the Indus valley or having a very popular strait like the strait of malacca to expand the cultural bubble in which the peoples of other areas were able to draw their inspiration for architecture from.
And then you have the extremely mountainous terrain making it even leagues harder to transmit ideas across the islands. Yet once the Spanish landed on our islands, it expanded the cultural bubble of the Philippines creating Filipino baroque style or structures like Bahay na Bato or the Malacañang
@@johnisaacfelipe6357 I agree with your point and all but “harken”? That doesn’t really make sense in that sentence and is a really old word
@@safuwanfauzi5014 There was no significant stone structure big enough before the Spanish came, with much of the structures being made of wood. That's why none survived.
Also, that's why the early churches here were made of huts, as that was the prevailing architecture during that time.
Our geography kinda explains why regionalism still persists to this day. Citizens and politicians alike tend to appeal more to their regional groups, plus the corruption on all levels does not really help.
Great video! Cursed with geography, indeed.
Sincerely, a Filipino.
EDIT: Since it's election season here, I do hope our next President and Vice-President, as well as legislators downwards, will have more plans and actions to deal with climate change.
Hmm, sino kaya
Idk if bbm or Sarah is about going green, or most runners
@@lancetheking7524 Revive Nuclear Plant if we want to replace COALS. But the Handling is Very dangerous 😨😨
@@a.c6761 its probably better to build new ones since new ones are safer to maintain.
@@a.c6761 You're talking about a nuclear power plant near the capital Manila, in an archipelago known for earthquakes and volcanoes.
@@kimkimhye5964 We need Japanese consultations
I was shocked to see so many Filipinos in the Philippines going about their business.
The biggest issue I have with the Philippines is that once you are in the country its kind of hard to leave, as if they make you feel so comfortable that you don't want to go home
Because otherwise the sunny weather in the Philippines is great, and you only have to worry about the typhoons and flooding for 5 months a year
When I was a kid my biggest disappointnent living here is not experiencing snow. I used to look forward to it every Christmas.
Edit: Just to be clear I do know about the homelessness and poverty in the country. I live in the province so I know how it is. I just wanted to experience snow even if once. A kid can dream, right? Maybe one day when I can travel to other countries.
same though thinking about it, snow would be terrible for the poorer population
@@callingyou903 I'm sure squatters in the capital are the first one to say goodbye on this world if there's winter 🤣 That's why most cold countries are more developed and industrialized than on tropics
Believe me, you won't want snow. Be very thankful you live in the tropics.
@@elitedangeroustheworldnext9086 sounds true for some reason
@@elitedangeroustheworldnext9086 although all they need is a thick coat
As a resident Filipino here on this channel, I agree with these points, and so I propose that Vietnam, Cambodia and all the other Southeast Asian countries behind the Philippines pay us a tribute for blocking all the typhoons over the past millennium. Also you butchered mostly all the Filipinos words, but I forgive you
Edit: this is a joke
Bro that's dumb. You're making us look bad.
The people above my comment really can ' t take a friggin ' joke.
As a Filipino, no. We don't need to be paid tribute for something that isn't even their fault
@@jellyfesh7517 How come Philippians have both ultranationalism and regionalism at the same time??
@@lilysansetsukonnoriri3612 joke*
The Philippines also has a similar base of culture for most of its population, with most people being Catholic and being united under the Spanish empire, although regional differences can be pronounced, with people voting candidates based on their ethnic groups, no matter how corrupt or benevolent that person is.
Easy choice. Just vote Visayan.
@@carlosandleon you're an example of Visayan supremacists who care little about the quality of the candidate or the bigger picture, your vision has little to do with the betterment of the entire nation, all you want is the increase of power and prestige of Visayas.
@@johnisaacfelipe6357
There’s some Hispanistas who actually talk like that, they are more opportunistas who are more concerned with themselves and are blind in their own echo chambers
Just like Latin America
@@johnisaacfelipe6357 Supremacist? Really? Just because I'm not tagalog centric doesn't mean I'm a Supremacist. Travel around and see the disconnect the capital has with it's southern regions.
True my comment was more of a joke, but realistically speaking just linguistically, a more centered capital around the visayas can make the administration reach more to both extremes of thr country.
Mindanao has a very heavy cebuano influence. Bringing them closer to you will keep the country together.
Visayas is the glue that keeps both the upper and lower regions of the country together.
It's the cream of the oreo. You can have the most delicious cake topping but without the structured middle you cannot form a proper base.
The only one with a Supremacist idea is you who fail to see things strategically and realistically and pretend you have a more profound ideology that ends up with you adopting a heavy luzon biased policy.
You may not think so, but you already effectively are a tagalog supremacist with your complacent actions.
Voting more southern centric administration is exactly what we need right now
I'm a Filipino. I don't want anything bad to happen to any country in the world.😭😭😭
Q
@@ajbalanoyos4018 Que?
@@Vent0zin QUE
Bruh, leave. Move to the US or Australia. Just leave already.
@God Emperor Meow it's not that easy to move to a different nation when the current nation ure living at rn is in poverty
watching this, while being filipino and having lived through a super typhoon that destroyed a majority of the infrastructure in my city just a month ago, hits differently
@Leo the British-Filipino thx bud, i hope brexit's been good to you as well
Same. Luckily I got electricity and internet back. I hope you did too
Let me guess its Tyhoon Rai right ?
@@Ishikawa745 We call it "Odette"
Oof same my house roof got ripped out except that it only took 2 days to rebuild lol
As someone who lives in the Philippines, the simplest way to explain our struggles is to describe our internet connection. Too many islands to sufficiently and efficiently make internet infrastructure. Living on the Pacific Ring of Fire frequently causes natural disasters. As a result, destroying newly built infrastructure.
@M J "in major cities" yes xD
But there's still the problem with the earth, water, fire, air causing damage to the lines and towers everytime the avatar gets mood swings
@M J Read the comment again.
As a Filipino myself most Filipinos do have access to good internet however since our country is an archipelago its hard to make internet insfrastructure on a lot of our Islands considering that we have 7,640 Islands in the Philippines
an example being Squijor where there is decent internet access on the major parts of the Island on most areas its very slow
The bright side to this is that Filipino Zoomers aren't addicted to their smartphones because it's simply too cost-ineffective.
@M J not everyone lives in the mainland, also Philippines has a lot of islands remember?
Idk about you but Fiber internet here is fast enough, living in a mid-size city in the province (and cheap, in middle income standards). I agree with the comment above, it’s not an excuse. Fiber-optic cables run through the seas. Compare the internet (or basically any other services) from years ago to today. Progress doesn’t happen overnight, but I can see why it’s frustrating at times.
Best of luck to Philipino from Thailand, my country while has a stable climate and not so many natural disasters have other systematic problems, especially from politics and coups.
May we solve our problems brother🇵🇭🤝🇹🇭
hopefully in my lifetime i can witness southeast asia thriving and being at peace
We have coups too but hes not patriotic and it was political stunt 😂😂
The most recent coup happened in the early 2000s. The instigators ended up jailed, pardoned, and went through the democratic processes instead. Now running for a Senator.
Contrary to what some might suggest, he is patriotic. And didn't sellout one of our islands to China.
why japan has the same situation a the phils, but they are on of the richest in the world. that shows that geography is not a hindrance to become prosperous
ah yes, The Philippines, that one guy that has an identity crisis
We are always multilingual people, we have to speak tagalog in classes, speak english online and speak the local language, there's even an entire dialect called Taglish that mixes Tagalog and English words in a sentence.
Taglish is the language of Millenials and GenZ. The problem that I have with that, is most Filipinos are very fluent in taglish but not fluent in languages that it is composed of, which are English and Filipino.
The problem with that is, tests and books are not written in Taglish, they are either Filipino or English, which a lot are struggling to master.
There are also those who refuse to speak Filipino because they feel that their regional languages are being marginalized and oppressed by the "Tagalistas" or "Manila Imperialists" which are ofc bs. There's also the Hispanistas, who are like the Bisayas, but worse because they advocate for the establishment of Spanish as one of languages to be taught and to fully deestablish the National language status that Filipino enjoys, which according to them is racist because it is just Tagalog in disguise.
That is the language problem here in the Philippines. How can we even start building a tower, if all of the workers can't understand one another and tell each other where the bricks and the tools are located without fighting due to miscommunications?
Thank God I'm Filipino 🙏😑
@@kobalt6927 im filipino but i dont know about any of this shite
@@kobalt6927 It's not an issue for me, rather, it's culture now. You have to keep in mind, English is a Romance language (what I mean is that there's a lot of French loan words) that descended from a Germanic language.
@@arkcliref the problem with that argument is that English formally recognizes those loan words from Latin, and French as theirs. Also, English is not considered a Romance language despite it having lots of borrowed Latin and French word. How about the Greek words? By that logic English would be considered as Hellenic, and by the way, English is considered as a Germanic language and not a Romance language even though it borrowed lots of words from them.
Also, would you consider Filipino a Romance Language. According to you, correct me if I'm wrong, but you said that English is a Romance language for it consists alot of Latin and French loan words. If that was the case then Filipino would be considered as a Romance language as well because it has alot of Spanish loan words like: La mesa, cómo estás, tienda, trabajo, cinturón, verde, azul, regalo, más, de masiado, gusto, I can go on forever. Even though that was the case with Tagalog, just like English it is not considered as a Romance Language for there are still lots of difference, the grammar aspects which I will not talk about, but you get the point, grammar wise English relates more to germanic langauge, and Filipino relates more to the Austronesian languages.
I really have no issues on using Taglish. I use it on a daily basis when communicating with my friends.
With issues or not, just like what I've said before, it is still important for people to become fluent in the two languages that Taglish is composed of.
Fluency in both languages will make the student be able to understand academic works, and works that are formal.
Taglish has no standards or rules. You can speak 80% english, the grammar structure is entirely english but some words are tagalog and it will still be considered Taglish.
"I really hate to say this, but ayaw ko na sayo. I just can't take it anymore, we were so happy back then, but now ewan ko. Thanks alot for being with me kahit na napaka tanga ko."
You can also speak 80% Filipino, the grammar structure is entirely that of Filipino, but some words are english and it will still be considered Taglish.
"Hindi ko to gustong sabihin, pero I no longer want you. Hindi ko na ito kaya, sobrang saya natin dati, pero ngayon, I dont know. Lubos ang pasasalamat ko saiyong pagsama sa akin even though I was stupid"
It is a young quasi-language. I'm not against it as a language, the only issue that I have is most of its speakers aren't fluent in the two languages that it is composed of. It is not good because it makes learning hard.
Actually we speak Tagalog,English and Spanish in our daily lives, Some words like kaldero,pero ect. are Spanish words and we didn't realize it since we're used to speak those words since our birth so we thought it's Taglog but it's not.
Mountainous terrains do tend to have rivers. It's true that the Philippines doesn't have any larger rivers, but there are many smaller ones that make up for it. We have 412 river basins according to the Water Environment Partnership in Asia, compared to the 189 river basins that Malaysia has despite having a slightly larger land mass.
Yh I didn’t really agree with his rivers bit since it really isn’t about the length of the rivers. We have plenty of rivers which is good for agriculture.
Which are majorily polluted, or drying up or both.
@@jrsdt2ndaccount30 *not all of them. You may know Ilog Pasig, however, not all rivers here are shit.
He probably means navigable rivers. Navigable rivers are rivers where boats are able to traverse safely and smoothly.
That is the point. They’re too small for travel.
Uhh, Austronesians were not hunter-gatherers - that would be the aboriginals (Aetas, Atis, Agta, Batak, etc.). Austronesians were agricultural people that had rice as a staple crop. Filipinos were already pretty connected with each other and their neighbors (specially lowlanders such as Tagalogs, Kapampangans, Cebuanos, Tausugs, Maranaos, etc.) because of trade.
This reminds me when i called my friend lowlanders or from the lowlands and he got offended, apparently its not a common term to use like how we use it in baguio
This video is ignorant.
The Philippines is abundance. Not doomed.
Geography and mother nature blessed your country with an abundance of gold. See the Boxer Codex. Early Filipinos were swimming in gold while other countries were fighting over it. Why do you think you've been colonized so much? So they can steal all your gold. Colonists risked their lives through seas just to come to your country cause they were living in the dark ages and had nothing.
@@MM-qp4pd all our gold has been stolen and geographically we get 19 typhoons a year. We saw none of the profit from the wealth the gold provided after we were colonized. As much as I love my country, natural disasters happen way more compared to other countries. Having to ride a boat everytime you want to travel is also a pain in the ass. It really isn't a stretch to say we are geographically cursed
@@psy_99 you still have tons of gold there that they don't want you to know about and lots of other metals and tons of resources made possible because of the environment/ geography you're living in. Why do you think these people want to keep colonizing your country? Watch on UA-cam "how the US stole the Philippines" . The speaker portrays your country and people as doomed and cursed but I can guarantee you his country is living off your riches they stole. Because it is them that have nothing. Sorry you have to experience the typhoons but if those colonizers didn't steal your riches and continue stealing what you have still, your country could have bulit better infrastructure to deal with it.
@@MM-qp4pd "phillipines is in abundance" abundance of typhoons and earthquakes
9:55 What's even more chaotic is when a volcano and a typhoon tag-teamed to produce devastating results. Happened on 2006 with Typhoon Durian. Earlier eruption from Mt. Mayon a year ago deposited large amount of ashes near the summit. So when Typhoon Level 4 Durian landed on the Bicol Region, entire villages are buried under. And its not just mudflow, they came with freaking huge ass boulders. I believe the biggest I have seen is 6 ft. More or less. The rain hits so hard that a freaking chasm was carved out of the volcano's body, adding more fuel for the mudflow and creating a new water ways for it, meaning that previous advisories became obsolete and caused a lot of casualties. The rain also took out a huge and very noticeable chunk from the Mayon's summit, damaging its perfect cone.
I have been living in the Philippines for 37 years without leaving the land, other than going fishing or swimming. And as a foreigner, I've never been happier in my life. The Filipino people are strong and kind. With all the problems caused by nature, the country rebuilds and continues.
Malakas na Bansa!
Malalakas na tao!
Its nice to know that there are foreigners who values our country! but may i ask what persuaded you the most to stay in the Philippines?
@@nutbuster4204 There were several reasons.
I was told often I didn’t belong in the country where I was born. But, I was told “Welcome to the Philippines”, as a young Airman. I fell in love with the country. And the people here. The exchange rate was 7.32 to the USD, but I lived on base at Clark AFB, so that was not a problem.
I was able to see lots of Luzon, riding a motorcycle. I meant the love of my life during those years. When I rotated back to the US, I sent for her. We were married in Elko. At first, we disagreed, because she thought I would stay in the US. After I told her, that there is a divorce law in the US and I could find her replacement, no matter how long it took. We returned to the Philippines in 1983, after I retired from the US Airforce. She has no regrets about this now.
All of her family were happy when I brought her back home. Her mother always sided with me when things got touchy. Her sisters told her to stop trying to get me to send her back to the US. We bought two lots. We had a home built, and she started raising pigs. She used that money to help her family. All I had to do was pay our bills and feed the pigs.
I wanted to live in her home area, but she wanted to live in Manila. We settled halfway between the two. We adopted a baby boy here because I got clipped before we meant. I didn’t want any kids because of how I was looked upon in my birth country because of being a dark-skinned person. Living in the Philippines has almost erased the upsetting childhood memories I have. My life is wonderful here. I know my wife loves me. She shows me love every day.
@@theodethomasa6358 Wow haha that was very touching, im very happy to where you are right now man, your living your best life!
@@nutbuster4204 And my best life just keep getting better. Last month we bought an EV bike to avoid all the problems of fuel. I'm working toward putting solar panels on my roof.
Thank you
I'm a Filipino and this is a fair assessment with accurate information. Tho one thing I'd like to put out is that we don't really feel that separated from each region. We do feel we're one Filipino people despite the differences in language, religion, and meme culture. Kudos kapatid!
I thought so too until I lived outside of the Philippines for 20 years and realized how divided we are. As if bayanihan didn’t exist.
Meme culture is quite universal though. There are a few regional staples but its only limited to a few.
Speak for yourself.
Most of the people I encountered who are from Luzon look down on people who are not from the region, specially people who are from Mindanao. They go as far as saying that Mindanaoans eat people alive or do not have electricity nor cars.
Meanwhile, most Christians in Mindanao do not trust Muslims, while most Muslims do not trust anyone else except other Muslims.
@@nefsurvival here in davao its kinda chill with Muslims but when the marawi siege happened the Muslims kinda got descriminated here
@@karlusarn yeah that was unfortunate. I'm a Catholic and grew up in a Muslim area and I can attest that they're pretty chill (most of them). Not so different from us.
Elitist Luzonians on the other hand, that's a different story. I try to understand where their discrimination against Mindanaoans come from, but it's too much at times that I can't help but develop contempt against them lol
Our nation may not be blessed by geography but we make up for it with the memes.
As I Brazilian I relate to this as hell
Our country is one big meme unfortunately 😢
Our Country is a Circus, not lying
Geographically your country act like a shield for my country Vietnam btw so I am grateful to Philippine and its people
@@tobyblasto3482 The Filipino spirit shall prevail, rain or shine that's how our ancestors do it, and that's how will do it for the future to come.
I am from the Philippines. Most of what you said is true to life. Especially on the part when you mention about typhoons.
Every month in a year we often expect for the worst and got used to it. Yet in my entire lifetime I only experienced being in a raging typhoon (signal#4) last December 2021. I will never forget it; me and my family almost got hit by a 110-year old mango tree when Super Typhoon Odette hit Cebu. It was like inches away from our home, only it tilted a bit from having a direct fall.
That was my second or the third life by far (?) I ain't sure how many times I got close calls with death tho lol.
@@TheGoodShipBlue well, thanks to Hollywood and American literature like Hardy Boys 🤣
1:36 This map was originally made by me. It is not a very good map I have to say, which was the reason that project was abandoned and was to be restarted. It might seem offensive to some so I didn't intend to publicize the map, but an old friend did try to complete the rest of it and uploaded it on Reddit which was how it got popular. If any are interested in a better map it will be on my UA-cam channel, as I plan to redeem myself from these potentially offensive inaccuracies. Nonetheless I am honored to see my map in this good video.
One inaccuracy tho is "kumusta/como esta", it is not kumutsa but kumusta, a Filipinized spelling of como esta
Hey man, been a while
Oi windsphere here, been a while my friend
Yow Lodi!
Nice one!
I hope the new generation will still use the correct Filipino spellings. Media are supporting these incorrectly spelled words.
Ah yes, the country that invites every member of their families. Including Mother Nature
Seriously, I'm surprised that the Philippines (along with Indonesia) managed to keep their sovereignty on these cluster of territories.
Same because basically every 2 years a C5 landfall happenes
When there's a bigger enemy outside, we tend to unite... mostly.
But our regionalist tendencies do get in the way of greater things.
@@blackpowderuser373 yeah, Tagalogs I can't say for sure but Visayans vote for Visayans, Ilocanos vote for Ilocanos (mostly, I know relatives of mine who will vote for Leni, and I know they're Ilocanos, it's more of a generalization than a rule)
@@arkcliref Aside from Bicol Region, Leni's other major balliwick is Western Visayas. Cebu and Central Visayas is a free-for-all between Leni, BBM, Isko and PacMan. Eastern Visayas is BBM mostly.
Northern Mindanao is Leni vs. BBM. Central Mindanao is Pacman vs. BBM.
Bangsamoro is where BBM could be weakest. Leni or Isko here, but Sara would still dominate the VP race in Mindanao.
Again, generalizations only.
@@blackpowderuser373 we need to rally against the Persians, I mean the Chinese.
As a Filipino with Chinese ancestry, We suffered major racism due to the media how they portray us as an enemy not a citizen. Both of my parents who serves the military for a decade always tells me that it's unhappy to sacrifice your own life to a country that doesn't unite.
Edit: Both of my parents have ibaloi decent too that's why we suffer racial attacks whenever we visit manila or any tagalog provinces.
Sorry... :/
My Cousins are Chinese descendants but never have I ever considered them non Filipino, respect to your parents and the sacrifices they made👊💯
Even my own family made fun of me for having dark brown skin, because white skin is the beauty standards haha
Hmmm, 50/50. My grandma is a Chinese herself and even she, is against China. Not necessarily Chinese people, but it's government, the communists. They keep laying claim on our Islands in the west. It's not really about race, lots of Filipinos actually envy China in terms of looks, East Asian people.
Edit: Chinese-Filipinos aren't oppressed either. They literally own most of the wealth, just look at the list of billionaires in the Philippines, most of them are Chinese lol. And even some Filipinos are racist against themselves, colorism is a thing in here. The Chinese have lighter skin.
Yup, this is an issue which is sad since a lot of our most patriotic members are Filipino Chinese. I think the insularity of the Filipino Chinese community is a reason why the malay people of the philippines distrust them although I don't really mind that the Filipino Chinese community sticks to itself, as long as they work, bleed, and die for the nation, then they are my brothers and sisters.
You know, I always found it a bit 'weird', when I see news from abroad, being very worried about a coming typhoon on their country, when only a 'super' typhoon (in my mind) was the only one to be really wary about.
But then I realized that getting around 5-7 typhoons a year was only 'normal' in my country. I thought our neighbors had it as much as well (taiwan, malaysia, thailand, indonesia, etc.) Apparently they don't get it as frequently as we do?! That was news to me! And now 1-2 'super' typhoons are expected yearly moving forward.... so yeah, that's fun.
it’s amazing how diverse my country is. yet it breaks me heart that due to 3 major colonizations (and the geography as said in this video), key parts of our culture is being discriminated by the same people who live in the country.
wag ka iyak
@@hikoie793 (2)
Is that why I have some minor discrimination against Tagalog people?... It's not really something major... They just sound snobbish to me sometimes, maybe it's just because I speak Bisaya...
@@CommissarChaotic I am kinda in the same boat xD. Heaven forbid, they start speaking "taglish"
@@CommissarChaotic honestly, as someone who only speaks tagalog and English, do not feel bad for feeling a bit discriminatory against tagalog speaking people 💀 i live in visayas, went to Luzon because of this church camp thing a few years ago, they made fun of my accent because it sounded "harsh". and the people i met--they literally make fun of anyone who has an accent when speaking tagalog, my relatives told me to just speak English because my accent isn't very noticeable
2020 was a fun adventure in the Philippines. At the start of the year, Taal Volcano Erupted, causing an immediate shortage of masks due to ash. Then Covid-19 happened, causing another shortage of masks. Then a shortage of water happened. Then by June, at least 1 typhoon every month. Fun
You forgot that we had two supertyphoons in one month that year. Rolly and Ulysses.
Jeez we really took one hell of a beating that year huh?
@@egglord2029 in 2021 taal blew up again, in the same month as last time, which was hilarious
For the world, it was some pretty shocking news.
For the Philippines, it was Tuesday.
A normal tuesday routine for a filipino
Typhoons are so common here that as I kid, I was surprised to know that not every country experiences it. But well, at least Filipino students can have class suspensions at any point of the year because of those spinny bois lol
Bruh pre-covid we were the only city in the entire island to hold classes during a class 4 typhoon (in the entire fucking island)
@@kyleterry5190 Do you perhaps live in Angeles City?? I heared the mayor of that city does not care about typhoons most of the time haha
@@dalian8677 no, I live in negros oriental, specifically bayawan city, and It wasn't just our city that had classes, only the 3 major high schools had classes in the whole freakin island
@@kyleterry5190 and ppl think normal lockdown zoom classes are hard \(º □ º l|l)/
@@moonbug7252 Pretty sure students who have to go through raging rivers, rotten bridges, hills, and heavy rain or hot days would like to have a word with you
In terms of cultural identity, I wholeheartedly believe our identity issues could be solved through federalism. As a Filipino born in California, I don’t identify nor really care about the problems facing Texans. However, through having a federalist government, my identity as a Californian is preserved while still maintaining strong ties with Texans. In the same way, Filipinos living in Cebu don’t care for Manila, but making Cebu a bonafide state with the same powers and responsibilities as those in Manila would empower both to invest in their own cultural identity while preserving the ties between them through a federation.
Some corrections/clarifications without passing judgment on your premise:
1. Typhoons are bigger problems than earthquakes. We have 20+ typhoons every year, there are super typhoons roughly every 3 years.
2. There's no significant forest fires in the Philippines. Too wet and not much to burn.
3. Destructive volcanic eruptions are more frequent than earthquakes.
4. The portion about the national language is inaccurate. Filipino (Tagalog) and English are now well used throughout the country.
Super typhoons are, in my opinion, getting more and more common nowadays. Just last year we had one major super typhoon and now just after christmas season starts we already got another super typhoon. It's honestly really scary.
Really? Normal lang ang typhoon sa atin lalo na sa mga Bicolano.. Mas takot tayo sa lindol wag kang maging T*nga..
Correction on number 3. Earthquake is always more frequent than Volcanic Eruptions because an Earthquake is a sign of a possible Eruption and there are hundreds of Earthquakes every year that aren't being felt enough on the surface of the ground but the government's seismograph always detects it.
@Bang me Chan he is probably referring to destructive earthquakes.
We do have some forest fires but they aren't the mega monsters that countries like Indonesia have dealt with. I remember just before the Pandemic Lockdowns began that some of the forests in Benguet were actually burning. The funny thing was on the other side of Pulag, it was still mostly cloudy and rainy (I was in the Banaue area that time in late Feb 2020).
love your series! got me thinking more about geo-political powers at play. as an age2 player as a kid, these videos hit the spot i didnt know i wanted. thank you.
This is gonna blow up
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This is my original comment to the uploader of the video.
Excuse me, but this is extremely over simplified... kindly read (Transforming Manila: China, Islam and Spain in a Global Port City) by Ethan Hawkley... it's free and google. You're speaking as if the Spaniards created the colony out of nothing, when in reality the Spaniards highly relied on the locals and Manila's trading colony, that extended across the archipelago even before European contact. Manila basically had some form of economic dominance over the other polities. The Spaniards then based their colony on Manila's trading empire.
Secondly, kindly study about anthropology... when a culture has strict social stratification and a recognized elite/ruling class, that culture isn't a "tribe", it's either a chiefdom or a state society. Meanwhile, tribes are more egalitarian and don't have strict social stratification, which means that they don't have a distinguished elite/ruling class. Spanish accounts were definitely clear about encountering influential rulers across the archipelago. If Tui Tonga in the middle of the Pacific could be considered an "empire" then I don't see why Manila's trading colony can't be considered an "empire" as well, if the native Lakotas in the USA could be considered an "empire" despite not having a central ruling figure, then I don't see why Manila's trading colony, couldn't be considered an empire as well.
Lastly, you used images of the isolated Igorot mountain tribes to represent the whole archipelago as "tribal", when in reality, people in the lowland cultures were more connected to each other due to trade, they spoke Malay as a trade language or lingua franca, they also wore similar silk clothing, which are clearly depicted in the Boxer Codex, one of Manila's cultural exports is the writing system Baybayin, which spread all over Luzon and the Visayas. In reality Manila's trading colony is what held the archipelago together, and the Spaniards took over this network when they arrived. Like I said, they didn't create the colony out of nothing. That's why I highly recommend the article of Ethan Hawkley, (Transforming Manila: China, Islam and Spain in a Global Port City).
The utter misinformation in this video is appalling, UA-camrs should be cautious when uploading historically and culturally sensitive content.
Ao2 for life
@@The-ZebraFinch-Channel - His content is historically inaccurate. UA-camrs should be responsible when making historically and culturally sensitive content.
Jollibee: exists
McDonald's: Hey, I've seen this....wait, who are you?
Jollibee: I'm you, but stronger
Filipinos are literally the embodiment of " this is fine" meme
My führer what are you doing here?
filpino gang 🇵🇭 to all my Filipino brothers and sisters ka musta ka?
Anybody getting mad here?
What's jollibee?
Wtf lmao
The geographical description is correct, but the allusion and conclusion from that is skeptical. Anyway, thanks to the effort made to come out this video
Agree with most of the video except for the part where it talks About being unable to communicate with other settlements due to the being divided by water. In the Visayas and Mindanao region, there was always communication and commerce, because the people adapted into a seafaring society.
But he is right. Most people will just stay in their own island if they are content with how their life with their neighbors. Sure there would be traveling between islands but I am pretty sure it would be significantly lesser
@@DunKirk1st man, most of my friends didn't actually came from Manila, most of them are either born in other parts of Luzon or Visayas.
name all
7000 islands if you truely are from the Philippines.
@@chozer1 lol some Filipinos even forget how many regions we have
@@DunKirk1st That's how it usually works even in the continents before better means of transport were invented. Even without the sea in between settlements, a lot of people never leave their villages for their entire lives.
It's also just traders that can afford horses that are able to go in-between settlements. We just have boats as our means of transport.
A Filipino is expected to experience a super-typhoon, volcanic eruption, earthquake, and/or tsunami at least once in their lives
Euphoric.
It's kinda fun waiting for it, until it happens..
Now that I think about it I dont remember any notable tsunamis happening in the ph but I did experience all the other 3.
@@leetorry I'm actually surprised for example that there's no damage from the Tonga volcano eruption going here.
is it weird to say that its common to experience all of this here. cause i have experienced 3 of this.
Super Typhoon? Check
Earthquake? Check
Tsunami? no
Political Bullshit? A million checks
The Latest Typhoon that hit Philipines really pissed me off. The flowers I garden as a hobby got demolished, my uncle's farm got screwed over, and my old friend's house went from being on the side of the road, to a random pile of sticks and metal sheets 500 meters downhill
Same and the electricity got out for an entire week
@@Pasjaququ unfortunately, some places still has no electricity, like Bohol
online classes but PLDT hasnt fixed my internet
This is why I want Filipinos to also know that one of the hardest things for Philippines to develop as a country is because of its Geography, its not the same as other Asian countries like Japan, Korea or Singapore to where their Geography are mostly in tact. Rail roads would be hard to develop, trading routes all have to go through a ship every time or in air. Infrastructures like a bridge for every Island to island connection would be impossible.
Love the Philippines from Vietnam
Don't worry...
We'll defend you. Typhoons usually expend their strength on us, so its weaker when it crosses to Vietnam.
@@eelchiong6709 what does it has to do with us? we don't fkin protect them, typhoon does weaken itself on its own, stop with the self entitlement..
thanks vietnam friend.
love yalls from vietnam too
@@eelchiong6709 nah man I feel bad for u I’m from india bro stay safe😢😮
As a Filipino, I never realized that having too many typhoons happening all at once wasn't a normal thing. The Philippines truly is a unique place, being rich in natural resources and having distinct cultures on each island. However, it is true that the geography of the Philippines is cursed; namely its position on the globe and the way each islands are distributed. It is also true that there are many ethnolinguistic groups in the Philippines, influenced by all the different colonizers. That is why instead of having Tagalog as our national language (because Tagalog was often used in literature and speeches), we now call our national language as "Wikang Filipino" or simply the Filipino language to not leave out those other languages that are used in other islands. Overall, I think that this was a great video :)
This video is ignorant.
The Philippines is abundance. Not doomed.
Geography and mother nature blessed your country with an abundance of gold. See the Boxer Codex. Early Filipinos were swimming in gold while other countries were fighting over it. Why do you think you've been colonized so much? So they can steal all your gold. Colonists risked their lives through seas just to come to your country cause they were living in the dark ages and had nothing
@@MM-qp4pd then having a typhoon every other month or so haha
When I first arrived in the Philippines in 1976, I was on my way to Manila. There was a guy that got on the (Rabbit) bus. He was trying to talk to the bus driver. The bus driver kept saying ANO, ANO. I didn't understand but my girlfriend told me
with a giggle, they don't understand each other. A different person on the bus started translating for both of them. The Filipino language must not have been spoken by both of them.
Even after so many foreign conquest and doomed geography
Philippines is still growing very fast
I have nothing but respect for Filipino
Love from India
move to a Philipino neighborhood as a non Philipino. you will be treated like family.
@@MarAntTheOG 🥰🥰🥰
ay thanks man.
Love you too my fellow curry brother 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
@@MarAntTheOG lol no filipinos are very racist towards outgroups including indians.
Just before a supertyphoon crossed the province where i live, my neighbors were singing on a karaoke machine (loudly) until electricity was cut. And because we have so many typhoons, we name them alphabetically per year and there is a backup of the first few letters in case we use all up to Z.
Disasters are not surprising, it's more seen as seasons since we expect them every year. An entire year without typhoon landfall is some sort of divine intervention.
As a Luzonian, I do NOT remember a single year where the island was not hit by one of those tropical cyclone systems at some point...
Island nations like UK, and Australia are really lucky as they are one big Island where pretty much the entire population lives, while Japan, New Zealand are lucky too as their main Islands are big and aren't very distant from each other by water, but Philippines has none of these.
UK, Indonesia and Japan are proper comparisons, they have massive island masses with easy access to even bigger landmasses, mainland Europe, mainland Southeast Asia and mainland East Asia. Luzon is completely isolated and it brings into light why the Sabah issue is important, access to Borneo(which is an island too unfortunately, but at least it's huge)
as a filipino, i could say that this is really well done. it all checks out even the post collonial period of the phillipines. good job, much love!
Philippines: a country on hard mode
Australia: Finally, a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!
"The first people groups to inhabit the Philippines were the Austronesians." not true in the slightest. The Negritos showed up around 30,000 years ago. Austronesians settled in the Philippines around 4,000 years ago
Isn't Australia on veteran mode?
@@princerosevelt
Constant Forest fires 🔥, Emu war ,constantly burning, always seem to be at war with the locals [by that i mean the hell spawn they call animals there]
@@allankanegalian6401 we have bats at the size of a human and an eagle that can eat monkey
@@BlazeYT_ btw F to our endangered monkey eating eagles. Hopefully they wont become extinct.
Negritos are Austronesians came from ofc africa great migration during ice age settled in China and went to taiwan then the Philippines and spread throughout Oceania.
Why do i feel that having snow is much better than sunny all year round!
I respect The Philipines a lot, because it's like a shield for us blocking the typhoons, waves,etc. protecting us from those horrific disasters. Love from Vietnam🇻🇳❤️🇵🇭
Love you too from PH. We like to buy nice products made in Vietnam. Made in China is overrated.
Your noodles are great tho
Im a filipino but our ppl that got hit by the disasters died and the philippines being the shield and foreign ppl just dance in tiktok while some of us die bruh
@@AutisticAudi yeah, what a society we live in
@@khoalinski yep all normal to me even if i die and ppl near me that has tiktok still dances
When a super typhoon hits other counties, the first thing people in those countries do are prepare and probably panic.
The same super typhoon hits the Philippines, and the first thing that comes to mind is if there will be class / work suspensions so they could just sleep.
Yes
Same. Lol. I have to wait for the announcement of the school if the class is cancelled.
Fr, since I moved here in the US, I really miss waiting for school suspensions from disasters
Employer: We *HAVE* work tomorrow.
Employee: Can we wear semi-casual? *calling while half the body is submerged in flood*
thats for developed areas not on the rural areas where a simple flood can affect their household
ive been reading the comments and ppl seems to use filipino and tagalog interchangeably. we already learned that those are two different languages in school, my fellow filipinos. ive said this before and im saying it again:
filipino is heavily based on tagalog incorporating words from other major languages in the country along its creation, with the addition of taglicised english, arabic, and spanish words.
on the other hand, tagalog does not have foreign words but do amount some other native words albeit not that known.
for example: filipino mostly use 'pero' from the spanish 'pero' while tagalog does not have that in its vocab, it instead have 'ngunit, subalit, bagamat' and others. (note: ngunit, subalit and bagamat are formed by nguni+at, subali+at, bagaman+at)
I like your knowledge of thr nation's history on knowledge!
Whoa, is that right? Filipino and Tagalog are different??? 💀💀💀 Rip my Pinoy self.
Filipino as a national language makes sense then. That's nice.
@@thesparks00 Tagalog is part of the languages in the Philippines while Filipino is our national language. Correct me if I'm wrong tho.
To put it simply Filipino language is a bit formal for day to day use you'd usually see news networks use them but for day to day interaction Tagalog tends incorporate words from every language as long as it gets the persons point across. You even have english words being tagalogized just by adding a few letters to it even tho its not in the dictionary. But your right tagalog is highly modular and it kinda works for the most part
A bit of correction about "English" and "Tagalog" being the only language thought in school. IDK for the rest of the country but we have the subject "Mother Tongue" which is a subject where we are though a certain language from that region (in our case it's Ilocano) though it was only from Grade 1 - 3
and also yeah, Our municipality literally has 3 ethnolinguistic groups with just 10km apart from each other
As an Indonesian, i wish the best for Philippines brother.
You to.
Thank you..God bless your country too
Can we move there? 👀
thank you indonesian friend
Bruh Indonesia is also a nation of islands.
Saludos de Texas
The Philippines has always contended with many problems and has always survived. Now becoming an industrialized country, it has performed well economically but best of all, when one area or province is hit with a typhoon or earthquake the whole nation comes together to help the stricken ones. This is what unites the country into a good nation of 111 million Filipinos.
Nah, not necessarily "comes together." Some opportunists, mostly politicians, take advantage of those donations from other countries or private sectors who just wanted to help the areas affected. The politicians, once they get a hold of those donations, spend those moderately (when they shouldn't be, because the affected areas needed it the most) so that they can corrupt some of those donations that are left when they spent little amount of money for the affected areas.
many are ignorant about the fact that the government keeps trapping itself to China's debt trap lmao and media is biased as shit
@@havenbreaker7956 I agree that media is biased as shit, but Chinese debt trap? It just takes a short amount of time to know that the Philippine's public exposure debt to China is the lowest in Asia
Ignorant video. The Philippines is abundance and filled with resilient people . Not doomed.
Geography and mother nature blessed your country with an abundance of gold. See the Boxer Codex. Early Filipinos were swimming in gold while other countries were fighting over it. Why do you think you've been colonized so much? So they can steal all your gold. Colonists risked their lives through seas just to come to your country cause they were living in the dark ages and had nothing.
@@MM-qp4pd Lay off the Copium.
Fun fact:The super typhoon he mentioned is locally called Yolanda in the Philippines and when I was 5 years old me and my family experienced it....It was very scary!
I forgot how old i was, since i never really remember haha
How is that a "Fun" Fact?
@@TIKUL6 well... It's a fun fact for me!
I remember the pleasant silence and the atmospheric breeze of the typhoon while I was resting after moping all the water from our FLOODED Household
@@TIKUL6 Yeah it kill more than 3000 people alone not to mention slow government response
i do some research after watching this video.
Doomed?
Man that's just a normal week for us. Except about five or so super typhoons, we vibe with the daily flooding.
then i guess schools shouldnt be suspended lol idk why the government is overreacting.
Very well explanation on the geography and culture divide that exist in our country.
Wow such a positive summary. Let me say something about the Philippines 🇵🇭 it might have a lot of issues with terrain and natural disasters but it by far compensates these issues with the fact that Philippine people are the most wonderful and beautiful hearted people I have ever known.
My friend (we're from PH) moved to Australia. He goes to an Australian school now. And everyone thought he was a saint by just the common gestures you would expect from someone over here. Weirdest second hand culture shock I had this year.
@@ohheyitscyber2848 Tell me about it if you want ☺️
@@alexandercarder2281
Yeah so now he's apparently "the cool kid". The teachers love him, the students love him, and he's not going broke every month from buying school supplies. One example he gave me was the teacher dropped something and he picked it up for them as you do because it's convenient for them and of no consequence to you. And every ones mind was absolutely boggled at how naturally he made such a common gesture. He's smart (by their standard lmao he was struggling over here), and Asian so people were naturally curious. The biggest difference was how much easier school was over there. Let me give you a run down of how school is for us. You wake up at 4 - 6 am, get ready, leave for school immediately, rush hour is 6 - 7am, school starts at 7am sharp, you get a 15 minute recess as a brake in the morning, you go home to have lunch or eat packed lunch (cafeteria if you're feelin a little *weird* ) at 11:45am. Then class starts at 1pm sharp. You get no afternoon brakes and you go home at 5pm. Now unlike alot of other countries, our schools don't provide very much for their students and staff. You get some land, some rooms, a path, a cafeteria, a gym, and some bathrooms. In the the rooms are just chairs(ones with tables kind of as an arm)for students a table for the teacher and a blackboard to write on. Everything else, and I mean EVERYTHING, including events, is on you. Compared to that, his school experience in Australia was like going back to 1st grade, it gave him time and energy to start working out and work on himself which only further impresses the people there. The thing about our people is that we are to broke to complain about much, we are very diligent if it allows for reliable benefit. We also come from the Bikol region where the dialect diverts incredibly from tagalog (pronounced taGAlog) which means we're basically expected to be trilingual as a default, our friend group is especially fluent in english because of Internet and TV media so we have alot of trouble in comprehending some more verbose sentences and phrases in our language lmao. I don't even know the difference between how you say 12 and 20 anymore, I just either give them extra so they can figure it out or say it in english in a thick accent. Anyways thats a few reasons why we can't really afford to just be mean or cold to any or everyone, actually now that i think about it I have never had a bully experience quite like they do in america, the bullies just kind of insult or tease me and i can just chase after them aggressively and they'll run off, sometimes I even have friendly conversation with some of them, kind of like siblings. Hope that was interesting for you to read because that was way longer that I anticipated it being.
Oh my god I wrote a long paragraph.
Things a whole damn essay.
@@ohheyitscyber2848 Your just like me 😌
The Phillppine islands may be not connected, but we can all agree on one thing.
Bullsh*t internet connection
We have used to have PLDT abd it was so great, no loading and stuff and now we have sky, takes millions of years just to load a Twitter photo
Geography?
The Philippines doomed the Philippines
But the Geography issues gave the corrupt or short sighted politicians excuses
We didn't get a proper train system. I don't get why we don't have an inter train system
If anyone wonders how much typhoon Philippines faces yearly , the country faces 22 typhoons yearly with some of it has a possibility of being a super typhoon which causes Billions of infrastructure damage and other sorts of crisis.
as the filipino living in the NCR, i do agree with the points of the video. Let us hope na maganda kapalaran ng bansa natin sa mga susunod na taon.
also the timing is great since its election season
The NCR? What are your opinion on the bear and the bull?
Election? More like a popularity contest
@@attacheli9591 it's National Capital Region
Move the Capital to Cebu. It will make administering the south easier while still keeping in touch with the north
@@carlosandleon doesn't really make sense to move the capital since it'll only spell a crisis for the country lol compared to Metro Manila, Cebu is underdeveloped. Plus Cebu already is a capital, a regional capital for the whole of Visayas, so is Davao for Mindanao.
A nice comparison my professors used to describe pre-colonial 'Filipinos' (i used quotation marks because the concept of Filipinos didnt exist yet, they didnt identify as one people from one country). Pre-colonial 'filipinos' were the Vikings of south east asia, both in how their religion was Pagan and Animist, and how they were a bunch of sailing warriors, raiding islands.
I'm a Filipino, i've experienced the Earthquake (aftershock), Typhoon (also flooded in Typhoon Ondoy). I always listen on the News Headline that happened here in the country. But still i experienced some of the Natural Disaster here on the Philippines.
Exactly the way how you explained why it is doomed is the same way how I see it why it is hone through adaptation. It's amazing how the inhabitants of the islands could still put a country together despite all the differences in languages and culture; despite the more than 300 years under Spain dominance, 50 years under USA, and over 3 years under Japanese control the Philippines can now enjoy its sovereignty. One can argue that he is a Tagalog or an Ilocano or a Kapampangan or a Cebuano or Waray or Davaowenyo or Tausog or Mangyan or Agta or whatnot, but he won't argue that he is a FILIPINO. Despite the disperse island locations, the people of the Philippines is one connected through their " filipinoness " It wasn't an easy process but though resoluteness they did it. It is exactly the geographical location of the Philippines as one of the important reasons why foreign powers wanted to control it and that is still true today concerning China, and it is exactly the experience that the Filipino people had with them that conditioned the Filipino character to be resilient, steadfast and resolute --- If they can withstand that they can definitely withstand hurricanes and earthquakes. The Philippines and its people was conditioned and honed to be resilient through adaptation. History has taught them to be.
China has no interest in controlling the Philippines. they literally do not think about you at all.
@@miri283 I bet you...What is stopping China is because uncle Sam is an ally.
I hope the Philippines get better and we can have good relationships. Greetings from Spain 🇪🇸♥️🇵🇭
The Philippines and Spain already have a good relationship. Spain is noted for having good relations with nearly all their colonies, compared to Algeria and France or Britain and India.
So sad Japanese Destroy some NeoClassical Buildings made by Spanish
Edit : and our North-South rails
@@a.c6761 No!
@@kimkimhye5964 Bruh. We barely even interact with them. -_- You're just simping for Spain.
Philippines already has good relations with Spain in the modern day same with other the former colonies. but imo Philippines best partners outside of Asia is definitely Latin America, given the shared culture. lots of Filipinos and Latin people where i live often date and marry one another
Tagalog and Filipino are two different languages. Filipino is an official language (English being the other) which is based off of Tagalog comprising of more loan words than the latter to serve as a lingua franca to the archipelago. Tagalog is the more traditional language commonly found in the southlands of Luzon.
English: Affected
Filipino: Apektado
Tagalog: Napinsala/Nasalanta
(Disclaimer: This is based of my knowledge and is probably inaccurate.)
Those words may not be the best example for differences between Tagalog and Filipino, since apektado (like the word it's a direct translation of) is a pretty general term while napinsala specifically means suffering damage and nasalanta is that, but with connotations usually attached to natural disasters. But yeah, I otherwise agree, Tagalog and Filipino should not be conflated because there's a pretty significant difference.
Filipino has two different meaning. Filipino is what you call to the people who live in the Philippines, regardless of their tribes, language and tradition. The Filipino language is sometimes referred to as all of the language that exist or did exist in the Philippines. But most of the time people mistaken it as the standardized of Tagalog because it's the language that has the most speaker in the country. The apektado and nasalanta/napinsala are both Tagalog, making the apektado one of the 'hiram na wika or loan word' in the Tagalog language. Bisaya, Ilocano and other languages in the country also have loan words from cultural influences so you can't compile all of the loan words from the Spanish and tell that it's Filipino. There is a language that mostly consist of Spanish language that's still alive and spoken in the country- the Chavacano (spoken in Ternate Cavite, Zamboanga and Cotabato). It's also a language that is part of the Filipino language along with Tagalog, Bisaya, Kapampangan, Ilocano etc.
Different word but same meaning
Tagalog its the people who speak that laguage native in luzon while pilipino the national laguage used and that laguage is used is tagalog, so means tagalog is also a language, and a people who live in luzon. While pilipino is also a national language used, as well as the people in whole philipine island, both same talk about the people and language.
affected at napinsala ay hindi magkapareho ng kahulugan,
this video really does prove a lot of points about us
with the loads of dialects we have here, i am still struggling to understand the ilocano. (i grew up in the city)
there are disasters nearly weekly (literally)
typhoon yolanda sucked and typhoon rolly had more strong air than rain
all the eruptions were equally painful (except mt pinatubo) but the latest eruption of taal was really placed before the pandemic, only giving at least 2 months to recover without covid being on the way
during the dry season, it's blazing hot and we need nearly 7 electric fans to be okay in one house, and during the wet season, it's so cold we need to shut all the windows and doors.
not only that, but whenever it's raining, sometimes ice starts falling from the sky. i don't know how often this happened, but i did witness it once.
also Christmas 2022 was very windy
now, it may seem like a pain, but we can keep up with it.. unless disaster strikes near your area
stay inside during typhoons, prepare canned food, wear clothing appropriate for the weather, and all that stuff
but to be honest, the Philippines is amazing, just that there's messed up stuff that happened in history regarding invasion and some natural disasters, and also the fact that disasters still ruin the country every month or so, but we still have the philippine culture and other stuff
Good work on the video, just some critiques though. I found the whole notion of "the philippine islands are divided by water and thus they are seperated and cannot connect to one another" strange, especially the part where it suggest that pre-colonial filipinos had no way of leaving their islands to interact with one another which is just wrong. Recent archaelogical findings suggest otherwise, as artifacts from all around southeast asia paint the image of a more connected Philippines as said artifacts act as proof of interaction from the various polities that made up the pre-colonial island all over SEA, its only natural for a group that can cross the south china sea to other islands to sail into islands near them. The notion of water serving as barrier for groups of people isn't a universal one, in certain groups it is seen as a way to connect people rather than seperate them, a sea would just be really wide highway to them. Additionally, the notion that the Philippines is "the only christian asian nation" is just inaccurate, while it is the largest it is not the only christian majority with East Timor being another SEA country with a majority catholic population. I just wanted to share my thoughts as I've seen quite a lot of people cover Philippine history especially the pre-colonial era with dated references that had no access to modern archaelogical findings .
Yeah, Austronesian culture's strength is the water travel, stuff like the Polynesian diaspora happening shows wide stretches of can't truly separate these groups, ironically it is land in the form in mountains that does it more.
@@zjzr08 The Austronesian peoples are indeed the masters of ancient seafaring, they're essentially as close as the pre-modern world had to space travelers considering the insane distances of water they regularly traveled relying mostly on what little they had on their ships to survive. They were so good at it that for a long time their ships could run circles around even the greatest designed European ships.
This video is pretty bs. My reactions watching this video are mixed Yes and No's, a LOT of lies. Aside from Filipino and English, Native languages are now being taught in schools for years, not this 5:06 . And despite being very diverse when it comes to culture/tradition/languages, most Filipinos speak Filipino/Tagalog to communicate around the Philippines, and we use english to communicate around the world. We might have major problems with Typhoons and Earthquakes, but that doesn't mean we're doomed. Other countries have problems too, maybe not with Typhoons but some other issues. This video is scaring away investors and making me feel inferior.
9:27 *VOLUME WARNING* Audio jump scare.
I had to up the volume because his voice was a bit low, only to have my ears and heart blasted away at the timestamp.
*Being a filipino is already a responsibility*
More like a Debuff hahaha
@@johnnytenno2080 napatawa mo ako yawa ka 😂
Not only its geography, it has been doomed because of its politics and government!
people keeps talking about the 3 empires philippines got colonized by, but bong bong marcus and the manuel l quezon history is too underrated
Philippines is the largest costomer of typhoon along with Japan.
Typhoons just love isolated islands
tbh earthquakes too, it's a miracle that the Philippines haven't experienced a major tsunami yet (and hopefully that never happens)
@@yolo8283 Thank marianas for that I guess?
The Pacific Ocean loves us as much as it loves Japan, every year it sent us more than 26 typhoons like a terribly written love letter.
Customer lmfao
As someone living here for basically my whole life, I've always thought that havinga storm hit us like every month or 2 along with the constant heat wave and temperature changing like a metronome was normal. Apperently not.
Ignorant video The Philippines is abundance and filled with resilient people . Not doomed.
Geography and mother nature blessed your country with an abundance of gold. See the Boxer Codex. Early Filipinos were swimming in gold while other countries were fighting over it. Why do you think you've been colonized so much? So they can steal all your gold. Colonists risked their lives through seas just to come to your country cause they were living in the dark ages and had nothing
The Philippines experienced a lot of challenges. Despite all these, the Filipino people remain resilient and are a bunch of happy, optimistic and proud people.
maybe a little too proud
yes but not for the families who died and those who are still stupid to vote for corrupt and convicted politicians.
Ignorant video. The Philippines is abundance and filled with resilient people . Not doomed.
Geography and mother nature blessed your country with an abundance of gold. See the Boxer Codex. Early Filipinos were swimming in gold while other countries were fighting over it. Why do you think you've been colonized so much? So they can steal all your gold. Colonists risked their lives through seas just to come to your country cause they were living in the dark ages and had nothing.
You know the geographic situation in the Philippines is bad when its top trending songs from the last two years are about climate change.
2023: Raining in Manila
2024: Pantropiko (Tropical Island)
I think the incorporation of climate change in videos like this are often neglected and i think adding it is a good and more complete analyses of a nation's geopolitical future I only wish more videos like this.
now, ill be waiting for that one filipino dud giving us bible verses
Lmao
Fortunately, with advancements in communication technology and better interconnected infrastructure, the Philippines may be able to better weather the coming storms both literal and metaphorically. With a large young, educated, and determined population, coupled with improved infrastructure, market friendly economic reforms, and more foreign investment, the Philippines may still stay true to it's motto being "The Land Of Promise". Already we are the 3rd largest economy in ASEAN with a gdp size of 406 billion as 2022, growing annually at 6-7%, potentially even becoming a trillion dollar economy by 2030.
Anong kalokohan yang pinagsasabi mo?(What kind of BS are you talking about?)
I'm not too optimistic. It will grow and develop but there is massive brain drain in the country.
@@SuperVladamere He's not being "too optimistic". He's smoking something illegal.
A trillion dollar economy is far stretched but with the infrastructures such as trains and bridges and highways will push economic development.
@@joeldelica8706 I'm just trying to be nice 😅 the Phillipines is going to need a lot of work before they get to the point of other South East Asian nations.
Last I checked, Phillipines ranks at the top or number one of "balikbayan" that sends money back to the country. That's too many hands and minds overseas.
Fantastic Video. Thank you for speaking on the diversity of the Philippines
I really like the little detail at 3:00 when the Philippines flip their flag because they was in a state of war
True. It is definitely hard when it comes to natural disasters. I couldn't been more happier to live in an area in the Phils where we almost, ALMOST dodge every typhoon by a small bit. Sandwiched between north luzon and visayas, though we still experience harsh typhoons sometimes but it's not always the case. I pity people living in the furthest north where most typhoon goes. It is also surprising if a typhoon forms in the Visayan and mindanao region. Then again, we in the south luzon area, specifically Batangas, isn't too lucky because Taal volcano decided to erupt. We Filipinos can't really catch a break.
You are right my friend. The deforestation and the the eventual global warming made it worst. Studies showed that Philippines is the most deforested country on earth as compared to all other tropical countries (IndoChina, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, the African and the Latin American countries). Philippines has lost 90% of its rain forest since the arrival of the colonizers. We can blame these on them and now the big businesses, the foreign lenders and investors and the cartels, who are feeding the politicians for their uncaring interest and corporate greed. For them it's all about money and self interest. Please spread these awareness . . . Please save the Philippines.
Those foreigners really ruined the philippines
My wife is a Filipina and she had an interesting thing to say about the cultural separation. Filipinos are separated by mountains and joined by the sea. As an example is my wife's home island: Negros. Negros is split by a line of mountains into Negros Oriental and Negros Occidental, and both sides of the island share much more culture with islands across the sea from their shores, than with eachother. They have more separate history, speak different languages, and even in the modern day the two halves exist as separate provinces.
About not having a 1 common language is totally false. Majority of the Filipinos speak Tagalog and we can use this to communicate wherever we are in the country (almost). Even English is widely spoken.
absolutely agree!
I kinda disagree.
majority of Filipinos that are not in Luzon such as visayas and Mindanao do know tagalog but we don't use it to communicate locally but rather just our mother tongue. no one speaks tagalog unless u speak in tagalog mostly in these regions.
also kinda tired peeps from Manila who keeps asking people to speak in tagalog.
I'm more confident in English so I usually speak English when someone speaks tagalog coz Im not comfortable speaking tagalog.
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after speaking English they'll say conyo daw ako o pa feeling smart na englishero hhahahahahaha
100% disagree. I assume you've ever been anywhere else other than Luzon?
Yeah exactly we do have a common language and almost everyone is bilingual. We can communicate... And there's always English subs. 😆
im actually a native Filipino, and can speak tagalog( di mabihasa pru sapat para magka intindihan ) and can communicate in English too, and speak my native language and also visayan dialect, I can't speak for others but as far as i know and the people I've met they can speak both visayan and tagalog
Edit : they can speak but not too deeply tagalog.
Love Philippines from Egypt 🇪🇬❤️🇵🇭
why
You Egyptians sold yourself to the illegitimate state of israel.
@@monarchistiraqball7823 based monarchist Iraq Ball
Well, we've adapted to the geography that's why we're rapidly developing
God still wasn't able to wipe us out with supertyphoons, volcanos, earthquakes and bad governance. I think we'll just do fine.
@@abnerdoon4902 why god wanted to genocide the Philippines?
@@abnerdoon4902 yes, we Filipinos have persevered throughout many horrific events yet they didn't stop us from growing. For the outsiders perspective, they might think we are doomed or cursed but for us, we're just doing fine
Phew! That was close
true, in paper it looks like we're in actually cursed land and shithole... but in actuality *yes we are in shit hole* but hey we preserved. xD
It has been said before, we Filipinos would rather kill each other than unite as one.