re: #230 laZardo

Here though it’s the Spaniards and the Chinese, and it seems that knowing which big family behind which big entity just comes naturally to people. The Cojuangcos of San Miguel (Beer company, Cory Aquino is the Chairman’s cousin which led to some bitter political division), Lopezes of ABS-CBN (TV network), Lucio Tan of the ShoeMart mall chain, and so on.

Again, not to sound baity, but it’s not hard to notice that it’s given the “indios” an inferiority complex, which places me in a bit of a dilemma because I happen to have ancestors who fought in the Philippine Revolution.

That’s not baity. They do that in Argentina as well. Being part “Indio” is the kiss of death so to speak. My patriarchal grandfather use to call my mom a 50/50 in Spanish — he was implying that she had mixed blood. Needless to say he as an asshole and a Nazi sympathizer.