There are over 150 dialects in the Philippine Archipelago. Various schools dispute the fact that these are not dialects but languages. So there is an ongoing debate whether it’s Language or Dialect…potato, patata…tomato, tomata. I don’t want to get into that. Let the linguists battle in that arena. Anyway, since there are 150 dialects (or [...]
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Black is Brown too
Posted in African American Soldiers, Cousins of Color, David Fagen, Emilio Aguinaldo, Philippine American War on November 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Was there a history data “blackout” (no pun intended) about African American soldiers in the Philippine American war when we attended high school and college? Nobody talked about this. What happened? About a decade ago, I read an article about African American soldiers arriving in the Philippines to augment US army forces fighting the so [...]
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