Do Filipinos want to change the name of their country and decolonize further?
Or keep it as part of their culture and histry?
Had an online conversation with a guy from cebu, he was very much against keeping the name Philippines
I don't think most Pinoys think that way, but I could be wrong
no!
King felipe is the king of spain.. the spaniards names the philippines Las isles Filipinas.
Americans called it Philippines..
PHilippines is english word for the greek word philippi ( its 1st christian city in greece or europe) .its where the 1st gospel were 1st spread out..
and philo means= lover of horses ,or loving..
philippinos, philippians, philanders, Fiipino fits the racial characteristics of the people.
NO, I love being called filipino 😁.
I love the term Philippines we are also named after the Apostle Philip and also called the Pearl of the Orient. The Bible says that the walls and foundations of the pearly Gates of New Jerusalem shall have the names of the Apostles inscribed on them, we are named after an Apostle and our country is romantically associated as the "Pearl of the Orient." It's not coincidence.
Are you trying to link apostle Paul with pearl of the orient?..
I just notice about the new gates of Jerusalem.
There's a strong narrative of Filipinos who want to keep Hispanic hegemony for Filipino culture as opposed to making it the "diverse" nation it claims to be with the amount of , Malay, Chinese, American, Arab and Indian influences that either surpass or are up there with Hispanic adoption which resides in the islands.
I believe this one of the main reasons as to why there's so much conflict on a cultural level, mostly because choosing one outside culture to represent the Philippines will only cause division.
Philippines isn't a hispanic name but an Anglo-American name.
Philippi or Philip is a greek name.
Is Jesus a Spanish,Greek, English or a Hebrew name?
The answer is Jesus is a Greek Translatio n for the Hebrew name "Yeshua"
Did you get my analogy?
No country is named after the word Jesus, its literally not the same as calling a nation Philippines lmao.
Irrelevant, it was named after a Spaniard and represents the Hispanization of the country.
The Philippines was named in honor of King Philip II of Spain. Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos, during his expedition in 1542, named the islands of Leyte and Samar Felipinas after the then-Prince of Asturias. Eventually the name Las Islas Filipinaswould be used to cover all the islands of the archipelago. Before that became commonplace, other names such as Islas del Poniente (Islands of the West) and Magellan's name for the islands San Lázaro were also used by the Spanish to refer to the islands.[36][37][38][39][40]
The official name of the Philippines has changed several times in the course of its history. During the Philippine Revolution, the Malolos Congressproclaimed the establishment of the República Filipina or the Philippine Republic. From the period of the Spanish–American War (1898) and the Philippine–American War (1899–1902) until the Commonwealth period (1935–1946), American colonial authorities referred to the country as the Philippine Islands, a translation of the Spanish name.[27] Since the end of World War II, the official name of the country has been the Republic of the Philippines. Philippines has steadily gained currency as the common name since being the name used in Article VI of the 1898 Treaty of Paris, with or without the definite article.[41]
I know the origin of the name. It doesn't change what I said. The "Philippines" is a foreign-imposed name that represents foreign cultural domination in PH.
