Rep. Gary Alejano wants Philippines to be Renamed, Agree YES or NO ??
MANILA — How can the Philippines assert its independence? For Magdalo Party-list Rep. Gary Alejano, it helps to ditch the very name given by Spanish conquistadores.
Citing the need to be “truly independent,” Alejano has sought the creation of a proposed Geographic Renaming Commission to come up with a new name for the country within one year of its establishment.
Under House Bill No. 5867, the proposed commission will be tasked to submit its recommendations to the President by the end of its one-year life span.
The proposed commission will be composed of three commissioners from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, the National Historical Commission of the Philippines, and the Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino.
A secretariat will be formed to provide technical support for the office. The proposed commission will also be authorized to create technical committees and engage the assistance of experts and professional advisors.
For the commission, Alejano sought an initial allocation of P30 million from the General Appropriations Act.
The bill explained that renaming the country is meant “to throw away the vestiges of colonialism, to establish our national identity, and to define how our nation, our people and our national language will be addressed internationally.”
“Ideally, the name of a country should define not only its land, but also its people and patrimony. In addition, the new name must also reflect our history, culture, society, and national sentiments,” Alejano explained in his bill.
The measure also noted that many nations formerly under colonial yoke have reverted to their precolonial names to gain a sense of national pride and identity.
Alejano noted that precolonial Philippines was divided into various kingdoms, rajahnates and sultanates, and the colonizers further “muddled our identity as a people and nation.”
During the expedition of Ruy Lopez de Villalobos in 1542, the country was named after the prince who would later become King Philip II of Spain. A common suggestion for the country’s new name would be
Maharlika, popularized by dictator Ferdinand Marcos. SFM/rga
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Is it necessary, I believe it so!
TumugonBurahinPhilippines does not have a own identification. The name Philippines in fact are given by Spain, a history which tortures the minds of Filipinos until now. Slavery did never stop, not even after Spain are gone!
Filipinos were slaves under Filipino leaders!
Philippines are a special, because nothing seems the same! All are different. Different culture and ideology and even different language! There is de facto nothing what can hold together what the nature did split!
Exept one "Pinoy and Pinay" That the really only things what makes it mutual! Pinay/Pinoy that are "WE"
No matter where you are from, no matter what you believe, no matter your ideology, you are a Filipino!
Now comes Duterte fooling us for votes and remind us what others like Recto tried to tell us long before!
We must stand on our own feed and stand for our own interest!
The Philippines is hard to rule but easy to abuse, because we are so scattered and far from each-other. Therefor all thing are always run out of control and lead to abuse of our rights and interests! To abuse of power or the current killing in our streets and confusion in our minds! We do not know who we are or what we are able to do! We must stand as one! Not as nationalists or demanded to one ideology, but as Human, as people from a special place south-east-in Asia!
Pinay or Pinoy sticks us together no matter religion or ideology or language!
NEW (Federal) Republic of Pynoa Islands!
Means Islands of Pinays and Pinoys!