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PROUD TO BE A FILIPINO

We, really should be proud to FILIPINOS...

here are that will make you really proud...
In the Philippines, Filipinos were introduced to
the English language in 1762 by British invaders, not
Americans. The USA bought the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam from
Spain in 1898. The Filipino-American Independence War from 1898 to 1902
ensued, killing
4,234 Americans and how many Filipinos? 16,000 were killed
in action and
200,000 died from famine and pestilence. (The Philippines
lost and was colonized until 1946.)

Los Angeles, California was co-founded in 1781 by a Filipino
named
Antonio Miranda Rodriguez, along with 43 Latinos from Mexico
sent
by the Spanish government.

What antibiotic did Filipino doctor Abelardo Aguilar
co-discover?
Hint: Brand is Ilosone, named after the province Iloilo, Philippines. Erythromycin.

The one-chip video camera was first made by Marc Loinaz, a
Filipino inventor from New Jersey.

The first ever international Grandmaster from Asia was
Eugenio Torre
who won at the Chess Olympiad in Nice, France in 1974.

This son of two Filipino physicians scored over 700 on the
verbal
portion of the Standardized Achievement Test (SAT) before
age 13 -
Kiwi Danao Camara of Punahou School, Hawaii... Edward
Sanchez, a
Mensa member, bagged the grand prize in the first Philippine
Search
for Product Excellence in Information Technology.

Who was the Filipino-American dancer who scored perfect 1600
on
the SAT? Joyce Monteverde of California.

Who invented the fluorescent lamp?
Thomas Edison discovered the electric light and the
fluorescent
lighting was thought up by Nikola Tesla. But the fluorescent
lamp
we use today was invented by Agapito Flores (a Cebu man
named Benigno
Flores of Bantayan Island, according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer),
a Filipino scientist. Americans helped then-Philippine
leader Ramon
Magsaysay to develop it for worldwide commerce. (Yes! Many
foreigners
have noted that the Filipino population has Asia's highest
rates of
inventors and international beauty queens.)

Two Filipina beauties, Gloria Diaz and Margie Morgan, chosen
as Miss
Universe in 1969 and 1973.

Pure- or part-Filipino celebrities in American showbiz
include Von Flores,
Tia Carrere, Paolo Montalban, Lea Salonga, Ernie Reyes Jr.,
Nia Peeples,
Julio Iglesias Jr., Lou Diamond Phillips, Phoebe Cates and
Rob Schneider.

The first Filipino act to land a top hit on the US Billboard
Hot 100
chart in the 1960s was the group Rocky Fellers of Manila.
Sugar Pie de
Santo (father was from the Philippines), The Artist Formerly
Known as
Prince (according to the October 1984 article "Prince in
Exile" by Scott
Isler in the magazine Musician), Jaya, Foxy Brown and
Enrique Iglesias
followed.

Pure Filipinos who made success in minor charts were Jocelyn
Enriquez Aka
Oriental Madonna, Buffy, Pinay and (Ella May)Saison.

Latina-American pop star Christina Aguilera lost to Filipina
vocalist
Josephine Roberto aka Banig during the International Star
Search years ago.
In a mid-1999 MTV chat, she said that competing against
someone of Banig's
age was "not fair."

Besides gracing fashion magazine covers, this international
supermodel
from Manila had walked the runways since the 1970s for all
the major
designers, like Calvin Klein, Chanel, Christian Dior,
Christian Lacroix,
Donna Karan, Gianni Versace and Yves Saint Laurent - Anna
Bayle.

Who is the personal physician of United States Pres. William
Clinton?
Eleanor "Connie" Concepcion Mariano, a Filipina doctor who
was the
Youngest captain in the US Navy.

The first Filipino-American in US Congress was Virginia Rep.
Robert Cortez-Scott, a Harvard alumnus.

Distinguished British traveler-writer A. Henry Savage
Landor, thrilled
upon seeing a Bicol landmark in 1903, wrote: "Mayon is the
most beautiful
mountain I have ever seen, the world-renowned Fujiyama
(Mt.Fuji) of Japan
sinking into perfect insignificance by comparison." Mayon
has the world's
most perfect cone.

(Note - recent eruptions in 2000 caused damages to its perfect cone)

Filipinos had their first taste of Mexican chili and corn
during the
Manila-Acapulco galleon trade (1564-1815). In return,
Mexico's people had
their initial taste of tamarind, Manila mango and a Filipino
banana called
racatan or lakatan.

Founded in 1595 by Spaniards, the University of San Carlos
in Cebu City,
Philippines is older than Harvard and is the oldest
university in Asia.

University of Santo Tomas in Manila, established in 1611, is
Asia's
second oldest.

Who's the Filipina senator popular for her colorful jargon,
delivered in a
mile-a-minute speed and in a weird Harvard-meets-Ilonggo
accent?
Atty. Miriam Defensor-Santiago (now a Senator).

The first female president of the Philippines sworn into
office in 1986
was Corazon Cojuangco Aquino. Her maiden name is Chinese...

In a March 31, 1997 article, The New York Times reported
that the CIA
manipulated Philippine elections: "(CIA operative Col.
Edward Lansdale)
essentially ran the successful presidential campaign of
Defense Minister
Ramon Magsaysay in the Philippines in 1953."

Who was the first Asian and/or Filipino to snatch America's
Pulitzer
Prize? Philippines Herald war journalist Carlos P. Romulo in
1941. (He was
also the first Asian to become UN President.) The first two
Filipino-Americans to garner the same award 56 years later
were Seattle
Times' Alex Tizon and Byron Acohido, who is part-Korean.

Filipino writer Jose Rizal could read and write at age 2,
and grew up to
speak more than 20 languages, including Latin, Greek,
German, French and
Chinese. What were his last words? "Consummatum est!" ("It
is done!")

"What's still most impressive to me about the Philippines is
the
friendliness of the people, their sense of humor...," wrote
Honolulu
journalist John Griffin in a 1998 visit to Manila.

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