FAMOUS and SIGNIFICANT contributions of the filipino people to the world?

[cretinous00]

there you go. it looks like you are playing a "switch and bait" game.

great to know a little bit of you! goodluck, and see you around, man!

thanks. you write well enough to try butler college. might be right in your alley.

[texasholdem]

thanks. you write well enough to try butler college. might be right in your alley.

hahahaha!!!

okay... okay...i give up!!!

[cretinous00]

I WIN!

woohoo!
woohoo!
woohoo!

[visionay]

what are some FAMOUS and SIGNIFICANT contributions of the Filipino people to the world?

^^^

Most probably the Thriller dance by the CEBU prisoners.

[mellowscream1]

Filipina named California district’s Woman of the Year

http://goodnewspilipinas.com/2011/04...n-of-the-year/

[grim_reaper1814]

You have finally said something that's worth a response.

Now tell me, what's wrong if I am a nanny? How do you feel that a nanny is more smarter than you?

To know who who you are, you got to look deeper within yourself, and not compare who you are with other people!

And you are right one's writing tells a lot of who you are. I can tell you are one of those rich brat filipinos who have live all their lives with a domestic helper. That does make you feel like superior than other filipinos?

Indeed, you are more smarter.

[Busilak]

Dr. Fe del Mundo - incubators

[mellowscream1]

After turning Manila into the “texting capital of the world,” Pinoys are now making their mark in the Twitter world of short, real-time social media content.

Ronnievinn Pagtakhan, a registered nurse and a teacher at Centro Escolar University (CEU) and Mapua Institute of Technology , was named winner of Twitter’s international Shorty Award in the nurse category at ceremonies at the Times Center in New York on March 28.

A former United States-based nurse, Ronnievinn tied for first place with American Matthew Browning, the founder of YourNurseIsOn.com.


http://globalnation.inquirer.net/glo...e-in-the-world

[WayPulos]

i take it you're one heck of a nanny.

funny.how.idiots.betray.themselves.in.what.they.write.

It's true. Filipinos are well known for being nannies. It hurts I know, but that's how they see Filipinos.

If that impression on us changes, I don't know when. It's the fault of our leaders I think. They made the Philippines very poor, so everything went down. Sometimes I think It's embarrassing to be Filipino.

Another thing they thought of us is having NO CULTURE. All other Asian culture is evident in the states like Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Indian, but nothing Filipino.

Filipinos are so proud speaking English, so when you run into say, an ATM machine anywhere in the states, you got choices of languages from Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, etc., but none Tagalog even if Filipinos are Third most numerous among Asians next only to Chinese and Indians.

You go to grocery store, most of the times they have Asian section that sell Asian products, you'll see products of Asians in their own Asian names with their writings, etc. Chinese, Thai, Indian, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malaysian.

But you don't see any Filipino product, if there is, only a handful and it is always marked in English. You wouldn't think it's from the Philippines at all.

So Filipinos are so invisible. They don't see our presence in America----I mean they see our nannies---but not our culture.

I think Filipinos should stop yelling FILIPINO PRIDE, since there's not even a Filipino word for it.

[kuroihikari]

I think Filipinos should stop yelling FILIPINO PRIDE, since there's not even a Filipino word for it.

You mean a single word for the phrase, or a translation? Because there is a translation for "Filipino Pride".

[WayPulos]

You mean a single word for the phrase, or a translation? Because there is a translation for "Filipino Pride".

If there is, then what is it? And would it have the same meaning and acceptance without sounding awkward?

Filipino language is fast becoming extinct. It's not developing. The only one phrase that's understood by everybody in the Philippines in Pilipino is HUWAG MAGTAPON NG BASURA DITO.

All others are in English like, NO PARKING, FOR RENT, FOR SALE, Etcetera. Now tell me it there is a counterpart for these phrases in Pilipino?

Are these signs acceptable to be displayed in public places in the Philippines without the Pilipino counterpart printed next to it?

I wonder if the Department of Education is doing anything.

How can Filipinos be proud when they can't even make their own in their own language?

Instead of chanting Filipino pride, they should be yelling "VANISHING FILIPINOS"

[MugshotPEX]

You have finally said something that's worth a response.

Now tell me, what's wrong if I am a nanny? How do you feel that a nanny is more smarter than you?

To know who who you are, you got to look deeper within yourself, and not compare who you are with other people!

And you are right one's writing tells a lot of who you are. I can tell you are one of those rich brat filipinos who have live all their lives with a domestic helper. That does make you feel like superior than other filipinos?

teeheehee! your second line didnt make sense. heck, it even was tainted with double superlatives

to answer your last question: so you want to be rich din para ikaw naman ang may "nanny" para sa mga anak mo? ironic aint it? here you are bashing these "rich kids".

[MugshotPEX]

If there is, then what is it? And would it have the same meaning and acceptance without sounding awkward?

Filipino language is fast becoming extinct. It's not developing. The only one phrase that's understood by everybody in the Philippines in Pilipino is HUWAG MAGTAPON NG BASURA DITO.

All others are in English like, NO PARKING, FOR RENT, FOR SALE, Etcetera. Now tell me it there is a counterpart for these phrases in Pilipino?

Are these signs acceptable to be displayed in public places in the Philippines without the Pilipino counterpart printed next to it?

I wonder if the Department of Education is doing anything.

How can Filipinos be proud when they can't even make their own in their own language?

Instead of chanting Filipino pride, they should be yelling "VANISHING FILIPINOS"

oh god, an exact translation of "Filipino Pride"? i mean, seriously? is that hard to translate it?

oh god, we are surrounded by stoopid pinoys na Filipino pride lang hindi kaya i-translate.

[rapirap]

ok children back to topic:

this is a big contribution: http://ph.news.yahoo.com/7-pinoys-su...90500-093.html

[spez]

Amador Muriel- Quantum Theory of Turbulence (something like that, i think, whatever that means)

Abelardo Aguilar- Erythromycin

Roberto del Rosario- Karaoke

Yoyo- ya, whatever...

Philippine martial arts

Jose Rizal writings- ex. Mi ultimo adios translated into 40 languages

IRRI- rice varieties developed here are used all around the world

Freddie Aguilar- Anak- translated into many languages. i even heard it in chinese.

Considering the world population now is nearing 7 billion people.. add to that the people who've come and gone since the time of Rizal.. i'd say having a mere handful of "filipino accomplishments" isnt really anything to crow about. That not even 1/100th of 1%.

Jose Rizal's writings.. yes, he's our national hero and we love his works, but just because its been translated to several languages doesnt mean literary critics of the world is considering his works as exceptional.

Ditto with ANAK. Is it even in list of the world's top 10,000 songs of all time?

This thread reminds me of my exasperation at reading my daughter's textbook in Grade school on "Filipino Heroes".

Among the usual... Jose Rizal, Andres Bonifacio, Ninoy and Cory Aquino.. you have

Lea Salonga... ok, Culturally speaking, I'd give her that.. but being called a "Hero"? hmmm stretching it a bit but ill let it pass..

Lydia de Vega... for her 70s or is it 80s record in Track and Field. Isnt her record broken by now or does she still hold it? Kind of sad that we have to look back to the 70s to find some sports hero..

Manny Pacquiao and Efren Bata Reyes.. ok,, they are sports heroes and does the country proud.. no arguements here.

Charice Pempengco... how very current of the textbook to include her already (note that the book must have been written before her Pyramid and Glee success). Is being a pop star with global exposure enough to be called a "Hero?"

and finally, included in this list of FILIPINO HEROES is...

Cesar Montano... for starring in a Holywood Film (never mind if it was just a supporting role). I was like... WTF?? SERIOUSLY?? Is this what they teach kids in school these days? I cringe that i have to teach my child to memorize this name to answer for their school quiz. SERIOUSLY, DEPED???

Do we need to scrape the bottom of the barrel just to pad up a list of certified Filipino heroes?

I guess i'll take it as a small consolation that the author did not include Willie Revillame in that list....

[Mapanuring_Pinoy]

ang tagumpay ng isa, dalawa o tatlong Pinoy ay hindi maiuugnay sa tagumpay ng lahi. Maaaring nagtagumpay siya dahil nagsumikap siya. Hindi nito sinasalamin ang ibang mga pinoy na hindi nagsusumikap.

sabi nga nila, hindi porket may isang puno na namunga, buong gubat namunga na. masyadong kolektibo ang pag-iisip ng ilan nating kababayan

Bisita po kayo sa www.mapanuringpinoy.blogspot.com

[gipi]

Ask non-filipinos and most likely they will say filipinos are the best househelpers, best nanny's, best housesitters and best domestic helpers.

Stop dreaming about filipinos as being famous for being creative artists, brilliant scientists, inventors, entreprenuers, etc. There is nothing wrong with being known for exporting domestic helpers. What is wrong is for other pinoys to dream of filipinos being like Europeans and anglos and japanese or other races famous for the achievements of one of their own.

We are who we are!

Any Filipino can claim of having a european blood and ancestry, that we have Hispanic origins, that we invented so and so, that we have two or three miss universe, that we have done this and done that! These things help the filipino pride, but all these good stuffs do not change who we are or where we come from.

when you watch wow wow wee, pinoys pride themselves by displaying placards showing they are from california, canada, australia, new jersy, etc., but in fact pinoys should hold up placards that say, i am from batangas or from philippines staying in new jersy. or when you watch japanese tv or chinese tv shows, you really feel like that's what your watching, but when you watch a pinoy tv show, they imitate other countries. they mix english with the pilipino like it is cool or fashionable, but it is really sad that pinoys have to dipict themselves as others.

[gipi]

If there is, then what is it? And would it have the same meaning and acceptance without sounding awkward?

Filipino language is fast becoming extinct. It's not developing. The only one phrase that's understood by everybody in the Philippines in Pilipino is HUWAG MAGTAPON NG BASURA DITO.

All others are in English like, NO PARKING, FOR RENT, FOR SALE, Etcetera. Now tell me it there is a counterpart for these phrases in Pilipino?

Are these signs acceptable to be displayed in public places in the Philippines without the Pilipino counterpart printed next to it?

I wonder if the Department of Education is doing anything.

How can Filipinos be proud when they can't even make their own in their own language?

Instead of chanting Filipino pride, they should be yelling "VANISHING FILIPINOS"

I saw a sign at the corner of edsa and ortigas avenue that read "Sidewalks are for people". Not only are pilipino languange becoming extinct, it becoming ridiculous.

[WayPulos]

oh god, an exact translation of "Filipino Pride"? i mean, seriously? is that hard to translate it?

oh god, we are surrounded by stoopid pinoys na Filipino pride lang hindi kaya i-translate.

There's none. If you're that good, then translate it.

You may as well translate NO PARKING, FOR RENT and NO LEFT TURN in Tagalog.

Pilipino language has now become a CREOLE language.

Drive around Manila, you won't see traffic signs in Tagalog.

How can Filipinos be proud of themselves when they can't even develop their own language to a level like ....say...Vietnamese or even Cambodian or Indonesian?

[rapirap]

There's none. If you're that good, then translate it.

You may as well translate NO PARKING, FOR RENT and NO LEFT TURN in Tagalog.

Pilipino language has now become a CREOLE language.

Drive around Manila, you won't see traffic signs in Tagalog.

How can Filipinos be proud of themselves when they can't even develop their own language to a level like ....say...Vietnamese or even Cambodian or Indonesian?